Dear Friends,

It is definitely my year for apples! After years of trying to grow apples, my trees are loaded and I’ve been grazing the mini orchard each day after work. It must have been the lack of a late spring frost that helped me out. We had a glorious trip out to S. Dakota with a major assist once we got there from Small Dog customer, Bonnie London who got us into the VIP section at Buffalo Chip so I could have my hearing totally destroyed by Def Leppard. But it was a great time with awesome riding in the Black Hills and the Badlands. We ended up logging over 4700 miles in the 2 weeks.

We did end up in Chicago for a couple days on the way back and we got to catch a Cubs win over the Brewers. We grabbed some nice seats behind the Cubs dugout and for the first time I caught a foul ball that was sky high. I caught it in my bare hands and got a bunch of high-fives. I gave the ball to a young girl sitting nearby and it made her day as much as catching it made mine.

We used our iOS devices a lot on the trip from planning out routes to finding hotels to stay at on the road but still my favorite “killer” app for my Apple Watch is Apple Pay. While I have used Apple Pay with my iPhone, the watch makes it so easy and is the way it should be. No more struggling to get my iPhone out of my pocket, just tap and hold the watch to the terminal and bingo I have paid for my groceries or that Vente iced Black Eye at Starbucks.

This week’s Kibbles & Bytes Exclusive features the 11-inch MacBook Air. This Apple Certified factory refurbished MacBook Air has a 1-year Apple Warranty, just like new machines. We are bundling it with the AppleCare Protection Plan that provides 3 years of warranty and technical support and with SafeWare accidental damage coverage for those 3 years as well. This bundle normally sells for $1599. The MacBook Air comes with 4GB of ram and a 256GB SSD drive. This week for Kibbles & Bytes readers the Factory Refurbished 11-inch MacBook Air with AppleCare and SafeWare protection is only $1499!