Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: That time of year again to clean up all the aluminum cans from the resort and take them in for recycling. We hauled 3 truck loads like this and the question is how many pounds of cans did we collect this year? 5 dollar coupon chip to Hilltop for the closest guesser. Can Amy Hebert the Eastern mathematician pull... Read more

Excerpt: I received this email newsletter from Winter Park and thought I would share. So much good stuff happening out there but the highlight is a return of tubing and better yet a tow rope to get you back up the hill. This should be an awesome thing to do this winter and I can't wait for my first tub... Read more

Excerpt: Typical November morning at the lake, no leaves, still lake, and slightly misty ... Read more

Excerpt: Mack got to experience his first big snow this weekend. This may be the snow that sticks with us all winter looking at the forecast. It ought to make the deer hunters happy next weekend View looking out by Birchwood First big snowball of the season Mack trying to get his mouth around it Hey look what I found... Read more

Excerpt: The earth moving equipment has continued to be be busy at the resort. Today it was a drop of road gravel to smooth out the roads and fill in some of our old septics that are being abandoned after the new ones were installed. With big equipment here we also took some time to remove some stumps Things getting... Read more

Excerpt: heavytable.com/coon-creek-family-farm-of-mondovi-wi/ The link above will take you to a story about the only organic chicken and turkey farmers we have had come to the resort. Julie and Vince and their boys arrived a few years ago and we swapped rent for chickens and have been doing that ever since. Their birds are top notch and you know they don't have... Read more

Excerpt: Walkway to Shamrock with a small problem The big dig continued today with the drain field being added Drain field being added View from the front door of Shamrock While all that was going on by Shamrock and Kaubashine, Troy and Steve found a new use for our antique wheel barrow. Worked great to move the shower stall over... Read more

Excerpt: Anyone want to see old pictures go to the Resort Information link and click on Resort History. We will be adding more pictures in the next few weeks but I thought for a start it turned out nice... Read more

Excerpt: The resort is finally quiet before deer hunting and Thanksgiving.. what does that mean... projects start. The biggest and most expensive project next to Craig's roofing project started today. Kaubashine and Shamrock are getting 2 new septic systems and a new drain field. The big equipment came in today only thing missing was Craig who always enjoys days that... Read more

Excerpt: Beautiful afternoon time to get the GPS out and www.geocaching.com to find a neat spot to visit. You know you are headed to a good spot when the road is reduced to gravel. We headed out on 70 E to over by Blink Bonnie's in St Germain where we turned on to County C and then Ross Lake Road... Read more

Excerpt: For anyone that does not know I knit Christmas stockings and this year have knitted 10 extra to sell. I personalize them with names. I have 2 moose, 2 bear, 2 cabins, 2 tree, 1 snowman and one snowflake or holly stocking done and ready to go just waiting for names. I am selling them for 40 dollars each... Read more

Excerpt: The last of the docks and steps came out today. Mac is looking disturbed by this occurance What the heck happened to my steps to get into the lake Honestly they were here yesterday...... how am I supposed to get in the lake to get stinky and a drink gonna happen now? This thing bounces up and down and... Read more