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Almost Done

The life of my bark canoe, the bake oven, my current moccasin orders… they are all almost done. Last summer started with some big repairs to my birch bark canoe. When the summer ended a few minor repairs were again needed but didn’t get done. Most of this summer, the canoe stayed in the garage. A couple of weeks ago, I finally got a chance to go out with the canoe, but I didn’t have time to make the needed...

Summer ending, ovens, and daughters

Summer is almost done and I am back to school, working (and where I have internet access). This has been a busy summer with a lot of projects. A couple of the more fun moments were taking my daughters to their first complete reenactment (where they camped out and everything). We attended the “Yellow River Echoes” at Forts Folles Avoines in Danbury, WI where the girls had a blast.   Noelle aslo came with to Grand...

Birch Bark

Well, I needed some birch bark and figured it would be fun to take my daughters out to harvest some bark. We had a little time before swimming lessons so we headed to the woods. In short time we found a nice tree and took two sheets of bark from it. I would have normally taken it as one piece, but with time constraints, tired children and knowing that I was only making small baskets (makakoons), I decided that a...