Inside The Perimeter

As we hurtle toward the end of August and look back to my growing season, I have to consider it to be a failure.

I didn’t grow enough cucumbers or jalapeños to do the fermentation experiments I envisioned. I didn’t grow enough herbs or vegetables to use the dehydrator that I’ve purchased. And my corn pollination was so poor that I neither had a single ear to eat, nor enough to turn into cornmeal. I had mixed success with bell peppers but had a handful rot on the vines, and suffered the critter damage that I mentioned on Monday (the same could be said for tomatoes). Okra production was okay, though there were never enough pods ready at the same time to do more than cut them up and add them to recipes.

For some crops I have to blame the farmer; I had a sufficient quantity of yellow squash and eggplant, but failed to do anything with most of these before they rotted in the refrigerator.

Wordle: five, my starter was SNACK

AT&T keeps sending me offers so that I will return to them. Yeah, no. Being an AT&T stockholder is punishment enough for me these days.

Critters sure make it hard to enjoy gardening/farming. Last night during a break in the rain (WLF caught 1.5″) I saw that something tried to gnaw into the only Georgia Candy Roaster Squash of decent size. It doesn’t appear that the critter successfully got to the flesh, so when it’s ripe I will eat it immediately, after investigating the area with the bite marks first.

Wordle: five, my starter was CHAIR

According to my self-kept statistics, it’s been seven months since I scored my last Wordle deuce.

I’ve booked travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada! While I certainly don’t condone, nor enjoy, paying for seat selection, I have done just that. I paid $57 per flight for the “privilege” of seat selection, extra legroom, and a “complimentary” alcoholic beverage.

You will either have to see me in person, or find out after the trip, for when and how long I will be away.

Wordle: four, my starter was PLANE

Here are some constants for the summer of 2025:
– rainstorms break up before reaching East Atlanta, therefore not providing enough water for Wee Little Farm
– the Atlanta United can’t win a soccer match
– Werder Bremen will once again not win the DFB Pokal, after losing their first round match and getting knocked out of the tournament

Wordle: three, my starter was REIGN

Yesterday I took a half pound of mixed hot peppers and made a small bottle of hot sauce from them. Essentially I cut the peppers and blitzed them with salt and vinegar in a mixer before straining the mixture into a jar.

Wordle: four, my starter was CRUEL

Busy day running around yesterday. Busy day in WLF today.

Wordle: four, my starter was SHOAL
WTF, Wordle?!?!

Thought the rain would slow down the riders last night. Nope, and I fell off the back for the final quarter of the ride.

Wordle: five, my starter was REPLY

While driving this weekend I listened to Pat Benatar’s “Crimes of Passion” album. It was then I realized that this album was released 45 years ago, which also meant that come this November it will be 45 years since I went to my first concert. Yowza.

Wordle: four, my starter was COUGH (another solution from my word list that I failed to choose on the correct day)

Jenka, how was your Friday?

Three days in South Carolina; two failed days of bike riding, one in Clemson and one in Anderson, sandwiching one really good day at a mushroom cultivation workshop in Easley.

My mysterious deep hip pain returned this weekend. It had gone away for about a year.

Wordle: four, my starter was USAGE

Happy Friday.

Wordle: three, my starter was FRUIT