The hayfork cable incident!
Before my father (Frank a Xavier) moved back to St.Chrysostome to take over his old homestead farm, he lived across Canada. He worked as an accountant, bank employee, and army clerk (WWII). So, our Dad became the only farmer and part-time accountant we knew of in the community. Even though PEI is small, our Dad would often be away from home for 2 - 3 days on an accounting job. In the 1950s and 60s, the roads in PEI could have been better, and it wasn't practical to commute daily across the island. The solution to keeping the farm operating day-to-day was to have a hired hand -- my siblings and I were still too young to manage (and our mother had her hands full with seven kids plus her mother-in-law). When I was about 10 or 12, we had Andre a Theodore as our hired hand. He was the son of Theodore a Pierre, our neighbour and farmer. Andre only had a few academic skills but had good experience with farm animals and current farming practices. He was a bit thick-headed, which sometimes...