Black's Cliff Blog

Excerpt: Anyone that has read this blog knows we have no love for red squirrels. They are loud, chattery and destructive. This one, however, has become my friend at the laundry line. While I am hanging clothes each day I get within about 5 feet of this squirrel. She has no fear. If I wanted I think she would eat... Read more

Excerpt: Looking through the trees at the rain coming down. 4 counties, ours included are the driest in the nation right now and under a severe drought. It was wonderful to see an inch of rain come down yesterday and last night. It washed the pollen out of the air and greened everything up. Thankfully there is more rain in... Read more

Excerpt: Today Vansh Jain a 6th grader at our local Elementary School will be competing in the finals of The National Geography Bee in Washington DC. Last year Vansh finished 4 as the youngest competitor. Can't wait to see how he does this year. It will be broadcast at 4pm on the National Geographic channel and PBS channels are playing... Read more

Excerpt: I had these great wildlife pics sent to me by Rob Moore who was up this last weekend fishing and taking pictures Heron in a tree not something you see that often Otters down by Holiday and Norway digging their dens Rob caught the loons making the Yodel call their most aggressive call. My favorite picture taken along the... Read more

Excerpt: All cabins are cleaned up and ready for Memorial Day Weekend. If Craig looks at this picture he is going to say something about painting the facia board on the front of Birchwood but time just ran out, next week A few last touches. Everyone's favorite table on the blue dock needs a touch up paint job This cool... Read more

Excerpt: Today's Blog Entry is all about the picture that did not get taken Last night with a game of bicycle tag being played around the resort by the kids and all the adults enjoying a quiet evening watching on the playground we had a visitor. A black bear ambled down the driveway by the woodshed and headed over to the... Read more

Excerpt: I headed down by the road to catch these pics of Doug and Rob fishing on a beautiful night. Calm lake, cool, but not too cool temps and fish biting They had just gotten the crappies to start biting when I got down there Life is good! ... Read more

Excerpt: There were a few things combined together on this boat trip that usually do not go together. Wine and fishing but you really should try it before knocking it One thing we were guaranteed was a beautiful sunset. I took pics as the sunset changed Happily the crappies were enjoying the sunset as well Wine, crappies, pontoon boat, great... Read more

Excerpt: The White dock started being assembled today. It feels more like summer when the white dock is in. When the big pontoon is in the water we will know for sure that summer is here but that is going to take another week or so to get the new motor on it The assemblers standing on green chairs trying... Read more

Excerpt: Time to head the raft out to its spot in the lake so we have room to put the white dock in. Towing the raft to its spot can be a comedy of errors that we have all participated in (including an infamous launching by Paul) Hmm notice one wadder on and one off... who got the leaky ones... Read more

Excerpt: Beautiful afternoon and we escaped chores to go out for a little fishing adventure on the pontoon boat Wanna wow a teenager have them catch a big perch. The loon had to stop in and check out the fishing as well. We spotted the new nesting spot of the loons in the back bay. Loons are great to see... Read more

Excerpt: Craig putting the final touch on Birchwood the heating vent. Unfortunately they forgot to mention they did not have the furnace vent on to me when I turned on the hot water heater and furnace for the folks coming today. Luckily they also turned off the breaker to those items as well and they did not turn on Craig... Read more

Excerpt: The Stobb family up enjoying a beautiful weekend in The Northwoods. They went Geo Caching in Boulder Junction all day Saturday hitting 18 great caches, dropping 4 registered travel bugs and picking up 2 new ones they are holding in the picture. They also picked up a few ticks but that is all in a day of Geo Caching... Read more

Excerpt: The snow has been piling up and we have been busy cleaning cabins and getting summer deposits in. We are full this coming weekend but have openings the rest of the winter weekends and mid weeks. Call if you need to escape to winter paradise Highlight of our week was the guys heading over to a little game we... Read more

Excerpt: The Northwoods Wildlife Center here in Minocqua is the only rehab center in Wisconsin for bear cubs. They just had #10 for the season arrive at the center. It is in critical condition and hopefully makes it. If you have not stopped in on your trip up North to see the center and its permanent inhabitants it is worth... Read more

Excerpt: Lots going on at the resort as usual. Lots of fishing and lots of crappies. Thankfully no bear sitings. We are being very careful cleaning fish remains in freezers only put in the dumpster day before it is picked up. So far so good! The old red boat got a fresh paint job from Grant. He is home till... Read more

Excerpt: Yep it snowed last night.... I love the 4 seasons and the beauty of all 4 seasons. Mixing the beauty of the previous season with the current season though is not my favorite.... but I tried to find the beauty in the day.... Trees bent from the weight of the wet snow. I am surprised to managed to not... Read more

Excerpt: What a differnece 24 hours makes, this is the same picture that started yesterday's blog in the snow. Snow is basically all gone, I have taken the cover off some of the flowers, not all as we are going down to 29 tonight and snow is still expected again Monday night and Tuesday. That had better be the end... Read more

Excerpt: One generation imparting words of wisdom and guidance to the next (and repairing mistakes made by the previous generation) What are they up to? Yes it is time to throw that away! I will happily not be a part of any of this conversation and go back to cleaning toilets. Just happy as long as they don't burn anything... Read more

Excerpt: Question is how many compressors does it take to nail down a roof? The green one, Craig's new quiet compressor decided to not work for him. The 2 red ones were borrowed from Tom Lindeman also would not work for Craig. The little blue one from Craig's house was not strong enough to operate the nail gun. Missing compressor... Read more