Black's Cliff Blog

Excerpt: Family reunion of the Black Family always occurs in August when the East coast Black's come for a visit. Nothing makes a family reunion like a little war between the family using row boats. Boat Wars 2012 commenced. Dave Black Junior with Grant and Katie's son Conner in the closest boat vs. Steve and Katie's twins of terror Max... Read more

Excerpt: After spending a frustrating summer using our old internet system which consisted of an air card plugged into a router. It was time to make a change. Up to this point the air card using the cell phone towers has worked well. Until this summer.... my theory is too many smart phones in the area using the cell phone... Read more

Excerpt: I had to share with everyone the special lady who makes all the tie quilts I have added to the cabins the last few years. The Lutheran Dorcas society of Calvery Church led by my friend above makes these quilts in the winter with whatever fabric they find for free or cheap. They sell their wonderful quilts at a... Read more

Excerpt: Summer means time to head to Hilltop for a little volleyball action Our secret weapon.... Paul... Paul takes on a whole other demeanor when competition starts. Such intensity has not been seen since he tried to position the raft many years ago.... lets hope the volleyball game turns out better than the raft incident Such action and talent... does... Read more

Excerpt: Ben and Conner decided to do a 7am swim and this is the scene that greeted them. Ben knew that to get credit for a 7am swim we would need photographic evidence so he grabbed my camera and remembered to take the SD card out of the computer and insert it in the camera before going to the lake... Read more

Excerpt: I have tried to explain to many people why Lake Superior is worth the hour - hour and a half drive to experience from the resort. I hope this picture comes close to explaining it. Peace quiet and waves. It is hypnotic and uncrowded beaches. This was at Saxon Harbor a favorite haunt of ours in the summer The... Read more

Excerpt: Yes you read the thermometer right this was our high temp today and not one person complained about it There is just something cozy and relaxing about an over cast cool day in the Northwoods. I even spotted something I have not seen much of in the last month. Smoke out a chimmney There is just something about a... Read more

Excerpt: Almost 90 degrees and it was time to soak in the lake. Someone turned the humidity up The most impressive swimming feat of the day. Mora backfloating all the way to the raft and she did not spill a drop Insert music to Red Solo Cup here. This was the way to enjoy the day at the lake Others... Read more

Excerpt: We had a fun day at the resort. We had a photographer out taking pictures of the resort for a redo on our website. There were quite a few hams in the crowd who had fun with this project and you will be seeing those on the website in the next couple of months. Russ was getting to have... Read more

Excerpt: While the rest of the country bakes we have been enjoying afternoons at the lake What is a day at the lake without a pic of the red boat? Tubing with Katie and the twins and amazingly for the first time the boat came back in one piece and did not have to be towed Charles Hebert was giving... Read more

Excerpt: Well the books are here! I have 40 copies left and will order more. Our resort and its history along with 20 other Wisconsin resorts are shared in this book. It also does a wonderful job telling the history of the vacationing at Wisoconsin resorts, how it started and the traditions that are alive to this day. Everyone who... Read more

Excerpt: Coolest new store in downtown. The guy who opened the store has spent a lot of time at the craft fairs and you might recognize seeing his amazing twisted wood tables there. Besides his own twisted art, he has many local artists displaying their art and crafts for sale The Twisted Widdlin' Fool himself Just a couple of doors... Read more

Excerpt: The 4th of July means fireworks, family and HORSESHOES. Roy and Carol Tungett once again organized our 2012 tournament. Names and numbers went in cups and everyone drew for spots and partners Gloria holding the Pony Plaque which nobody wants to be on for never getting into the final 4. You have to play for 3 years and once... Read more

Excerpt: Catching up on a few pictures from last week. Last week 1/2 of America was in Minocqua using the internet and slowed things down so much that blogging was no fun when it takes 2 hours to upload pictures. So finally getting around to posting a few left over. Disclaimer: These fireworks were not shot off at the resort... Read more

Excerpt: Last week was Sauna moving day. There was much debate as to how to move the sauna. We are moving it over 20 feet in order to make room for our office building Ropes tied up, come a longs secured this should work... Poles under the building... who took physics class? Today is dedicated to the power of physics... Read more

Excerpt: The lighting at sunset was beautiful this week. Every season has its beauty you just have to look for it The guys had some time to day to pick off a project. Today's project was cutting down this red pine next to Restawhile. It was dead and they were preventing damage in a storm First things first, taking down... Read more

Excerpt: It has been a busy few days of cleaning cabins, heat and soaking in the lake. Here is a montage of the last few days. Someone ran out of gas in the red boat and needed to be saved. Not saying who she is but she has dark hair and loves to do anything but drive the boat. Each... Read more

Excerpt: Abigail was so excited to hear about the newest delivery to the beach she had to leave her cabin at 800 pm to check it out in her PJ's She as all smiles and said she would dream of the..... drum roll please...... SLIDE at the beach Julia took one look at the slide and jumped in with her... Read more

Excerpt: Happy 4th of July. We got an early start to the festivities with our annual horseshoe tournament at Hilltop. Just about the entire resort was entered The ringing of shoes... or the ringing of trees being hit could be heard. Some are better throwers than others Intense competition playing to 11 Roy Tungett the originator of the tournament could... Read more

Excerpt: It is always fun to head down to the beach on Sunday mornings to see folks elated to be spending their first morning at the lake. Rick Snodgrass ready to dance the jog as he heads down the steps with crappie on his mind and fresh bait Over at the blue dock I spotted a lone figure who had... Read more