Grammys Corgi Country

Goodness… It is still raining! I’ll bet we’ve gotten as much rain during this one storm as we have gotten the whole rest of the year! Our waterline is still broken, and though we’ve gotten the things we need to fix it, my son can’t get down in the hole safely and have it dry enough to glue the pipes back together, so I spent an hour carrying buckets of water from the horse barrels in the front yard to the big corral in the back so that I could put Cory in the back pasture tonight and he can use the stall in there.

Cory is such a sweet old boy, and Dancer is a typical ADHD Arab and wants to be moving all the time. He won’t let Cory rest in any one spot for any length of time… He seems to get a lot of pleasure in “herding” Cory all over the place. He won’t let Cory stay in the warm stall and just rest there.

As I’ve mentioned before, Cory is an older horse now (about 22 or so) and he doesn’t like to be out in the rain a lot when it’s cold. He and the other old horse we had until recently used to stay in the stall and stand close together quietly for hours when it would get cold. Anyway, I decided that tonight, since it is getting colder, I wanted to put Cory in the back pasture with the stall. To do that, I had to fill the small water barrel back there because they had finished drinking all of the water that had been in it over the past few days since the water’s been off.

At least I got my walking exercise done for the day. I can’t carry more than 25-30 lbs. with this back problem, so can only take one bucketful at a time. I fed Dancer in the other stall in a pen that is attached to the back area, but not in the back pasture so that they can visit, but he can’t keep chasing Cory out into the cold. He is such a jerk at times!

Something happened in connection with the storm, I gather, that knocked out the electricity all day too, so my son had to work on our portable generator most of the afternoon to get it working again in case the power was out this evening. Of course, wouldn’t you know it… about 5 minutes after he finally got it going, the power came back on… Typical… but at least now it is running in case of any future emergencies.

This evening I spent a lot of time peeling and preparing some of those persimmons for the dehydrator. I can hardly wait to try one when they are finished drying. I really hope they will be as good as I think they will. As I was doing that, I started thinking that they would probably make a pretty good jam. I’ve never heard of persimmon jam, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. I’ll have to try googling that, too. Anyone out there have any ideas or recipes for persimmon jam?

Well, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I’ve got a lot to do, so will have to close for now. Thankfulness is a choice… there are always things to be thankful for… As I have said before, I hope you all have a great day.

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