Building a Sukkah

The nice thing about having a kit

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is that the frame goes up easily.

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You wrap the all-one-sides around the frame

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Use the same makeshift roof cross pieces as the last several years

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and roll on the roof.

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Then it just remains gather everyone for candles and blessings

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before giving everyone a chance with the lulav and etrog. We finished just before sunset, but it was too dark for further photos. It was also a bit too chilly after sundown to try and eat our potluck outside, but everyone at least had a piece of challah.

According to one of my builders, this year it took us 14 minutes. That does not include the time Ted and I spent digging under all the Christian season decorations in the garage to unearth the Sukkah pieces from last year. (including hauling out the wheelbarrow, climbing over unsteady bits of furniture and extracting it bit by bit from the far back corner from under everything else without breaking anything).

It would have been nice to have gotten it up on the first night of the holiday, but I am not so foolish as to try and do it alone.

The potluck was a good time, and we had a steady influx of people.

Spinning

I think it is only one more bobbin of the Azure Sky to go. I have two full Schacht bobbins of 2 ply and will get at least 1/2 of a third.

Arches

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A door to the Schloss in Pfäffikon. The plaque in the entryway that is shared by the church is inside an entry.

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Shabbat Shalom

-Holly

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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