Spring Cleaning

I read somewhere recently that the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday are traditional Spring Cleaning days.  Unfortunately, it would take closer to forty days to Spring clean the many mystery areas this house, but I am going to try, starting with the pantry.  Here is a before photo:  

This shot above doesn't really look half bad, actually.  What you cannot see are all the spills on the shelves and random items jumbled everywhere.

With the assistance of my team of helpers we emptied all the shelves.

We followed the invariable rule of Spring cleaning--clean one room, wreck another:

I made a few interesting discoveries.  For example, who would have suspected that on top of this group of shelves . . . .

. . . tucked in to the the right of those candle-birdcages, someone had a secret Shirley Temple making bar:

I found this bag of cookies and asked the nearest little blonde suspect how they had come to be opened.  "I think a gooten-fee kid opened dem," she ventured.  A gooten-fee kid, eh?  A likely story.

Naturally, forts were built:

There is no better place to read Comic Strip Math:

And, here is the after picture.  The pantry is now the neatest room in the house.  The kitchen, on the other hand . . . . 

Comments

[Lissa]

I feel like a gooten-fee diet is something I could get behind!

Can you send the team to my house next?

[Alice Gunther]

Sounds great! We'll even bring the cream cheese and ham on everything bagel with a bottle of coke.

[Lissa]

Now I'm back, eyeing those tall jars on the bottom shelf. They'd be just the thing for the monarch caterpillars Rilla is wanting to bring inside.