Prototype

I did a prototype cloth diaper insert last night with a pillow sham belonging to a quilt I got rid of last summer and an old hand towel folded in half inside.  The gDiaper inserts are huge and I think a cloth insert can be a little shorter front to back because with all that cloth, the diaper looked pretty bulky on Yeled this morning.  But it worked well.  Even Ba'al agreed that cloth inserts were a good idea.  He still thinks that overnight vinegar soaks are a little strange but he does understand why they're a good idea.

We're taking recycling to the drop off point today.  Colorado confuses me.  In Wisconsin, where we lived before and where I grew up, recycling is mandatory and has been since I was eleven or twelve.  Here, it's optional.  I just don't get that.  It's a well established fact that recycling is good for everyone.  It cuts garbage costs, cuts landfill use, and reuses things that we use every day anyway.  So to me it doesn't make sense to allow recycling to be an option anywhere in the country.  It should be mandatory everywhere.  I rarely see recycling bins anywhere in this city.  There's a bunch of bins in the Wal Mart parking lot but they only recycle office paper.  Our apartment complex doesn't have any bins at all.  So we have to drive our stuff down the the WM drop-off point, which sort of defeats the purpose of the exercise since that wastes gas.  Oh well.  We're driving our mid-90's truck on almost straight E-85 right now so our costs are around $2.80 a gallon instead of a dollar more.