I am CuTRis

Mini Melons that grew in our garden from the composted soil.

I'm waiting for my son to get out of school and I checked my email. The state of Minnesota sent me one that says I'm not qualified to maintain and troubleshoot their conference rooms. Usually I just ignore and delete, but this time I told them I did not want to argue, but that is exactly what I did for the Minnesota Historical Society--along with working on their VoIP phones. And for that, I worked directly with the State of Minnesota IT department.

Republicans in Minnesota are up in arms about fraud that has gone on for years. Trump grossly inflated the numbers, and they're repeating it and pointing at Democrats. Yet, they are totally blind to the fraud Trump and family are involved in, and the cost to Americans as prices rise and his wars rage on. Let's build a ballroom and sell off some national parkland...

There have been 3 shootings, one made national news, in the last 2 days in the Twin Cities area. And I used to work in a place in Minneapolis where horrible stuff happened and it never made the news. So, now I want the idiot who said that if guns kill people, then spoons make people fat--to tell me that one again. I realize this person is scared of the world and has to carry a gun everywhere, but for gods sake, think of the children who have been killed because you're afraid that you might lose your gun, and that's not even going to happen.

I noticed the American Water Lotus were blooming in a nearby lake that we canoe and go fishing in. So, today we went to see them. We also did a little fishing, and my wife caught a nice sunfish that we released. The two swans that we saw in late June were still there. They don't appear to have ever tried to hatch the eggs we saw strewn about on the island. I still think that perhaps they are a young pair, not yet ready to raise a family. We also saw Water-lilies. But it was the Lotus that were spectacular at this time of the year.