It didn’t rain this weekend! At all! I celebrated by committing mayhem with the pruning shears.

pruning results

and also the other side of the house, and started the semi-annual ivy removal project.

pruning results

Can you tell?

pruning results

No really, that’s an “after” – I took all three photos at the same time. Now it looks like an ordinarily overgrown yard rather than “It’s going to swallow the house and kill us all!”

I do get more done when I work at home instead of the office, though instead of grad students and postdocs I have this to deal with.

helpful cat

helpful cat

No offense intended to my postdocs, but Morgan is cuter. Although I’ve never had a postdoc stuff my flash drive down into the couch cushions…

Welcome!

I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.

I also do some science and write some fiction.

I’m Phiala most places on the internet.