Sat 27 Nov working bee at Cockpit

It was decided that the working bee on Sat 27th Nov would be another mowing day to tidy up the other end of our reserve area C3 & C4. Unfortunately there wasnt many people who showed up to help but we did well considering. Thank you to Dave Porter who came with his whipper snipper and worked on C3, Jimbo who brought the tractor & slasher and mowed Ruby's Glen, Dick Massicks on the muttock and me on the pruner.  Thanks fe ucklun yorlye
Lou Tavener  President

Dave Porter waist deep in weeds in C3

C3 area

Jimbo slashing Rubys Glen. Dick up on the hills digging out weeds

Jimbo

13 Nov 2010 Working bee to cleanup C1 & C2 areas

At last we have had a good week of weather and a sunny weekend! We had a good rollup today to mow and tidy C1 and C2 areas at Cockpit. Thankyou to Dick Massicks, Dave Porter, Laurel Quintal, Ben Hayes, Luke Adams, Don Brian, Jim, Brianna & me Taveners and George & Ada Nebauer. Thankyou to Jimbo for his mower that made short work of the long grass

                                            George hard at work

Jimbo mowing

Ada

Luke & Ben digging out weeds

Dave on the whippersnipper

The team in action

Laurel on a whippersnipper too

Dick follows Jimbo to remove stones etc

Starting on the other side of the creek in C1

C2 mowed

Ada & Brianna near a pine we planted today

Ada & Brianna - great mates

                                                                      Cuppa & Cake to finish on and a well deserved sit down rest

The finished job

What a difference a tidy up makes

Thanks fe ucklun yorlye

Lou Tavener  - President

Oct 2010 Not good weather for working bees

Due to the bad non-Spring like weather that plagued much of October; we scheduled and rescheduled working bees without success. As the areas we work in at Cockpit are steep, it becomes too slippery and dangerous to work in after rain. We had rain showers and high winds and the month slipped by without us getting a working bee in.

Dick Massicks & I did take some time to walk over the entire reserve area that we manage and came to a decision that we would need to use much of the money that we have fundraised for to employ someone to poison the woody weeds that are re-emerging after being cut off previously or coming up from seed. It is impossible to dig these weeds out especially on the steep terrain and we felt it was best to employ someone experienced to do it for us. George Nebauer has been employed to do this for us - he is one of our members and is a great worker who is experienced in this field. Thankyou George

Louise Tavener  - President