Happy Tuesday,

The solar installation at Small Dog’s Waitsfield, VT headquarters is complete and functioning after a very quick and efficient installation. I wandered to the electric meter the other day, with the panels covered in snow, and was amazed to watch the meter spin backwards—quickly! It’s very cool to look out the window one moment, and then again an hour later, to see the panels have moved to focus their productive surfaces towards the sun as the day goes on.

After more than four months, the last stretch of highway destroyed by Irene is finally open again. Route 107 was particularly hard-hit, and much work remains to be done, but local residents and commercial traffic is undoubtedly thrilled to get closer to the way things were. I hadn’t driven south of Warren on Route 100 since the storm, so the drive home for Christmas on that road was an eye opener. There are still houses lifted from their foundations here and there in the floodplains, a terrible reminder of just how bad things were, and still are, for so many affected by the storm.

Happy new year from all of us at Small Dog Electronics. Here’s to a great year!

As always, thanks for reading, and keep in touch.

Matt
matt@smalldog.com