Wordle 751: Christmas in July?

I stared at the blank tiles today and had nothing to put in for my first guess. I briefly considered FLUNK for an opener because I had nothing to go with. But I've been annoyed with all the times I've used K in my opening guess, so I pivoted away. I ended up going with TRAIN for my first guess. This felt like a good guess because there were a good amount of common letters, but I got nothing but gray tiles. As I thought about my second guess, I decided to return to a word with one vowel. I had a brief thought to put a Y at the end of my guess, but couldn't figure out what to do. I had FOLKY for a second, but I don't think that's a word. Folksy, yes, but folky? I don't think so. Anyways, I ended up settling on DUCKS (the verb) for my second guess.

And got five more gray tiles. At this point, I knew I needed to start getting some correct letters on the board. Much to my chagrin, I went vowel hunting. As I cast about for a word with O and E, I stumbled onto GOLEM, which hit the mark for having both available vowels and also being a unique word. I got green tiles for O and L. At this point, I knew that there was a Y at the end of the word. I should've listened to my earlier instinct.

I looked at the available letters and the only thing that made sense was the word being -OLLY. From there, I had the puzzle down to either JOLLY, FOLLY, or HOLLY. I was much less sure about HOLLY, since that doesn't look like how it is spelled. Two out of the three words were Christmas adjacent words, so I decided to go with JOLLY for my fourth guess. And it was wrong. I briefly considered doubling down on Christmas in July, but I that doesn't feel like the correct spelling for HOLLY. So I turned to FOLLY for a solve in five.

PS That is the correct spelling for HOLLY.

PPS For some reason, Wordlebot didn't like my guess of FOLLY, even though it was the correct word. I guess it wanted me to pick a word that would give me the answer on the sixth guess since there were three possible answers (FOLLY, HOLLY, and LOLLY) and only two guesses left. It kind of annoys me that Wordlebot is willing to use throwaway guesses to eliminate letters. I don't have the game set to hard, but I try to play by that concept of needing to use found letters in subsequent guesses. I'll allow moments of stupidity to let me stray from the hard concept. Part of me wants to change the setting, but I don't want to mess with anything since my streak is up to 89.