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RP: Do you have any humorous stories you can share about growing up on the farm? In terms of, did you, did you guys... how primitive was the situation for your family? Did you have electricity or indoor plumbing? Did you have to use outhouses?

AW: Oh, no. In Platteville, in Platteville it was outhouses and probably one of the, having outhouses in those days, one of the things that my father always looked forward to was Halloween because that's when they would, fellows would come out and dump, push that toilet over and my father would stay up until late at night but it never, never failed. They came sometime after he went to bed. So, no, we didn't have that. And then the water was, we had to carry our water by buckets from the pump. And 'course as a youngster, it felt like a long ways. But it was a distance. And then we took bath, not in the house, but we had what we called furoba, these are buildings where they have tanks about the size that they use for, to feed the horses. And heat the water from the outside. And we used that for our, to bath, bathe. So we had to haul our water there. And we did the same thing in Fort Lupton. I think that eventually... I know in Platteville, the, we had a small room where we kept the water, buckets of water. And it was cold and we didn't have central heating. So in the morning the water, buckets of water would be frozen. But in Platteville, eventually we had running water. I'm not quite sure how that worked, but when we first moved there, there was a pump outside and we'd bring the water in. But somehow or another they must have updated that pump in there. So we didn't have indoor plumbing when I grew up.

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