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Show Ichiro Okumura 7-20-84 s2:12 IO There's always something to do. LI It's hard for me to understand. I've never farmed. 10 Thre's always something to do. The only time you take a day off is becauseyou make your time to take the day off. It's not because there wasn't anything to do. L You just put aside a day. 10 Yes. Because you never -- it's - it's just like gardening or something like that I mean, you weed and you weed an~ou weed. Andby the time you get through, you got to go back and start all over again. L Start weeding again. IO Yeah. They grow so fast, the weeds do. L Didyou like arming. 10 I enjoyed it. I don't know whether I really liked it or not. But that's all I knew most of~~ life~ Then, the following winter, that winter, these guys, a few friends of mine said let's go up to Bingham. They've got jobs workingup Bingham. So we decided to go up there and took roots there, I guess. Theytold me, when I hiredout, if you wear out a pair of shoes out there,that's it, you'll never leave~ And! didn't. I was up there for 35 years. Andnow I'm retired. L What kindof job did you get when you first got out there. I 0 You hire out as a track man. Work on tracks, you know. Do track work. Justlike on a railroad, except thezype of work we were doing wasn't quite as fine, you know. It's not, you know, where it's perfect and thingslike that.Well, you do that too in certain areas. L Maintaining the railroad tracks. |
