Dear Friends,

I had four generations of family at my house for Thanksgiving and we had a great celebration and had a lot to be thankful for this year. I love having my grandkids over and spent my non-eating time playing with the grands. Boka showed up ready for some outdoor sports since we have snow and there is none up in Burlington. He said “Gramps I wanna go sledding, hurry up!” about 30 seconds after entering the house. I got my coat on and in the course of the next half hour Boka sledded, snowshoed, strapped on some old skis, climbed all over my motorcycles and discovered how to work the garage door openers. I dispelled a bit of his energy by convincing him to run on snowshoes to the garden shed and back a few dozen times. Khadija has been taking backgammon lessons from her mom, Autumn, and figured she was ready to take on the grandmaster of backgammon (me). Khadija had been trained well and won one game and was competitive in another. Now I have a new kid to take allowance money from.

All of Small Dog is open this year on the Friday after Thanksgiving. We had crowds in the South Burlington store at 8 AM and we are staying open late tonight, too. We are offering FREE SHIPPING on everything from our on-line store through Monday making for a great way to save some money as we enter the height of the holiday season. All orders shipped outside of Vermont also save sales tax. With over 225 special offers, we have more values this year than ever before.