Walked outside about 9:00am and saw that the bamboo grew about 6 foot since yesterday. I cut and freed some branches of the orchid tree that the new bamboo shoots were crowding and I got a bunch of those itchy little black bamboo hairs on my arms in the process. That’s okay, they take my mind off all the misquito bites I got on my legs. I topped my night blooming jasmine and rooted the cuttings in the moist ground beneath the mother plant in the courtyard outside the main suite.  At mid afternoon, it’s 87 degrees, 61% humidity and a breezy 78 degrees inside.  The doors and windows are all open to the outside air for the first time in months and it feels invigorating.  I walked a friend around the yard checking all the new growth: mulberries beginning to fruit, loquats beginning to blossom.   The jasmines are all in bloom: night blooming, confederate and star jasmines. They root so easily, I have lots of it.  Fall is on the way!