Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Twittering
The Twitter bandwagon has gained another passenger - me. When I first heard about Twitter, I thought I'd never use it. I figured it was more geared to kids with fancy mobile devices than to a middle-aged gardener who has to pay for each text message on her cell phone. But things change. I was sitting on the porch yesterday watching the rain and thinking I wonder when the last good rain was. If I had written it in my garden journal, I'd know. But the garden journal is in the bottom of my bag, where it's been for a week at least. Despite all my good intentions, I don't write in it as much as I think I should. I thought this blog was my garden journal, but it doesn't feel like the proper place any more to record that I saw Monarch butterflies yesterday (or any other small thing I'd like to remember).
So anyway, I was sitting on the porch watching the rain, debating with myself whether Twitter is worthwhile and suddenly it hit me. What if somebody else grabs my username while I'm making up my mind? I am Entangled. I must sign up Right Now. Too late. Some other twit is already calling himself Entangled. So as far as Twitter is concerned, I'm tangledbranches.
We'll see how this all works out. I'm still a little skeptical, but I intend to use it as a way to jot down some mostly-garden-related things on my mind that don't merit a blog post and never make it into the handwritten garden journal.
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