Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: Why no blog entries lately.... would you believe me if I said we had been fending off a Republican Guard take over by Storm Troopers. Called in the Jedi and Obiwan and they have been driven off I drive past his tree eveyday and with the fresh snow looks like it is saying something or something out of the... Read more

Excerpt: Sometimes I wonder if anyone is out there reading the blog or if they really need one more picture of trees and snow and then I get a nice card like this from someone that does not even stay at the resort but just checks in to see what is going on at the lake and the Northwoods Hi Jenny... Read more

Excerpt: Finally made it to Radio Shack to get a new camera cord. Christmas seems to have eaten up my old one... Finally getting to upload a few pics from the storm on Friday [caption id="attachment_738" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Favorite Pic"][/caption] I like the perspective of this picture. I looked through the juncture of a tree at a huge Red Pine on... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_718" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Merry Christmas"][/caption] It feels a lot like Christmas in the Northwoods. Families have started to arrive to enjoy the holidays. [caption id="attachment_721" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The Dunton Family and Bandit too"][/caption] John and Maureen and their girls have decked out Norway complete with a beautiful Christmas tree. Maureen's family has long ties to the Cliff. Her dad... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_708" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Following the snowplow down the road"][/caption] The snow plow was making the snow fly down Lower Kaubashine. The last few days have led to enough snow to stop Grandpa Gibson from leaving. He finally made it off this morning. The snow has given us plenty to play in [caption id="attachment_705" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Snow hill at MHLT... Read more

Excerpt: I had all of the calendars from my 1st order spoken for and have had a few more requests. I am going to make a 2nd order tonight. Anyone want any? They are 18 each for one calendar and if I am shipping more than one 15. Send me an email at info@blackscliff.com by tonight... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_694" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="What is this?"][/caption] Cutting edge fishing technology in a bucket. What is in this bucket could change fish cleaning forever.... The inside of this wonder machine. I thought it looked like an ice cream maker. Grandpa Gibson saw this in action last winter on a lake to the south and took all the dimmensions and spent... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_679" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="-10 below looking out the window through the frost"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_680" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Sunrise in the pines"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_681" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="View from between the lakes"][/caption] I had to stop in at a neighbor's plowing and snuck down to take this picture. I was right between the big part of the lake and the smaller side... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_660" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Lower Kaubashine with fresh snow"][/caption] Heading back from coffee and plowing out Steve Sunday morning Lower Kaubashine was a picture post card with the pines loaded with wet sticky snow [caption id="attachment_661" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="2 figures spotted in the snow"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_658" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Grandpa Gibsona nd Troy drilling the 1st holes of the season"][/caption] Setting... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_631" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Take a trip back in time with Maynard and Millie "]/[/caption] Do to the fact that I can't think of anything to take a picture of or write about it is time to pull out the old pics. So enjoy the pics from Black's Cliff from the 50's and 60's. John the Groomer guy tells me... Read more

Excerpt: The Calendar order has been made. Took some fanageling (is that a word?) with Walgreens over 63 dollars in postage. I got them to reduce the postage in half and I can keep the price of 15 for the calendars. I ordered 30 of them and have orders for 21. If anyone else wants one let me know. They should... Read more

Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_614" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Poe's winter weather report.... IT IS COLD!"][/caption] Poe would like to report the first sub zero temps last night. [caption id="attachment_615" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Is the lake safe?"][/caption] I probably could have done this test last week but it has been a little busy so Poe and I went down to see if his far back (way... Read more