Sukkot weather

[cellio]

It's been rainy all week here, which made putting the sukkah up (holiday begins tonight) challenging. I briefly considered doing it last night after Shabbat, but I didn't want to bother the neighbors with late-ish noise from assembling the metal frame. I figured if it was still raining this afternoon I'd do it then anyway. I won't melt.

The rain stopped today around 2:30. Huzzah. I've got assembly down to an hour, which is why I could try to wait out the weather. (I had previously hauled all the parts out of the garage onto the patio.)

While the lattice walls are attractive, I'm starting to think that cloth walls would be easier to manage. I can probably find attractive cloth. (Though I'd have to, *gasp*, sew.)

Chag sameach to those who celebrate.

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[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

Our old tie-dyed cloth ones finally died a few years ago. After that we used canvas wall sections from our Pennsic dining pavilion. They're furnished with those nice little hooks at the top so they're easy to hang.

Unfortunately, custody of the big pavilions now rests with TheJarl back East. We're using some of our kitchen tent doors and some printed tapestry cloth again this year. But at least our frame is bigger this year; Mr. Fixer has a three-year plan of ever-expanding modular sukkahness to get us back to the size we used to have back East. And that means (a) making woodchips, and (b) having leftover lumber (aka "raw materials"!), so that makes a very happy bear.