F-Troop - Monday 21st January 2013

We had a skeleton group of 9 F-Troopers today which made the going tough to get through all the projects in waiting and to have enough hands-on for jobs in progress. We carried on regardless and did manage to get some good work done.

Today we had Trevor Harrison, Don Nicholls, Duncan Dyer, Geoff Bridge, Martin Gallagher, Peter Martin, Jan Martin, Di Beechey and Anne Burgess.

The Tree Gang of Duncan Dyer, Geoff Bridge and Martin Gallagher worked on the dangerous tree at the Men's 3rd tee that had been struck by lightning.  It was a large tree and they managed to salvage some good firewood stock.   Prices for this year's firewood are displayed in the F-Troop notice board downstairs. Anyone wanting timber this year please put your order in to Martin Gallagher as soon as possible to guarantee your delivery.

Trevor Harrison & Don Nicholls did a great job of installing guttering to the Greenkeepers shed as well assisting Di Beechey installing a bamboo fence at the BBQ garden.

Peter Martin was the group supervisor as well as rubbish pick up & general assistant to everyone.

Di Beechey & Anne Burgess worked together cleaning up the car park, BBQ area, gardens at the 15th that had grown to jungle proportions and the garden at the 2nd, trimming some of the agapantha flowers and installing the Bamboo Fence at the BBQ area.

I worked on the Bush Toilet area which was full of sticks and leaves including the gutter leading into the creek. The toilets were cleaned and hosed out.  The camellias suffered from the heatwave so they were weeded, fertilized, seasoled & mulched and we removed a ute load of rubbish from the area. The Ladies tee at the 3rd was raked and cleaned, the Rainbow Tree at the 3rd mulched and with some assistance from Martin Gallagher the olive trees at the 15th were weeded, trimmed and mulched.  Martin also poisoned around the trees at the 2nd fairway and the rogue bougainvillea at the 18th green.

Morning tea of fruit muffins were very welcome as we had all worked up a thirst and hunger by then.  Thanks Chef John!

The heatwave did cause us some concern and some of our hedges and shrubs and tree ferns were badly burnt off.  45 degrees is a difficult temperature to combat so there was not a lot that could be done to save them. Thankfully we have had some good rain since then which should do some rejuvenating.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!