Tight lie on the 15th hole at Green Mountain National. Calls for a little lift, clean and place...

Tight lie on the 15th hole at Green Mountain National. Calls for a little lift, clean and place...

With July 4th just around the corner, our seasonal shift hiatus is just about over. It has been an "interesting" couple of months, but we have been getting into our "summer routine" of late.

Those of you who follow us on Facebook (Bill, Mary, and the Inn) know that we did not have much of a vacation this year. We started to, them my father decided that his time was up. Plans got changed and we "moved on" so to speak. We have gotten a lot or road miles up and down Route 89 between Vermont and Massachusetts. "Easy Pass" and the New Hampshire DOT must be happy. So it goes.

The trips have not been for naught however. On one of them we did find a new rug for the restaurant. The blue oriental that had been in the restaurant for years had seen it's day. The new rug is a change that Mary and I are happy with.

We have also spent a lot of time doing our spring maintenance work around the inn. Between adding detail work in one room, re-caulking tubs, ordering new windows to replace ones with broken seals, and your normal spring cleaning and paint, we have been able to recover the inn nicely from a busy winter season.

After a wet spring, we now have been turning our attention to a little outdoor recreation. All work and no play make Mary and Bill dull people. We have attended several nice wine tastings at locations around Vermont. We have been out on the golf course playing is several charity golf tournaments. I have even had the opportunity to have a round of golf with my son in Massachusetts, and my brother up at Green Mountain here in Killington. Overall..not to shabby...

But now it is time to get back to work. Our restaurant re-opens this coming Friday for the summer season. The Killington Wine Festival is just a few weeks off. Planning for the winter is already under way...

That was a short hiatus!

Wherever you may be.. keep it in the fairway... and don't forget your sun screen.