from Deborah Potvin's remembrance of her father

Sukkot was my father's favorite holiday. He was not Jewish, and even after marrying my mother, who has always been very involved in the Jewish community, never embraced religion. He did, however, love Sukkot. He put up our sukkah every year, and for my father, nothing was more fun than hanging out at Home Depot, offering advice on how to build a sukkah frame or secure the schach. My husband put up our first sukkah just a few months before my father died. Though he was too sick, at that point, to help us build, he did travel thousands of miles to take my husband to Home Depot and advise him on how to put it all together.

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/lives-they-loved/?story=57