Being Real

So yesterday's (oops this didn't get finished yesterday!) post with the very messy pantry was real.  I'm not good at having the perfectly neat, tidy, decorated house. Ever.  And it's ok but sometimes being real on the internet is a little humbling.

And my poor Mom is probably despairing that I didn't soak in all her housekeeping lessons. :)

After posting Monday's pictures and really looking at them I decided to do something I said I wasn't going to do.  I moved the pantry out of the living room where it was annoyingly in the way.  I said I wasn't going to do it because I'm convinced I'm in danger of making this temporary spot a permanent condition :)  As long as it was in the way there was incentive to frame in the new pantry but now... 

But at least I can find everything and fit everything.  And at least I got rid of some more mostly used coloring books and broken felts. :) 

Back to being a little real... this is what it looked like when the 3 kids that stayed home sick from school helped me empty it so we could try to shove it to it's new home.

This is what it looked like with it out of the way :)

Oh wait... that picture cuts out all the clutter that actually still exists :S

But at least by supper time the wash was cleaned up and the last bit of pantry odds and ends were put away!

step by step

Dear Dad, if you can look past the pantry that gets more and more disorganized everyday AND no longer has doors to hide the mess, can you figure out what Steve did on Saturday?

 He also finished down here!  Now to paint the baseboards and move everything from the big room into here so we can do that floor!

 Even the little "closet" under the stairs is ready for shelving for the canning.

Cold but Good Day

Another rainy day saw him out on the river.  Cold but fun!

Tis the Season

for optimal working conditions... :(

And yes, Steve was working across the road by that pile of dirt on the foundation just across the road and it even rained harder than this!