Inside The Perimeter

On Sunday critters forced my hand to start doing a little WLF maintenance. I cut back some branches of a bush which I had let get too large, and blockaded the opening to my dryer vent so that no critter could use it as living quarters; I had suspicion that something would.

While doing this cleanup I found my lame, a razor blade on a stick used to slash the tops of bread dough prior to baking. The lame was on the ground, which tells me that it must have been sitting on the silicone mat I use to shape dough and I shook it off at the same time I shook off the excess flour.

In the past few weeks I have found:
– headlamp
– U-Lock
– lame
Funny the things found while cleaning/organizing. Now if I could just find my youth, brown hair, slenderer waist, and belief that life will get better…

Last night I made air fryer “fried” chicken using some thighs that I had in the refrigerator. While a bit messy to coat, the process was not hard, and was very tasty.

It’s Election Day! If you’ve not yet voted, and feel informed, please go am vote today.

Wordle: three, my starter was CLAIM

I feel like I’m starting over.
I feel this way a lot.

Because Friday was predicted to be the last beautiful day for a while, I pushed almost all of my WLF choring until Saturday. I went out, ate lunch at Savage Pizza, and then drank a beer at Wild Heaven, prior to returning home.

Ironically, I walked to WLF@UFO on Friday and, because my garden neighbor cleaned out her sprawling sweet potato vines, wound up doing some of the same chores there as I planned to do in WLF.

It’s funny, as I sat at home on Halloween Saturday it felt as if the Fourth of July was just a couple of weeks ago.

Wordle: five, my starter was AFOUL

This week was filled with tricks and treats. Wednesday’s horror of finding killed trees is somewhat offset by finding lost items this week, specifically the U-Lock (tucked into a drawer in which I rarely look), and my key pouch (which slipped behind a stack of t-shirts in my closet).

I saw photos from last week’s dinner thrown by Concrete Jungle, and I never realized how much gray hair I now have, and how old looking I’ve become. Yowza!

Old Man Paulie is going to spend today working on WLF and the ITP Estate.

Wordle: four, my starter was USAGE
My Wordle luck is shitty. Since the beginning of 2025, when I started keeping my own stats, I have used today’s solution as a starter seventeen times, including once very recently. But not today…

I went for a walk yesterday, and twice I stumbled on a hash trail (chalk arrows only) and twice I lost that trail attempting to follow it. I’m going to blame the hare, and not this former hasher.

After finding the one-year-old pecan tree that I have been nursing cut off at the base with its pot tipped over I am rooting harder for the hawk that I saw land in a tree recently.

Yesterday I updated my basement AppleTV to the latest operating system, and now I get no audio. Aaaargh! I need that setup to function properly because we are getting close to indoor riding time for me.

Wordle: four, my starter was USAGE

After a trip to ChaRM, one of my last due to their pending move, I stopped by WLF@UFO. While at my raised bed I harvested all of the okra prior to cutting down all five of my plants; none of this okra is edible, the pods were all too large. I also took down my four tomato plants, from which I think I harvested one, maybe two tomatoes. Still in the ground are three tiny pepper plants and some struggling sweet potato plants.

WLF@UFO started with such promise, little of which has been realized. Once again I will be unable to attend a social function, it’s happening the weekend I will be in Greenville for the wedding.

Wordle: three, my starter was SCREW

Cleaned and cooked yesterday, neither did I do very well.

Wordle: four, my starter was ANISE

Through nobody’s fault but my own, I have been overcommitted. It was a very busy weekend with seeing Sugar at The Eastern ($39 for parking was highway robbery!) on Friday, a day of bike riding and drinking on Saturday, and meeting up with friends yesterday.

My Do Not Disturb sign has been hung out for this week. I will be committing to nothing other than my weekly dinner with Betsy on Wednesday night.

Wordle: five, my starter was SLIDE. Not having solved in fewer than four but once in over three weeks, I hate this fucking game now.

If all goes to plan I will be making my first visit to The Eastern for tonight’s Sugar show. If this wasn’t a band I loved, who hasn’t toured in 34 years, I wouldn’t be going. The introvert has won, and is tired of trying to interact with others.

Wordle: five, my starter was FRAUD

With the exception of the weekend Hurricane Isais passed by and canceled everything, we have been (and apparently will be) dry. Wee Little Farm is so dry that I have been running my sprinklers in order to keep things alive.

Wordle: four, my starter was COUGH

Wordle: five, my starter was COUPE