New kids and a once in a Lifetime thing

http://kathymom27.blogspot.com/2014/10/once-in-lifetime.html

ignore the floor - that's what we found when we pulled up the rug.

Sukkah Coming Down

I'm now damp. We're expecting a major storm coming through in the next two days so I brought down my sukkah. It's a good thing I didn't sleep in it last night, woke up to rain so the tarps, the ropes, the string = all wet. When it got humid last night I changed my plans and took down the decorations and brought in my laptop and cot with bedding. Good thing!

Every year we improve on the comfort of the sukkah and getting it up and down.

You can see in the pictures that the limbs and leaves were drying out and were no longer a nice, lush green. The ropes also were sagging, bringing my lovely "roof" of tree limbs lower into the sukkah. The tarps are a huge mess right now because they're wet. We'll bring the totes in and fold up the tarps in a couple of hours. Next clear day we'll spread them out on the lawn and let them dry.

I hated to bring it down but it was time, especially with the weather. 

wet rope, dried out limbs and leaves wet from the rain and dripping

tarps coming down

getting the limbs off the webbing of rope ensured that I got wet! Then taking down said rope off the frame really cemented the fact I was going to be damp.

we'll fold up the tarps in an hour or so, pull in the step ladder and tubs and we're back to normal with the brush/limbs pulled to the side.

 

Fun Stuff - Vincent Price Trivia

https://p.antavo.com/BWO/+527/

Love the site, his daughter is great and there is so much info!

Sukkot

It's that time of year again.  After Yom Kippur we put together temporary "booths", shacks, shelters, etc.  This was done in ancient times when the workers would build temporary booths next to fields, orchards, etc so they were right there to continue the work the next day during the harvest.

We celebrate what G-d has given us and we open our "tents" and strive to do good in the community for those less fortunate.

In progress, hanging the tarps with my sister Jackie (pictured here)

Tarps are hung, then I string rope all across the top to hold branches.  The roof must be of something that is natural and that grows and sparse enough to see the stars at night

Some of the brush, Jackie did the cutting of those.  In the brush is our supervisor, the mighty Deacon!

 sides are done, rope support is woven - time for branches

next step - furniture.  There's a cot for me to sit and/or sleep on, the tubs will serve as tables (with coverings to make them look nice).

 stylish pumpkin centerpiece, some autumn flowers, cut out leaves - nice decorations

 more autumn flowers with a lovely pumpkin sign

my nightstand and cot before I put the sheet on it.  I also have a light for reading - I'm set!

I will contribute to a charity tonight and study Torah

If anyone has questions about the holiday or my sukkah, comment here.

"You LIKE this?" Alice Cooper - Sick Things (TheSnoop Sisters) (1974) (HQ)

Do you remember the Snoop Sisters, Mom?  I bet you'd remember THIS episode!


I've been searching for a good quality clip of this for forever! We
were watching this when I was 13 because I was a Roddy McDowall, Vincent Price and all around horror and mystery fan. I knew of Alice and liked the music but couldn't
afford magazines and records. Alice's part came on and my Mom turned and
looked at me and said; "You LIKE this?"

<cringe>

Then in
highschool my German language teacher named me "Alice" because of my
last name and Mom found that humorous and let me begin buying albums
when I could.

That was in the 1970s.  In the 2000's she rode with me from Fresno, CA to San Diego so I could attend the concert alone while she read in the car. She knew I'd fall asleep on the way back if I didn't have company.  The car broke down on the way back.  Losing oil from 100 ft from where we'd fill it.  We parked at a convenience store and spent the night.  We didn't even know where we were. Just that it would be morning before my sister and her husband would answer their phone.

I raised my head off the steering wheel and saw the Matterhorn.  We were outside Disneyland.  WTH?



This year we saw Alice Cooper with Motley Crue and we're going to see Alice on his solo tour in October - with a BIG SURPRISE coming up!

DaysEye (Never Ending Story) (my cousins' band)

Progress

The family/library room

this is looking at the library/family room from the living room.  The long object is a quilt in the frames

moving counter clockwise - the continuation of our wall of books

French doors to our screened in porch (note the hammock on the porch - helps the back!)

more bookshelves

looking back into the living room/towards the front door