Dear Friends,

Artie brought in a whole basket of pears from the tree at his house. They were pretty darn tasty, too. September is harvest time and while there still is some great sweet corn out there, apples, squash, potatoes and other root crops are ready. We have eggplant and some nice jalapeño peppers in the garden, too.

“Hey Siri, give me a hint!” That is the invite sent out by Apple for the big event on September 9. Excitement and anticipation of new toys from Apple is always fun. We will have full coverage for you in next week’s Kibbles & Bytes but we will be playing the guessing game until then. If you say “hey Siri, give me a hint” to your iPhone or iPad or Apple Watch, she will give you some clever responses that hold no clues like “What, you can’t tell from my colorful wavey words?” Interesting that she misspells wavy – that might be a hint.

Have I ever told you how valuable Time Machine back-ups are? Of course, I have. I had another experience that just proves how important backing up your data can be. Grace left Key West to come home this week and called me in a panic at the airport, waking me up at 6AM to say she forgot her Mac at the house. After I cleared my head a bit and after the “and why are you calling me?” I realized that I could solve her dilemma. When she got home, I had a demo Mac ready and got it on my network and restored from her backup on our Time Capsule and after a few hours of data transfer, she was ready to go with all her data, music and pictures. Joe, our Key West manager extraordinaire, was kind enough to retrieve her MacBook Air so we will reverse that process once that gets up to Vermont. Backing up your data can be a life saver and Time Machine is the tool to use!

One of the easiest ways to backup your data is to have an external hard drive that is dedicated to that task. For this week’s Kibbles & Bytes special we are offering the 1TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim drive for only $59.99!