communication error
Sep. 10th, 2002 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioArgh. That was close.
Our garage came with an ameteurish "wood-burning stove" that we have never used. It was, essentially, a 55-gallon drum with a chimney and a barrel of wood scraps. The previous owner of the house used the garage as a workshop. We use it to store cars.
A couple months ago our garderner asked if we would be willing to sell it to him and we told him to just take it (so long as he didn't leave a hole in the wall). We also told him he could have the wood pile. When Dani and I talked it was about taking the barrel and the box of wood scraps, but apparently, either Dani said or the gardener mis-heard "clear out everything". The stove etc disappeared during Pennsic, I think, and I didn't pay much attention.
This morning something in the back of my head told me to make sure all the parts of my sukkah are in good shape. (Sukkot begins a week from Friday night.)
You see where this is going, right?
Fortunately, the gardener still has the expensive roof part, which -- as a roll of laced-together bamboo really ought to have set off the "this might be important" alarm, but didn't -- and he will return it tomorrow. The other important piece is gone, though, so I will have to fabricate a new corner post. Fortunately, it isn't expensive in dollars, just time. (Three corners are anchored to existing architecture; the fourth is a free-standing post with braces and stuff.) Just what I needed, a project to be done in the next week.... I'm pretty inept at carpentry, too. Someone competent could probably make this part in 10 minutes; when I did it before I think it took a couple hours.
Our garage came with an ameteurish "wood-burning stove" that we have never used. It was, essentially, a 55-gallon drum with a chimney and a barrel of wood scraps. The previous owner of the house used the garage as a workshop. We use it to store cars.
A couple months ago our garderner asked if we would be willing to sell it to him and we told him to just take it (so long as he didn't leave a hole in the wall). We also told him he could have the wood pile. When Dani and I talked it was about taking the barrel and the box of wood scraps, but apparently, either Dani said or the gardener mis-heard "clear out everything". The stove etc disappeared during Pennsic, I think, and I didn't pay much attention.
This morning something in the back of my head told me to make sure all the parts of my sukkah are in good shape. (Sukkot begins a week from Friday night.)
You see where this is going, right?
Fortunately, the gardener still has the expensive roof part, which -- as a roll of laced-together bamboo really ought to have set off the "this might be important" alarm, but didn't -- and he will return it tomorrow. The other important piece is gone, though, so I will have to fabricate a new corner post. Fortunately, it isn't expensive in dollars, just time. (Three corners are anchored to existing architecture; the fourth is a free-standing post with braces and stuff.) Just what I needed, a project to be done in the next week.... I'm pretty inept at carpentry, too. Someone competent could probably make this part in 10 minutes; when I did it before I think it took a couple hours.
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Date: 2002-09-10 12:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-09-10 01:55 pm (UTC)What I'm making is, essentially, a free-standing post. The bottom will be parked on the patio, and the top will be lashed to two beams (90 degrees to each other and to the post). (It has to be able to stand under its own power, though.) The other three corners are already provided for and don't need to stand up on their own on the patio; it's just this one.
Setup/construction isn't limited to Jews; in fact, last year
Sukkah...
Date: 2002-09-10 05:23 pm (UTC)It's supposed to be a temporary structure, but (as far as I know), there's no requirement that it be created by a Jew. There are interesting aspects to one, though -- for example, a certain amount (I'm not sure at the moment how much) can't be permenant. (Although you can have some permenant parts.) And the roof has to be open to the sky -- imagine loose thatching which you can see through. I've seen 'em with canvas walls (imagine a tent with loose bamboo sheets as a roof); a friend of mine (Reb. Al) has the nicest Sukkah I've seen in Spanish Harlem, complete with a window. I'm going to help him with construction sometime this week, actually...
The Rabbis discussed the minimum sizes of these structures quite a bit, which leads to some interesting geometry discussions (if you must have a minimum square table of x units long, then what's the minimum round Sukkah that would be OK?) There are even some math errors, I seem to recall... I'm pretty sure that they approximate pi as 3, for one thing...