The water flow is pretty much where I want it–more babbling brook than waterfall–but the stubborn leak on the north side is still there. Not as bad, but still there. Sigh. Anyway, I watered my houseplants today, and some of the vines needed trimming, so I put them in the pool. They may or may not be happy there, and I’ll probably rearrange them when it’s not a million fucking degrees, but they’d just have been thrown out anyway.

In birthday news, it’s a boy! Scraw Flutter-guy eclosed today. I didn’t expect him until tomorrow, but he didn’t care what I expected.

Once he started to get fluttery, I took him out and put him in a flutter-guy bush.

This is the guy on the cable up on the house. I’m expecting him tomorrow, maybe Tuesday.

One of my remaining two Spicebush Doot-doots made a chrysalis that looks exactly like a dead leaf, but I didn’t take a picture because I was going to bring him inside, and then the Monarch eclosed, so I forgot. I’m a bad flutter-guy mama. I’ll get him tomorrow.