MORE PERSIMMONS, POWER COMPANY AND WATER

This morning I prepared another lot of persimmons for drying.  Persimmons are the only fruit (or veg) that I have dried and I wondered what other people use their dehydrators for and how they use the finished product.

I  put the dehydrator on just before 7 a.m. and then phoned our power company. Most things to do with any company have to be done on line nowadays.  I needed to change something and tried to log on to our power account but, as I had apparently not used it since getting married, all I could log into was the account for my previous property.  I tried all sorts of things including trying to set up a new account.  In the end I gave up and phoned the company yesterday.  After about five minutes waiting I was offered a call back which I gratefully accepted.  Unfortunately, this did not happen so I thought phoning at 7 a.m. was my best option.

I got through to a most obliging young man (at my age they are all young).  He put me on hold while he sorted it out using an alternative email address.  One problem had been that they had offered us a 15c a litre discount on petrol but we had to use Doug's card and use it on Saturday.  We did this only to discover that the card number they had was an old one .  He entered the new number and then, after hanging up emailed me to say that they have given us the discount again and we have until the end of next month to use it.  Finally some good service.

I recently posted a photo of one of our Dams with a low water level.  Yesterday I spotted an article informing us that our other Dam is at its LOWEST EVER level and we will be in serious trouble if we don't get a reasonable amount of rain over winter.  Here's hoping.  A small start today as we have had light rain on and off.