Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: This is the way to go for a row boat ride. Pick the littlest kid in the boat and have them row everyone else around. Jillian did not seem to mind and was proudly rowing properly in the correct direction, not backwards. Her dad was a rower in college and is happily giving direction in this picture This is... Read more

Excerpt: Yep time to play Hookie.. is that how you spell Hookie... then again we all know I can't spell anyway so there is no reason to hide behind a spell checker:) Lake Superior finally! Yeah! Mack's first trip to the big lake. Any guesses if he goes in or if he quivers under my chair? Pictures to come tomorrow Til... Read more

Excerpt: What is Wisconsin without its unique small town events. Wife Carrying, Wife Ferrying and Pike Carrying took place in Torpy Park this weekend as a fund raiser for Minocqua Winter Park's trail fund. It was a fun time had by all and you got a free cool teeshirt for participating 4 heats of Wife Carrying started off the event... Read more

Excerpt: The last few years I have been asked about doing memorials at the resort for guests who have passed. The resort becomes a place families have such a connection to that folks have wanted to have a memento of their relatives who spent some of their best days with their family at the resort. Aldo Leopold wrote once about... Read more

Excerpt: One of our favorite things of summer is hanging up our sky chairs on the deck. We don't have swinging beds in our house and the sky chair is our answer to swinging. Our kids fight over the one chair so this week we added a 2nd sky chair to our deck. 20 years ago we bought our original... Read more

Excerpt: Last year all 3 of these ladies had one thing in common they were all pregnant and due in January. Little did they know that all 3 would have babies in less than one week. I have named this week baby week. Everywhere you go you see babies and being 7 months old they are cute as a button... Read more

Excerpt: http://www.dillmans.com/dcaf/2011/niijii.html Check out the link above if you are going to be in the area this weekend. Looks like fun and good food!... Read more

Excerpt: After two days of clouds and rain.. rain.. rain you appreciate the sun when it comes out Time to head up the steps and see what the day will bring... Read more

Excerpt: This weekend we have a last minute opening for Eagles Nest Saturday and Sunday. If you are interested in a last minute quick get away give a call... Read more

Excerpt: It is the Northwoods and once in awhile visitors enter that we would rather not have. It never fails once a summer or so, someone comes running "There is a Bat in my cabin!" Well this time the joke was on me. I enter our house to see my husband with a net armed in the livingroom yelling at... Read more

Excerpt: A couple of people at the resort heard it was Howard Berchtold's 80th birthday.. word spread.. I don't know how... Julie might have had something to do with it. In the end we had I believe everyone at the resort plus a few gather on the playground. Assembling for the picture alone was entertaining Our intrepid photographer Yi-Ping setting... Read more

Excerpt: What has been going on for the last 4 days of no entries... Well my computer is finally fixed and the disks removed from the disk drive 45 dollars later. Much better than taking a chance with a butter knife in my disk drive Steph was having deep thoughts and much consideration to the new beach chairs or the good... Read more

Excerpt: To some this is the ideal vacation a bobber a worm... sitting on the pier without a care in the world. Jess definitely fits this mold Then along comes Jimmy.. So what are you catching.... anything big in there... Jess's response "it is not the size of the fish but it is sitting on the dock see if you... Read more

Excerpt: If you are a retired resort owner has has dug more septics than the local septic company there is nothing that gives you more pleasure than watching your grandchildren dig up the tank that is causing a minor problem He gets out of his chair to give pointers. At this point he is describing all sorts of things he... Read more

Excerpt: To understand why this boat has developed a cult like following you have but to look in the faces of the 16 years old that were let loose for the first time with it. That same joy is in the twinkle of everyone that has ever driven it. Jake's friend Brian said "That is one sweet ride" Jake is... Read more

Excerpt: We will be off line til Monday. Some unnamed person stuck 2 disks in my Mac Book Pro and the computer drive keeps trying to kick them out. Until I get them on on Monday I am not spending time on the computer because the drive keeps running. So today I will stock pile pics for Monday. The idea of... Read more

Excerpt: Bananagrams is the name of the game and Muskie is the place to be Char not thrilled with having her picture taken was showing me the ropes along with Anne on how to play Bananagrams. Not pictured is Bill who is studying the dictionary and memorizing all the 3 letter words Bill won the first round with all his... Read more

Excerpt: 8:30 at night and still 80 degrees with 80 percent humidity... what to do with no air conditioning? and no breeze I will give you a hint Some of this Some of that.. More to be continued tomorrow. Then there are those that prefer to get wet and watch from a distance... Read more

Excerpt: After a bit of lobbying on the part of 7 grandchildren, to their grandfather, the red and white ski boat is out of the moth balls. It just made it back from having its engine tuned up and it has been given the green light. This boat pulled more skiers from 1950 - to the 1980's than anyother one... Read more

Excerpt: For several years this big log has been sitting at the end of the log pile. I do not remember the year it came but it has been several years, it has been cut around, piled around, recut around.... Nobody has felt like taking it on and cutting it up. Today was the day the big log went down... Read more