The Famine is Over

So I consider June to be the first month of spring/summer where the business can pay for itself. April is the worst, because all the late winter bills come in--packaged lift tickets, fuel, charges from credits cards, etc.--but there is almost no month. But May is awash in red ink as well.

June? Well, June and even July usually do slightly better than break even. August makes some decent money and September and October make a little, with the exception that our 14,000 property tax bill comes due. Add April through November together and I shoot for a modest loss. Winter, then, is how we pay our bills for the year, pay me any meager salary, and pay for upgrades at the inn.

Having said that, summer can sometimes surprise. Last year we did better than average, in spite of the worsening economy and the high price of gas, which you would have excepted to have kept the tourist numbers low.

In any event, this weekend is our first busy weekend since the end of ski season. I'd rather have had eight or ten rooms last weekend as a warm-up, but we were really slow.