School Clean Up Day

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So what do all good educators, parents and kids do on a Saturday morning. Head off to school to clean up the campus. We started off with two dump trucks of sand.


If everyone brings some hand equipment, things can go quickly. This picture gives you an idea of a group at work.

The idea is to take the sand (very coarse) and fill in the washed out places in the playground. With the amount of rain we get, a playground can get in bad shape in a short period of time.

We are surrounded by forest right up to our fence. We need to trim the mountainside outside our fence. The PE teacher is very effective with his equipment.

A view from the balcony of the school.

The campus is reached by a winding road edged into the hillside. Both sides of the road need to be clipped.

Sometimes the going gets very steep. Not the place for rider mowers!!!

Some of the playground equipment needed repair. This old merry-go-round was not working all year. I insisted we take it to a welding shop and get it repaired. Hauling it was another issue.

Getting the merry-go-round back on the pivot was another issue as well. Several of us managed to grease the pivot and get things back together.

With the ever present rain, things are always rusting. This swing pivot had not worked for some time. We used a hammer to un-freeze it and then gave it a good greasing.

Everyone has an opinion about how to line things up. No chance that one person could give directions and the rest follow them!

After the project was finished, we walked down to the main road to catch a bus back to town (A .20 fee) While waiting for the bus "Willie Nelson" came by. I am guessing it was an "American hippie" and his dog who were out riding the highways and byways of Ecuador. What a unique transportation he used.