The kids were all out of school today due to parent / teacher conferences. We set them to clean up the basement. We thought it would take an hour or two but they were so slow it wasn’t until mid-afternoon that we finally had pity on them and released them from servitude. Alice we had to put to bed because she had been so cranky and uncooperative.
Mom said the primary reason for the cleanup was to prevent Grandma from suffering a mischief. So Charles carefully got her to agree that only the part between the door and the guest room needed to be cleaned to “10 out of 10” while the rest only had to be “8 out of 10”. About mid-morning Charles reported that things had progressed to “6”, which in my opinion was about right. I think they got to about the 10 / 8 state before they were freed.