The Billy Goat- A metaphor
.tied to the railroad track and hearing the train whistle

The billy goat song is an old folk song my dad and our family use to sing. (along with She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain, On top of Old Smokey, Old Dan Tucker, etc.)

The daily chat.
"A place to gather with friends and talk about any and everything under the sun"

I thought that I ?(should) (could) (would) ? start a new topic so I wouldn't be CLUTTERING UP "The Daily Chat". So hopefully this will just drift down the page and disappear into the digital universe.

Brain turmoil

I glance at my email occasionally but last nite I searched my email for mail from the mathematician and discovered there were about 15 since 5/25/2014. about:
Digging yarrow
Laplace Transforms
Pythagorean triples
baking and cooking
pulling crabgrass
coneflowers in bloom
Her relationship with a neighbor lady
Her chemist dad who is older than I am and has cancer
Chamomile tea
Jobs/ part time-jobs
Her apricot trees/ fruit moths.
Politics
Religion
Government
Health insurance
Pet sitting for neighbor's parrots
Mental health
website. stargazers perennials
A perfect fescue front lawn

. she also sent, by regular old postal mail, a very beautiful card for my 70th birthday earlier this month. I need to email her back.

She has some of the same adult "ADD-like", "OCD-like", and other related issues and interests that I do. And we both play violin. I hope my violin turns up at the other house.

She knows about my hoarding but neither one of us talks about it. I wish I could be more open with her about it. Or maybe not.

1 pm. getting really hot out. put up sun shade.

From <http://www.stargazerperennials.com/STEPABLE_GROUNDCOVER.php
Steppable and walkable perennial ground cover plants are ideal for planting in all of those hard to grow areas such as between stepping stones, planting along pathways, using as steppable perennial plants on slopes, in shade gardens and for use as front of the border plants in perennial gardens. Plant these hardy perennial ground cover plants as lawn substitutes or use to grow an attractive living patio.
Need tough plants; then try our Top 8 Walkable Ground Cover Plants
Unfortunately Difficult navigation on this site. The links do not link to info about any of these ground covers!

Talked to rich relative. more like listened. he sometimes asks questions but then doesn't wait for, or acknowledge answer but just goes on talking. In the pasture on his farm he has buffalo, horses, miniature horses and his latest addition. a baby zebra. He also has GMO corn and/or soybeans.

WABE. NPR (Sunday is the best programs)

Prairie Home Companion Lake Woebegone. monologue about middle children
.some nice string quartet music in PRC. Guy Nuiour

Bob Edwards Weekend.. This I believe.
lady author. pre-med. love of reading and writing changed to being an author
Also author Scott Tarrow

Living on Earth
Water. drought. Pacific Institute
Contaminated well water. Pennsylvania. fracking (shale gas drilling). abandoned coal mines. micro-biology. ground water contamination.
India. your water or your life. bandits make villagers haul potable water to them

Ted Radio Hour
leadership
Barefoot engineers. Afghanistan

A bluebird in the yard today. wish they came around more often.

Son's friend so-called friend showed up. with some fantastic story about collapsing at the drug store and being taken to ER, having seizures, refusing treatment. Etc. Did he get his prescription meds that he begged me for the money for? Did he bring me the change and a receipt? NO. He didn't get meds and he "doesn't know" what happened to the money. Not the first time something like this has happened, but I know he has medical problems, (I have taken him to ER and to get meds myself) and he sometimes helps around the yard and the house. But now I just feel like an old person being taken advantage of.

Almost 10 p.m. guess I'll call it a nite