Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: It is starting to look more like the holidays around here. We are getting booked up a bit. With our 24 hour holds between reservations this winter it has limited our rentals, but that is ok if we call all vacation as safely as possible. We are continuing the double sanitation on the cabins with hospital grade disinfectant, hydrogen... Read more

Excerpt: We keep waiting for the snow to melt and the snow to go away so we can rake and finish up closing up the beach.... but it has not been happening No ice yet but it is cold! We have remained busy with folks getting away from election commercials and virus. The cabins are slowing down a little and... Read more

Excerpt: We have had some beautiful fall days! Colors have been amazing We had Northwoods Art Tour at the resort this weekend. 1/2 of the 40 artists on the tour that goes through the Northwoods to Art studios like mine, did not participate due to the virus. We took everything outside along with masks and hand sanitizer and had some... Read more

Excerpt: This is what happened yesterday. It is pretty but a little early.... This is what we are more used to this time of year. This was taken more than a couple of days ago Nice to have a few more days like this... and like this.... Before we get to this We have a few openings for the October... Read more

Excerpt: The hot humid weather left and fall is in the air. Not a lot of leaf changes yet Storm blew through pushing the warm weather out and we lost one of our oak trees Headed to a fireplace soon Sari brought up some friends on vacation to release. Headed off to Mexico for the winter Grant works at a... Read more

Excerpt: Our big news first. Ben and Ali announced their engagement this weekend. We are thrilled to be adding another member to the family officially. 7 years of dating through high school and college we are excited to see them enter their next chapter in life. They are living in Stevens Point while Ali finishes up her Bachelors's Degree and... Read more

Excerpt: We took a little trip away from the resort to Firefly campground with Mack by Boulder Junction. Mack enjoyed looking out at Firefly Close to Firefly is Fallison Nature Trail. We send lots of guests each year to hike Fallison. The wonderful thing about Fallison is most of the time you are hiking with lake views around the lake... Read more

Excerpt: Peeks of color are popping up around the resort. Colors will be exploding in another week We had some big rain come through. Troy had had enough of bailing all the boats and we started taking out some of our extra boats. Key here is not letting Steve take out to many. He starts towing them to Hilltop to... Read more

Excerpt: Mornings like this on Lower Kaubashine are the best. Crystal clear and calm Gavin was out floating in his boat enjoying some quiet moments at the lake I found out it was swim across the lake morning for his wife Tina and daughter inlaw. Absolutely beautiful morning for a swim. Tina worked for us about 30 years ago helping... Read more

Excerpt: Beautiful late summer morning at the lake Red squirrels have been starting to harvest their pinecones. They are nasty little buggers. This one was literally dropping pinecones all afternoon on our deck from above. It was returning for the spoils. It was aggressively chattering for Mack and I to get off the deck It went out to the end... Read more

Excerpt: Cooler temps have made for some great campfire nights. We got our budgie pie makers out with white bread and fruit pie filling, blueberry, apple and cherry. Cherry is my favorite Cooking my cherry pie with cinnamon and sugar topping The Michael Family happy to all be together. No corona cooties in this picture just happy grandkids thrilled to... Read more

Excerpt: Troy and I got away for another adventure in our RV. We headed to lake Superior and had a great couple of days along the lake and walking up a few streams and a few water falls. We are happy too be enjoying some adventures in our travel trailer. Jake and Sarah took the reins for us for a... Read more

Excerpt: A few year ago a guy and a gal met and had three girls. Dan and Steph brought Jaimie, Melanie and Laurie to the resort since they were babies. Dan's whole family enjoyed summers at there resort even before the girls came along. Dan's parents, Wills and Lou Christian started the the tradition with their kids before these girls... Read more

Excerpt: We were happy to have family arrive for a visit. Mark and Kathy Lammers stopped in. It was a treat to spend time with them during these times. Mark flew from Seattle and was happy to enjoy a few days in the midwest visiting family and escaping COVID. They broke out my moms canoe paddles from storage with Steve... Read more

Excerpt: Every week we go through pictures like this, Saturday morning kids saying goodbye to the lake looking sad and wishing 51 weeks would pass quickly until they are here again Those sad pictures are quickly followed in the afternoon by happy kids like Finley wondering how fast everyone can unpack before he can get to the beach or the... Read more

Excerpt: The road in to peace and quiet We have had some beautiful rainy mornings Storms at night, followed by raccoons fighting at night last night kept everyone up a bit last night Fishing has been good. The Frisch and Temple families have been doing some great crappie and musky fishing Working on my inventory for my new online store... Read more

Excerpt: Blue skis and summer ahead! Currently we are booked till August 21st and that is a good thing! Thankful for our repeat and new guests who have put their confidence in us to have a safe space for them to step out of their houses and do a little traveling to our corner of the northwoods We are doing... Read more

Excerpt: Mack is getting the hang of this social distancing thing. His ice fishing buddies Jimmy and Fritz went floating by in their boat and Mack I swear knew them from a distance. He misses nosing Fritz's pocket for sausages. Social distancing is hard on a 10 year old resort dog but he is doing it Sharon and Tom in... Read more

Excerpt: Summer is here the red boat is in the water! Jake playing around with the steering but we got it going. Ready for its 64th summer skimming across Lower Kaubashine Its fawn season. This baby looked minutes old getting across the road Not very steady yet on its legs Safely across with mom Lake front is mostly ready Our... Read more

Excerpt: Our exciting news. Our middle son Ben graduated from Saint Norbet College this weekend. We tried to make it as special as we could for him graduating from home Insert Pomp and Circumstance. His graduation walk has been delayed to August 29th but we were taking the pictures now He graduates with an accounting degree and minor in finance... Read more