Killington Peak on Presidents Weekend.

Killington Peak on Presidents Weekend.

Happy Presidents Day. A belated Happy Valentines Day. You get the idea.....

I did not start out to not write the blog these last few days, but sometimes life just catches up with you. After writing about our nice day on the mountain last Tuesday, I had planned on interrupting my writing for a day to meet the ever present demands of the IRS. Being the middle of February, if we want to get our taxes done without several extensions, we need to get a package of about 100 pages of information to our accountant in Rutland. Sometimes we make it, sometimes we don't. But this year we were determined to try, so Wednesday was set aside for that purpose. Of course, Wednesday blended into Thursday, but by lunch time we had everything annotated, indexed, duplicated, and collated into a neat little 4 pound bundle of paper.

After a short lunch break, Mary headed to the Rutland and the accountants office, while I went back to my computer to process some snow stake pictures.

Flash....Bang....Poof....Cough Cough!!!!

When I hit the mouse on my Mac to wake up the system, my main monitor (I run 2 monitors on my system) decided it was a good day to die. A wonderful, acrid, burning plastic smelling smoke filled my office over our restaurant. After an emergency computer shut down, a quick game of toss the monitor in the snow bank, and opening all of the windows to ventilate the area, the rest of the day was spent on Thursday trying to pick up the pieces.

The monitor itself was 13 years old, which is like 90 in computer terms, so it did not owe us anything. After reconfiguring the computer system, and testing it thoroughly to make sure the monitor did not take anything out with it, I was able to score a new "Green" LED Flat Panel display on Amazon with overnight delivery. So much for Thursday....

Friday we had the good fortune to be able to get out and ski with some friends in the morning. It was a glorious, blue-bird kind of day. Our warm up run was down Superstar, which was groomed flat and fast. Just perfect to air out early morning legs.

By Friday noon, Fedex had delivered the new computer screen. By the time I got back from Rutland with some cables (the ones that came with the screen were 2 feet too short...Murphy's law strikes again!), we were headed into the combined madness that happens when Presidents Weekend and Valentines Day overlap.

It has been a very nice, and busy, weekend at Killington. We were blessed every night with a fully occupied inn and a sold out restaurant; both filled with guests happy to be at Killington. And that's why Mary and I love being innkeepers...It's not the mind bending administrivia, or the Mr Fixit routines that running our own business entails... It about meeting people and having them smile...

......let it snow!