F-Troop Monday 19th October 2009

It was action stations for the Troopers again today with an endless list of work to be done around the course.

We had eleven hard workers that I saw today including Garry Trigg, Noel Fenning, Geoff Bridge, Des Wilson, Spencer Walklate, Peter Martin, Arthur Verlander, George Foster Yvonne Wilson and Di Beechey. It was nice to have Martin Gallagher visit us at morning tea time. Martin is recovering from recent surgery and hopes to be back on deck in the near future. Our morning tea this morning was compliments of Bartos Pies - thanks to our sponsor, Jason. Today we enjoyed a choice of pies, sausage rolls, donuts and custard slices that do not come in small slices. This is a bonus of being an F-Trooper.

I was a late arrival today and the troops were busy clearing the gutters and fenceline along our side entrance when I arrived. There was a lot of privit hedge and nuisance weeds to be removed and truck loads of leaves and sticks. It looked much neater and nicer to look at after the work was done.

We did not get any timber pick up done as we did not have our ute & timber collector Warren Gray on duty today.

Arthur Verlander & Garry Trigg did some tree trimming of the Chinese Elm at the 6th, Geoff Bridge and Peter Martin inspected the tibouchinas & crepe myrtles at the 2nd and gave them a good water. Des & Yvonne Wilson fertilized, watered and weeded all the Magnolia trees, Di Beechey weeded & cleaned up around the BBQ garden, garden at the 2nd green and the garden at the 12th green. I spent my day fussing over the roses and weeding the putting green hedge, watering the elkhorns at the wedding garden & cleaning the birdbath.

Geoff Bridge has kindly donated a trailer load of topsoil so that we can refresh the soil around the tibouchinas, crepe myrtles and Golden Penda on the second fairway. Currently the topsoil has been washing off & the tree roots are getting exposed so some intensive TLC is required for this area. Thanks Geoff!

Another job added today to the list is to repair the front fenceline that has been damaged by vandals cutting the protective barbed wire and dragging the fencewire down which is a security worry. Hopefuly we can get that rectified in a short amount of time.

I am sure there have been other F-Troopers out on the course during the week that I have not seen - so many thanks to those workers as well. We are fortunate to have these adopt-a-garden volunteers who work quietly in their own time & maintain their patches beautifully. Unfortunately I do not get to see them so cannot acknowledge their work other than by gerneral reference.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!