In this episode, Mary talks about how she and Alfred lived on the Biegler family farm with a dropcord for electricity before moving north of Firesteel and then eventually buying her parent's home near Timber Lake. She talks about rust on the wheat in the 1950s and how Alfred helped make ends meet by being a hay buyer. Mary talked about her mother dying in 1964, the birth of her children and the cost of having children and groceries. 

She tells of the Russian doctor in Isabel that was afraid of communists and treatments of Vick's for burns and warm socks for a sore throat. 

She also tells the story about heating a lamb in the oven while out helping Alf and the unfortunate end to that story.