What kind of winter jacket did you get, Bob? Fleece feels great naked. The fluffy fake liners are wonderful. The plastic, vinyl stuff with goose down work great, are lightweight, but get clammy and sticky when nude, requiring an inner layer.
A short or long jacket? I like my dad's old woolen overcoats, with the silk linings. All I need is occasionally to step out in the cold in the evening or early morning for short time, so slipping on warm over nude is not so much an issue. I usually just brave it naked, or a robe. If I'm out longer, then I'm generally needing legal coverings so layering happens.
I got rid of my messy wood burning pot on the enclosed porch. It would heat the whole poorly insulated 660 sq.ft. okay, but I only used it twice last year and the roof pipe gave problematic issues. I replaced it with an electric heating unit that blows 80F air across the room and I have an electric portable radiator and an electric parabolic disk to supplement that. The new unit also has a fake fireplace effect. I built a fireplace facade around it, mantle and all. It actually has some ambiance and for some reason people space out on it, staring and gather around it like a real fire. It's enough for a special occasion. I live inside my house mostly, or outside.
The metal roof out there heats the room on a sunny day (most days are sunny) and the sun comes through the 4x5 foot windows. Most of the time, the porch is warm in the day. The winter sun angle shoots right in, but the eucalyptus tree shades part of the time. I can sit out on the proch on the magic carpet and do yoga and meditate in the sun in the mornings nude.
As has consistently happened through all of these years, when you all up north get your worse torturous cold wet weather, Tucson gets particularly wonderful weather...This Fall has been no exception. La Nina has come back already and with the exaggeration from the global average heat increases, we'll have warmer drier weather this winter in desert Baja Arizona.
The next two days will have highs about 80F. I'm trying to find someone to 4x4 and hike in the desert Tuesday before the Tuesday night sweat at our friends place. We've been generally 75F plus for highs. It's has been wonderful most of the month. I've been working on projects around the house. I got the first layer of stucco on the porch outside, just gloves and old toe shoes. Hard work that I'm not used to. You've seen the report of the Fall leaf changing on my website, but that was up over 5000ft. elevation and cooler. Here at 2500 ft. it is much warmer. We got the garden in, and there are lots of miniature sprouts everywhere. Some of the plants are being fooled by the heat. I've got bokchoy coming up from last year. hemp and other seeds coming up. The sunchokes took a while to start acting like death to harvest because of no cold. Working the garden nude with DF is so earthy wonderful. We get better crops all winter here. The summer heat is the problem that makes gardening tough, the opposite of northern climates.
We've been doing sweats each week. We hosted the annual Thanksgiving gathering for the sweat community. Most were so into talking and making music (great fireside music) that only three used the sweat and then DF, Mindi and I got end at evenings end.
This coming month we will have Sunday sweats, but also extra, a solstice celebration, a women only sweat, and a memorial celebration sweat to honor one of the crew that passed away recently. I have stopped to wonder if my funeral celebration will be clothing optional...oh well, I've got several years to go for that... Would they respect my Will if it decreed a nude attendance?
Going to hang out in the hot springs and be naked mostly the last four days of this week. It's good. I'm grateful.
Jbee
