Hello Friends,

Last week in Kibbles I talked about how I was looking forward to spring finally arriving. Earlier this week I woke up and saw was a fresh dusting of snow. When scrolling through my social media feeds yesterday I saw a very fitting meme. It said something like, welcome to Vermont, the only state you can get a sunburn one day and frost bit the next! I found this especially humorous because I did in fact, get a sunburn over the weekend.

Despite the rollercoaster spring weather in the last week, and flooding in several parts of the state, we did stay dry enough at my house to knock off some spring chores. We fixed the fencing in some places, cleaned up the larger limbs our Oak trees lost during winter and built my mom a small patio area under her favorite Maple tree. My mom lives with us, but does not go camping on the weekends with us. So, to give her her own piece of relaxation we built a small patio deck and will finished it off with a small stone fire pit. She will enjoy her summers sipping coffee with the morning birds or evening fires with

Look before You Leap with Safari’s Link Preview

When you follow a link in Safari, you generally don’t know where you’re going to end up. That’s fine most of the time, but what if you’re concerned that a site might be trying to trick you into going somewhere malicious? Safari provides an easy way to look at the URL under a link. On the Mac, choose View > Show Status Bar, hover your pointer over the link, and look at the bottom of the window. In iOS, touch and hold a link (don’t press for 3D Touch) until a popover appears, showing the link and giving you options for opening it. The most important thing to look at is the domain—us.norton.com in the screenshots. It should match where you think you’re going, or at least look reasonable. If the URL is dubious, don’t follow the link.

It's warm enough now to leave our bedroom window open most of the time. While lying in bed earlier this week I heard the sound of hooting bears, there is something relaxing about that sound at night. Sometimes I can hear multiple bears talking up on our hillside, I always wonder what they are saying. The only downside of my chatting bears is they do sometimes visit my house, so we keep our trash cans locked and make sure to remove our bird feeders in the spring. We can all live together with a little cooperation on both sides! 

This weekend we are looking forward to welcoming a new horse to our barn. We lost one of our horses a little over a year ago, we've been searching for the right horse to join the family, we think we found her. 

Your Kibbles & Bytes Team,
Don and Emily