Sep. 1st, 2002

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1. What's your favorite piece of clothing that you currently own?

That's a hard one. My bright, multicolored rayon pull on skirt that I've had for years. With the right top, it can do for work or for casual or for synagogue or for dress-up. It even machine washes. All it really needs is pockets for perfection.

2. What piece of clothing do you most want to acquire?

I want a leather skirt. It should be calf-length and swingy, not straight, and nice and soft.

3. What piece of clothing can you not bring yourself to get rid of? Why?

I don't get that attached to clothing, but. I have a nightshirt that's wearing out, but it's so soft and nice and Jonathan loves it on me.

4. What piece of clothing do you look your best in?

My suit. It's a dark pinstripe with a long coat that I wear with a pale, greenish white dickey and it makes me look almost elegant.

5. What has been your biggest fashion accident?

Oh, goodness. I used to wear loose sweaters and camisoles and it just looked dreadful and sloppy.
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This afternoon, my husband and I bought a hut. To be precise, we bought a sukkah in which to dwell during the Feast of Tabernacles, or "Sukkot". These come in many styles and fashions, because the walls only matter in that they are high enough and that they exist. So, a porch with no awning and a high enough railing would work. A wooden pergola (a sort of roof made of boards) that can be surrounded by curtains works. A crude rectangle of panels or doors, a piece of canvas wrapped around poles - *all* of these work. I know of some kids who built one out of those plastic flats two-liter bottles of soda come in, built like legos. And there are teenage boys who earn extra money by putting these together for other people, since the commandment isn't to build, but to "dwell."

The only real requirement is that the sukkah be big enough to sit in and that it be roofs with an organic material - wood, branches, bamboo, reeds - that is just solid enough to provide shade, but not solid enough to keep rain out. It's a temporary thing.

Practically, it should be big enough for a tall man to stand in, and large enough to hold at least the family around a table and chairs, because all meals will be eaten there. One can put down a rug, or put up a handwashing sink attached to a garden hose. They can be decorated - families with kids let them make them; others buy them. I've seen paper chains, stretchy metallic things, accordion pleated fruits and veggies, plastic fruits and veggies, *real* fruits and veggies, pepper lights. Gotta have lights, so you can eat dinner. I've also seen pictures of famous rabbis. We don't have kids, so no homemade ones, and we don't do the rabbi's picture thing.

So, what sort of a hut did we get? We got something called the "Ease Lock." It's a metal framework that fits together without tools and is stable enough so it doesn't need to be tied down, with a tent that wraps around it. This tent is fastened top and bottom with Velcro, and comes with clear patches for windows and a door thhat can be zipped closed, opened all the way, or closed with a zippered screen. It comes with a "roof" made of a loosely woven bamboo mat, and some boards to support the mat. We will use twine to tie it down. It's 6x8, large enough to comfortably hold a resin table and four folding chairs, which we have to buy. It also came with decorations. We have to get a friend with a truck to get it to us.

We could have spent a bit more money and gotten one made of fiberglass panels, but we don't have the storage space. This one stores easily. All we'd have to do is make sure the tent part is dry. We're also taking advantage of this to invite some friends from our synagogue. She's wheelchair bound and would have to be carried up our stairs. The wheelchair still wouldn't make it through the door opening, but it's much easier to carry her to a chair.

I'm rather excited. We haven't had this opportunity before. Finally, we can eat all our meals at home in the sukkah.

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