Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: Been a busy few days getting the resort ready no time for pictures or typing. So enjoy these quick pics I took this morning of a quiet morning on Lower Kaubashine Good news, we were not sure if the big pontoon was going to have a motor this summer. Our motor gave out and a new one priced in... 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Excerpt: Recently a spill was discovered in Lower Kaubashine We would like to report that the BP coffee spill was capped off properly and containment has been reached. No wildlife or shoreline were effected in the process. BP will be monitoring the situation This blog entry brought to you by the minds of Troy and Steve... Read more

Excerpt: As you look at the pics I caught of the loons yesterday chasing one another across the lake, keep in mind these birds winter in The Gulf of Mexico and will be heading to the Gulf in Novemeber. What will they find when they get there and will they return next spring? I sure hope so! This last pic again... Read more

Excerpt: This weekend we headed over to Cedar Falls 10 min from the resort to see the Muskie and Suckers spawning The upper falls did not have any fish spawning but a while lot of frogs We headed to the lower falls and had a lot more luck Staring at us from the depths of the river. Last year we... Read more

Excerpt: Cliff came out of the closet to head over to the Northwoods Wildlife Hospital to present them with their portion of the Ice Out 2010 winnings. Every year Cliff presents it to his buddy Hortense Hortense is a 30 year old one winged turkey vulture. She has a reputation of breaking in new interns at the Center and giving... Read more

Excerpt: What does this picture mean? Yep the roofer has returned from his Southern Adventures being a Snowbird. Happy to report he has chosen to do Birchwood's roof when there is nobody in the resort to hear the air compressor. Next on the list after the roof is Bear Den's flooring remodel and putting in the big swimming docks. Winter... Read more

Excerpt: This hot beach babe caused more of a stir at the beach between the fellas than I have seen in awhile. My missing pic is 3 males chasing one another around the beach area and Juliet above ducking under the raft til the dust settled with the boys Once the dust settled the winning fella is above with his... Read more

Excerpt: Sometimes it is nice to head down the road and see some sights in your own backyard. We took a drive over to Three Lakes about 45 minutes from Hazelhurst to see The Petroleum Museum. It was featured on Discovery Wisconsin a few years ago. Ed who runs it for the love of anything old having to do with... Read more

Excerpt: Originally there were 6 turtles out sunning themselves the rest dove in as I approached except for this one sun worshiper Perched as high as he could get to the sun... Read more

Excerpt: Spring projects are underway. Spray painting the blue docks has been high on the priority list. Usually painting them does not occur to us until the day we are putting them in and we always say we will get to it next year, no time right now. Well the time is now to get it done. They are looking... Read more