Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: First day of vacation, first cast and first fish. Abigail Hebert fishing with her dad Charles, caught her first fish on the first cast. Dad is a little jealous that Abigail has caught a fish bigger than he has so far and Abigail is not sure she wants to go swimming in the lake if this is what she... Read more

Excerpt: Reading on the internet we came up with a recipe for poison ivy eradication. The ingredients for 2 potions were purchased Troy trying out the 1st potion. If you smell vinegar around the resort stay clear you are close to the poison ivy. 1 gallon vinegar, 1 cup salt, 1 tbl spoon dish soap. So far we have seen... Read more

Excerpt: What in the world is going on here? All I know is Steve and Troy took my camera and told me they took some pics. I believe it involves a trip to Steve's Swamp for a pole of some kind for Eagles Nest. What this develops into and will the police pull over Steve's car remains in question. How... Read more

Excerpt: We have a brand new BBQ restaurant in Minocqua in the old Baker's House building. We stopped in last night for quite a dinner featuring a few different sauces, Brisquet and pulled pork. For out family of 5 we came out at 35 dollars and that included feeding a 15 year old 48 hours of cooking on the real... Read more

Excerpt: This sounds naughty, but to a muskie fisherman I think it makes sense. One of our guests Charles Hebert has an online tackle store and has these lures on sale. I question where they got their name, there has to be a story behind these lures. So if you are a muskie fisherman or anyother fisherman that spends too much... Read more

Excerpt: Sometimes it is good to take a walk about and see what is new at the resort. Dave Black Senior walking with Craig to see the new roofs and other things that have been completed this year. Dave spent til the mid 60's with his brother Craig keeping the resort up with their parents Millie and Maynard til he... Read more

Excerpt: 3 am came around and a lot of banging happened on our deck. I jumped out of bed ran to the window to see what obnoxious raccoon was paying us a visit. The visitor was a bit bigger, hairier and black. I tried to catch a pic of our visitor but my flash kept going off in the window... Read more

Excerpt: I had a special delivery from Springfield Illinois brought by Linda. Michelle Tunget sent up some of her extra special chocolate chip cookies. We have been trying for years to get Michelle's recipe but she is not sharing. I thought maybe she would have included the recipe after all these years but it was not in the bag. Maybe... Read more

Excerpt: Troy noticed we were missing a boat for a few days. Most of the time when a green boat goes missing we get calls from neighbors as everyone knows a John Deer Green Boat belongs to the resort. Big Bertha has not been painted and no calls came in. It had wandered all the way to Bueana Vista on... Read more

Excerpt: Howard and Jean Berchtold arrived to enjoy their 34 summer at Black's Cliff. They started coming in 1977 and enjoyed many a canoe trip in the 70's with Trudy down the Tomahawk river with their kids. Now they come each July enjoying 2 weeks with their kids, grandkids and now great grand kids. Here in June they came up... Read more

Excerpt: The Eastern end of the Black Family arrived to enjoy a week in the Northwoods. Dave and Bonnie spent the week introducing Ellanora to all sorts of new sights in the woods. They took a trip to The St Germain Flea Market on Monday returning with some yard art that will be turning heads in Washington DC. The St... Read more

Excerpt: We found some time to head up to Black River Harbor on Lake Superior. The Harbor is about an hour and 15 min or so from the resort. Head up to Ironwood take a quick stop at the coolest cheapest antique store in the Northwoods at Dan's Antiques, grab a quick lunch at Subway to take up to the... Read more