Yesterday we decided to name the butterflies differently this year. No more Mickey Mantle, Peyton Manning, Joe DiMaggio, Aaron Rogers, Pope Francis, Hillary, Billary, Bernie, Trump, Humpty Dumpty, Michael Jordan, and the like. After naming over 500 butterflies last year, I think we used up the names of all our relatives, favorite Disney Characters, baseball players, football players, politicians, etc. Since this year seems to be a slower year, we decided to name them as the weathermen name the hurricanes. We would start with a letter "A"name, then a "B" name, and so on. Today we let go our first girl butterfly. And as fate would have it, a dear friend of ours passed away this morning. Her name was Arlene.
She was full of fun, sweet, silly, caring, and just an all around most wonderful person. So, the first little butterfly we released today was named Arlene. She stayed on my finger for a long time.....didn't want to leave.....but she finally took off towards the "heavens".
We also have 4 more that we will release tomorrow. They are eating and full of energy for their journey. As a matter of fact, they have had quite a party in the butterfly cage.
Today there are 11 Chrysalises, 5 medium-sized caterpillars and 4 tiny ones, 4 butterflies and 1 released
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