what was your very first post at permies?

Mine was June 21, 2012 and the subject was outhouses of course!
https://permies.com/t/200/953/tree-bog-dry-outhouse#137473

Steve and I have lived in the Ozarks since 1973 and have used dug outhouses most of that time , using leaves, sawdust and/or soil as cover and never worried about a little pee. We have always had a separate indoor pee bucket (you really can maintain one with no smell) that we use daily on the kitchen compost or plants. The last few years we have switched from the hole to poop in a bucket with sawdust cover (and again we don't worry over a little pee) and are finding the system much better than the hole that would eventually fill with water during one of the Ozarks week long rains and we would find ourselves squatting over a hole of liquid.... we do switch back to the hole for a party or for a local studio tour when we have large groups of folks. We don't use the finished compost in the gardens or orchard (I just can't get my mind around completing that cycle, but spread it in the area where it was piled to compost. One advantage to the bucket is that it can be in the house for visiting family company comfort, except for "flushing« with sawdust there is no difference in location or function from their flush toilet at home.  

I found the forum a month or so before making my first post.

At least this is the one I remember being my first post:

Anne said, I live in an area that has flooding to wet weather creeks. When rain is in the forecast we do not leave home. There are several fences in our area that are able to withstand these flooding creeks. I don't know what they are called so I tried to google "fencing that will sustain flooding".

https://permies.com/t/55569/Building-fence-frequent-flooding-creek#462814

I sign up to be a member so I could be helpful.

I'm still a newbie! My first post was about landrace gardening on 17 June 2021 (though my account was created three years earlier and I came to Permies from search-results off and on for a few years before that):

https://permies.com/t/162854/Starting-landrace#1277220 wrote:When I decided to start doing this, two years ago, I started with Three Sisters. I built up a grex of field corn, pole beans, and winter squash from various sources. Then I planted the corn, waited for progress, planted the beans, and later planted the squash. For a variety of reasons, my performance wasn't very good, but I got seeds to save of all three crops which I kept separated from the starting commercial seeds, but when it was time to plant I mixed my saved seeds half and half with my starter grex and planted those. I'm not really producing enough yet to save at the volumes I should, but I'm growing as I go. And I think, having read a lot more now than when I started, the only dumb thing I did was not realize winter squash were three species.

Since getting rolling with this though, I have in mind to basically grex up each kind of plant I'm interested in and let them all form into landraces.

To find your very first post go to 'view Profile' and click on posts...then you can go to the last page of that list and click on 'go to'.
Copy and paste the text to a reply here along with the link to the post if you can.

Thanks Anne and Christopher!

Looking forward to more 'firsts'.  

Okay, I'll play. The subject was permaculture controls for cutworms. The OP was Mike Haasl.

https://permies.com/t/136860/Permaculture-controls-cutworms#1072964

Well I’ve been here longer than I thought.. 2018 indeed

I was a long time lurker here, this place had people actually doing stuff and the authenticity and desire to make thing work drew me in.

Truck battery dead

James Alun wrote:You would be better off taking the truck for a 30min - 1hr run and thrash it a few times once every week or 2. This will be better for the battery but also the rest of the truck. In modern diesels it clears out the dpf, in older petrols (gas) it keeps the carbs in good order and in any ice vehicle it prevents carbon buildup throughout the engine and exhaust system.

Using a solar panel can keep the battery in good condition but the rest of the truck could suffer from only doing the short journeys.

I have been here since 2013 and my first post was about growing garlic bulbils

https://permies.com/t/27118/garlic-bulbils#213178

First post was on 9/5/2014. . . . For those of you wondering, yes I still have the car and the credit card. Amazingly, the lowest priced new car in the USA is soon to be over $20k.

John Wolfram wrote:Since there are usually fees charged to the merchant when you use a credit card (typically ~2.9%), merchants are usually reluctant to let you use them for big purchases. For example, about a year ago a tried to buy a $15,000 car on a credit card (2% cash back, yay!), however the dealer balked at paying $435 in credit card fees and limited the amount I could charge to $5000.

Let's see.. I had been lurking for quite some time, I signed up Oct 2, 2015 to post, and my first  post started with me laughing, which has set the tone for the rest of them :D

The thread was on sewer lagoons, and I had just realized the property I bought had one, I had NO CLUE about them had heard the word but never seen one, and my first thought was "Is this even LEGAL? just dump all the sewage into a pond?" The person who started the thread had been looking at a property she ended up not buying and she said " I think it may be wise to leave the lagoon to another buyer."

Haha!!
I was searching to see what to do with the property I just bought, wonder if I bought what you passed over, sounds REALLY familiar :) So I DO have it, and am going to be learning it very soon :) I'll check back at this thread soon, any more advice would be REALLY appreciated!!  

That was over 13,500 posts ago... What a long strange trip it's been!  
I'm still laughing at everything, it's my style  
:D

4-14-2013, and guess what my first post was about...
https://permies.com/t/23698/rocket-stove-greenhouse

With my first post two years ago I was trying to help out somebody inquiring about our part of Tennessee: https://permies.com/t/170819/East-upper-Cumberland-TN-land#1341763

I still hope lots of Permie-types will "descend upon us" down here!

This is my first post at permies. I've been lurking for a while and signed up this morning!

Hi Kelly,

Welcome to Permies.

Welcome to Permies! I love your sense of humor--what a fantastic way to do a first post. I hope you stick around for a long long time!

