"Burn Pile"
April 26, 2006

"Burn Pile"
April 26, 2006

The spring transitional season has arrived.

As reported, 10 days ago, Mary and I closed the inn for the 2005/2006 winter season. However, it's not vacation time yet. While we have played a couple of rounds of golf (one at Proctor Pittsford, one at Green Mountain National... Both courses are in great shape by the way!), the majority of our time has been spent working in and around the inn to prepare for the summer season.

We have just finished completely refurbishing the inn's kitchen. Each year we take everything out of it, repair any damage, wash everything (twice!), and repaint. It takes about a week, but everything looks great after it is done. Right now, Mary is working on refinishing the slate floor in the restaurants dining room. For those of you who know the dining room, the slate floor is covered with a sealer to keep it looking nice. Mary is stripping all of the sealer off the floor this year, before putting down a new coat. It has been a couple of years since she has done this, so, needless to say it is a lot of work.

Outside, we have been cleaning up all kinds of debris from the winter. While we did not have a lot of snow last season, we did have some particularly nasty events which caused a lot of tree damage. The heavy snow storm last October did considerable damage to a number of both large and small trees. I have been out in the forest around the property for the last two days with our chef cutting down dead and damage trees, and hauling it all out for disposal. No we did not go camping, today's picture is not a camp fire, but remains of a large dead tree that fell near the driveway last fall being burned for disposal.

In between all of this, Mary and I are planning to get away for a few days, and I am reworking our inn's website. My posting rate will probably be down for the next month of so, as we work around the inn, but I will try to get back to the blog every week or so to give you an update on what is going on.