Dear Friends,

We finally got the big dump as the winter storm put a nice two feet of snow down here in the Green Mountains. We are busy replenishing our inventory from the holiday rush, handling exchanges and returns and looking forward to 2013.

I had a really good time at my daughter Autumn’s house on Christmas playing Santa for the grandkids. They tried really hard to go slowly in opening their gifts, but the excitement was too much and soon the living room was strewn with wrapping paper. My favorite gift this year was the homemade hippo calendar that my granddaughter, Gracie, made for me.

Read on for a recap of what really became of my predictions from last year!

(Editor’s Note: The entirety of Kerry’s quote in last week’s issue wasn’t correctly attributed to her — we’re sorry we missed that and you can read the corrected issue here. -KH)