The Big Pause - Day 33 - April 13 - The Goose Egg

It's Easter Monday on a four day weekend and we didn't have much planned today. Not surprisingly, Kerry managed to find something to keep her busy. Our corner cabinet in the kitchen had gotten out of hand and I came into the kitchen to find she had pulled everything out. When we had the kitchen renovated we were suckered into the luxury lazy Susan or something like that but in hindsight it was a waste of money. As soon as something falls off it doesn't turn and we didn't really store anything that we needed frequent access to. It made sense to take the opportunity to remove the lazy Susan and just use it as a cupboard for deep storage. Now that it's out we have a lot more room. We also put the less frequent items on the lower shelf to minimize how often we need to get things from there. Kerry also took apart the napkin and disposable kitchen supply shelf. We had a lot of plastic cutlery that came with different dinner orders. She'll take it all to school once things start up again.

We executed the next step of the basketball hoop. Concrete is still setting but it was safe to install the pole as long as we didn't shake it. The pole went up easy but the hard part is going to be installing the backboard. It recommends 4 capable adults which we are short on but luckily I have some scaffolding to help us out. It's tall enough that we'll be able to rest the backboard on it while we attach the arms. Tomorrow we will finish things off by installing the backboard, hoop, net and peripherals. Carter is very excited.

Speaking of Carter, he had a bit of a mishap. He's been playing basketball indoors and at one point was playing with the ball and the dog and somehow hit his head on the exercise bike. He's almost as tall as Kerry and we need to get this basketball hoop set up so he has room to do this sort of thing outdoors. I think it looks worse that it is. He hit a very sharp point so it was more of a focused goose egg then anything that might cause a concussion. Good thing, because it's not a fun time to try to go to the hospital.