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IF NOTHING EVER CHANGED, THERE'D BE NO BUTTERFLIES
I had a butterfly visitor yesterday. I walked outside to paint some trucks and there it was - just sitting on the ground.  It was flying all around me and landed on the table... I didn't have my phone with me to take a picture so we just chatted for awhile.  I watched it fly away over the hill and said goodbye and went upstairs to get The Bud and a camera in case in came back...

I was telling the pup about our new friend and we asked it to come back and visit us...about five minutes later... there it was again - on my hula hoop.

Lily had her first encounter with it... Hey - what's up butterfly?

I was a little afraid she was going to eat it... I've caught her trying to catch and chomp on bees that are flying around!

It wouldn't leave... I told her to let it be and they just kind of sat and chilled out for awhile - probably ten minutes.  She never tried to eat it!

It landed on Mr. Harry Lauder and I snapped some pics of both sides...

Short video here...
Butterfly symbolism here...

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HAPPINESS IS LIKE A BUTTERFLY: THE MORE YOU CHASE IT, THE MORE IT WILL ELUDE YOU - BUT IF YOU TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO OTHER THINGS,  IT WILL COME AND SIT SOFTLY ON YOUR SHOULDER. ~ Henry David Thoreau.

Chrissy is hell bent on getting me organized here before surgery... let's face it - it's next to impossible but I'm giving her an A for effort... I'm so sick of trying to figure out where the hell to put this f-ing computer... After measuring last week and drawing pictures and layouts, we took everything down and moved the wine rack into the kitchen and the little pantry cupboard into the dining room... the plan was to move the china closet and get a computer armoire there... turns out the computer won't even fit in it!  So believe it or not (though it is completely believable) we moved everything back to where it was.  Then it was on to moving the desk out of my room into the computer room and the dresser into my room and the bookcase downstairs... but dressers only work if you can actually open the drawers.  ;-) So on to the secretary to my room and the desk in the living room... then... well you get the picture...

A for effort but an F for execution... back to square one.  We did have some fun out in the yard talking to a butterfly that wouldn't leave us alone.  Not sure what she was trying to tell us but we were happy to see her. And happy that Lily didn't eat her.