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Ew. I grew up being told how dirty birds are. I don't know how accurate that was, but it's ingrained.

I've toured 3 daycares so far in Central Ohio. 2 of the 3 said they'd have no problem using the cloth. Ohio allows the use of cloth diapers, so it isn't prohibited. Some daycare providers choose to not allow them though.

Please donate excess breastmilk to a NICU. My daughter was born at 30 weeks and that donated breastmilk fed her there. As a "low-supply" mama, I struggled to produce enough for her, but I pumped what I could for 8 months. She also had about 200 oz from one of my friends. Unfortunately, she was mostly formula fed.
However, be careful about where you donate your excess breastmilk. Many milkbanks that you would assume would go to sick babies actually go to a for-profit milk processing.

The following is taken from this site http://justwestofcrunchy.com/2011/06/23/swindled-the-ugly-side-of-milk-donation/
If the website says “A Prolacta milk banking network. Every one of those “milk banks” is actually SELLING the donated milk they receive to Prolacta Bioscience."
This company processes the breastmilk and then sells it.
Taking something that you've given for free and selling it. Shady...

The Olympic paint was really thick and peely. My husband asked that I find a new noVOC paint for any new paint jobs because he doesn't want to use that one anymore.

I know this is partly my fault, but if a specific ingredient needs to be prepared a certain way (chopped, chilled, etc.) put that in the freaking ingredient list and not just in the instructions. If I'm in a rush and haven't skimmed the recipe I don't know that the eggs should be at room temperature until it's too late.

We have a well with an extremely high sulfur and iron content. I suggest getting the water tested to see what you're dealing with first. Our house already had a water softener, so to get rid of the iron, we just used a salt with an additive to combat the iron in the softener. The sulfur was a little trickier. We happened upon a used residential sulfur filter and picked it up for $50 (I think it's well over $500 normally). Before that though, we went to waterfilters.net and found an activated carbon filter and put it after the softener. The awful sulfur smell was GONE! We also bought a sediment filter from there that is reusable. No more spending $$ on paper or string based sediment filters.
Due to the previous owners not taking care of the sulfur in the first place, it ruined our copper pipes. My husband and father-in-law spent 4 days completely replacing the pipes in our home. The sulphur had turned the interior of the copper pipes to black sludge.
You can always just get a reverse osmosis system for your kitchen if you don't want to treat all of the water for the house.

This looks like Ravelry but for gardens, not knitting!