When the sun rises it's up

I think I sleepwalked a little last night. A few nights a week I take to bed with me our(as in my housemate Gerry and I) excellent and wonderful grey cat Bam. He sleeps well most of the night but at some point wakes up(usually right when my dreaming is at its best) and slinks up to my face and begins to tap me on the lips and chin. Also he is known for stretching out sideways along my arm and rubbing his head against it while touching my face with his paws. It is at this point that I wake and think "Oh Hell No!!!" and get up and put him in thew kitchen with Clark for the remainder of the night. Well, last night it seems I never woke up to do this as I always remember the getting up and such as I have to open my door and put him out. I woke this morning with no cat(he was in the kitchen) and no recollection of putting him out. It is highly unlikely that he let himself out as my old Victorian door is heavy and noisy when opened and a bit much I think for him to close again behind him. As I was sleeping though I guess I will never know the whole story and will just have to imagine the obvious.

I am entering my 3rd week of no cycling. My body just seems to be taking a rest, which suits me fine. I am not particularly "upset" at myself for taking this break as I trust my inner process(which is outside the rules-based ego) to guide me to do what is right. I am still doing lots of exercise at the gym and elsewhere but waiting for the signal that it is time to ride again.

The garden is rich with texture and color today. I pulled 5 weeds that had popped up since Friday, watered a few things, took note of the ever increasing size of the 'dahlia imperialis', 'salvia gesneriiflora', the 'thunbergii' vines, the jasmine "throwaways" that Gerry dragged home a few weeks ago. I am sharing the garden with 1-3 people today who are coming over to survey all that I am always bragging about and to call it good.

My 'dendrobium sanderae var Major'(variety Major because it has larger flowers than the other 'dendrobium sanderae') has 3 buds on it but 1 is blasting(the rejection process that plants go through if they are over-zealous in bud production or there are sudden severe circumstances which are harmful to the plant, such as lower humidity). At least I ought to get 2 interesting flowers from it. it is a young plant so I cannot expect too much. One of my 'cycnoches chlorochilon' has female flowers developing because it has been growing in really high light. My other one has just begun to show itself preparing to bloom so I have moved it into lower light to see if I can get it to produce male flowers. Interesting either way but the female flowers are a lot less interesting(sorry girls!!!) so I would like to see some male flowers again this year. 'Catasetums' and 'cycnoches' are known for their ability to produce both male and female flowers, depending on the quality and intensity of the light they are in. So a plant can grow up on a branch in its native habitat and have good light for years and make female flowers, then as the branch it grows on gets other stuff growing up and around it, the light can become affected enough that the plant then will start to produce male flowers. Eventually the plant could be overwhelmed by understory growth from below(new trees, etc) and die off all together. This is the cycle of life.