While it stormed at the beach,

 

It really stormed at home.

 

Would have thought I was murdering them during the hour and half deadfall pick up one Saturday morning. 

 

I kept telling them that I thought we were done as soon as they took the last two piles I'd made over to the burn pit.  But, then I added that I would be adding to them along the way.  So with four against one, all they had to do was get the piles cleared and when I had no pile left to add to, we would be done.

 

Then they wandered about taking breaks and doing anything but work for another half an hour until I was really ready to be done and re-explained that they needed to beat me, and it was a competition, and the only way we would stop was when they won. 

 

Then things got moving.