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Good news sometimes travels in cryptic fashion. Todays headline is but one example.
The doldrums of twig season have descended on Killington. People in town fight them in different ways. Many who have retired in Killington head towards the door, choosing to take a trip down south to warmer climes prior to returning to enjoy the winter season. Many local workers use this time as an opportunity to visit with distant family. Quite a few spend time on the mountain, skiing and riding the terrain the resort has worked hard to get open. For business owners, like Mary and myself, the doldrums of twig season are a chance to get at some of the projects around the business that cannot be completed when lots of guests are visiting Killington.
For the last few weeks around the inn, Mary and I have been focusing on a list of items to complete before the onset of winter. Much of it has been outside, as this is the time to take care of the property before snow cover seals the ground until spring. Of course there has been the standard yard work. All of Mary's gardens need to be put to rest before winter. And we live in the Green Mountains with trees (thankfully) everywhere. Trees, of course, mean leaves on the ground after fall foliage is done. I keep trying to encourage our guests to "Take Home Vermont" with a fresh bag of leaves to go...but the gag only goes so far.
When you visit the area again, you will see that there has been a lot of outside lighting work done around the property. One of the projects I took on was to replace all of the outside lights on our carriage way with LED's instead of the incandescent lights we have been using the last 12 years. Several months during the summer were spent getting LED samples to test for color variations (white is not white suffice to say). With the help of a friend, we have installed 550 LED's in various places to decorate the property. The LED's we are using , by the way, use less than 1/7th the electricity of the incandescent bulbs they replace. I won't go all the way to calling the project green, but they certainly lower the carbon footprint of the inn.
Over the last several days, work has started to move inside. We have a list of projects to complete between now and Thanksgiving to get the inn ready for winter. And that's the good news. Because once the doldrums of twig season hit, winter cannot be far behind.
Let it snow!