How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[jbeegoode]

Jbee,  Has the old willie returned to a more normal hue yet?
John

Yesterday the last bruise disappeared to my relief. The pain just irritates my initiative, or pops out in surprise at higher levels of activity.

Yesterday, I tied up my oleander's stakes to the wall with  cord and nails. I reached up high and changed a light bulb and did some laundry.  Accomplishing those three things were of tremendous pleasure and relief. I was beaming with satisfaction after so much sitting around in a passive stupor.

It is sweat day. I'm heading out there now....

... I'm back five hours later. The sun came out, twenty people wandered through all pleased. We're beginning work on a sweat fundraiser. Lined up two bands and equipment for stray performers. Last week I was a mess. This Sunday, has been pleasant. I'm on the mend, trying to remembering to take it easy.

Two friends told me they had the same. One got to it early, no pain really. Other said no pain, he had good dope!

Follow up Thursday. I just hope that he will okay me to visit the hot springs next weekend AND get in the water. I could use a couple of perfect days outside of Dodge.
Jbee

[jbeegoode]

My monthly report shows a pitiful lack of free hiking...zero.

Hey, whacked out by that hernia ordeal, and the rest of the month an unexpected 13 days of actually working a fun job at the gem show. No time. So, I am chomping at the bit to get out there.

The weather has also sucked. Even Arizona has been hit by that historical snow storm and rough stuff previous. The morning that we left for the hospital, we had to brush the snow off of the Civic. DF made a snow collection for me, while I was flat-out drugged. She put it in the freezer.  Now, itt will probably snow again tonight!

There were four Sunday sweat days in February. No matter the weather, a sweat works and all but one (breezey), no robes were needed to hang out outside after a nice warming sweat. I can generally walk in barefoot all over and chilly and then, emerge same and feel comfortable.

Yea, I wore clothing to work and then it has been so cold that I've actually had to wear a robe indoors. I haven't been so covered in ...maybe...decades! The post operation sensitivity certainly has kept the pants off of me, however.

DF went to the hot springs and got some warm naked afternoons there for a couple of days, while I worked. She has been leading naked Chi Gong classes there, this year. It is the best way for Chi Gong, but she needed the right group.

I don't know until  see the doc tomorrow for follow up, if I can go there this weekend. The weather will be pretty good, sunny with a high in low 70F's. Either way, we're going for a long naked walk in the desert this weekend.
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

Our February was characterized by severe winters snow storms, bitter cold, and above average precipitation.  I've been using up my firewood for heat.  We get the western side of the big arctic storm that makes news when it moves east to New York.  Not a month for going out naked. 
March began with more snow and cold.   Today, March 2, we are having more snow, but this time with wind gusts close to 50 mph.  It's been a very cold and snowy winter. 

[jbeegoode]

Big storm! Even Tucson got snow this morning and winds up to 60mph! Snow is friggin' fun! After my post operation exam, we drove up into the Tucson Mountains to play in the snowy desert and put another snowman on top of DF's car (the first one jumped off near the hospital, but couldn't be helped).

I walked around a very minor walk and some minor climbing. With pants on, the bandage just off and just sitting around for a couple of weeks, I felt sore the rest of the day. Pitiful. There is some good weather coming up. I'm doing some walking in my kilt, then. I'm sure that nude walking will be even more therapeutic, with free movement and much less friction. He said my recovery is on schedule and give it a couple more weeks before acting more up to snuff. I love eating fresh snow.  DF put a bowl of it in the freezer.
Jbee

[nuduke]

Really good to hear your recovery is progressing, Jbee.  DON'T PUSH IT!  Your repair could tear again as I'm sure you are well aware.
Also good to hear Doc satisfied with progress because you do seem to have had high end of the side effects pain spectrum.


Snow from the freezer!  Love that!  It's surely not fresh though, if it's been in the freezer 
John

[Greenbare Woods]

Here it is March 6.  We had more snow last night.  Its snowing most of the day.   My wife finally put in her retirement paperwork at EWU.  She will retire at the end of 23.   We have been talking about moving to Tucson in 24.  Or, maybe Tempe or Peoria, AZ.     

There seems to be a fair number of naturists in Arizona.  Looking forward to getting to a warmer climate.  How are the laws on nudity in Arizona?   I'm used to nudity being uncommon but not illegal.   Jbee, can you enlighten me? 

