Inside The Perimeter

Unfortunately I may have picked up a bit of a repetitive stress injury doing BRAG. For the past couple of days it feels as if I have an issue near my right Achilles tendon. I will wear my ankle brace and rest it as best as possible this week and see how it goes.

Wee Little Farm at Urban Farm Ormewood has been launched! Yesterday morning I drove over to the Wylde Center Plant Market to buy plants. Unfortunately they didn’t have any pepper plants, so I left with two tomato plants because they were 50% off. From there I went to Lowe’s to buy four pepper plants. The tomato plants and three of the pepper plants were taken over to WLF@UFO and planted into my raised bed. I have enough space remaining in my raised bed to plant some bush beans soon.

For dinner last night I made a hamburger served over potatoes and lettuce, both of which were grown in WLF.

Today I am doing more farming cosplay, this time attending a workshop about irrigation, in a faraway place called “Roswell”, which probably receives inches of rain at a time. Water management, especially when it refuses to fall from the sky, is huge so I’m spending $10 to learn more about it.

Wordle: five, my starter was CLEAT

Another BRAG is in the books. With the exception of my bicycle frame breaking it was an amazing week. Thanks again to ITP-Reader Steve, as well as all of my other friends who helped me complete the task. After almost nodding off a couple of times on the drive home I spent the remainder of Saturday catching up on sleep.

As an added bonus, our very own ITP-Reader Bob was interviewed by Fox 5 when we were in Trilith.

In the process of searching for the receipt for my bike, which I may have tossed last year since I see the folder labeled “Bike Wreck” is empty, I found the receipts for the other two bicycles I have purchased while living in Atlanta. Dangen!

Wee Little Farm is suffering. Most things are not growing, except for the zucchini which were HUGE by the time I picked them yesterday. I also picked three nice cucumbers, four potatoes from one grow bag, as well as a handful of rattlesnake beans. This may be a very lean year if things don’t start to grow soon.

I decided to take a walk to Urban Farm Ormewood yesterday and fortunately ran into someone who is responsible for managing it. I identified my 4’x8′ raised bed, and confirmed that I could start planting. Of course, it’s supposed to rain every day this week…

Wordle: four, my starter was ASTER

Good day riding yesterday, 55 miles. Stan worked on the bike a bit, and almost all of the gears were available.

Today is the penultimate day of BRAG.

World class athlete and Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn is now following me on Strava. After dating Tiger Woods I might be a letdown. 😀

Wordle: six, my starter was PRIME

Yesterday was the layover day in Carrollton, so not much to report from BRAG. We did ride to Printer’s Ale for beers and food. Instead of going into town I decided to stay at camp and reorganize my gear.

There is news from the home front, just not as big of news as I was hoping. I finally heard back from Urban Farm Ormewood and I was randomly selected to receive a farming spot. Unfortunately, I was selected to receive one raised bed (whose location and dimensions I’ve yet to discover) and not an in-ground plot. Given that we are already in June I may try to grow some fast-growing plants like squash, or I may see what pepper varieties are still available at nurseries or hardware stores.

Wordle: three, my starter was SILKY

Well, I rode a century yesterday. One hundred miles on a frame on which I had never been, and with a chain and rear cassette which often had to negotiate before settling on an acceptable gear. But did it, and today I will suffer the ramifications of my choices made yesterday.

Wordle: three, my starter was ANISE

As I mentioned yesterday, the frame of my bike broke yesterday. Add another item to the “Weird Things That Happen To Paulie” list. Thanks to the generosity of ITP-Reader Steve I am probably out suffering as you read this. But, suffering beats abandoning. Today’s destination: Carrollton.

Wordle: five, my starter was SOUPY

Happy June 1.

Day 1 of BRAG was a good time, 50 miles from LaFayette to Rome, where the climbing was done in the first half. I felt good, even if I had to ride without sunglasses since mine broke as I was cleaning them right before our departure.

Relatively short day today, only 38 miles, so we are going to pack up camp and ride to a real breakfast prior to starting our was to Cave Spring.

Wordle: six, my starter was FAIRY

The other day I backtracked a little on my Disney+ subscription cancellation. I discovered I could put my subscription on hold, essentially not having access nor getting charged, which is what I’ve chosen for the next eight weeks. By the end of July I should know where Bundesliga will be streamed next season, and can make my next move then.

Well, the time has come to admit that I won’t be in my top form for BRAG. LOL! I am sure that I will survive, and hope I that it won’t be too wet next week. Expect short blog posts, if any. I’ve had to do a packing pivot. Yesterday, while doing my final packing I realized that the roller bag that I have used the last two years was in much worse condition than I remembered. I tried to patch it up, but I feared that the bag wouldn’t survive a week of being thrown around, so I decided to take another piece of luggage which also has issues thanks to airline workers, but should be okay. Depending on how this goes I will have a year to research and purchase a bag for next year, unless of course I find myself going to Walmart somewhere in west Georgia to buy something immediately.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Wordle: four, my starter was FAUNA

I’m almost all packed for BRAG. I just couldn’t get on a roll and finish everything. However, I did sew a hole in a pair of shorts so that I could pack them.

At Nam Dae Mun Tuesday they had five ears of corn for $1.59, so naturally I bought some even though they probably traveled halfway around the world to get into this store.

I saw my first lightning bug of the season last night. Woot!

Wordle: four, my starter was FLORA

Fun, and very busy day yesterday — laundry, multiple Goodwills, haircut, beans for seeds purchased at Nam Dae Mun, lunch at 1911 Biscuit & Burgers, and Schoolhouse for BOGO beers — all before fighting traffic home to eat leftover ribs and an ear of corn for dinner.

I checked WLF’s rain gauge upon returning home, 1″ is all I received. The water bucket collecting HVAC condensation was overflowing, however.

Today I am going to clean out one of the lettuce beds and fill it with San Marzano tomato plants. The lettuce is too large to be eaten, the leaves are too tough now, and are going to seed. I still have another half bed of lettuce which I will let go to seed to see what happens.

I will also be harvesting some zucchini today! With the rain the zucchini are starting to swell and I need to eat some of it before BRAG since they will be the size of baseball bats when I return.

Wordle: four, my starter was SOUPY