Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: Oggie and Purl wanted to wish everyone a Happy 2024 and they can't wait to welcome everyone back in 2024. Oggi in the light snow this morning. Its been an adjustment not having snow at Christmas to New Years. We all still managed to have fun including the guests. We call it the winter of the Pivot. Pivoting to... Read more

Excerpt: The lake has been slowly melting. I spotted our friend the ermine out my kitchen window by Kaubashine You can see the tip of its tail is starting to turn dark. Spring is one the way We have been collecting maple sap since early February. We are getting to the end of the season. We have our big cook... Read more

Excerpt: We left for a couple of days and came home to happily find the resort blanketed with a small layer of snow. It looks like Christmas outside and so much better than before we left when everything was brown. Before we left the snow had disappeared and the guys were happily splitting next summers fire pit wood. So nice... Read more

Excerpt: Oogie would like everyone to know, we do not have a lot of snow but so happy some arrived last night. Christmas is not the same without snow in the Northwoods Birchwood is open for Christmas if anyone needs an escape the 23, 24 and 25th 2 night min We also have Bayview, Restawhile, Kaubashine, Red Pine and Bear... Read more

Excerpt: I know many feel like this on Mondays..... but it takes a picture like my next one to make Monday ok Loons at sunrise makes everything better. They have not left yet. Enjoying the fishing a little more before headed to the Gulf We had some light snow last night. It is definitely feeling like November Need some solitude... Read more

Excerpt: Get ready for beautiful fall pics. We have had a busy week in the color The Wings kids stopped in to give us a plaque in appreciation for our support of their program for kids with special needs They bring by our fire starters we sell on our fireplaces. Love this program teaching kids life skills. Oogie and Purl... Read more

Excerpt: We have had technical difficulties for the past week and a half with my computer and my phone sharing pictures Bryon to the rescue removing a firewall on my computer that was preventing Air Drop from working. So enjoy this pic and more to follow. I have specials on our 2 bdrs going for the the first weekend in... Read more

Excerpt: Happy Fall! The colors are turning. Just in time for great color pictures, I dropped my iPhone 10 for the last hurrah of my screen. I had been limping it through the summer and had planned to replace it. After 7 great years it was time to retire the old phone. As anyone who has retired a phone knows... Read more

Excerpt: Will and Kim Flower shared these great pics of the loon parents and babies on the lake If all goes well they will be headed to the Gulf Of Mexico a month or so Purl soaking up the last days of summer at the beach. She loves her life. Where is Oogie? Stealing grill scrapers last we saw It is... Read more

Excerpt: I am glad Steve pays attention when we have lots of snow as to what trees are leaning over cabins or need trimming. Today it was Wigwam's turn to get some trimming around it. The tree guys arrived. Left over stuff was mulched into our trails by the office Dangling above Wigwam We did take this tree out due... Read more

Excerpt: Its been a cool week but lots going on. The loons are getting bigger. Happy to still see 2 of them on the lake Deer have been getting bigger as well. So thankful when folks share such nice pictures like these with me to share It started out as a warm week but a front came through with hail... Read more

Excerpt: 4th of July brings around our annual Roy Tungett Memorial Horseshoe Tournament Tom Hixson is our planner now organizing 45 participants into teams and off to Hilltop we go We work on just making it to the pit with the shoes. Amelia has watched the tournament since she was little and now plays in it Our biggest thrills come... Read more

Excerpt: Always a lot of fun on the 4th of July week Lots of family and friends. Too much to do and too little time is the theme of the week but we cram a lot in This year we seated 56 people at the table for the seafood boil a new record The cooks were cooking! Th old fashioned... Read more

Excerpt: This week I Summer has really hit. Most of our spring projects are either done or on the back burner for next spring. I have been slow updating the blog. Sorry for that. Between the late spring and my recovery from my treatments it has been a bit of a challenge. Shaking off winter, my cancer treatment recover, getting... Read more

Excerpt: There has been a lot of fishing going on the last couple of weeks with the spawn drawing the fish into shore Bently was all smiles keeping his grandparents baiting his hook. He has a fish story to write about when school starts in the fall With our late spring our time has been sucked up getting the resort... Read more

Excerpt: It is finally starting to feel a bit more like summer approaching Steve caught this picture of a porcupine up a tree on our trails. Luckily it stayed put We have a bit of winter clean up to do on the trails. Our big snow falls left a lot of debris on the trails Back to work, the resort... Read more

Excerpt: I have not written much about my health journey on the blog but I would like everyone to know we had a celebration Monday as I finished my last radiation treatment. It has been a long 9 months of surgery, 20 weeks of chemo and 30 radiation treatments for breast cancer. May 1st was my liberty day! All done... Read more

Excerpt: Its been an interesting weather week. We go beautiful 70's for 5 days that allowed some of the snow to melt and the ice to start turning colors. Mike Grady joined Troy at the beach for a few days rebuilding out dock tops for our boat docks. Mike is a retired carpenter and now only works when he has... Read more

Excerpt: We are finally seeing some brown ground. We are hoping to get to some raking finally next week Troy has started organizing boards for replacing the tops of our boat docks. Lots of cutting The shoreline is showing signs of ice loosening its grip Not too long these steps will be full of kids running down them to go swimming... Read more

Excerpt: I am told spring is here... not sure I believe it but we did set up our 43 taps around the resort. So far the trees know there is a spring joke as well and have been slow to get flowing. We have one pot on our wood stove slowly peculating away boiling down There is a ridiculous amount... Read more