[jbeegoode]

Check out the Naturist Action Committee wen site for quoted statutes.

No to breast technically, but areola hidden will get a woman by. Anus and genitals are a no. Penalties are a plead deal for 1st time, generally, so don't get caught. Someone has to see these parts and be offended. The law is vague. It talks about a "reasonable person might be offended." The judge gets to decide what that means and that varies, of course.
So.... don't get seen walking down the street.

Most of the state is Federal and State Lands and beautiful and wild. There the law may be similar, but the Forest Service isn't concerned once away from the trailheads. If there is a complaint, well good luck getting authorities to follow up.

It's not illegal to be naked. It's illegal to be seen naked by the wrong person.

There, that should be clear as mud.

Tempe and Peoria are in the Phoenix urban sprawl, something that I refer to as "a sh...hole." It gets extra hot (6F or 7Fdegrees more than Tucson)at that elevation and with the city asphalt and traffic, many days and more days over 110F. You don't want to be in your convertable at an intersection at 125F or more, stopped. Look for less urban sprawl. Look for over 2500 feet elevation and next to mountains that have cooler air flowing down them. You may like Prescott. Ken and Amie, would probably greet you and introduce you to the area.

Come check out Tucson. I can put you up in my B&B when there are no paying customers and show you around. PM me on that. South of town closer to Green Valley can be cooler still. There are lots of micro climate factors. There is University life and amenities in several places around the state.

Is that Dec. of 2023? Or end of the school year?
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

Come check out Tucson. I can put you up in my B&B when there are no paying customers and show you around. PM me on that. South of town closer to Green Valley can be cooler still. There are lots of micro climate factors. There is University life and amenities in several places around the state.

Thanks for the info. 

My wife is concerned about the heat so we are looking at Tucson. 

Is that Dec. of 2023? Or end of the school year?
Jbee 

Wife retirement is officially December 31, but for practical purposes she won't have any work to do after Fall term ends in mid December.  She gets paid for the whole month. 

Wife's daughter owns a rental house in Phoenix.  Granddaughter has been living there while getting a MS from ASU.  She met a medical student who will be doing 3 years Intern in Salt Lake City so granddaughter is moving to SLC.   House will be vacant.  Wife is going to talk to Daughter about living there until we find a good place in AZ to buy for our own.  Not sure how that will work.  Daughter may have other tenants after granddaughter leaves, or may sell the house, etc. 

Anyway it will be sometime in 2024 before we are able to relocate.  It will be a lot of work to clean out and shut down this place near Cheney.  We've been here about 20 years.   I'll miss the summers naked on my land, but not months of snow and ice.  We probably will come to AZ to look around later this year, and finally move there in spring 24.  We may ask about your B&B later. 


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[nuduke]

Well, well, Bob
End of an era and beginning of another. 
Whilst I ain't been to Tucson, Jbee once sent me his address and I have googled it on maps.  His house was at quite a decent elevation.  So I agree - get up in the hills where the climate is cooler and yet wild (ish) desert country away from the urban sprawl.  You need a 'range' to roam in or you'll pine for the pines at your Cheney property (what's left of them after the fire!).  As I have remarked before, your Cheney project was bold and grand and very individual.  I have always been in awe of it.  My guess is that even despite the winters and the fire last year, it will be a wrench to leave it behind.  I hope you get a great price for it.  You deserve it after the huge effort to build it in the first place.  Have you stopped adding to the blog where you trace all the build and history?  You need to add to it the moving out modifications etc!  Then it'll be the complete chronicle of your sojourn there.  I guess you'll take the gate gnomes with you!!
John

[Greenbare Woods]

Well, well, Bob
End of an era and beginning of another.  ...    Have you stopped adding to the blog where you trace all the build and history?  You need to add to it the moving out modifications etc!  Then it'll be a complete chronicle of your sojourn there.  I guess you'll take the gate gnomes with you!!
John

Hi John. It gets harder every year to cut firewood in summer and deal with snow in winter -- 4 months of snow this year.  We've been here almost 20 years. That's the longest I've ever lived in the same place.  Housing and land prices are up a lot the last couple of years so I'm hoping to get a good price.  Still, getting ready to sell takes more work. 

