2021

Friday 7-16-2021

Greetings and welcome!

It looks like we have a very nice weekend on tap this weekend. Today and Saturday will be in the low 80s, and Sunday in the upper 80s. Low temperatures in the low to mid-50s should make for good campfire weather. There is no rain in the forecast.

We had a day this week where we had a risk of severe weather and heavy rains. The forecast was for 1-2″ of rain. All of that moved south and we ended up with a rainy day and minor rain accumulations. We could have used more rain but missing the severe weather was great.

We have some events coming up this weekend. There is the Lakewood Mardi Gras, the Doty VFD Picnic, and some truck pulls in Lena.

Doty VFD Picnic Link

Truck Pulls in Lena Link

There is an interesting event possibly happening for next weekend- A cardboard boat regatta at Twin Bridge Park. You can build a boat out of nothing but cardboard, duck tape and whatever water based paint, and then it is off to the races. That sounds like it could be very fun and entertaining.

Next month we have the Silver Cliff Centennial celebration coming up. This is a really big deal and (thanks to covid) it has been two years in the making. A lot of people have been working really hard on this and there is a lot planned. Here are a couple of pictures of the poster and banner.

I will work on getting a better poster picture and any additional information that I can.

That is it for me today. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB

Friday 7-9-2021

Greetings and welcome!

It looks like we have a nice weekend for weather coming up. The expected high is 78 both days and a low of 54 should make for nice campfire weather.

Here is a good event for Saturday..

It looks like the whitewater rafting will be a little above average this weekend.

Fire danger is low today so having a campfire is on the menu.

If early traffic is any indicator it will be a busy weekend.

Have a great weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB

July 4th activities V1.1

Greetings and welcome!

I know that I have been neglecting this for a while. I want to make sure that you have fresh updates for the 4th of July weekend. For reference the actual 4th is Sunday.
This is Version 1. I will update the title/headline as I update with additional stuff.

Update 1-

Crooked Lake Sportsman’s Cub Picnic- July 3 Afternoon

Live music–

Rustic Inn

July 3rd- 3pm- The Liver Killers

July 4th-7pm- Bullets & Booze Band

Water Ski Shows-

July 3rd- Twin Bridge Ski Team 6:15pm water ski show, fireworks at dusk after the show

July 3rd- Crivitz Ski Cats- 6:30pm

Townsend

Birch Hills Kids Fishing Tournament
Date: July 3, 2021

$1.00 entry for kids 15 and under. Stop at Birch Hills to sign-up and register by 7:30am. Weigh-in at 2:00pm. Trophies and tons of kids prizes awarded. Call Dawn for more information 715-276-6195.

Townsend Annual 4th of July Celebration
Date: July 4, 2021

4th of Jul Celebration at the Fire Station on Front Street has crafters, food, beer, soda, raffles, and music from 11am-6:00pm.

Parade starting at noon and goes from Front Street south to School Street to Pickerel Lake Road north then west on Timberedge.

Townsend Fireworks July 4, 2021 starting at dusk.
The fireworks will be shot off by the Townsend Ball Park (Grove Street & Wheeler Street)

Location: Corner of Grove Street & Wheeler Street

Mountain

Everbreeze Fireworks on Chute Pond
Date: July 3, 2021

Everbreeze fireworks on Chute Pond is scheduled for July 3, 2021, at dusk featuring Scotty G.

Location: Everbreeze Resort

Mountain Fire Department Auxiliary Fireworks Celebration
Date: July 2, 2021
Time: 9:00 am

The event date changed to Friday, July 2nd. The day starts at 9 am with a rummage sale, food starts at noon. The meat raffle starts shortly afternoon. All proceeds go to aiding the Mountain Fire Department.

Rummage Sale starting at 9:00am
Meat raffle starting at 5:00 pm
Fireworks at dusk.

Location: Mountain Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary

Crivitz

Wausaukee

Lakewood

Gillett

Friday 6-11-2021

Greetings and welcome!

We are in the 7th day of a pretty good heat wave. It is kinda funny that my last update 10 days ago was talking about a low of 28 and highs near 60. Wouldn’t that be a treat right now? Our hottest day of the heat wave was 97. Most days have been in the low 90s with about 94 typical.

The GF’s central air went out the other day. It didn’t take long for her house to get into the mid-80s in the afternoon. The A/C needs a freon charge, but they won’t sell the latest kind to me without EPA certification. Ok, so I call the heating and cooling guy. They can’t even look at it for 2-3 weeks. A friend in the business can probably look at it next week. Clearly we aren’t alone in having stuff break down in the heat wave. I ended up finding a couple of window units up in Iron Mountain. It was an expensive temporary fix, but good enough.

There is a pretty good thunderstorm to our west that will help drop temperatures to a more normal level. We are in a marginal risk for severe weather ( the lowest tier) so I am not too concerned about things getting wild. The chance for thunderstorms lasts into tomorrow morning. After that we are looking at highs of 81 Saturday and 86 Sunday.

The warm weather has done a fine job of warming up the local lakes. The GF went to the beach with friends yesterday and found the water at Boat Landing #9 beach (By Thornton’s) to be very pleasant.

The next two things on my mind is the bugs and the grass. The bugs are thick. Not the ticks and gators so much, it is the moths and butterflies, Junebugs, and mayflies. The windshield had plenty of bugs after our trip to Iron Mountain. A lot of people have been seeing luna moths and I have seen several of the big cecropias. I have also spotted leopard moths and several other interesting species. Not all bugs are bad, some are pretty cool.

As far as the grass.. it is growing like crazy. I cut last week and it needs it bad again. I’m not really interested in running my power equipment hard when it is in the mid-90s, so that will wait until tomorrow or Sunday.

As far as events go this weekend.. This is the Saturday of the Dockside panfishing tournament. They will have music, food, and raffles for a good cause. ( I believe that it goes to local fire & rescue, but not positive). There is also music Saturday night at Uncle Mike’s (the old Tommy’s Corner Pub) as well as at the Rustic Inn.

The Peshtigo River is still running at pretty good levels for rafting and tubing There is a fun way to cool off. Call Kosir’s and get wet.

That is it for me today. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB