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EXPENSIVE DAYS, CHEAP DAYS, FREE DAYS
EXPENSIVE DAYS, CHEAP DAYS, FREE DAYS
The weekdays begin for my grand daughters with the hilly half-mile walk to school,
On the girls' first day back to school after the long weekend (see previous post https://www.ailantha.com/blog/california-dreamin-on-an-icy-ohio-day) I was looking over that day's briefing on who needed to be where at what time.
"Do you have any free days this week?" I asked my grand daughters.
"Not today, for sure," replied my ten-year-old grand daughter. "Today is an expensive day."
"An expensive day?" I said.
She explained. "If a day with nothing to do is a free day, then a day with a lot to do must be an expensive day, Wednesday might be a free day,"
"No, I have soccer on Wednesday," her younger sister piped up. "But that's all we have."
"So Wednesday is a cheap day," she said.
Thus we planned each day's configuration according to whether it was an expensive day, a cheap day, or a free day, working in time for homework,