Lucky, lucky me! A 2 to celebrate my new streak! 
Wordle 695 2/6*
IRATE
CANOE
I was lucky without a doubt, but I worked for this one, too. WordleBot advised there were 50 words to choose from after my opening word, but I hit on the answer because it was the first word I wanted to try for letter-testing. I ran through a lot of other letter combinations first.
Wordle 695 4/6
ABOUT
POACH
CAROM
CANOE
CANOE is in my stable of starting words, but alas, today was not the day for the elusive ace.
Wasn’t looking for a third vowel.
Wordle 695 4/6
PLATE
BARGE
MAUVE
CANOE
Wordle 696 4/6
RATIO
LATCH
LATEX
LATTE
Wordle 696 5/6*
ALERT
PETAL
LATEX
LATHE
LATTE
Frustrating. I had excluded LATTE as a solution because I guess I don’t think of it as an English word…
Wordle 696 3/6*
STILE
LATHE
LATTE
I thought I had it in 2 
Wordle 696 3/6
SALET
LATER
LATTE
This one almost got me.
Wordle 696 5/6
TRANS
LOUIE
LATHE
LATKE
LATTE
Wordle 696 4/6*
ALONE
SHALE
LARGE
LATTE
Wordle 696 5/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 696 4/6
80
3
2
SLANT
LATER => narrowed it down to LATHE, LATTE, and probably not LATKE
LATHE => guessed wrong, ending 5-day streak of 3’s
LATTE
Wordle 696 4/6
HEART
STEAM
DATED
LATTE
Wordle 696 4/6
IDEAL
STALE
LATHE
LATTE
Wordle 696 5/6
Well, that’s the end of my run.
CRANE
SPOIL
LATHE
LATKE
LATTE
Wordle 696 4/6
PLANT
LATER
LATHE
LATTE
Looks like I’m not alone with having a pretty decent 3 streak ended by this one. It was frustrating for me because I even went through the entire keyboard checking all the possibilities before going with lathe. All the possibilities except for duplicates, of course, so it’s my own damn fault. Doh!
Looks like I dodged a bullet today. Happy with a 3.
Wordle 696 3/6*
IRATE
HAUTE
LATTE
I had already found LATTE before HAUTE, but I can’t resist trying more letters before trying doubles. There was also MATTE, but it being early morning, LATTE appealed to me more. 
Wordle 696 4/6*
ABOUT
TANGY
LATHE
LATTE
If I drank fancy coffee instead of working in engineering I might have gotten this one in three!
Wordle 696 5/6
HOUSE
ALINE
LARGE
LADLE
LATTE
Grrr. I had LATTE before LADLE but didn’t pull the trigger.
CANOE → Productive start. I can see why this is a dark-horse starting word for some…
PASTE → Good pickup with the T. It’s looking a bit traplike, but I can’t come up with a whole lot of words to fill the trap in. So either I’m missing something obvious, or I’m in better shape than I feel like.
HAUTE → Felt like I had to try another vowel. But it wasn’t a vowel, was it? No, it was a double…
LATTE
I should have asked SunLass, the only coffee drinker in the house, for help…
Wordle 696 3/6
PLEAT
LATKE
LATTE
I was feeling hungry more so than needing caffeine. 