Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: I have been a bad blogger the last couple of days. Once again Basketball and swimming interfering with pictures and uploads. Swimming was the highlight as 2 people in our house are with in 2 and 3 seconds of a state time in the 50 free and are working on whittling away more time in their favorite stroke the... Read more

Excerpt: How do you know the snowmobile trail conditions are in good shape? The local kids are out. This is the parking area by our local k -8 school with snowmobiles parked in front of it. If you were 12 - 15 and had a choice of a big yellow school bus or snowmobiling to school it is not a... Read more

Excerpt: Good Golly Miss Molly it is cold out. It was - 7 this morning and I have no idea with the wind chill what it was. I know they are saying - 10 tonight with a -20 windchill. Of course I had no gas in my gas tank this morning and had to stop to fill up and freeze... Read more

Excerpt: Having lunch in town at my new favorite lunch and coffee hangout The Northern, I ran into Mark and Nancy who are frequent commenters on the Birchbark Blog. They have a cabin up here and stop in at the blog each day to see what is going on in the Northwoods even though they do not stay at the... Read more

Excerpt: We had some beautiful fresh snow come down last night. About an inch with a little more coming later today. Makes everything white and fresh Before the snow came down I saw the truck backed up to Kaubashine... What were the guys up to. I was shutting down cabins, pulling linens, turning off water heaters, turning down the heat... Read more

Excerpt: Basketball Games and Swim Meet in Antigo have kept us a bit busy the last few days. Heart Breaker loss to Antigo... Antigo played well and won deservedly so, but I saw my first score keeper ever ejected from a game for heckling a ref. The ugly side of sports that did not need to happen. Now on to... Read more

Excerpt: First of all before I get to Miss March, here is the snow total for the Northwoods over the last couple of days. This is what we received in new snow on top of what we had. Nice fluffy stuff to play in.... Now on to Miss March.. We have book shelves in all the cabins for folks to... Read more

Excerpt: It snowed and it is still snowing. Not enough to close schools. But a nice amount to play in. There is someone who would much rather sit by the woodstove and had to be coaxed to go outside..... Sticking his tongue out at me and looking at me like I am torturing him to take him outside The birdhouse... Read more

Excerpt: Sunrise this morning between Bayview and Muskie as seen from my car on my Iphone. Getting a little lazy lately and I have not had my good Cannon along but the Iphone does ok. I hear the Iphone 4S has a better camera.... dreaming and I will keep dreaming til my contract runs out on the 4 View minus... Read more

Excerpt: Latest from the Weather Service. I say bring it on! I have heard about 5 0f 8 inches of snow. 4 Cabins left for the weekend give a call to come up and play, Birchwood, Wildflower, Shamrock and Red Pine. For someone that does not want to come up on Friday but wait til Saturday Bayview is open starting then... Read more

Excerpt: Temps in the mid 30's for a couple of days and the guys have abandoned helping me clean cabins for the woodshed. Steve has turned in his bathroom cleaning bucket for a chainsaw and looks much happier. Nothing like working in the woodshed with temps in the 30's and not huge piles of snow. The snow is doing ok... Read more

Excerpt: We headed on a tubing adventure to Winter Park. Most folks locally buy a season skiing pas to Winter Park, our family is one of 2 that has purchased a season tubing pass. The boys love to go and after a week of Basketball, Swim Club and cleaning cabins a relaxing time spent tubing is more up our alley... Read more