Dear Friends,

It is blueberry season and the bushes on my place on Prickly Mountain are loaded with the juicy berries. Blueberries for breakfast, blueberry pancakes and blueberry pie seem to be July’s harvest at least at my place.

I got out on my Indian and rode down to Brattleboro to meet my sister for lunch which was great. Monday I head out on the annual Road Pitch. This is an event where several entrepreneurs and investors who happen to also ride motorcycles go from town to town in Vermont to listen to business pitches. It is fun to hear the pitches for some very good and some not so good ideas but it also great to ride with some interesting people including the Governor of Vermont.

I need to speak out against the President’s recent misguided ban on transgender people serving in the military. We are indebted to every single soldier regardless of their gender. We need to honor all that sacrifice and serve. When we discriminate against one group of people we lessen our humanity. #LetThemServe

This week we also bid farewell to some important Apple products. We have just received word that the only iPod to survive today’s cuts will be the 32GB and 128GB iPod touch. So, goodbye to the iPod nano and shuffle, two great products!

This week’s Kibbles & Bytes exclusive features a configure to order MacBook. We have 5 or 6 of the specially built CTO MacBooks in stock. They feature the 1.3 GHz processor, 8GB of RAM and the upgraded 512GB SSD storage. These are brand new units and I have some of each color, Space Gray, Gold, Silver or Rose Gold. This week exclusively for Kibbles & Bytes readers I am bundling them with AppleCare+ which is just a ‘no-brainer’ and the IO Gear Ultra Slim Dual Display USB-C hub with 10 ports. I have used this hub and it is ideal for making your USB-C laptop into a great desktop. It has all the ports you need including power pass-through, ethernet and display support. This bundle would normally cost you $2030 but this week for Kibbles & Bytes readers it can be yours for only $1879 while supplies last.