Rune's Profile

We have been 5-gal brewers for years, but ran into that same problem: it required two people, almost an entire day, and if the batch went south, it felt like you were killing a child to flush your hard work down the sink. We just started doing 1-gal batches, and it's amazing. We have yet to have a crappy small batch, and we can do it in the course of a toddler's nap time. Plus, we can do way more experimentation with flavors, bittering herbs, etc, without messing up a huge amount of beer, or spending a ton on so many grains. Also, my toddler can get in with the action too: he drinks the apple juice that comes in the glass gallon jug so we can make even more beer!

Maybe take out the guts of the fireplace, like the screen and racks, and put in some lovely candles for some mood lighting. I'd also paint the bricks cream or light taupe to go with the stone work. You could hang a third plant picture very easily on the bricks (look for specialty brick or mortar hangers) if you want to dress it down.

Well ours are in the garage, but we put up some road signs we found at an estate sale. So it's like art, and the industrial metal is impervious to mere bike tires. If that isn't an option, just put something up on the wall behind therm, and there won't really be any issues (or wrap your offending wheel in a plastic bag when in storage).

This is what I was actually thinking. I mean, open bathroom, yes, but who wants to hang out on hard wooden seats so far away from, well, anything inviting about the room? You get to look in at someone using the bath and that's about it. It's not near the books, it's not near the wood stove, and it looks uncomfortable and sterile compared the rest of the room.

Bring with. Mine plays on the floor of the shower while I shower. The upside is that he gets clean, too. It takes a little longer because he wants to get picked up periodically to "touch the shower", but everyone is clean at the end of it.

They seem to be the only pictures taken. It sounds fun, but I would have liked to have seen more of the set up.

I don't now if this is part of the April Fool's stuff, but this is actually a good idea...

My son has my husband's old teddy bear, the stuffed elephant that came home him the day he was born, and his old Braveheart Lion. The Lion is my son's constant companion, and "Kitty", as he has named it, is his favorite thing ever.

To split the difference, just get another crib, but maybe the kind that is convertible to a toddler or twin bed in the future so that you don't have to make ANOTHER purchase down the road. Or, just keep your daughter in the bassinet for a while and then make the decision when she out grows that. My son was in his bassinet for a while.

And music! My kid can't do anything without a sound track accompanying him.