Friday 19th June 2009

Another busy week has flown by - most of it wet & unfriendly weatherwise but things still got done.

Saturday 13th we had a visit to Anne & Rod's for a "Joel" hit & then called in to Ken & Marg Gardiner's for a catch up with all their news. There has been a lot of rain at Dorrigo where Carolyn & Brett live. A big hello to Carolyn & Brett if you check into the blog. Carolyn & Brett have a new little daughter "Ella" a sister for Bailey and Kye. Saturday night we celebrated George Foster's 70th birthday at "Alexander's" restaurant in Gosford. We all had to wear the red/white/black colours of Manchester United - George's soccer team. A good time was had by all (32 members of the golf club and some of George's family). It was a surprise party that George was not expecting as he had already had several celebrations leading up to this one. He told me he would have turned 70 well before this if he knew it was going to be this much fun.

Sunday 14th Graham & Anne had a day in Gosford to meet Joel and to have a game of golf with us on Sunday afternoon. We had morning tea with Rod & Anne & had our cuddles of Joel. We were lucky with the weather & got our game of golf in just at the last rays of sunshine were settling. We had a good day even if the golf scores were not outstanding.

Monday 15th was F-Troop work at the Golf Club until about 2.30. We got most of the new garden finished bar a couple of bench seats and some top up mulch & also finished the new table and chairs area among other things. It was a nice sunny day so it was good to work outside.

In the late afternoon Col & Lauren Matterson called in to see us for a catch up & stayed for dinner.

Tuesday 16th was the first day of the Club Championships and of course it had to rain. It was miserable out on the course but we had to stick it out to stay in the Championships. I was wet through to my skin & had to come home for a change of dry clothes before presentation. I am not a happy golfer in the wet and the bad news was that we were to play our second match on Thursday with continued bad weather forecast. I did not play all that well, but neither did anyone else because of the state of the course. I finished well up in the top half of the scoring so I had to be happy with that.

Wednesday 17th was another wet and miserable day. I spent the day with Anne & Rod looking after Joel & doing a few helpful things around the place for Anne who is still confined to as much bed rest as possible however is gradually improving. Joel is really doing well & getting more alert. He had on his red soccer shirt that he has just grown into & looks so cute. We went to the pub across the road for a drink later in the afternoon & Rod found that a dog was running by the name of "Father Rod". Rod confidently placed his bet & came off with a winner so he was very happy.

Thursday 18th was good news day. The Championship match was abandoned due to the poor state of the course. We have had so much rain it just has got nowhere to go. I was not at all unhappy about the cancellation. I was not looking forward to slogging it out in the mud & rain again. To make my day one of the lady golfers rang & told me that she would like to donate the two park benches that we needed to finish off the new garden. Happy days!

Friday 19th (today) I rang the local nursery to "borrow" some plants for our special vets day that we have coming up. I like to give the club entry a fresh look when we have a special day & it is good advertising for the nursery. The owner also offered all of our Club Members 12.5% permanent dicount off of private plant purchases. As of this week we have sold $415 worth of timber for firewood which we can spend in the course beautification. So all up it has been a good news week for me.

This afternoon I went shopping for timber benches. It is like trying to find hens teeth at this time of the year. They are either cheap and nasty or so,so expensive. I will continue to search the net to see if I can find some bargain buys. I did some browsing in my two favourite browsing shops today (Officeworks and Bunnings) & came home with printer ink, a new maibox, various must haves for my garden and a new mop for Rod & Anne. Not too much damage done!