Black's Cliff Blog

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

Excerpt: These 2 friends Linda and Gloria crack me up. Day 2 and they have gone from SPF 15 to covering up under their clouds saying they needed to pace themselves to last the full 14 days. Gloria with her husbands hat on was asked if she wanted to go fishing by a friend out in a boat mistaking her... Read more

Excerpt: Days 3 and 4 brought total relaxation and soaking in the lake as temps are going close to 90. Troy was even spotted in the lake so you know it is warm Floats taking a well needed rest Others were not in to resting. Will Flower with a gleam in his eye gave me a break from driving the... Read more

Excerpt: Day 5 brought the loon show. They put on quite a show for everyone on the docks It was the parent loons and the baby. First time I got good pics of the baby. It was first spotted June 10th by my neighbor across the lake riding on its parents back. It has gotten much bigger and the parents... Read more

Excerpt: Before After... The new office project has started.. stay tuned. 3 trees are coming down next and then the sauna is moving a few feet and corners will be set for construction to commence. No going back now... Read more

Excerpt: http://bookbub.com/deals/2012/06/18/free-ebook-dead-tease-victoria-houston/ Quick entry today, I have 11 cabins to clean. This book is free today on Nook and Kindle. It is one of a series of books based in northern Wisconsin mystery. Check it out for free. Our library has a hard time keeping Victoria Houston novels on the shelf... Read more

Excerpt: Working the chain gang in the driveway filling in holes. Once in awhile a driveway paver comes in our driveway to ask if we want to write him a really big check and he will pave out driveway and every time we nicely say no. If we paved the driveway it would loose something... there is just something about... Read more

Excerpt: I had a correction from Craig on my blog entry yesterday. This is everyone's favorite wheel barrow from the shed. I said yesterday if was from the 50's. I quickly got a text from him informing me the wheel barrow predates him and is from the 30's. It can be seen he claims in old resort pictures. I could... Read more

Excerpt: I came upon this lovely oven range set from the 1970's the other day being shown off by my lovely assistant, Kim, doing her Vanna White impersonation and could not decide which cabin would get this new lovely set.. Birchwood... Bayview... or Restawhile.... Such decisions It comes with a lovely and versatile upper oven that I am sure Gloria... Read more

Excerpt: After 2 days of cold and rain, everyone hit the beach and came out of hiding from their cabins Happy to be soaking up some vitamin D. All the chairs had to be scooped up out of the lake this morning after the intense wind blew them all in the lake No wind just a calm lake and everyone... Read more

Excerpt: Chris and Wendy shared their week in pictures with me. They were joined by their son Andy and his girlfriend for the week. I always love watching couples row boats and it is always interesting seeing if they end up backwards or forwards She was determined to get that boat in the right direction What form! Yep Chris has... Read more

Excerpt: After a year of production the book is here. A year ago in the spring we were approached by the author Neil Johnson and asked if we wanted to be a part of his latest project "The Resorts of Wisconsin" telling the history of resorting and resorts of Wisconsin. Neil spent a year and a half wandering the roads... Read more

Excerpt: While everyone else in the country has been sweltering in heat, we have enjoyed some cool air. Cool enough to light a fire outside and enjoy some smores The Finn and White families had such a nice table set out I had to stop by for a picture. Between the wine and the nice temps everyone was enjoying being... Read more

Excerpt: We had a rainy and sunny week at the resort this week. Just when the lake levels start going down we get more rain, so the lake is still up. The changing weather has made for lots of pretty pictures. The blooming flowers on the hill have enjoyed the rain. The mosquitos have not been bad so far but... Read more

Excerpt: We hosted our first graduation party this weekend. I hear Black's Cliff has become a buzz word for easy way to destress when all the relatives are coming to town for graduation, call Jenny and book a big house and your life becomes Zen. This weekend it was Ivy's party at Red Pine Matt "Ivy" Iverson enjoying the congrats... Read more

Excerpt: The Rose Family arrived to Bear Den. Luz has a tradition of making Columbian breakfast called Caldo. Specially seasoned eggs served with Caldo, roast beef so tender it falls apart added to a potato soup. Luz informed us it is the Columbian cure for hangovers as well as a good breakfast. Here is a link about Caldo http://www.weareneverfull.com/caldo-de-costillas-colombias-favorite-hangover-cure/ Everytime... Read more

Excerpt: Summer has arrived and I could fill the blog full of summer fun pics today but instead I thought it would be fun to share a blog entry I found from a new family this weekend in Muskie Inn. Written by 2 sisters I think it sums up the effect of coming to the Cliff, it even makes teenagers... Read more

Excerpt: There is a doe and fawn at the end of the driveway in this picture. I only had my Iphone and no telephoto to capture them. The fawn looked very new watching us down King's Manor driveway. In other news, we have had a few days of only being 1/2 full before the weekend and that means the guys... Read more

Excerpt: I headed out this morning as the sunlight was just hitting the Red Pines and showing how they got their names As I came down to the lake the Heron decided to put on a show and I had my telephoto and it was turned on!! YEAH Does not happen like this often. Thank you Mr Heron Swooping past... Read more