F-Troop - Monday 1st March 2010

A little bit of rain and Autumn cool did not stop our F-Troop regulars from working. We had a huge load of work to get through today so we carried on regardless of the rain.

F-Troopers on duty today were Duncan Dyer, Garry Trigg, Martin Gallagher, Peter Martin, Geoff Bridge, Bruce White, Warren Gray, Arthur Verlander and we were ably assisted by Sam Knox who did another hard mornings work on the wood splitter.

Morning tea this morning were some scrumptious muffins fresh from the oven & a variety of

yummy slices. Thank you John!

We started the morning loading some road base to fill a hole so that the wood splitting machine could sit evenly on the ground to do its work.

Garry Trigg did his shift on the rough cutter, Waren Gray & Bruce White were on clean up duty with plenty of branches & rubbish to pick up around the course, they also trimmed some branches that were overhanging the path at the 17th green. Duncan Dyer, Geoff Bridge & Martin Gallagher assisted Sam Knox with the wood splitting and wood stacking. Arthur Verlander, Peter & I created new gardens at the 5th tee. Martin Gallagher also fertilized the grasses at the 15th and the Mandevillea at the 18th.

We now have a good supply of timber to sell off for fuel this winter. It is a perfect time now for you to pre-order so that you do not miss out on this quality timber that we are selling at a very reasonable price. All profits from the sale of timber go towards our F-Troop projects.

The gardens at the 5th tee were created this morning thanks to some very generous donations from our members. All the plants in the garden are donations from various members, the pebbles were donated by Col & Kay Adams, the bush rocks were jointly donated by Martin Gallagher and Wally Bailey, the garden soil & begonias were paid from a cash donation by Paula Drew (that same cash donation paid for the replacement iceberg roses on the putting green).

These gardens have been a while in the making as I was held up because it was very difficult to get hold of the right size bush rock for the job. I hope you all think it was worth waiting for.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!