Mikisew Moments

Mikisew Moments I'll figure this out later..... The Barefoot Craftsman is dedicated to keeping an old tradition alive.

I was taught woodworking by my Grandfather: Master Craftsman Keith Carah (Antique restoration/French polishing). He was a massive inspiration to me as a woodworker and a veteran. My grandfathers, my father, myself and my daughter (current serving) are all veterans.

Fall Saturday mornings are grandkids, two big pots of stew slow cooking on the stove and and Hazel making pies with Gook...
04/10/2025

Fall Saturday mornings are grandkids, two big pots of stew slow cooking on the stove and and Hazel making pies with Gookum (grandmother) 🥧

I couldn't share direct, but this is from a post in Kanadian Korner.Tonight, the Falls Will Be Illuminated in a Brillian...
30/09/2025

I couldn't share direct, but this is from a post in Kanadian Korner.

Tonight, the Falls Will Be Illuminated in a Brilliant Shade of Orange at the Top of Every Hour for 15’ Minutes in Honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation🧡
Today, and every day at Niagara Parks, is an opportunity to honour those who are survivors of the Canadian residential school system and continue to promote truth-telling along the 56km Niagara River Corridor.
Niagara Parks is home to a rich and extensive Indigenous history and culture that we are pleased to showcase to millions of guests from around the world. We are committed to making the promise of truth and reconciliation real and we are proud to collaborate with Indigenous communities to support meaningful programming and initiatives across our sites. As we take time to observe this day of reflection, we encourage everyone to continue the conversation of truth-telling and reconciliation with the Indigenous people of Turtle Island.✨ 🪶🧡
❤️🇨🇦❤️

Today is National Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada; known as Orange Shirt Day.Today is not about land claims, trea...
30/09/2025

Today is National Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada; known as Orange Shirt Day.

Today is not about land claims, treaties or rights. Today is a day to recognise and remember the atrocities against children in residential schools and the thousands that never came home. Students that were forcibly removed and kidnapped by government agencies. Children as young as FOUR years old. The same age as my granddaughter 💔

Of course there is a denialist movement, with the claims of 'but no bodies have been found'. The reason for not finding human remains, is because of several factors: church, politics, culture and several othe issues. No Graves have been exhumed: only ground penetrating radar has been used, until such a time exhumation of potential mass grave sites can be begin.

Regardless, these atrocities happened and they happened around the world.
I know they happened for a FACT, because my family were a part of that atrocity. My wife, my wife's parents, Aunties and Uncles and cousins and tribal elders all suffered through this nightmare. The nightmare was very real and we can never forget it.

If you want to deny it, then deny it to my face, because I will protect my family's honour with the same prejudicial violence perpetrated against them.

Over 10,000 children went missing from residential schools and were never seen again. Their hair was cut, their language beaten out of them and their family taken.

EVERY CHILD MATTERS.

26/09/2025

The random "I love you Goomsoom. You're the best Goomsoom" are the worlds greatest gifts.

(Goomsoom = Grandpa)

It seems like a lifetime ago, but these Garden Arbour Swing Seats sold like crazy. I lost count at how many of these tha...
22/09/2025

It seems like a lifetime ago, but these Garden Arbour Swing Seats sold like crazy.
I lost count at how many of these that we made, but it was around 100.

This one was built on this day in 2021.

The Barefoot Woodshop is a memory that I will cherish forever. It was so much more than a business. It was a passion and a dream. We got so close to building that final dream of a veterans drop-in centre, but life just didn't pan out that way.

What we made out of it, is beyond any financial measure. We built a community and that community still exists today.

Finally getting the wellhead filled back in before the ground freezes and the snow starts flying.
22/09/2025

Finally getting the wellhead filled back in before the ground freezes and the snow starts flying.

21/09/2025

People say you should reconcile with your past, to go forward.
There's a name that has stuck with me for 35+ years.

Mr George Clifford of Glenroy Primary School. You will always be an inspiration to me. Once I left school, I made sure I would be everything I ever wanted to be and it was because of you, Mr Clifford.

In Grade 6, I was 11 years old and I struggled a lot in school. I wasn't a bad kid, I was just distracted and I wasn't smart like the other kids. It took me all that extra time and energy just to keep up with the other kids.

It was the night of our Grade 6 Social and graduation, that you really set in stone of what I would become.
You publicly humiliated me in front of the school. You berated me and reduced an 11 year old to nothing. You shattered what little confidence I had and set in motion a series of events that would crush my school life.

I decided that night, at just 11 years old, I would NEVER allow a tyrannical as***le like you, to EVER do that to another child ever again.
I went on to do EVERYTHING I ever wanted to achieve, just to stick it to you.
Now, I will continue to mentor and help kids grow and become who they are, and never have to face a **** like you.

Mr Clifford, thanks for showing me the most important lesson in life: people in power are rarely ever there for anything other than their own ego.

You were a respected teacher, by those parents who had kids that met YOUR standards. You even went on to become the school principal.

The reality is, you were a tyrant and a thug and while I forgive you, you can also rot in hell, as***le.

My only regret is that I never got the chance to say it to your face.

Glenroy Public School - class of 88.

For SE QLD followers: SOLD! SOLD! SOLD!!If you're looking for a dirt cheap deal on reliable car, call Amanda.My wife is ...
17/09/2025

For SE QLD followers: SOLD! SOLD! SOLD!!

If you're looking for a dirt cheap deal on reliable car, call Amanda.
My wife is selling her 2012 Hyundai Elantra and is having a hard time selling because nobody can drive manual!!

Excellent condition. Everything runs including A/C and heat, Bluetooth and all the rest.

If it doesn't sell next week, its going to a wreckers.

$3000 or best offer.
Registered until November 2025

Must sell by 27th September, so make an offer and get a bloody cheap car
(if you can drive manual 😉)

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation across CanadaSeptember 30th 2025Orange Shirt Day🧡🧡For all the survivors and vi...
14/09/2025

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation across Canada

September 30th 2025

Orange Shirt Day🧡🧡

For all the survivors and victims of the atrocities of the Residential School system.

In 1973, at the age of 6, Phyllis Webstad was sent to residential school. Her grandmother bought her a brand new orange shirt to wear on her first day, but when she arrived at the Mission school, she was stripped, and her clothes were taken – including the orange shirt.
“I didn’t understand why they wouldn’t give it back to me, it was mine! The color orange has always reminded me of that and how my feelings didn’t matter, how no one cared and how I felt like I was worth nothing. All of us little children were crying and no one cared.” - Phyllis Webstad, Founder, Orange Shirt Society.
On September 30, we wear orange to remember Phyllis’ story and the 150,000 Indigenous children like her who were taken from their families, communities, and cultures.

No longer a guesthouse, but a home for a very big family.Welcome to my nest.Mikisew is the Oji-Cree word for Eagle. I st...
12/09/2025

No longer a guesthouse, but a home for a very big family.

Welcome to my nest.

Mikisew is the Oji-Cree word for Eagle. I started using it as a moniker, when my wife started teaching me her language.
It's more than appropriate that this is where I would retire to raise my kids, my nieces and nephews and grandkids.

Just kidding....it's by the woodpile.
11/09/2025

Just kidding....it's by the woodpile.

05/09/2025

A Real Aussie Dad doesn't just drive a manual; he starts a HQ Kingswood on a cold morning with a bit of wire and a well-placed swear word. His handbrake turn is a thing of beauty, and his gear changes are smoother than the top of a freshly poured schooner.🍺🍺🍺

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