Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: at My 2nd day of Grandma's taking pictures of Grandpa's and the rest of the family fishing while she takes the pictures. I have determined that there are very few pictures of Grandma's out there due to this fact. My previous blog entry was all pictures Ruth Grady took of her family fishing and now Annette is my grandma of... Read more

Excerpt: Mike and Ruth are on their 25th year coming to the resort. Lots of good times but spending time this week with their grandson Bentley was among their favorite A boat, a cabin and a grandson for a week, life does not get much better First bluegill. What do I do with it grandpa? I am happier when they... Read more

Excerpt: Beautiful morning at the lake. Mack stopping for his morning drink. He is happy to have the swimming steps back in. Much easier for an old guy The Blankenburg family were out fishing for crappie this morning. The spawning fishing season is in full swing. The Lillies of the Valley have finally sprouted up atleast a week behind. Usually... Read more

Excerpt: It was a beautiful Memorial Weekend. 70's for temps and no rain Saturday and Sunday. Perfect for enjoying the first days of summer The water tramp made it out on the water to join the raft. Grant and Quinton helping Troy get it set on the anchor. They wanted to go water skiing but the red boat is not... Read more

Excerpt: Rosebreasted Grosebeak stopped by when he heard and a bunch of his friends.... Someone at the resort turned 50 not saying who but there was much fun had by all.... After a long week of work getting the resort ready everyone was ready for a party. Ben and Grant tired and thinking finals week was easier than resort opening... Read more

Excerpt: It has been a busy week. Besides all the work going on with the late spring Bryon has moved our website to a different more secure server and there have been days of things moving over from servers including the blog. While that was going on Ben and Grant made it home in time to help with resort opening... Read more

Excerpt: The lake has opened up and the loons are back. We heard our first loons a couple of days ago. There was supposed to be a poser in this picture on the dock..... I swear he knew before going to the lake that I would ask him to pose out on the dock because he would not come down... Read more

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Excerpt: The lake is very quickly heading to ice out. The darker it gets the closer it gets to open water The raft is floating free today of its ice winter home View off the hill today of the darkening lake. The small pond by Save More Grocery store is ice free today it is always the lake that opens... Read more

Excerpt: With warmer temps this week we have spotted our first open water. I am sure the ducks are not far away. Temps going to 65 on Saturday will get things really moving along melting I caught Penny down on our side of the lake looking forlornly at her swimming hole. It will be a few more days before we... Read more

Excerpt: We are slowly melting the snow from the big storm last week. Hopefully the resort looks less white in a few days. We have warmer temps and rain headed our way and that should hurry up the melting. I think Steve is taking the plow off for the last time this week. Hopefully that is a good sign. I... Read more

Excerpt: Snow melting slowly away. For the past 2 weeks I have been dealing with computer key board problems. My computer went to visit the Apple gurus in the mail and all is well again. I can type 9's all day now. Before I had keys acting up all the time. I had tried to update the blog with my... Read more