It was pretty hot last week on Afognak, and often too hot to sit out in the sun on the beach. But we did spend a lot of time on the beach - particularly in the mornings and evenings. We read books, cooked quesadillas on campfires, napped. The favorite activity was our play city.
The kids have been playing city for years. It is the game where we make houses of rocks and shells, roads, and use feathers for money. I have always wondered when they would outgrow the game but this year it seemed more popular than ever.
This year there were a lot of feathers on the beach, and we all had lots of money. Consequently, there was a dramatic case of inflation. At first no one would accept feathers for anything and we all worked on our own houses. But then we made feather gathering rules to firm up their value and started offering lots of feathers for services. Basically I made Stuey houses and Nora did all the shell landscaping. A good, split level house with solar panels cost 30 feathers to build with an additional 25 feathers for landscaping. That's outrageous prices compared to years past. Patrick
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