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Continue reading →: Whirlwind
I had yesterday off for Veteran’s Day; thank you to everyone who made it possible for me to live in a country that has days off! It was also my grandfather’s 90th birthday (and he is a WWII veteran, so a double holiday for him). I found the perfect card…
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Continue reading →: SCA String
For anyone in my general region, my local SCA group is holding a fiber arts symposium the weekend of November 14-16 in Lamar, PA. Probably most of you who would be interested already know about it, but I also want to publicize the preliminary class list. Looks like fun! There’s…
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Continue reading →: Best thing I’ve heard in months
“… a world was connected by our own science and imagination.” – President-elect Barack Obama
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Continue reading →: Participation
I don’t expect anyone is surprised, nor do I think that my choice of Presidential candidates is likely to be a secret. (If anyone is somehow unsure, I agree with John Scalzi, but he said it more eloquently, and at greater length.) I waited nearly an hour, first thing this…
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Continue reading →: Happy Halloween!
My office is boring, but no more so than expected. I’m the only Halloween-inspired person in the building, with my Mistress of Skulls shirt and string of bone skull beads. I have a pumpkin on my desk, and Carrothulu is supervising. This weekend the pumpkin will become food, so no…
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Continue reading →: Can’t stand it
When I started blogging, I decided that my main goal was to talk about string, books and plants (see header), and that in order to avoid driving away people who are interested in those topics but may hold divergent views on other issues, I would not discuss religion or politics.…
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Continue reading →: Update
Yep, that’s snow. (And Jess, that’s also the new Creamery, as seen from my office window.) Oddly, the petunias are still blooming; this was taken this morning as I left for work.
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Continue reading →: A short autumn
My personal marker for the end of summer is when the tomatoes freeze. If I can still pick fresh tomatoes off the vine, it’s still summer. This year, they made it until October 19, only ten days ago. The leaves aren’t all off the red maple in front of the…
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Continue reading →: Oddments
You know the weather has turned when faceless-cat appears. Noses must be protected, you know. I made some stitch markers the other evening. One set is for me, the others are gifts (for knitters who do not read my blog). They are artfully posed on the second sleeve of my…
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Continue reading →: Hard frost
We got a hard frost Saturday night, and that was it for the tomatoes. Also the basil. I’d gotten most of the tomatoes off, but didn’t pick the last of the basil. It was 80F last week; I wasn’t expecting everything to go away quite so quickly. We finally closed…
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.
