The Birch Ridge Inn Christmas Tree

The Birch Ridge Inn Christmas Tree

....if you live at a ski resort.

But as they say... "when life gives you lemons... you make lemonade!"

The early winter season is now upon us. As is usually the case this time of year we are actively getting the inn ready for the Christmas Holidays and winter ski season. While we wish Mother Nature would drop some snow across the region, we are using the time that we would have spent with the snow blower on other activities around the inn.

Mary has basically completed decorating the inn for Christmas. The tree is fully up in the Great Room. This years tree features old fashion multi-colored lights and colored glass ornaments. The march of the animated toys has also begun. Guests over the weekend were serenaded by the usual culprits included the "Dancing Snowman".

Behind the scenes, I have been having fun once again upgrading the inn's internet network. While we are waiting for Vermontel to upgrade our network connection from 2 load balanced dsl lines to fiber optic service(next summer??), I have been working on the internal network to squeeze out as much bandwidth as possible for the inn's use and the use of our inn guests. Over the weekend I re-cabled our back building (with rooms 5-10) and installed a new wifi node. For the techies out there, that building is now covered by full 802.11N service in both 2Ghz and 5Ghz bands.

Business owners all around town are doing the same. With a stiff upper lip and an eye to the sky, the town is being primped to greet the arrival of holiday visitors over the next few weeks. For their part, the Killington Resort is putting up a fight, taking advantage of every opportunity available to make snow. And with cold weather settling over the area for the week, it looks like they might be able to make some progress.

The restaurant at Birch Ridge begins its regular winter schedule tonight. Once again this winter, our regular winter schedule features dinner in both the restaurant and the Great Room lounge Tuesday through Saturday night starting at 6:00 PM. With winter "officially" set to begin next week, all we need now is for a little cooperation from Mother Nature to make things right.

Where ever you may be, aim your snow dance at Killington. Let it snow!