Good morning. Minnesota’s weather whiplash is upon us — from 90s to frost threats in parts of the state in a single week.

There is an update to a story we brought you earlier this week on costly renovations to the Minnesota governor’s mansion. The state agency overseeing the repairs had alerted key lawmakers to the rising budget for the rehabilitation, seeking their feedback. DFL leaders said the work should proceed while Republicans voiced concern. The Department of Administration tells me they’ve now signed the contract with the construction manager on the remaining bid packages and will forge ahead.

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell’s legal woes are compounding as his attorneys are trying to quit amid amassing unpaid fees. Minneapolis-based attorney Andrew Parker filed a motion on behalf of his firm and another, seeking to quit representing Lindell. I posted key details here. The Chaska businessman is being sued for defamation for continuing to cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election that he had argued was rigged by voting-machine companies. Parker says Lindell’s payments had been steady but dropped off earlier this year and now add up to millions of dollars in unpaid fees. Parker says the lapsed payments in the case along with future costs could threaten the existence of the law firm he co-owns. Politico spoke with Lindell , who is working to find new lawyers. He said he had a heads up: “They came to me and said we can’t go on if we can’t get paid. I said, there’s no money.” The judge in the case could hear the withdrawal motion next week.

A scary ordeal shook out this week at Wisconsin’s state Capitol when a man was twice caught trying to illegally bring guns into the building. AP’s Scott Bauer reports the man was arrested after carrying a loaded handgun and demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers. The person returned at night with an assault rifle after posting bail. Evers wasn’t there at the time.

Fashion choices are personal but this one is… something. Customs agents seized an unusual item from an airline passenger arriving in Minneapolis last week from a vacation in Kenya: a small box containing giraffe feces that an Iowa woman had hoped to turn into a necklace. I’m on general assignment this week so the story landed in my lap . “She did not intend to potentially affect U.S. agriculture in any way. This was just something that she did as a hobby,” a top Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport customs official told me. “At home, she makes jewelry out of fecal material. So she was just, she just saw something that would be an interesting addition to her hobby. Unfortunately, it’s those innocuous importations that sometimes can have the biggest effect.”