Food for last days of yom tov

that is, for Shmini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, and the "third day yom tov" of Shabbat

turkey thighs baked with carrot, sweet potato, hakurei turnip, apple, onion from dilly fridge pickles (and some of the pickle juice from same), and black pepper

pink potato salad: potato, beet, and cucumber pickle
not-king's rice: layered pumpkin, onion and chicken thighs, pumpkin and rutabaga, raisins and walnuts, barley and bulghur
vegan applesauce cake with raisins and walnuts (using rice and whole-grain buckwheat flour, since I was out of wheat flour)

And I brought a Brie to Shabbat dinner; the rest was leftovers or bread and cheese.

Links of various sorts

Making things

This mask pattern has me wanting to learn how to tat.

Free patterns for a lot of fabulous, playa-perfect clothes. Now to work on my sewing skills.... (And, oh, look: a new fabric and yarn store in Natick; could be dangerous :-).

Substance to make objects better: sugru (related to modeling clay, but more useful)

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Images

For places that have switches from meters to paying at a central location, here's a reason to leave the meters in situ.

Images of major squares around Boston, which are mostly unsquare, unsurprisingly.

in the tasteless humor (WWII visual division)...

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Articles

The New Yorker's commemoration of the 50^th anniversary of The Phantom Tollbooth.

In meandering around friendfriends, I found Sythyry's weird chess variant (part 1, part 2) that sounds rather unplayable, and yet fascinating.

origami-ish furniture

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Does a chair with one leg shorter than the rest have a fractional leg, and therefore neither an even nor odd number of legs?

eta Also, this historic video of Russian Cossack dancing... to Run DMC music (my knees winced in appreciation while watching).