Dear Friends,

Nothing beats coming home after work and having fresh berries to graze on in the yard. Yesterday after a rain storm I went out in the yard and spent some time getting wet and moving from bush to bush eating ripe blueberries, raspberries and a few lingering strawberries. I figure I have to beat the birds and other critters to this food but we share with the animals, too. Now, when it comes time for the sweet corn, however, I am not sharing with the raccoons!

Apple posted their 3rd quarter financials on Tuesday and once again exceeded their guidance and posted record numbers. Overall sales were up over 33% and profits by 38% but Apple’s stock fell in overnight trading. Apple is held to a nearly impossible standard. It is not enough just to crush guidance and estimates, Apple must obliterate them to make some on Wall Street happy. I’ll go into the numbers some more below but I did want to congratulate Apple on another amazing quarter.

We say goodbye to an 11-year veteran of Small Dog this week as Jaime Service leaves to take a position with the post office in my home town. Jaime has been a steady and positive influence in the company for over a decade. He has been our warehouse guy, knowing each and every product, handling our shipping and receiving and be a constant source of pirate jokes and Boston Red Sox cheering. We wish Jaime the best of luck in his new career, you will be missed!

This week’s Kibbles & Bytes exclusive features the fully loaded Apple Certified Refurbished MacBook Air. This model has a 1.7GHz Intel i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and the big 512GB SSD drive. It comes with a 1-year Apple warranty and 90-days of free tech support, however, we are bundling it with the AppleCare Protection Plan which extends both warranty and tech support to 3-years. To make this an even more powerful bundle we are also adding in Safeware Accidental damage coverage which will provide 3-year protection from accidental damage, like when you drop your Mac and crack the screen.

This bundle would be pretty good with the MacBook Air, AppleCare and Safeware but this week I want you to have a backup drive, too, so will include the Seagate Backup Plus Slim Portable in the 2TB size. This bundle would sell for $1899 but this week for Kibbles & Bytes readers you can get the MacBook Air, AppleCare, Safeware and the 2TB drive for only $1749, a $150 savings!