it's fix it time

Well the winds have stopped the fire is almost contained.... so it's time to start putting things back in place....

First the walls

some of them were doing fine...

just reattaching a string or two and it will be o.k.

other walls needed to have a some new grommets

and then some walls needed to be to start over from scratch

And then there was the roof....

Now Sunday Night when I was finished putting everything together there was a roof on the sukkah but as you can see from the pictures Hashem and the wind felt that maybe there shouldn't be a roof on the sukkah......

So we took the palm fronds that were left and put them back up on the roof.. and we will probably have to go back up the hill for a little more...

So Bubbie and Shomer and I went into the sukkah to see what we could do

and look at what we achieved

A view to the east

A view to the west

and a view from the front

Chag Semach to all!!!

We're still here

Well it was not what I would call a restfull night.... but we did get to stay in the house. The sukkah is still standing... well maybe I should say waving... becasue the walls are flapping in the wind....

The Santa Anna Winds.....

well it was 10:15 this evening and we had just gotten into bed to watch the fire... I know it's a sick California think.... when we heard a loud speaker....it was our friendly neighborhood peace officers the ones who had been checking ID's when you came up the street....letting us know we were in an evacuation warning area.....

What is an evacuation warning area you might ask.... well basically it means you will not be sleeping much tonight.... and get your stuff together cause if they come back with a real order you will have 2 minuets to get your act together and out the door....

and that means that my poor little sukkah will be left behind....

so the computer is getting shut down .... just in case...

ohhhh no my poor little sukkah

my pretty little sukkah (o.k. so maybe at 20x10 it wasn't so little) but is was sooooo nice and we worked so hard and when we left this morning everything was good....

but then we heard on the computer that they were evacuating everyone from Twin Lake Rd. (in Chatsworth Lake Manor) to Indian Hill Lane (that would be our street) so Barry and I decided to pack it up and head home.

There was a lot of smoke and ash and Santa Anna's and then we went in the backyard... and saw what the 60 mile and hour winds did to my little sukkah.

But every one is fine and I will have to do a little rebuilding before the party on Saturday....

Stay tuned for the sukkah's progress.