if you bring brooms, they will sweep

many of the families from ava's preschool live in or around forest hill and like to hang out at j.p. murphy playground. this playground is newly remodeled and has always been a spic and span retreat from the more crowded playgrounds in golden gate park. unfortunately, as the state of california and city of san francisco budgets implode, the care and maintenance of our local playgrounds is definitely going downhill. at j.p. murphy the only real issue is that the sand from the two sand pits had been gradually redistributed to every available square inch of the playground.

earlier this week, isa's mom pointed out that this was pretty easy to fix and organized a playground clean-up. the kids did their part and a few awesome random strangers pitched in too, and an hour and a half, and one nasty blister on my thumb later, the playground looked great again. of course, it wasn't all work, there was a plenty of time for fun and games too.