My goofy ESP32 moisture sensor delay

boot.py

"""
Fun thing that wakes up every x seconds and posts info to Adafruit IO from the moisture sensor

A transistor turns on/off the power to the sensor.

"""

import network
from umqtt.simple import MQTTClient
import machine 
import time 
 
USER_NAME = secret
AIO_KEY = secret
FEED = secret
SLEEP_MS = 600000 # sleep a while (10 min)

def connect():
    import network
    sta_if = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
    if not sta_if.isconnected():
        print('connecting to network...')
        sta_if.active(True)
        
        sta_if.connect(secret, secret)
        while not sta_if.isconnected():
            pass
    print('network config:', sta_if.ifconfig())
    return sta_if

def create_client():
    client =  MQTTClient("umqtt_client", 
                            "io.adafruit.com", 
                            port = 1883, 
                            user=USER_NAME, 
                            password=AIO_KEY)
    client.connect() 
    return client

# turn on transistor, wait, read ADC, connect, broadcast, sleep
print("Hello, son.")
if machine.reset_cause() == machine.DEEPSLEEP_RESET:
    print('woke from a deep sleep')

adc = machine.ADC(machine.Pin(33))
adc.atten(adc.ATTN_11DB)
onPin = machine.Pin(15,machine.Pin.OUT)

onPin.value(1)
connect()
# give it time
time.sleep(5)
cli = create_client()
moist = adc.read()
print(moist)
onPin.value(0)
cli.publish(topic=FEED, msg=str(moist))
time.sleep(2) # need?
# put the device to sleep for how long we want
machine.deepsleep(SLEEP_MS)