Inside The Perimeter

It’s pretty rare to have two separate events fall into place nicely. The other day I bought a concert ticket to see the band Chatham County Line in Brevard, NC on August 29, and a ticket for the SC Paw Paw Festival in Taylors, SC on August 30. That weekend is now sorted! In fact, all but one of my August weekends are booked. Now to figure out where I will be next Tuesday for my sixtieth birthday…

The pickle worms have won the cucumber war, unfortunately. No jars of pickles for me this year. 🙁 I will have to figure out a new strategy next year.

Wordle: FAIL, my starter was ALIAS

While being lazy on Friday, July 11, I realized that on July 11, 2022 I drove my bike up to Blue Ridge and rode a tough 35-mile ride up there. I wish that I currently weighed what I weighed in 2022.

On Saturday I drove to Fayetteville to try a new-to-me brewery, Awkward Brewing. While sitting there talking about beer, I learned that Southern Brewing in Athens closed last year. Here is my updated list of Georgia brewery closures in the past three or so years:
Orpheus
Second Self
Burnt Hickory
Anderby
IronShield
Hippin’ Hops (East Lake)
Kettle Rock
Sabbath
Biggerstaff
Schoolhouse Gymnasium (Emory)
Elsewhere
Eventide
Steady Hand
Best End
Torched Hop
Red Hare
BlueTarp
High Card
Jekyll
Monkey Wrench
Hixtown
Southern

Sunday was a wash since I enjoyed Awkard Brewing a little too much, and I felt like ass most of the day. I did make a pasta dinner in which I used some WLF vegetables, as well as a jar of tomato sauce that I made a few months ago.

Wordle: four, my starter was DIRTY

After two meals containing nothing from Wee Little Farm, dinner had to be different. Dinner last night was a tomato sandwich, eaten with a warm potato salad; the tomato, potatoes, and jalapeño pepper were all from WLF.

Even though it wasn’t a Monday, I watched a movie last night. I watched Sustainable, which as you would probably guess, is about farming.

When did “utilize” become the word that everyone says when they mean “use”?

Wordle: three, my starter was SHRED

I’m headed to a remote DMV, which I believe is correctly called a DDS, in order to renew my drivers license. Wish me luck. I suppose I could have attempted this online, but I’d rather go and get it done in person. Besides, this gets me out of the house today.

Wordle: five, I’m sure everyone else will get it in two, my starter was COUPE

Didn’t have the best of days yesterday. My back hurt (and still does) and I tweaked my right knee on last night’s bike ride, forcing me to drop from the group and slow roll back to Meltons.

I hemmed and hawed about a pair of cycling shoes which had a $15 “Amazon Prime Days” promotion, and when I went back, the discount was gone; I can wait…

Wordle: five, my starter was REPLY. The solution was another from my list, Dangen!

I’m back, and fuck it’s still hot.

Wee Little Farm is also suffering. Many large cucumbers were on the vines, some were over ripe, and some were consumed by pickle worms. More than half of the ones I picked yesterday were directly added to the compost bin. At least there were some I damaged ripe tomatoes on the vine. Later in the day I went out to look at something and saw that one ripening tomato I left on the vine had been eaten.

In doing research about the pickle worm problem, I read this:

“Pickleworms are native to southern states like Texas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Sanford, Michigan, Connecticut, and even further up north. Pickleworms are excellent migratory insects”

Sanford? Did I miss Captain Chaos using an Executive Order to create a new state? And since when are Michigan and Connecticut southern states?

Wordle: five, a very disappointing five, my starter was WAGER

I am glad the Tour de France is back, but I really miss the commercial-free feed Peacock used to offer its paid subscribers. I am probably going to watch a lot less of the tour because the commercial breaks annoy me so much.

Wordle: four, my starter was TINGE

Happy Independence Day. Don’t hurt yourself, or anyone else, with fireworks today.

Wordle: four, my starter was BLAST

I spent all morning doing yard work, including mowing the front yard and cleaning up Wee Little Farm.

I then met my friends for lunch at Lan Zhou Ramen on Buford Highway; damn it was good.

My day out ended at Highland Tap. My buddies tried to go to the Clairmont, I declined, but were too early and they weren’t open yet.

It turned out to be a good thing that I returned home and diligently started doing my chores, because around 8:30pm the power went out and wasn’t restored until a little after 11:00pm.

Wordle: six, my starter was DRIFT. Admittedly I played Wordle poorly today.

Interesting (to me) Fact: my HVAC removes over a gallon of water per day from the house under our current conditions. I know this because I put a gallon jug at the end of the hose yesterday morning, and it was filled by day’s end

BRAG released some stats about Big BRAG the other day. While not shocking, there were some interesting figures.
Male/Female ratio of riders: 70%/30% (not exactly good odds for me, lol)
Average Age of riders: 56.9 years old

Wordle: three, my starter was LATER