a complaint or two

the tag in this picture might just seem like a tag and nothing more, but, we were so excited when we found the sweater at the local second hand shop. if you still have not noticed - on the bottom, in the small (and a bit blurry) lettering you can read "made in latvia". how cool is that? what are the chances that a couple of latvian girls will find the one sweater in the junk shop that's made in latvia. but here's the beef. the tag reads 100% wool. and 100% wool should felt. however this sweater did not do even the mildest bit of felting, no matter how many times it got dunked in hot and cold and hot and cold and hot water again and again and again. how can it be? have the latvians deceived us? or should the blame lie with LLBean? oh, i was so very disappointed! i cut out the tag to remind myself of this sad event and threw the sweater away.

i was going to write more and upload a daily picture of kaspar, but something is not working. maybe i'm allowed to post only one picture a day. perhaps. i never read the fine print, when i signed up for this blog. or maybe it's our computer. by now, i'm convinced that our computer is possessed. ever since i can remember this computer has had problems. we can never stay connected. modems don't work. routers don't work. it keeps disconnecting. we're on a first name basis with the support staff at ica (our dsl provider). it's really quite frustrating. i must remember to look up exorcists in the yellow pages. maybe someone specializes in electronics. or computers. it's our last resort!