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Show ELIZA FIFE BEC: Ell: SEPTEMBER 17,2001 Right. When you don't have any money, that's a lot. When you don't have any money, that's a lot. So, anyway they had a chicken farm over here on the corner of Twenty-seventy and forty-seven-hundred, you know, so we went over there and we would buy the "cracks" for twenty-five cents a dozen, or something, so we had eggs. Course now they say you can't do that anymore because they may have salmonella and all this kind of stuff. BEC: Right. Ell: So, anyway, that's what we lived on and we had, I had a girlfriend and they had a dairy and she would sell us the milk for sixty cents a gallon. So we got milk there. I made my own bread. We went to Idaho and got- after his mother died and the father died, the rest of the family went through the house and his mom had two great big barrels of wheat down the basement, and that was at least twenty-five years old. We went to check that out. There wasn't even any weevil in it and it had gone through floods and all kinds of stuff and it was still good. So we brought that wheat down. And I had a wheat grinder and so I ground my wheat, made my own bread- I made all kinds of things out of wheat- and vegetables and all this kind of stuff. And we survived very, very well. Of course, we had to be careful what we spent- we didn't spend much money for clothes, we sewed most of that. So that first year was pretty rugged. Then Marlyn got his insurance license and tried to sell some insurance. That was a pain. He tried to- I mean, it's fine to be a salesman if the people really need what you're trying to sell. But to try to talk somebody into getting something that they can hardly afford, that's a lot different situation. BEC: Right, yeah. 35 |
