Roof repairs being completed at Birch Ridge earlier this week.

Roof repairs being completed at Birch Ridge earlier this week.

Mother Nature pulls on the string all the time. We all like to think we can control her. The Killington Resort continuously makes snow when Mother Nature comes up a little short. I spend hours behind my snow blower when Mother Nature throws those of us lucky enough to live at the ski resort a bone. In the end, it all hopefully balances somewhere between the "Around the World" and "Sleeper".

Today is not a bluebird day at Killington. Temperatures at the inn are running above freezing, and it's a little damp. At least it's not r@!ning at this point, although there is the occasional sprinkle of NCP (Acronym refresher - NCP non-crystalline precipitation). Today's warm up was predicted (hey - the weathermen got one right!). It will be interesting to see if the prediction for colder temperatures for the next week that was in the same weather forecast holds true. Assuming it does, then the resort, with its enormous snow making capacity, should be in good shape going into the Christmas Holiday week.

Around the inn we are continuing final preparations for Christmas. The decorations are pretty much set. The Christmas tree is just slurping up water, as freshly cut trees tend to do. The last of the Hurricane Irene damage has been fixed (I think). We had some latent roof damage that was discovered 2 weeks ago when the roof was covered with snow. Thank you to the brave roofers who went up on the icy roof to locate and repair the damage. So we are in good shape. Now if Mother Nature will just cover the roof again with snow! What's a few hours behind a snow blower between friends.....

Let it snow!!!