What Was Your First Online Forum?

[Marie Mallory]

I recall another Senior Forum in the bunch. 1does "Senior Playground" ring any bells?

No, I don't remember that one, but I do remember a Seniors forum that was fairly liberal, kind of R rated. Then I found Seniors Only that was more to my liking.

 

[Nancy Hart]

Hi @Faye! Good to hear from you!

Y'all got my curiosity up so I checked. Homesteading Today is still going strong. Posts going back to 2004 still there. Not the one on Facebook.

The members were very friendly. It took me a while to realize most of them didn't believe in calling vets. There were a lot of home remedies, like apple cider vinegar, peroxide, WD-40 and duct tape. One woman from Texas knew her stuff. If you had a sick goat she could almost always tell you what was wrong with it. She lost patience because they would ask her advice, and then not take it.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I recall another Senior Forum in the bunch. 1does "Seniors Playground" ring any bells?

Seniors Playground was one of the forums that started on Postloop, and then by the time Postloop ended, it had enough members who were staying on, so the owner kept it going for a while, but then he closed it.
When he did that, Ken said he could make us another Seniors forum, and so he made SOC, and we brought the people over from Seniors Playground who wanted to still be on a senior forum.
Matrix had several of his forums on Postloop for quite a while, too. Besides SF, he had a pet forum, and a low carb forum, and I think one other one that I can’t quite remember what it was. I think he closed all of them down except SF, eventually.

 

[Faye]

Hi @Faye! Good to hear from you!

Y'all got my curiosity up so I checked. Homesteading Today is still going strong. Posts going back to 2004 still there. Not the one on Facebook.

The members were very friendly. It took me a while to realize most of them didn't believe in calling vets. There were a lot of home remedies, like apple cider vinegar, peroxide, WD-40 and duct tape. One woman from Texas knew her stuff. If you had a sick goat she could almost always tell you what was wrong with it. She lost patience because they would ask her advice, and then not take it.

I was referring to Countryside and Homesteading, but I was also a member of Homesteading Today. I took a look at both forums and yes, still some of the old gray haired members are still there. I had to laugh at one old original member that posted her tolerance for foolish questions was growing thin. I remember her as never having any tolerance for any question she deemed common sense, 20 years ago.

I had and still have to remind myself that newcomers to country living, don't have the knowledge that those of us that have spent our lives, living the country life, possess. What is common sense to us maybe very uncommon to others.

@Nancy Hart Good to see your post also. I remember the photo of Rusty needing a serious hoof trim. I wanted to get out my tin shears and hoof rasp and get Rusty hooves trimmed and filed.

 

[Nancy Hart]

@Nancy Hart ... I remember the photo of Rusty needing a serious hoof trim. I wanted to get out my tin shears and hoof rasp and get Rusty hooves trimmed and filed.

Hoof trimming was back-breaking work. I was never very good at it. Took me all day to do 14 goats. Some were easier than others.

 

[Faye]

Hoof trimming was back-breaking work. I was never very good at it. Took me all day to do 14 goats. Some were easier than others.

I couldn't do it anymore! I used my elevated milking stanchion back in the day, so not as much bending and easier to control the goat. I finally put a large pile of rocks out in their pasture where they played, king of the mountain. Goats are very competitive and those games really reduced hoof trimming.