Dear Friends,

Grace and I lived up to our motto of “More Fun!” in San Francisco. We had a ball celebrating and visiting our old haunts. Aside from the extra day at JFK due to flight delays the travel went smoothly. My daughter, Autumn, and family watched the pups and aside from some chewed up shoes the dogs were good and very happy to see us when we returned.

There are still leaves on the trees and temperatures have been unseasonably warm here in Vermont as we enter one of Vermont’s “shoulder” seasons, stick season. It is actually one of my favorite times of the year. The grape jelly we tried to make with honey didn’t gel properly so luckily we had more grapes and will have a re-do.

It is iPhone X pre-order time and while we do not sell the iPhone, Emily and I worked with our AT&T rep to get our orders in and hopefully, we will get the new iPhone soon. We still have HomePod and the new iMac Pro coming yet this year! I have made the switch to an iPad Pro from my iPad mini and am loving it. Check out my iPad Pro keyboard review below.

This week’s Kibbles & Bytes Exclusive is the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. This unit has the 2.8GHz i7 quad-core processor, 16GB ram, 256GB SSD drive and 2GB of video ram. It is brand new but it is one of our “bad box” units. That is, it has a dirty or dented carton but pristine contents. It has a 1-year Apple Warranty and this week we are bundling it with AppleCare+ to extend your warranty and technical support from Apple to 3-years. Also with a deductible, it covers up to two incidents of accidental damage (like if you spill that coffee on it). This is the lowest price we have offered on this combination and the best value you will find. MacBook Pro 15-inch with Touch Bar (MPTR2LL/A) with AppleCare + (new, bad box) – $1999.99! while supplies last!