Sukkot prep, still in progress

done

• groceries bought (except for eggs, but I don't absolutely need them so it's ok)
  
• lulav and etrog bought
  
• porch cleared (enough to fit four more chairs, anyway)
  
• food cooked
  
  • roasted beets and sweet potatoes
    
  • Brussels sprouts (I wonder if I should marinate them in something, rather than having them plain.)
    
  • baked winter squash (three kinds mixed together; for serving they'll go with salsa)
    
  • banana-applesauce cake
    
  • apple crumble

to do

• put up schach (I was too nervous to put it up today with the high winds)
  
• cook more
  
  • bake challot (on the second rise now)
    
  • chicken with brown and wild rice (once the bread comes out)
    
  • cranberry relish
    
  • kiwi granita (as long as I've got the food processor out...)
    
  • spicy almond noodles
    
  • sauteed eggplant and peppers (with some tomato product)
    
  • sauteed napa cabbage with soy sauce and sesame oil
    
  • mushroom barley soup
    
  • turkey (during the day tomorrow on time bake)

None of what's left is particularly difficult, but I'm tired.

also

• after carving the turkey, start turkey soup
  
• for Shabbat
  
  • turkey meatloaf
    
  • gefilte fish
    
  • re-evaluate veggies after yom tov in light of farm share bounty
    
  • possibly something with polenta

From Y"K, or, sf geek at shul

The rabbi gave a d'var Torah that included mentioning that there are three places where the rabbis explain that more people fit than is reasonably possible:

1. when Moshe hits the rock, and everyone was gathered there
   
2. in the courtyard of the Temple (everyone fitting in on Y"K to worship and see the red thread turn white)
   
3. the Holy of Holies, which contains the Ark, is apparently (when one works out all the cubic cubitage) smaller than said Ark

And when I heard that last, all I could think was that the Holy of Holies must be a tardis :-)