Monarch Butterfly in Florida taking a break from shuffleboard

Jeannette Brandt and Mike Parwana of Lake Luzerne, New York are nothing if not optimistic. When they recently found an injured Monarch butterfly near their home, they brought it in and fed the butterfly fruit and honey. Then they used shreds of cardboard to fix its broken wing.

After about a week the monarch was ready to hit the road, but was off schedule for its winter migration and needed warmer weather. So the couple put the butterfly in a shoebox and in a leap of faith headed for a truck stop. A generous high-ballin' trucker from Alabama who was headed to Florida agreed to take the little guy to the Sunshine State, where tens of millions of monarchs are making their winter migration to Mexico.

The trucker called the couple to say the monarch had been set free. If Cledus "Snowman" Snow were here, he'd say, "Roger that."