Dear Friends,

This was a week of weather swings here in the Green Mountains. I was motorcycle riding on Sunday in warm sunny weather with Tony and Grace and we went over to Conway, NH to the Lobster Pound, our favorite destination over the White Mountains.

Tuesday, I received a foot of snow at my house and was slipping and sliding on the way to work since I had removed my winter tires on the weekend. Today it is warm and sunny again with the forecast for the weekend in the 70s and 80s. Truly proves the cliche “if you don’t like the weather, wait a moment.”

The iPad with 3G and Wi-Fi is being released tonight at 5PM and I will be upgrading to the 3G model for those inevitable times that Wi-Fi is not available. I have found the iPad to be the ideal meeting computer. I can access all the word processing and spreadsheet documents, my email and have Safari to quickly look things up. It is less obtrusive than having a laptop in front of you, and as companies and organizations adopt this technology, we will save some trees, too.

Despite the snow, it is the official Green Up Day in Vermont and hundreds of volunteers will be scouring the roadsides and picking up a winter’s trash to make the Green Mountains truly green. One of the things I really enjoy about Vermont is that billboards are illegal here, so our roads just look cleaner even without greening up!