Gerbil Move

Previously we kept out gerbil cages on the ground in our family room. There was one problem with that configuration. The coffee table obstructed the view of some gerbils. I could not see our home gerbils. Momoko could not see the school gerbils. Momoko's plan was to build a large bookshelf to hold the gerbil cages. That way we could all see all the gerbils.

We scheduled an afternoon to do the bookshelf building. First we removed the gerbil cages and cleaned up. Then we pulled all the videos and games off a smaller bookshelf in the room. Then we transferred the DVDs we wanted to keep onto that small bookshelf. We removed another small bookshelf from the room to make room for the big one.

All that cleaning and moving took a lot of time. We were on a tight deadline, since Kit Kat wanted to meet her friends at the movies later that night. Kit Kat and I broke open the big bookshelf box and brought in the pieces. Momoko read the instructions. Kit Kat did most of the assembly. I helped when she needed a hand or we needed to speed up.

At one point, Momoko was giving us instructions that turned out to be wrong. We had to get Momoko up off the chair to point out how to proceed. We did not have the time or the patience to listen to her try to explain the assembly. Finally we mounted the bookshelf to the wall so it would not fall over.

The gerbils fit nicely. We have some lighting problems that we need to fix (the bookshelf took up the space of our main lamp). Another problem is that the gerbils get spooked every time I come around the corner and pop out next to the bookshelf.