Inside The Perimeter

Yesterday I helped a buddy out by chauffeuring him to and from his surgery. My day started with a 4:00am wake-up call so that I could be at his house by 5:00am, and at the hospital by 5:30am. I wasn’t surprised to see that the hospital offers translation services to its patients, via phone, but was surprised to see that German was not among the list of twenty or so languages offered. Hell, there was even a language called “Karen”, assumably spoken only by forty-something-year-old white women, of which I had never heard!

Other than that, I made my first attempt at pickling carrot sticks, sadly not with WLF carrots.

Was looking into a mid-week campsite last night thinking that with kids in school there would be ample availability in mid-May. Boy was I ever wrong about that! I’m trying to reserve a Wednesday and Thursday night outing at Hamburg State Park, in order to get in a pre-BRAG dry run for all of my camping gear, as well as potentially two or three, admittedly flat, bike rides.

Wordle: three, my starter was ANISE

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