Andrea’s Weblog

You may wonder how we ended up with the cleanest dryer in town. Well,
it all started with pumpkin seeds. It turns out that Elizabeth loves
roasted pumpkin seeds. I knew it would be trouble passing through,
but she really loved them. I didn’t realize that she wasn’t chewing
them up until I saw several pumpkin seed marbles roll out of her
diaper. Several diarrhea diapers followed the marbles.

As you may know, Elizabeth uses cloth diapers. The normal procedure
is to shake the diaper in the toilet and put it in the diaper pail.
Since these diapers didn’t appear to be worth flushing, they just
went into the pail. Eventually these diapers were washed and ended up
in the dryer. It wasn’t until I opened the dryer to retrieve them
that I realized that a turd had made it’s way into the dryer. The
dryer was filled with poo skid marks and a crusty blob of poo clung
to one of the tumbling blades. I groaned and started spraying the
inside of the dryer with disinfectant.

Unfortunately the blob was at the top of the inside of the dryer,
making it difficult to reach. Since the inside of the dryer wouldn’t
turn by hand, I had to turn it on and try and get the turd to stop at
the bottom of the dryer. It took several tries before this happened.
This is when Frank decided to see what was keeping us. (I say us
because Elizabeth was in the laundry room with me. She had just
discovered the switch on the door that turns the dryer light on and
off and was happily turning it on and off for me.) Frank shows up and
asks what’s going on. I just look at him trying to think of a nice
way of saying “I’m trying to get a turd to stop on the bottom, ” but
ended up saying just that. All we could do was laugh at ourselves.

I can’t say that cleaning up skidmarks from the dryer is how I want
to spend my evenings, so from now on I will be shaking off every
diaper – no matter how innocent it appears!