Sleep + gardening + work = life is good! It’s been a fun and productive week of final layout for the June Horizons Magazine, as well as lots of time off for gardening breaks as I put in the hanging herb and veggie garden.  At first light, I went around to all the saplings, bending them into the shapes I’d like them to grow in. I did a surprise one on the chinese tallow for the mail chick out by the mailbox. I showed it to her when she came by: I’d trimmed it so the branches wouldn’t grow in her direction, and I fanned the three trunks out for her, like a wave.  She laughed.  She said her mangos and avocados never give fruit and I suggested she put a slow dripline on them overnight to wake them up.  My plants all respond like crazy to more water.  I’ve been doing my yoga on the back porch so I can watch the mama cardinal sit on her nest.  It’s better than tv.