Max and Darwyn colouring

Max and Darwyn colouring

Friday, June 24, 2011

Local weather conditions conspire to deprive us of diapers

We use cloth diapers.  Dirty diapers are washed in our washing machine and then hung out to air-dry.  Diapers are typically dry within 24 hours of hanging and thus we are rarely caught without any clean dry diapers.

We've been low on clean cloth diapers for a few days now.  For normal people this is not a problem; you just wash your diapers and then shove them in the drier.  But Greta and I are freaks, you see. We use our drier only under extreme duress.

At the beginning, we had some breathing room.  The weather forecast was not favourable.  (See graphic below.)  Given our tendency to procrastinate and our desire not to have Max-reachable racks full of damp diapers decorating our living room for days on end we chose to put off diaper laundry and wait for a sunnier, drier day to dry our diapers.
This picture has dominated frequent weather forecasts.
Source: Environment Canada
Boy, were we had.  The sun came out during those first days despite the forecast for constant rain.  Alas, we were unprepared and could not exploit the sunshine to dry diapers.

Now, we're desperate.  We washed the diapers a couple days ago.  But the forecasters' predictions were actually correct for those days and we've had nothing but rain.  The drying diapers are still damp.

In our desperation we've found several diapers we never knew we had.  We've managed to survive by combining these emergency reserve diapers with liberal (and risky) use of children's underwear.  Next I plan to use teatowels with safety pins.  Then perhaps paper towels and scotch tape.  Once those things run out.... (sigh) I guess we'll use the bloody drier.

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