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I think the eggs I got the other day were labeled as "gluten free".

In college I took a commercial beekeeping class! Fruit Science 123. It was great fun and a really cool benefit to going to a university with a big Ag college.

The one thing missing from this list is a water source. If you don't put out a source of hydration for your bees they will find it elsewhere, like your neighbor's pool, birdbath, dog water dish, etc. Then you will have a problem with your neighbors. We used a horse trough filled with water and some dry manzanita branches stuck in the water as a landing spot.

As far as protective clothing goes we just wore veils and "bee shirts" which was an old men's woven shirt from the flea market. Bee's hate knit fabrics and if you are wearing a sweatshirt or t-shirt they will try to sting you through the fabric. Probably because their delicate leg hairs get stuck in the knit. Just pop the collar of your bee shirt and arrange the veil over it and you are good to go.

Leather gloves with long sleeves that have elastic that tightens over the elbow are great for learning, but when you get more experienced and comfortable you will probably ditch them.

The entire quarter I was stung three times, once on my foot because I was wearing sandals (not ideal footwear), once on my hand, and once on my thigh because I was leaning forward on a hive right over the entrance and the bees didn't like it. It isn't that bad if you aren't allergic.

As far as neighbors being allergic, it shouldn't be a problem if you water your bees and split your hives and re-queen when the time comes to prevent swarming. I've lived in an area where beekeepers come to winter their bees and have never been stung outside my class despite being around bees all the time. I think the average person's fear of being stung is a bit overblown.

A three year old just needs you to consistently educate him/her not to climb on it. Baby-gates are for babies.

I think it looks great. The presentation is pretty and the ingredients look beautiful. I don't think the sauce layer to that thick, it has just settled down the edge of the dish. I have never heard of such a salad, just bean dip, but I would love to make this at my next big family gathering.

I want that cart for my garage... well my hypothetical future garage. It looks great for wrangling tools.

S*x is so much more s*exy when the E is starred! ;-) Awesome idea, unattractive mural.

Oh Blandwagon, you had me with that other post on the girl's room but now you're the wet blanket.

OP can we be friends? I need more childlike fun in my life.

Gut remodel = down to the studs

MUSTARD!!!! Dijon is my fav. It adds so much flavor. I haven't done a "traditional" breading in years, just mustard and Panko and in the oven it goes.

This could be a much longer post because there are a lot of issues contributing to this that are all intersecting now in this great-rescission, post-post-9/11 era. I would love to know if the trend toward sophistication is a return to "old-timey" values as we enter a new economic age with struggles that many new parents have never seen before. While the kiddie phase is fun, it is fleeting. It doesn't make sense to start baby in a space that will only work for a decade. Who has the money and desire to start from scratch every few years? Also, more sophisticated rooms are more serene as so much of kid oriented "design" is loud on the verge of garish- the preference of the adults in the home to have a unified, calm refuge away from the cold cruel world is more important now than ever. Third, parents now have "permission" to not make everything 100% about the kid. I think we are starting to find a balance between kids' needs and parents' wants. In the last decade it was pretty en-vouge in the US for writers to come up with cheeky books about it being ok for adults to do adult stuff even if they have little kids. This being born after a few decades of total kid-centric family life being seen as the norm. It is okay for a parent veto his kid's want to plaster his room with licensed cartoon character images.