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2012

Happy New Year!
January 2012

Friday 13th BBQ — This month’s BBQ will be hosted by Joy and Michael Smith.

A very big thank you to everyone who helped with the Christmas BBQ.
It was as usual it was great fun. Santa’s arrival was the cause of great excitement, though a certain little person told me that he wasn’t the real Santa because his name was Johnno! Those little ears hear big!
You will all be pleased to know that we made $415 from electric bbq raffle, $260.15 general raffle/supper/tea towel sales, $910.15 food and drink sales, $300 membership and after expenses banked $1518.20. That is a terrific effort from everyone who helped make the night such a success.

Hire of the Hall
Just in case you don’t already know, the hall is available for hire. The cost is $50 for members, which is very reasonable. (Membership is only $15 for the year). A bond of $100 is also required to cover damage or garbage disposal. All monies are to be paid when the keys are picked up. The contact for hall hire is Denise Braidwood – 66899324.

This year’s major fundraiser for the hall is a Sausage Sizzle at Bunnings.
We have been allocated a date which is 12th February 2012. If you could spare an hour or two on that date to help out at the BBQ, it will be very much appreciated. Kathleen Maguire is co-ordinating the volunteers for the day. Please call her on 66899441 if you can help.

The next Hall Committee meeting is on the 18th January 2012, 7.30pm at the hall.
The main topic of business will be planning for the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle. These meetings are not just for the committee, though. All Koonorigan residents are encouraged to attend.

How to make biochar for your garden
A couple of our local Cox Rd residents have been experimenting with biochar. It is great for your soil. If you go to the following website, you can see their results.
http://puggle.byethost14.com/homepage/char.html

January Happenings
This is a month of moulting, the casting of fur, feathers, skin, leaves and bark.
Gymea lily sends up flowering spikes.
January is the peak time for snake births, 90% will die in the first year.
Dragonflies mate.
Suggested new year’s resolution; keep a diary (like this one) of insects, birds, flowers, wind, rain and natural happenings.
Lots of young joeys 'at foot'. Enjoy their cautious, merry, capers.
Sandpaper fig in fruit.
Young ravens leave their parents' territory to establish a territory of their own.
Baby koalas are born.
Goannas lay eggs in termite nests in trees.
Christmas bells flower in the wetlands on the coast.
Big mud wasps fly about, building nests.
A good time to take cuttings from native plants (except acacias or eucalypts). Cut just under the node on new growth.
Green tree frogs are breeding.
Snakes escape the heat by hiding in deep crevices.
Breeding time for many species of lizard.
Young channel billed cuckoos squawk in the trees, to be fed by currawongs.

A REBUS is a picture representation of a name, work, or phrase. See if you can work out this one.


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