Writer’s lock isn’t a block at all.  Recognize the block itself as a signal to you from the Universe in answer to something you’ve been asking lately. Break down the elements of the block and you’ll find it’s not a block at all, it’s a billboard with your answer. It’s your inner guidance talking to you. But you probably don’t recognize it as inner guidance. You may be so convinced they are your own thoughts, you keep pushing them to the back, waiting for a big beam of light to shine some angel down from the sky to talk to you like they do in the movies. That’s not how it happens.

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Gardening breaks keep me stress free! This week I’ve doing final layout on the June Horizons Magazine, which means a week of 12-16 hour days of typing.  Since I’ve developed this “trigger thumb,” I keep it splinted and take lots of breaks from the keyboard to rest it.  Mostly the breaks have me outside gardening for 15-30 minutes at a time, which really breaks up the day. I’ve pondered for months where to put in a manageable vegetable and herb garden.  A friend solved the dilemma by hanging small baskets from lengths of bamboo suspended between 2 shepherd’s hooks in the sun.  I’ve got a tomato plant, a grape tomato plant, a red pepper, some bee balm and thai basil, all in coconut husk hanging baskets.  I like something portable and moveable and I hadn’t thought of it myself.  Ah, that’s what friends are for.

They began building the nest on May 10th. The first egg was noticed May 14th.  The second egg May 16.  The female Cardinal is responsible for building the nest of twigs, vines, some leaves, bark strips, grasses, weed stalks, rootlets and lining it with fine grasses. She usually chooses a thorny or dense shrub somewhere in her mate’s territory. Normally, within a week of completing the nest, she lays from 3 to 4 bluish, speckled eggs. Incubation begins when the third or fourth egg is laid and lasts from 11 to 13 days.