6th Green at Killington Resort Golf Course with Killington and Skye Peaks in the background.

6th Green at Killington Resort Golf Course with Killington and Skye Peaks in the background.

A day without rain...YES!

It is hard to guess when summer will establish itself in Killington. Thus far this month the weather, work, and family health issues have conspired to limit my time on the golf course. Other than the year I was out of action with a torn up shoulder, I doubt I have posted fewer scores in June (only 2 this year) since moving to Killington and becoming an innkeeper. Hopefully, as a new weather pattern gets established, that should all change.

Weather or not, and that is not a typo, the commercial part of the summer season in Killington is rapidly approaching. Inn guests are starting to randomly arrive at the inn from various points around the globe as they begin their summer vacations. Chef Frizzie is back at work, getting the restaurant ready to re-open for the summer season this Friday. (Can you believe that this coming Friday is July 1st?) Projects around the inn are being completed. Today, for instance, it was cleaning the carpet in the Great Room. Planning is taking place for other projects to be completed before the arrival of the fall season in late September. It has actually been a pretty busy spring.

One of the projects I have been working on is a new mobile website for the inn. A while ago I changed the blog to properly display on mobile devices with some custom designed software. The state of the art in software technology has continued to changed. For those of you who are technically inclined, there are any number of "frameworks" that can serve as a foundation for web development. For the mobile version of birchridge.com, I am using a framework based upon JQuery called, appropriately enough, JQuery Mobile.

If you are interested in looking at our mobile website and use an IOS or Android based mobile phone, you can go directly to birchridge.com and you should be routed to the mobile site. Otherwise, you can visit m.birchridge.com and visit the site directly. (If you visit the site on a desktop or laptop computer, you can shrink the width of the browser window you are using to simulate what the screen would look like on a mobile phone.) Its just a start, and more work will undoubtedly be done on our web sites in the coming weeks and months, but as is said in proper Bostonian...ya gotta start somewhaare...

With the July 4th weekend coming, we do plan on being out on the course a few times this week(weather permitting). The rain we have received has left the Green Mountains a resplendent emerald shade. Just perfect for a walk in the woods, or a stroll down the fairway.

Where ever you may be, keep it in the fairway, and don't forget your sun screen!