Inside The Perimeter

On Saturday my buddy Hank and I met up for our annual Georgia Tech baseball game, the last in our tradition as Hank is moving later this year. While the game was fun, including inadvertently making a woman in the row ahead of us bust out laughing after I shouted “It hit him in the hoo-ha!” when the pitcher was hit by a batted ball, I think our baseball excitement was eclipsed when Charles Barkley walked into Eleventh Street Pub while we were sitting at the bar.

Wordle: five, my starter was LOUSE. It was going to be LOUSY, but yesterday’s solution was an adjective ending in Y, and I don’t think they’d do that on successive days.

Grease Pan was the step I missed when making enchiladas last night. Boy did I have trouble getting them out of my ungreased pan. 🙁

I’m already planning things for August, September, and October. Go figure! Also, I’m looking into accommodations for these events as they are within driving distance, but not same-day ventures.

Wordle: five, my starter was CHAIR

I have nothing.

Wordle: five, my starter was TRADE

While I was bummed rain didn’t fall on WLF yesterday morning/afternoon, I was glad that this allowed me and my hideous eyelid to go riding last night.

Wordle: four, my starter was ORBIT

What you probably don’t know about me is that I love old signs. On Sunday while driving out for the Silver Comet Easter ride I saw a sign I’d never seen before — Arrowhead Campsites, which apparently used to be across I-20 from Six Flags Over Georgia. Even though it’s huge, I can only assume that I’ve never previously noticed this sign because there seems to be a fallen tree in front of it which now allows one to see it while traveling west.

Wordle: three, my starter was CLAIM

I’m calling it, the Atlanta United are not a good soccer club.

Hope everyone’s Easter weekend was fun. If not for some medical issues, mine was. Inexplicably, only ITP-Reader Sal and I wound up riding from Rambo Rd to Rockmart, and back yesterday.

Today I’m hoping to get more plants in the ground ahead of a predicted damp week. I’m extremely disappointed in myself, because 2025 was supposed to be the year I finally keep decent records about what I’ve planted. Though I had a note identifying eighteen tomato plants, six different groups of three, I discovered yesterday that deleted the information from that note without marking the rows in the tray. Dangen!

Wordle: three, my starter was SPADE

As I poked around WLF yesterday I really wished that I had more space. I dream of having land, a big greenhouse in which I could grow year round, and clear sky to get more than six hours of sunlight for my plants.

I’ve mentioned this before, but I absolutely love the tv series Ludwig (streaming on BritBox). Unfortunately, I’ve run out of episodes from season one, and will have to wait for a while for season two to stream on BritBox given that it first did so on this service six months ago after it aired in Britain.

Wordle: six, my starter was GRAPE

More things for 2025, that I forgot about yesterday:
– learn to make an awesome pimiento cheese
– succeed making a sourdough starter, and from it, great loaves of sourdough bread

Wordle: six, my starter was REACH (poor Wordling by me today, four of the six words I played have been solutions)

I have a lot of plants that are unhappy to remain indoors. I don’t like the idea of transplanting sickly tomato and pepper plants, but that’s what I am doing today. Time will tell if this was a mistake. I may start new seeds today, just in case I have tremendous plant failure.

The other day I mentioned new endeavors. This year, as I turn sixty, I will be trying my hand at fermenting (sauerkraut and pickles), pressure canning (hopefully tomato sauce), and growing mushrooms in buckets.

Wordle: three, my starter was WATER

Well, I’m not half blind but I still have the chalazion. Apparently in eight years some procedures have changed, and I have to attempt shrinking it using a $25 prescription ointment and returning in a few weeks to see if it needs to be drained. This whole rigmarole will probably wind up costing me $1000.

Wordle: five, my starter was AMIGO