Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: Woods looking full of snow and tracks in the snow What were the tracks in the snow? No idea, pretty sure they were not Poe looking for a place to use I think this pic depicts the amount of snow in the woods pretty good. Not a ton but plenty to play in. The storm at the end of... Read more

Excerpt: How much snow do we have? Enough, to need a sled to move a big chunk of snow for a snow fort Snow formations coming off the roof Next summer's pine wood for firepits waiting to be chopped The start of a pile for resort wood for Ted and Mark in January Steve and Troy have made a dent... Read more

Excerpt: Yes!! The Mac and the blog are talking in unison!!! I have found my picture files and have Iphoto and exporting to files figured out!! I will work on the size of pics next. Snow on the ground. I have seen ice fishermen out and the local elementary school has a parking lot full of snowmobiles from the 12... Read more

Excerpt: I warned ya, the conversion and swearing has commenced. I do like the new Mac, just figuring out all the bells and whistles plus Christmas Shopping and getting cabins ready for Christmas has been a challenge. I will have more time tomorrow, Thursday, to figure out my pictures on to the Mac to do some uploads. In the end the... Read more

Excerpt: Ok, laugh all you want... why a picture of a boot and nothing else? I took 4 pics this morning this being one of them to experiment with loading on to the Mac, editing, figuring out what folder they were in on the Mac, resizing them for the blog, and finally uploading them. Somewhere in the exporting of them... Read more

Excerpt: My favorite pic of the day. We got an additional 5 inches of snow last night and this morning. The trees were loaded and it was beautiful to look out off the hill at the snow still coming down through the pines. Good news is our problems with our plow truck are on the way to being fixed. Truck... Read more

Excerpt: The Black's Cliff 2010 Calendar can still be ordered in time for Christmas. It is 25 % off this week. They are regularly 19.99 plus shipping and handling through Walgreens. If you are interested give me a call with your credit card. I can make this order anytime even into January as I do it on an individual basis... Read more

Excerpt: Holding up the world by one finger Steve holding up the world. Bit of frost between the logs kept them in place as well I have confidence the pile in back of me will not move Ready to break up the pile Get out of the way! The new back drop for the Christmas concert at the local school... Read more

Excerpt: You should know better when things are going along well there is always a snafoo waiting in wings. Big storm caused us all to stay in yesterday and get things done like end of the year books, christmas presents ordered on line and a batch of Christmas cookies with bored kids. Today was to be the clean up day behind... Read more

Excerpt: This is one turkey with attitude. I had these pictures emailed to me from our neighbor who bow hunted across the road from the resort. He sent up this animal cam and caught the deer and bear pics I posted a few weeks ago. Wade caught these pics the end of October and just sent them to me to... Read more

Excerpt: The first half of the big storm came through. Public Enemy number one ventured out to my bird feeders this morning between the continuing snowflakes Muskie Inn pelted in snow Forgot to put my loon in the garden away and it got buried in the snow. Looking a little pathetic this morning My birdhouse snow report. Under the drift... Read more

Excerpt: Clear night and temps dipped enough to freeze the lake over last night Couldn't resist to chop some of the ice and see how thick it had become You need at the least 3 inches I have heard to walk on. I feel much better when there is a full foot of ice on the lake. I know however... Read more