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Eagle Rivers Ice Castle
Every winter Eagle River builds an ice castle. They cut the blocks from a lake in the area. They posted these pictures on the Vilas County Facebook page. Thought you might enjoy seeing them.
Cutting the blocks
Getting the blocks ready to load on the truck
Stacking the buiilding material
Teamwork!
The finished product
Finsihed product lite up at night
Winter Wonderland
It was snowing again today. That makes about 12 days out of the last 2 weeks that it has snowed. The snow is beginning to be replenished after the rain around the new year. It sure does help keep it looking beautiful here when it snows everyday. Here are some pictures from snowshoeing on our nature trail around White Birch Lake.
This is one of my favorite spots along the trail. It has such a cool tunnel feel to it.
- Another favorite spot.
Some blue sky trying to peak through
Otter Crossroad. They sure have been busy, I came across at least 10 otter runs.
Ice fishing success
Our son and his friend were up last week ice fishing and had lots of fun with all they caught. We enjoyed the fish fry!
Nice size perch!
The largest perch was around 10 inches.
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,300 times in 2010. That’s about 18 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 138 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 482 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 156mb. That’s about 1 pictures per day.
The busiest day of the year was July 13th with 200 views. The most popular post that day was Canoeing the Flowage.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were whitebirchvillage.com, facebook.com, pleated-jeans.com, alphainventions.com, and en.wordpress.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for white birch village, fox and grouse tracks in snow., white birch village blog, winter road, and whote birch village blog.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Canoeing the Flowage July 2010
First pictures of 2010 January 2010
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Snowshoeing on the Old Logging Road January 2010
All season Resort February 2010
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Fish stories told here! August 2010
Otter having dinner
Our local otter made an appearance today near our boat landing. At first we thought it was 2 otters playing on the ice. Upon taking a closer look we saw that it wasn’t a playmate, but his turtle dinner. He was so focused on eating that he didn’t even notice me sneaking up on him to take his picture.
Enjoying dinner!
Snowshoeing season begins!
I never thought I would look forward to winter. I used to dread it, but snowshoeing has become a passion of mine and I’m so excited that the snow is here! Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. Between our vacation in early December and the holidays I haven’t gotten to the computer. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the New year! Don’t forget we are open for business in January and February. We have snowshoes you can use and have blazed a trail around White Birch lake.
Blazing the trail around our lake.
Taking the family snowshoeing. It was the nieces and daughter Kelly's first time.
Even the dogs tagged along!
The final trek across the lake back to the lodge.
Cookies, Cookies and more Cookies
We’d like to share one of our family’s holiday tradition with you. Every year since 1945 our family has gotten together to make Swedish Christmas cookies. This year there were 30 of us making all the cookies. At the end of the day we always have a contest to see who can guess how many were made. Our niece Sierra was the lucky one to count all the cookies this year and Aunt Sandy was the lucky winner….she guessed the exact amount…..2010! Not only was this the first time someone guessed the exact amount, but then the amount was the same as the year! WOW! The lodge large kitchen comes in handy to make all the cookies. With Christmas music playing, kids decorating cookies and learning to roll out Pepparkaker (Swedish Spice Cookies) fun was had by all!
Cousins decorating the Spritz.
Rolling out the Pepparkaker. It needs to be thin to be good!
A pile of Pepparkaker.
We fill the dining room table with cookies.
Boulder Junction Christmas Walk
Tonight Boulder Junction had their annual Christmas Walk. All the shops are open with free cider, hot chocolate and cookies. There are sleigh rides, roasting marshmallows, Christmas Karaoke, pictures with Santa after he arrives with Mrs Claus on the fire truck, kids making ornaments and the lighting of the town tree. It was a beautiful night with the snow lightly falling and people walking along the streets. John was in charge of the details for the night and needed carolers to sing during the lighting of the Christmas tree, so he recruited the family to help him out. 16 of us donned elf hats and sang several songs. It was agreat start to the Christmas season.
The main street of Boulder Junction
Sierra was our director for the night.
Enjoying a sleigh ride after caroling. The caroling continued while on the sleigh.
Happy Thanksgiving
All of us at White Birch Village wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving. It looks more like Christmas with the snow that fell overnight. It’s a beautiful day today. As I’m writing this post the 4 family dogs (a great dane, a lab and 2 boxers) are romping in the snow. The kids have alreadty been outside sledding as the adults have been busy preparing all the fixings for the 30 of us who are here. We hope you are able to spend the day with your loved ones.
Our turkey stands guard at the door to welcome all visitors.
Lake Freezes Over
With the cold temperatures that have arrived in the Northwoods the lake has begun to freeze. Hopefully the cold temperatures forecasted this weekend we will get a good hard freeze of the lake before more snow falls.
