Dear Friends,

It’s Emily, taking over for Don this week who’s making his way back to the Green Mountains from Sturgis. I was fortunate last week to spend a week away from the office as well and had a great week of camping with my family. We stayed at a great campground about an hour from our house and played tourist for a week. My kids got to go river tubing, swimming, hiking and a few day trips to visit some great local spots around Vermont. One of the stops we made was to the Quechee Gorge and to VINS. Living in Vermont I find that it’s easy to take for granted some of the great places to visit. My kids really enjoyed seeing all of the birds at VINS and reading about their individual stories on how they came to VINS. We even found a bird that was injured right here in Waitsfield and able to live out the rest of it’s years as one of their ambassadors.

One of my adventures during vacation was to do some back to school shopping for my kids. While my oldest was thrilled to get tons of new clothes and a new backpack, the idea of school beginning again took a bit of the excitement of shopping away. We are seeing a lot of mixed feelings from students in our stores as well, so my daughter is not alone! While the idea of school starting again is not on the top of many kids and adults list for that matter, it is good to know there are a lot of great deals out there, including deals at Small Dog. We still have a few weeks left to our Dog Days of Summer sales and if you’re in the South Burlington area some great events planned for our flagship location. This coming Saturday, August 15th, stop into any of our retail stores for exclusive one day only deals on Seagate or for Kibbles readers, order some great deals online!

Emily’s deal of the week! Buy this MacBook Pro with Retina display and Applecare, we will give you a Seagate 1TB slim drive for FREE. Just in time for back to school, send your student or yourself off to class in style.