Dear Friends,

I’m back in the Green Mountains, which are still looking white as we enter Town Meeting and sugaring season. This weekend promises to be a great one for maple sap with cold nights and sunny days. I might even try to get the motorcycle out for a spin on Saturday.

I was totally disconnected while on vacation last week. That was the first time I had “internet withdrawal” for at least a few decades. While I do travel to exotic and remote locations from time to time, this was the first time that I had absolutely no internet, no cell phone and no TV for an entire week. Everyone told me that it was good for me, and I really had a good time reading and hanging out with my family on the beach on the largest of the Caribbean Islands. However, the moment I landed in Montreal, I was on my iPhone finding out what I had missed. A few thousand junk mails later, it turns out that I didn’t miss all that much.

I used the Chill Pill Audio Bluetooth wireless speakers on this trip for some extended field testing. I was very impressed with battery life, sound quality and ease of pairing. This new version of our popular Chill Pill speakers takes convenience and portability to a new level. These new Bluetooth Chill Pills are in stock in Black or Red right now for $59.99, which is one of the most economical Bluetooth speakers available.

Our new Rutland, Vermont store is starting to shape out with sheetrock installed and we are hard at work doing all the planning to get that store open for business this spring. It will have to be one of the new “signs of spring” that we talk about. The dirt roads here are getting a little squishy and you can see buckets on the maple trees if you drive by the old-time sugar bushes. It really brings back memories of when we used to sugar with our work horse, a sled and our wood-fired arch.