It was great to have so many volunteers turn up this morning as we had a lot of chores to be done.
We had Sam Knox, Duncan Dyer, Geoff Bridge, Rob Benson, Des Wilson, Peter Martin, Garry Trigg, Martin Gallagher, Warren Gray, John Coddington, Richard Casey, Di Beechey, Anne Burgess, Georgina Lamb & Jan Martin.
The tree gang of Sam Knox, Duncan Dyer, Des Wilson & John Coddington took care of the cutting up and removing of the last of the timber at the 18th. That was a huge job and handled well by the F-Troopers.
Peter Martin, Warren Gray, Martin Gallagher, Garry Trigg, Richard Casey & Rob Benson teamed well to pick up & spread multiple loads of mulch on gardens at the 8th, 17th and the 1st.
Garry Trigg got some good points up by trimming the lilly pilly at the 10th tee with some good help from Warren Gray & Peter Martin.
Martin Gallagher planted a new flax plant out on the 6th garden & then helped Di Beechey to plant a new hedge leading down to the 1st tee. Our thanks to Michael of Savannah Lawns & Gardens for the donation of the hedge plants.
Di Beechey & Anne Burgess cleaned up the car park & BBQ garden area before helping Georgina and myself to weed the garden & rake the 8th tee, weed the garden & rake up around the 1st and 10th tees, planted out some new daisy plants at the 15th; weeded the rock orchids at the 10th & tidied the garden at the back of the 10th tee. Georgina helped me to trim the daisies at the 17th & trim the camellia trees.
At morning tea we celebrated John Coddington's birthday and Geoff Bridge who is turning 80 tomorrow.
Morning tea was some fresh mini muffins which was appreciated after a hard mornings work by all. Thanks Chef John! We transformed one of the muffins into an 80th birthday cake for Geoff who had no trouble blowing out the candle. Geoff is one of our most regular workers on F-Troop & does not let age weary him one bit - in fact there are some days when he outworks all of us. We can only hope that we can be that fit and well when we reach that magic age.
It was jobs well done all around today by the troopers.
At 6.00pm tonight we had a working bee to treat some of the paspalum grasses that are infesting the course.
My thanks to Mark Stimpson, Sam Knox & Martin Gallagher who contributed an hour of their time to poison the paspalum grass growing on the 1st, 8th, 12th and part of the 3rd and 9th fairways. Many hands make light work & we got through the fairways easily. We are planning to have another working bee next Monday evening at 6.00pm -( weather permitting) and we need five members to assist. Please let me know if you can spare an hour to help.
YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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