Basketball Court

We finally poured our basketball court in the backyard in the middle of June. We have been talking about doing this for 2 years now. As excited as we were about finally ridding our backyard of the weed infested planters, there are a few plants that we will miss, including these 2 beautiful rose bushes that happened to both be full of roses at the time we were ripping them out.

Here is the before picture.

This was after day 1 of concrete laying.

The boys were especially excited to watch the big pump and cement trucks drive in and park by our house.

 Here is the after picture, before we painted the lines on.

 After a few days, we installed the hoop.

 And then the following week we painted the lines.

We are happy with how it turned out. Mostly, we are happy to be rid of the weeds. We are waiting on 2 things before we can really use it. One, is the net that we bought to protect the things connected to the house that could break if a basketball hits them. The other is to install the chain link fence along the garden to protect our veggies from stray balls.