I got a new hip yesterday. I am house sitting for one of my clients. Not a bad place to lay low for a couple weeks. In and out of the hospital in 23 hours. Can’t wait to see the bill 💵🚨🤪

Wow. This Sascha Riley story is really wild

I had to get out of the Minneapolis area for an evening in the wee Hut. We didn’t even bring groceries. Got all we needed at Kwik Trip, Louie’s Meats and the bakery in Lindström. I have surgery on Wednesday and won’t be able to come up for a while. I’m so grateful for natures healing hand 🌲🪵🦉

The AUDACITY of the ICE agents to be using Fort Snelling as their “home base” while preforming NAZI tasks in Minnesota. Fort Snelling Nation Cemetery is housed there. The remains of soldiers who who fought fascism are buried there. Maybe during their breaks they can go visit my 6 family members

My daughter and I filled the ice fishing sled up with our gear and drug it across the lake to spend two glorious days at the Hut. We fired up the wood-stove, filled up the bird feeders and relaxed ☺️. Gotta head back tomorrow before the blizzard

Happening right now in Shakopee, Minnesota. The grey Dodge has been driving around for the past 15 minutes with this group trailing him. White pkup has been honking the whole town. We have a little Somali grocery store on the left and when they turn there’s a little restaurant. Jerks

Life is bonkers right now, so it is such a luxury to be able to escape to the woods, watch the sunset and fire up the woodstove to heat up the cabin. Tonight’s dinner is salted in shell peanuts and a whiskey sour. Retiring in the woods can’t come soon enough.

I fixed my misspelled sign and went to the NO KINGS Rally in Spooner, Wisconsin. A deep red village of 2400. Somehow we managed to get around 450 people to show up! The first NK in Spooner had 15!

My daughter is “off to the races” as they say. She’s running for an animal shelter in Chicago at this years running of the Chicago Marathon. Let’s Fukking Goooooooo!

My gooooooodness! The beaver 🦫 friends are really getting busy eating our big poplar trees at the Butternut Hut 🥺

Look at my friend from yesterday. He was certain I could not see him 🐸

Here is a photo of one of the hummingbirds that was visiting the garden today. So doggone cute.

This wee friend didn’t care one tick that I was dead heading my customers garden right next to her (him?) There were three busy hummers feasting on the zinnias, but they particularly loved these black and blue tall salvias.

The other night I was watching a dreamy sunset when I could hear the sandhill cranes in the distance. Suddenly they rose above the tree line and I watched a group flying overhead. Getting ready to pull up stakes and head south. Every year we see more and more in Western Wi. 😌 Fun birds

It’s as if this orchid is thinking me for rescuing it from a trash bin

Tonight was a spectacular site. A storm coming in before sunset and the chatter of the sandhill cranes in the distance. They are starting to group up and prepare for the start of their migration.

The morning activities at wee lil Butternut Lake. Mr Beaver heading off to work on the dam, and Mr and Mrs Swan taking a little, peaceful stroll together

A pretty good year for butterflies so far

These sweet purple Gomphrena have been such a hit in our customers gardens this year. They are a type of amaranth. We have them paired with a vinca in this garden.

Last night I had this fun visitor before sunset

Look what showed up at work today while I was deadheading this big pot of petunias at my clients house.

Nothing is more peaceful than this view. I am so grateful to have this tiny cabin in the woods to recharge my batteries

This is so fucked up. This is heinous and disgusting. It’s crimes against humanity. Pro-Israel or Palestine, I don’t give a flying fuck. This is leading poor, starving, desperate people to slaughter. What the hell is it gonna take to make this STOP! apple.news/Ag8YNDmbYS2y...

Listening to my favorite public radio station WOJB 88.9 while they live broadcast the POW WOW at the LCO Nation. Nothing like drum circles and singing to feed your soul

Nothing to see here……prepare for President Vance www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Former President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris are attending Melissa Hortman’s funeral. Rest Easy sweet Melissa, Mark and Gilbert 🌹

I’m escaping to the Butternut Hut this weekend to plant all these random leftover plants, and the gardenia tree (in the front passenger seat). I need a break from EVERYTHING

What a truly sad day for our state and for America

The BEST new song I’ve heard in a long while…. youtu.be/d4SNzt3qTUQ?...

I took this is Cozumel in 2019

Consider this your duty

We came upon this adult teaching his youngster some hunting skills. The youngster flew up in the tree but whatever they had on the ground was enough of a prize that this adult wasn’t leaving. Barronett, Wisconsin

An Eastern Phoebe decided the best place to build her best was on top of my old cow skull 💀 on the outside of the cabin.

An Eastern Phoebe was bound and determined to build a next over our entry door, so when that didn’t pan out, she chose a more peaceful spot 💀

These are NOT COPS! They are NO ICE! We must rise up and DEMAND THIS STOP! We are becoming a crazed police state!

It just gets worse and worse. Thank you @amyklobuchar.com for this

I wish I was as well spoken!! What a smart woman.

We are broken. Rest in Peace Melissa Hortman and her husband. Please get well soon and be made whole Representative John Hoffman and his wife. These were politically motivated KILLINGS!!

So masks are a NO for protesters but YES for “ICE” agents? Which is it. The hypocrisy is staggering…..

What say you @governorwalz.mn.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov? I know we can’t count on Pete Stauber…..Butvthis CANNOT HAPPEN!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Remember this while Donny 2 Dolls rañks about “you gotta have law and order” www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol...

Burn it down. Sitting by the fire is a great distraction in a world of chaos. I spent a good bit of today burning brush and it was AWESOME

This is the content I needed. Last nights sunset at the Hut was a reminder that another day will come.

In 1970 the Government silenced students for protesting the war…..And here we are at a precipice again in 2025 with the Trump administration silencing student protests youtu.be/l1PrUU2S_iw?...

She is a fighter! This is the DEMOCRATIC ENERGY we need. Take note @amyklobuchar.com, @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov

Mission accomplished. We managed to wrangle the old iron dock into the lake. Went for a walk in the forest and climbed up in a deer stand to survey the creek and the high vantage point

Holy smokes! I was listening to this on the way home from the cabin. It’s worth an hour of your time. We are in DEEP SHIT! We gotta find a way to get our messaging out www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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A beautiful peaceful morning here at the Butternut Hut. Just a bit over freezing temps, but we should be warming up to 50