Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

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

Excerpt: Troy and I just returned from our final little spring trip before getting in to spring clean up of the resort. We left spring like Missouri to return to snow still on the ground. The lake is slowly turning colors I will post tomorrow Steve's updates on Bear Den We went to the largest sock machine gathering in the country... Read more

Excerpt: I see lots of stressed out people arrive at the resort who just want to unplug from technology, phones and traffic. You have so much more come at your these days. Today I had to deal with my computer which the nine button has decided to not work. Periodically my key board decides to throw me for a loop... Read more

Excerpt: We are starting to see signs of melting. The lake is slowly changing color around the edges and the beach has been spotted under all the snow. July still seems a long way off With all the melting it is uncovering all the branches that came down in the ice storms this winter. We are going to have quite... Read more

Excerpt: We returned home to some definitely warmer temps. This squirrel was soaking up the warmer rays in the trees. There is still a lot of snow and ice to melt but it is slowly going away While we were gone Steve and Chris Moran put in 14 new counters around the resort along with sinks and faucets. I have... Read more

Excerpt: The Gibson family is on spring break this week and off on a trail, We get asked all the time where and when do you get away when you live at the resort. Spring Break is a great time to get out of the woods for awhile. Never fear Steve is back at the resort keeping everything humming along... Read more