I quit adding to the build a house website blog when the house was done.  My garden gnomes were made of some kind or resin.  They disappeared in the fire.  I'm "pushing 80" now.  My high school is having a 60 year reunion in August. It will include a memorial for all those classmates who are no longer with us. I'm older than average life expectancy for my demographic.  I'm still generally healthy, eat healthy, get sunshine, and exercise, but it gets harder every year anyway. 

Good idea about adding pictures of preparations and moving out to the Glenconey web site.   . 

[nuduke]

Yeah, I see your dilemma.  But hey!  Hopefully moving to warmer climes will make the grass cutting infrequent, not require any wood chopping and that and the weather will warm and rest the old bones into feeling better!  Having just turned 70, I'm feeling the fingers of seniority stroking my pathway of life now but, Bob, even though you are approaching 80, you ain't there yet!  And anyway, the day before you are 80 will be nearly the same as the day after and so on from day to day... so you don't even notice the passing of the decade mark!!     In fact that's an ancient Greek philosophers paradox isn't it?  If we don't notice the difference in age and circumstance between today and tomorrow and tomorrow and the next day and each day after that... then there's effectively no difference from day to day, so really we are all immortal!!  I think that's the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise! Achilles paradox | Definition & Facts | Britannica


I sincerely wish you well in arranging your sale, moving and eventual relocation under the sun with hopefully many more years of nude living!
Hey, maybe in a few years you'll be as nut brown as Tanman!! 


John

[Fellsnude]

Well, there's a day to go, but tomorrow's weather is damp and 13C so I don't expect to be naked except in the shower. Also, I'm just recovering from my second encounter the Covid bug which. although mild (streaming nose with flu-like overtones) has cost me my appointment with the hernia surgeon next week - rats!

So - March 2023 - better than the usual March because we spent half of it in Lanzarote, in the CO village of Charco del Palo and surrounding areas. It was quite windy, but mostly sunny, which meant we had to take care of our pale skins for the first week, but we both got some nude time in every day. Charco was a great place to stay (if you like it quiet and peaceful) and the whole island is fascinating in the way it recovered from a massive volcanic eruption some 300 years ago.

Over the next couple of weeks I'll try to find time to do a more detailed trip report. So far there's no nude-worthy weather in the forecast for the first half of April.

[jbeegoode]

Woohoo! Last day of March will have us tripping out to the hot springs.
We were out there the second week of March, not our usual group, but we did know plenty of people in that one. Still in some recovery from the hernia operation, I was able to get out into the desert for a hike. Someone has fixed the barbed wire fence, so it was a bit tedious to climb through naked. We just passed over our belongings to each other and held the fence open in turn. Alone, it would have been a risky hassle. We visited some landmarks that we hadn't seen for a d few years. One was the sad demise of the exceptionally tall barrel cactus that I used to use to navigate in the creosote forest. Goodbye old friend. It had just fallen over.
We spent the other four days naked, wrapping up at night to get from hot water to hot water to bed. It was wonderful after so long.

We had regular Sunday sweats, but the rest of my time was spent readying for the Sweat's fundraiser party. We had 60 people over, many using the sweat and cheerfully partying naked. It was chilly in the evening, but after a few minutes in the hot sweat, coming out was comfortable. I got some friends from the Mira Vista band over, who played fun music. We had several talented others playing here and there. Great fun.

The weather will be warm this weekend. I'm looking forward to lots of nude to start April. Looks like DF will be heading back to Georgia to visit with her 100 year old mom for a couple of weeks, which will mess with some plans to get out and about. But, the weather is getting warmer and I'm looking forward to trips, as life should be.
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

Well here it is April 3, Major League Baseball has been playing since last week, and we're buried in almost a foot of heavy new snow.   It snowed all night last night, and is still snowing today. 

Don't know about you fellows, but 30F (-1 C) and a foot (30 cm) of snow is too cold for me to play naked in the woods.   

[jbeegoode]

If the wind isn't blowing, I can handle that and have fun. Otherwise....

I remember as  teen in Michigan April 1st we would begin to hear "Think Summer" campaigns on the radio. I still remember the frustration that went along with that, standing at the bus stop in the morning at zero degrees Fahrenheit.

Winter is fun, when it is short...very short.
Jbee