Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: There have been quiet moments at the lake in the last week. This sunrise picture was shared with me by Stacy (Borger) Keleyweg. She was out in the Kayak with her dog Toby at sunrise. Toby is still sleeping but Stacy was awake. Thanks for sharing Stacy! Tom and Murry Hixson where surprised by one or two of their... Read more

Excerpt: One of our largest crews of the summer arrived on Saturday for the first wave. Many more to come and go over the next 2 weeks First night out was at Otto's Beer Garden to celebrate their 50 week count down to vacation. Many toasts and smiles around the table as everyone toasted being together If you have a... Read more

Excerpt: The Kramp family enjoyed their first summer at the resort and have had a great time fishing with the family They shared with me some of their catches I believe they said his was a 22 inch bass. They released it back into the lake Awesome bluegill Some fish where a little furry Thanks to the Kramps for sharing... Read more

Excerpt: We received over 10 inches of rain in 3 days. I have never seen the lake levels go this high. The lake is over the beach wall Coming down the steps the lake greets you Kaubashine's dock is basically at lake level The boats are about ready to just come up on shore. We are hoping everything starts draining... Read more

Excerpt: Enjoy these great sunset pics tonight after a rain storm ... Read more

Excerpt: We had our first horse racing afternoon in the community room. We brought out our Northwoods Derby and packages of pennies for folks to buy and the races began. Everyone had fun we even got some adults playing once they saw through the kids how it all worked. There was penny swapping and moaning as pennies where lost to... Read more

Excerpt: Kids and Summer are here. You can hear the fun being had from the top of the hill I was happy to see some of our first young kids enjoying jumping off the diving board. Lots of new fun being had at the raft Some though who do not like to swim (he is a golden retriever bred to... Read more

Excerpt: We had a big week in our family as Grant our youngest graduated from high school this week. He is off to Saint Norbert with his brother, Ben this fall who will be a Junior. Jacob has just accepted his first teaching job in Green Bay for next fall at Prebble High School teaching science and his wife Michelle... Read more

Excerpt: It has been a beautiful week since the rain came. The hillside greening up Steve and his buddy Darby have started a new project. They are replacing all the rails down to the beach They spent time this winter and spring gathering 32 rails and skinning them Steve is pulling out the big posts as well. They had been... Read more

Excerpt: We have been scurrying all week and the place is finally ready for summer. The chairs are just waiting to be filled Steve and Troy were busy getting the diving board back on the raft. We gave it new wood and it needed a little finishing touch to fit on the platform The platform got a good scraping and... Read more

Excerpt: It is spring and time is short. I took a lot of pictures working the last few days. Painting to straightening docks from the ice damage. Big thank you to Chris and Amanda Moran who came up to help for 2 weeks. Enjoy the pictures This last picture makes me laugh. At the end of the day Troy was sitting... Read more

Excerpt: First of all anyone interested in the diving platform update. The three of us spent an hour scraping and getting the old paint off the metal frame. This frame was hand made back in the 50's and steal was bent in place Fresh coat of paint and looks shinny and new and not 65+ years old On to other... Read more