Dear Friends,

This week we lost an extraordinary employee, Jim Overman, who died suddenly. Jim was a long-time Small Dog Employee and many of you may have had the pleasure of talking to Jim on the phone or by email as he was our “first on the phone” and handled our web sales, customer service and fraud protection. Jim worked with us here in Waitsfield for several years before he moved to Florida to be closer to his family. Jim was that unique worker that I had supreme confidence in his integrity, work ethic and judgement. Because of that we were able set Jim up as a remote employee. He truly cared about our customers and we cared about Jim and will miss him dearly.

Big Apple announcements coming up this next week on September 7 which also happens to be the birthday of both my spouse and Emily’s. I will let you listen to whatever rumors you want but I know that whatever Apple does announce will be another step in Apple’s mission to bring us extraordinary products that enrich our lives. You know I’ll be getting some new toy out of this, too! We will report on this next week in Kibbles & Bytes.

This is the last weekend for our Back-to-School specials on iPads and Macs. If you buy any Mac with AppleCare you get a $50 gift card or any iPad with AppleCare+ and you get a $25 gift card.

Hey, how about them Cubbies?

This week’s Kibbles & Bytes exclusive deal with a Seagate wireless mobile storage drive. This is the perfect drive for users with large media libraries such as movies and music. Multiple users can utilize this drive and access the content. Perfect for road trips! This drive normally sells for $99.99 but you can get it this week only for $79.99