Horrible "you can do anything" "Here I'll teach you" people.

Darn them! Darn them to heck!

Seriously, the 2-story, plumbed tree-house sounds amazing.

Around the city, windows are better

There's no way I could drive around my city in the summer with the windows open. The exhaust fumes coupled with just sitting in the Texas heat would murder me.

Better for fuel economy, not better for the driver.

Same with fuel consumption from air conditioning vs. increased drag of driving with the windows open.

The Mythbusters guys did this one. And I can't remember the results. I think driving with the window open was more fuel-efficient.

(has anyone claimed Jaimie as their Seekrit Mythbuster Boyfriend? Because I lurrrrve him. "Quack, damn you!")

Adam is mineminemine. And the girls, too -- they're HOTT.

Can't do cloth at daycare and we don't have a W/D on site so, disposables it is.

shrug

We could probably get them in bulk (she wears a 3), but I don't have a CostCo membership anymore. Hellhole of suckage paid for that.

Seriously, the 2-storey, plumbed tree-house sounds amazing.

It was a thing of beauty. We built it after the first one we started was mistaken for a deer or duck blind, and someone sawed the support beams under the floor (it then became the "Sagging Stage" where we put on our famous production of Cinderella- Sort Of). We started out with a smallish tree house, then realized we could expand to four adjacent trees, so the original house became a porch with birch rails. with four trees the weight was more evenly distributed, but we needed support in the middle, so we decided on frames to bolster the middle, and then just built walls around it. There was an old sink in the shed that used to be part of the fish cleaning area, so we hauled that out there and ran one hose through the faucet and one from the drain to the creek. You turned the faucet on and off by signaling someone by the trailer, and then the water drained into the creek.

Plus, we have no room for bulk amounts. But I like this place:

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Hee! Are you going to look into a diaper service, or do all the laundering yourself?

Self. My mother has offered to make some for me when she gets back from the road trip. We'll be repurposing old flannel sheets.

Our theoretical daycare, should we ever get to the top of the list when I have a FT job, has cloth available for an extra charge.

Susan, I'm sorry to hear of your loss.

Re cloth vs. disposable: The biggest and most prominent of the "cloth diapers aren't really any better, so there, la la la!" studies have been funded by Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark, makers of, quelle surprise, disposables.

All the articles I Googled seemed to be furiously biased in one direction or another (mostly granola, admittedly), but anyhow there's approximately a metric shitload of data hiding amidst the rants here: [link]

And, I bow in awe before Heather's awesome treehousing skillz. If Zmayhem ever ends up with anything approximating a house, including a backyard that has anything resembling a tree, we're flying you out for a consultation.