Comments for Tangled Branches: Cultivated

Comment on A Change Will Do You Good by entangled

entangled — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:49:57 +0000

So far I’m having fun with the wiki. I had some other ideas for reinvigorating the blog, and WordPress makes it fairly easy to add static pages (more like a wiki), but the wiki format forces me to be more organized (a really good thing). It would be nice if somebody would integrate WordPress and MediaWiki.

I hope to be back to the Garden to Table Challenge once I have something edible from the garden besides radishes and herbs. Actually, now that I think of it, I have a new herb that I don’t really understand how to use so that might be good for a post. Score for creative juices!

Comment on A Change Will Do You Good by Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:07:26 +0000

oh my gosh – I cannot even keep up with what’s going on. I hear what you’re saying about the blog. I’m definitely posting less frequently, but there are still topics here and there that I feel compelled to write about – and the blog seems to best place. I’ll have to check out your new wikithing. hope it will get the creative juices flowing for you again!!

Comment on Black Widows by entangled

entangled — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:14:35 +0000

Yikes! A brown recluse on you! That’s so scary.

Exterminators these days seem to use much less toxic stuff than they used to. Whatever he used the first time he was here didn’t do much of anything, so we had him come out again. He used different equipment the second time. I’m debating whether to have him come back again. I’ve only found 2 live black widows since the last treatment. Before that it was like 3 or 4 every day.

Comment on Black Widows by Annie in Austin

Annie in Austin — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:55:44 +0000

When they are so close to the house it sounds more like Self-defence, Entangled. They might be around here but I haven’t seen them. Of course I also didn’t see the brown recluse spider crawling on me until one of the Divas of the Dirt dispatched it. Good luck!

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

Comment on A Change Will Do You Good by Ray

Ray — Tue, 29 May 2012 01:52:57 +0000

I guess I am an inbetween blogger. If there were more readers breathlessly waiting to read my posts, I might be more consistent with a schedule.

I originally started my blog as a private journal to help me keep track of when I started seeds, what bloomed when, what I harvested when. After half a year I converted it into a public blog.

I have noticed that my later posts are much more personal than when I started (they started very dry – probably because the ‘personal journal’ thing was not intended as public reading.)

Comment on Black Widows by entangled

entangled — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:01:12 +0000

I don’t know…I think they may be hiding everywhere. I found 2 more females yesterday morning and 1 male this morning. I’m getting the exterminator back out here ASAP.

Comment on Black Widows by Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 28 May 2012 04:46:07 +0000

Wow. I was just thinking that those guys have got to be hiding everywhere, but hopefully the exterminator is right!

Comment on Black Widows by entangled

entangled — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:35:49 +0000

Thanks for the soothing words! I didn’t feel like I had a choice. Our neighbors have young children and I just felt it would be irresponsible to let the spiders proliferate. I was surprised to learn that the fatality rate is fairly low – 1% or less – but children are more likely to die than adults if bitten. And according to the exterminator it’s extremely unusual to see so many black widows at one time, so this really is an exceptional situation.

Comment on Black Widows by Blackswampgirl Kim

Blackswampgirl Kim — Sun, 27 May 2012 03:22:30 +0000

I think you can keep your green credentials. Maybe they are a little more olive than bright green today, but… hey, those things could kill you! If ever there was a time to embrace chemicals, this is it.

Glad that you found them, before they found you!

Comment on A Change Will Do You Good by entangled

entangled — Sat, 26 May 2012 09:58:35 +0000

I miss that kind of interaction too, and I’m guilty myself of not commenting on blogs I like (like yours!).

I was recently talking with someone about information overload, and he mentioned that he finds various forums to be a richer online experience than blogs. I have accounts on gardenweb.com and tomatoville.com, and have hardly ever posted anything there, but I do go there occasionally looking for information. I was on myfolia.com too, but found the data entry process to be too tedious.

I wonder if people will get back to socializing on blogs when they get tired of Facebook and Twitter?