I think I found my new home!

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

Ahh, yes, that'd be Pluto. Where I was at, that is. Hmmm. hmmm, (thinking which button I can push on the dashboard to get me back to earth). Ah, here it is (WoooooooSHHH!). OK, I'm back!

Well, after following Wolferz's advice on lifting it, you could use some pine shelving boards to fill in the gap. That doesn't look (in the photo) to be 2" deep, so maybe a 1" X 6" length of pine, glued and screwed into place.

Yeah but the real problem is how to raise the counter up in the middle so I can get anything in there. I can push/lift it up a bit but I can't hold it up while I put a permanent support in place. That's why the jack etc. was suggested. I was thinking just of some wedge type things that I could push into gap, starting near the end and then working my way towards the middle and raising it up little by little as I go. Once I got the middle part raised up enough I could slide something permanent in there to fill the gap.