Saturday, June 09, 2007

Lepers made our comforter

Today Margo made our bed with the comforter we bought in Ethiopia. It came from the A.L.E.R.T. hospital, and was hand-made by some patients who had leprosy. They say smell is the strongest sense, that it carries memories attached to them for the longest. Margo could smell Ethiopia on the comforter...I'm not sure exactly what it was she smelled. Maybe incense or something. I had trouble smelling it. I was kinda scared that it may have some kind of microscopic bed bug living in it that we carried back with us. But I think we'll be ok. We're used to a big down comforter, so we'll see how cold we get tonight.

On a famous note, the last video we posted of Deacon playing has nearly 2,500 views on YouTube. Now, it is not uncommon for a popular video to be viewed over 1 million times, so we're small potatoes compared to that. But I still think it's not bad for only being up 2 days. Half of those views are probably our parents.

1 comment:

Amy said...

I hear ya about the scent Margo! Everything we bought from Ethiopia smells like Ethiopia to me...I love it!
Deacon is a cutie pa tootie face still....