I joined on October 29, 2013, and it took me until June 19, 2017, to write this post, "Welcome to you both! Is there a link, where I can purchase this book, please?"
https://permies.com/t/67496/Charles-Dowding-Stephanie-Hafferty-authors#569642,  lol.

Wow, January of 2013 - I guess last year was my 10th anniversary!

No surprise, it was about helping someone disguise their food-producing front yard as "just shrubs and trees". Edible landscaping was one of the things that brought me to permies.
https://permies.com/t/20924/Permaculture-Intensive-gardening#173494

Mine was 5 years ago, responding to someone asking about resources for tropical herbs. https://permies.com/t/87107/Herbal-medicine-tropics#718312
The thread brought together a lot of good information and interesting posters. A good place to start.

Oh dear, not the best of memories. It was in a thread about composting adult disposable diapers, in 2010

https://permies.com/t/3662/composting/composting-disposable-diapers#31089

Have you thought of using a biodegradable nappy liner to catch most of the poop?  You could easily compost that, and maybe then when you discover that the diapers stay cleaner you might be happier at the thought of washing cloth diapers.

I have a similar situation in that I'm caring for a totally bedridden relative.  He doesn't use diapers but I collect all the poop on paper, use degradable wipes and paper towel to clean him, and compost the lot in with the humanure.  I also use washable mattress protectors and a sheath catheter to collect all the pee, which collects in a 5 litre plastic tub next to the bed and is also added to the compost heaps.

Mine was in November 2020 in response to a UK post on groundcovers...still a challenge for me now.
https://permies.com/t/151460/Ground-cover-supress-weeds-uk#1184977

My next was "Hello from Skye" with a big pile of wood chip I had just had delivered :)

Such diversity!
I shouldn't be surprised though as this is almost a 'one stop shop' for information

Anyone else?
Doesn't matter how long you've been here...short time...long time...brand new.
First post is 'first post' whenever it happened

Where to relocate some blueberries? May, 2015.

https://permies.com/t/46746/relocate-blueberry-bushes#372830

I planted my bushes in soil amended for vege gardening (oops #1) where they get up to 9 hours summer sun (maybe oops #2). They are 4 years old and are under 2 feet tall. Yes, they were labeled as high-bush, not low-bush varieties, york and legacy...

Those bushes stayed in place. They died. A lawn mower may have been involved... This was not according to plan.

Nine bushes later, I have one good producing bush. One transplanted spindly offshoot from that bush, another dead. Two younger bushes the same age with bigger berries, coming into production. And a bunch of cuttings I'm trying to root.

Wish me success?

I went to My Posts (I think that link will take anyone to their list of posts, too), and found my first post! It was about tapping Big Leaf Maple trees. It was February 24th, 2014!

I live in the Pacific Northwest, too. For my birthday, my husband bought me the supplies for maple tapping. So far, from just two Big Leaf Maples, each tapped once, we've hauled in about 15 gallons of sap, in just one month! The sap of the Big Leaf is quite tasty, and the syrup has a kind of brown sugar-y flavor. We're boiling it down on our wood stove, which has the added benefit of humidifying out house for our 4 month old. I love the fact we can make our own sweetener for free. We figure it'll make good Christmas presents, too.

My son was only 4 months old then! He's 10 now!

I'm pretty sure I lurked for at least 6 months before making that post! I think I signed up on permies to get some cool freebies and finally posted something when I thought I had something to contribute. I've been here now for over 10 years!

My first post was about my  enduring doubts about rocket mass heaters and insurance back in January 2013.

What have peoples experience been getting fire insurance for their house with a RMH?  I had a hard time getting insurance for my house because I heat exclusively with wood but with a conventional stove. I would guess it would be nearly impossible to get fire insurance with a home made RMH when most insurance brokers have never even heard of it. I'd like to build an RMH but not having house insurance is a deal breaker.

I still think RMHs are impractical if you cant get home insurance and even if the RMH was not the cause of the fire it would invalidate your home insurance and you would be SOL.  No one has convinced me otherwise.

Thank you for this question!
My first post was in 2015. I found out now I have 72 pages of posts!
This one is my second post, not the first one (I like you to read more about me in this post):
Hi from the Netherlands

... and my very first post was a reply on a question Paul asked 'how do we get more facebook likes?'. This was what I wrote back then:
'Hi! I'm new here. First received some daily-ish news, looked a few times and got a free permaculture e-magazine
Now I saw Paul Wheaton's community Facebook page needs more 'likes'. So I shared it in the Dutch 'Permacultuur' Facebook group. Maybe now you'll get some more followers from the Netherlands.'

My first post was a lengthy reply to a request for a reality check from someone who wished to convert an old broiler house to a greenhouse to grow citrus in Maryland.

https://permies.com/t/156464/Reality-Check-Needed-Broiler-House#1227288

I'd like to think I have become much more succinct since then :)

I joined permies almost a year ago now, a couple of days after US Thanksgiving.  I think the first post I made was introducing myself in the intro forum, or maybe I replied to someone else's recent intro post, saying I'm in OR too, because they were.  I don't quite recall.  But it wasn't momentous or notable.

I do know that I like being here and learning here, and feeling like I can try new things, and the things that work I can keep doing, and the things that don't work I can either not do again, or I can try to do them differently.  I like seeing what others are accomplishing and imagining the possabilities for myself.  I like problem solving and learning new ideas, and feeling encouraged to try things out.