I am CuTRis

His day was both enlightening and challenging. A person who just last week was wrongfully accusing other people of doing something, went ahead and did the same thing herself today. Another person who is high-ranking and has a bad temper, lodged a complaint but as all of the correspondence was documented in email, it pointed to this individual's own abusive nature. It seems that even when he couldn't leave home, it didn't shield him from everything. But it did help to have it all in writing.

If you are in charge and you make a bad decision but won't admit it, it's still a bad decision. Your Authority does not change your bad decision into a good one.

Apparently several Trump supporters have recently been shot while cleaning their guns with Lysol.

I understand the outcry that Donald Trump suggested injecting disinfectant into the human body as a way to combat COVID-19. But we also need to give the President some credit. If you follow this advice, you will likely be dead long before you catch Coronavirus.

People are complaining an awful lot about this COVID-19 situation and the stay home order. Today we went hiking at Nine Mile Creek and then had dinner featuring grilled pork chops. I didn't think it was so bad.

I keep hearing how COVID-19 and our response to it is unprecedented. Yet when I read history, I can find cholera, smallpox, ebola, and polio. What is unprecedented for us, has occurred in history. Polio brought things like the iron lung, death and crippled children. It caused playgrounds and movie theaters to shut down every summer. As bad as this is, it is not unprecedented. I'm hoping the Minnesota Historical Society, an organization I have some familiarity with, will take up the challenge to show us how polio changed our world. Years ago I worked in the former Sister Kenny Institute after it had become the Hennepin County Chemical Health building. Before that, it had been the Lymanhurst Hospital School for children with tuberculosis. I know this because I researched and wrote an article for the staff newsletter about those haunted halls. COVID-19 might be unprecedented for us, but not for history.  -Kevin J. Cutris

Raspberry Island on Easter morning. The day after we had 60-something degrees.

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We all waited as the governor came out of his burrow. The tension was high! It was only two more days! Unless... Then it happened! He saw his shadow and boom! Four more weeks of stay at home order.

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CuTRis Moves Stick UnAssociated Press March 5, 2020 CuTRis was spotted at Fort Snelling State Park today, moving a stick off of the path.