Enjoy dinner in the dining room, or break bread with friends in the Great Room Lounge during your visit to the Birch Ridge Inn at Killington.

Enjoy dinner in the dining room, or break bread with friends in the Great Room Lounge during your visit to the Birch Ridge Inn at Killington.

Busy..busy..busy.. I am beginning to wonder where all the time is going.

Our restaurant, at the Birch Ridge Inn, reopens tonight for the winter season. For the next couple of weeks we will be serving dinner on Friday and Saturday evenings. We will also be serving dinner on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. We will start our normal winter schedule in Mid-December.

Even though we have been doing this for a while, there was a lot of work to get ready to reopen for the season. One of the new things you will find is that I will be posting our restaurant menu online in near real time. (This required a little computer programming to get our Menu Database talking to our web site, but I think that is all worked out.) If you are looking at this page from a laptop/desktop, you will notice a new menu addition at the top of the screen titled Birch Ridge Restaurant Menu. If you are looking at this on your Iphone, Blackberry, or other smart phone, you will notice a picture of my Great, Great, Grandfathers' mug with a link to the online menu.

Switching gears, the Killington Resort has re-opened for the season, at least temporarily. They have continued to make snow at every opportunity; fighting Mother Nature tooth and nail all the way. Currently they are planning on being open today and Saturday. After that they will continue to look at it day to day. I give the Resort a lot of credit for their persistence. Mother Nature has not been kind these last few weeks. But the temperatures are getting cooler every day, so it won't be long now before the tide turns in the Resorts (and in skiers and riders) favor.

If you make the trek to Vermont this weekend, stop bye......Let it snow!