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
You will shake your head when I tell you this, but I am reading a really great book about okra called “The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration” written by Chris Smith. I’m reading this in anticipation of Wee Little Farm’s okra production later this summer, even though my okra growing has been underwhelming so far.
The refrigerator pickles I made yesterday were made using Alton Brown’s Bread & Butter Pickle recipe.
Last night I made a nest of Asian glass noodles and ate it with some yellow squash, zucchini, green bell pepper, and a pepper of unknown variety, all of which were harvested from Wee Little Farm.
My movie last night for Monday Dinner and a Movie was High Fidelity. I just realized that we missed John Cusak’s 59th birthday on June 28th.
Wordle: three, my starter was LATER
I binge-watched the rest of the fourth season of “The Bear” this weekend; still no laughs. 😉
I wonder when I will get back into exercising? Partially related, I’m battling an ankle injury that I have no idea how it happened. I’m also bummed because I don’t feel as if I’ve used these long days to their fullest potential.
Wee Little Farm is starting to crank out food — peppers (hot and sweet), eggplant, squash, potatoes, beets, and a lot of ripening tomatoes; cucumbers are starting to emerge as well. I hope that the tomatoes will be ready for use when I can process them. I might need to freeze ripe ones so they don’t go bad.
Wordle: four, my starter was CRISP
