Christmas Tree raising in Great Room at Birch Ridge Inn

Christmas Tree raising in Great Room at Birch Ridge Inn

It is very hard to find anything good about the weather outside today at Killington. Temps are in the 50's. Strong Winds, Driving NCP... Not a great day to be at a ski resort. However, this too will pass. Winter is slowly establishing itself in the east. By the end of the week, the local weather is once again predicting multiple days of snow to cover the mountains.

This week, however, we are probably lucky that the snow is not on the hill to tempt us.... for this week is the week the Christmas Tree gets put up and decorated for the holiday season at the inn. The Monday after Thanksgiving is traditionally "Christmas Tree Monday". I head out into the woods with some friends and cut down a tree for the inn. This year was no exception, except the friend with the truck, and you know who you are, choose to stay in Florida to tend to hurricane damage to his property... of all things.. Never matter, we got the keys to his truck and "borrowed" it anyway.

The tree for the inn stood 23 feet in the forest. By the time we cut it down and trimmed it, it was about 17 feet on top of the truck. We also cut down a tree that trimmed out to 11 feet for the friend in Florida.

Once we got the tree to the inn, after a lunch appropriate for the mighty woodsman we were pretending to be (hum the lumberjack song here), the process began to "fit" it into the Great Room. After 3 attempts and much use of the chain saw, the tree was whittled down to it's final standing height of 13 Feet 9 Inches.

It will take Mary most of the week to decorate the tree. The official first event where the tree will be shown in public is the "Meet the Artist" night we have planned at the inn this coming Friday.