How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[balead]

August has reached its end and it seems that summer nay have done the same (if it ever really started).

I'm pleased somebody else wrote that and it's not just me being miserable. August was another disappointing month, although I wouldn't be surprised if the stats show it wasn't far from average. Unfortunately average is not good in England, especially for a sun worshipper such as myself.

There was only one short period this summer where I was allowed to be the naturist I want to be. The very end of June and the beginning of July, for about a week, where I rarely wore clothes inside or out. The rest of it was just the odd sunny day here and there.

The only hope for the rest of my free range season is unseasonable weather in September, but it hasn't started well... 

[HairlessNude]

Well, for me the month of August was great!
The weather was actually pretty nice here.
Being kind of retired & not having to go anywhere very often, I spent the majority of the month clothes free. I didn't even have to get dressed more than a very few short hour a week. I spent the month doing yard work, making repairs on the house here & there, working in my shop rebuilding a mower deck for a tractor & going on a few naked hikes. I also spent quite a lot of time turning the dirt over in my field , picking rocks (back breaking work), fertilizing & seeding it. Then I put up fence & set up a sprinkler system. All of this work was done naked.
I did have to spend two entire days dressed though. I was asked to cover for a guy at a company that I used to work for while he moved two of his kids to college for the start of the new school year.

My best guess would be that I had to wear clothes for about 30-35 hours of the month.... maybe a little bit more.
Wow.... when you spend that much time clothes free & then have to put clothes on, they just don't feel right! You really notice every place that they pull & bind on you & you can't wait to get them back off!!! 

[jbeegoode]

Well, for me the month of August was great!
The weather was actually pretty nice here.
Being kind of retired & not having to go anywhere very often, I spent the majority of the month clothes free. I didn't even have to get dressed more than a very few short hour a week. I spent the month doing yard work, making repairs on the house here & there, working in my shop rebuilding a mower deck for a tractor & going on a few naked hikes. I also spent quite a lot of time turning the dirt over in my field , picking rocks (back breaking work), fertilizing & seeding it. Then I put up fence & set up a sprinkler system. All of this work was done naked.
I did have to spend two entire days dressed though. I was asked to cover for a guy at a company that I used to work for while he moved two of his kids to college for the start of the new school year.

My best guess would be that I had to wear clothes for about 30-35 hours of the month.... maybe a little bit more.
Wow.... when you spend that much time clothes free & then have to put clothes on, they just don't feel right! You really notice every place that they pull & bind on you & you can't wait to get them back off!!! 

My kinda month, too, but not as productive. I curious how the shoe usage was during that time, considering the chores?

On average, a few times a month, on weekends and Wednesday nights, I do an activity that requires clothing. Generally, two or three hours for errands, or 4 to 6 hours to socialize, dance, eat out, some function. Then, occasional overnights with DF's granddaughter babysitting, which requires clothing as per the father. While I'm out and about focused on something, I'm generally not bothered by the clothing, but it is put on at the last minute and doffed off at the first opportunity. I'm particularly uncomfortable in clothing, when it is hot, like half of the year. Evenings are usually nice, when the insanity of clothing can be much more tolerable, and it feels more as just a shame to waste a great evening bundled up.
Jbee

[balead]

I'm so jealous.

Wow.... when you spend that much time clothes free & then have to put clothes on, they just don't feel right! You really notice every place that they pull & bind on you & you can't wait to get them back off!!! 

Yes, I know what it feels like, but don't experience it enough because of the climate in this flipping country!

[HairlessNude]

My kinda month, too, but not as productive. I curious how the shoe usage was during that time, considering the chores?
Jbee

I had to wear a pair of boots twice while mowing a steep bank & while working those two days. There were a few times that I put on a pair of sandals when I had to go to town. Other than that I didn't wear anything on my feet. I do have to admit that there were a few times that my feet got sore from some of the activities. I already reported about having sore feet after a hike. I also had sore feet a few times from walking on areas of ground that had stubble from being mowed, but not often to prevent the growth from getting old & stiff. That stubble tends to want to puncture your feet if you step on it wrong. Lol It is surprising how much you can walk on it without too much trouble. It's when you're busy & hurrying that you end up stepping wrong & injuring your feet.
Just yesterday, I started noticing a little sharp pain on the outside bottom of my right foot. At first, I thought that I might have stepped on something that stuck in, but that was not the case. When I took a good look at it I noticed that the skin was kind of like a chapped callous that was starting to crack. I've been putting some skin lotion on it & it's improving quickly.

Here's a few more pic's I got off my game cameras:

[nuduke]

Flipping Ada, guys & girls I am ssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooo exhausted!!!!
The month of August for me has been about packing up my house to move (In the hinterland of the East Midlands near Grantham for the UK members and the map fanatics). 

Actually I have had a lot of nude time - being as how I had nobody to offend for the future I mowed the lawn naked without bothering if anyone was looking, sorted the garage naked and have done a lot of packing work naked usually whilst the wife was out but sometimes not and if she objects just a pair of light cotton pyjama shorts which seems not to bother her.  Easy to slip off & on.  And of course there was the lovely AHG day.

Throughout the 2nd half of the month stress was my constant companion with only me and my solicitor having done everything in an efficient, timely and correct manner.  Everyone else was lacking attention to detail at best through to rank incompetence at worst.  And it was muggins and my solicitor that had to bear the burden of everyone else's lackadaisical attitude and careless, error prone service lacking in any shred of regard for customer service right up to and including the completion and moving day where we lost more than half the day through the incompetent carelessness and errors of one of the lawyers that has been a millstone round the neck of the whole transaction since April.  The desire to strip and walk naked in cool woodland was fierce but I never got the opportunity to stray further than the garden.

But after the abovementioned titanic struggle, we finally got moved on Thursday & Friday last.  Our new house is great for SN.  Hardly overlooked inside and a huge swathe of garden where I can be confidently naked out of anyone's sight.  This morning I was picking up apples from the garden and sitting drinking a coffee outside, in the buff, in the little bower of ivy covered fencing that is completely private, having got out of bed and walked down naked.  Perfect!  And there will be much more to come. 

We have moved to a flat part of the country just into Lincolnshire into a large village/small town where only a mile or two or a few minutes drive or so gives one the possibility of naked country walks albeit that the very planar landscape, mostly given over to intensive arable farming, does mean that an ambulant white shape of a secret naturist walker can be seen from a very long way off.  However, I shall be foraging for trails soon and hopefully come springtime, I will be able to be a proper FRN!

It remains to be seen if our new lifestyle and premises allows me to work in my office/study naked as much as I used to but it's a really nice room, light wood floor, angled ceiling, velux windows half way up making lower half of body shielded from the one or two windows of other houses overlooking that part of the house at a distance so it'll be great to be buff there when I can.

Wifely tolerance level has been as before with inconsistently hot and cold moments when I'm naked but better than historically.  She had a little panic over me going downstairs at night when the lights were on, past a side window in the stairwell that looks over the street outside and across to houses on the other side and gruffly closed the venetian blind (didn't make me dress, note, just shut the blind).  However, the next day, as she opened the blinds she noted, as I had done, that the chances of anyone seeing in were small and has not mentioned it since.  But as I descended to make tea this morning she tutted and grumbled at me doing it naked.  I usually grab a garment and just carry it - this seems to create less concern.

So, I'm doing this post amongst boxes and packing materials EVERYWHERE confident that over the next few months I shall have hopefully new and exiting news for you all of my naturist exploits.

But as for now, I'm running on empty, stamina-wise, very tired (we both are) and too much to do - so excuse my lax and scant attention to our FRN/SN discussions at the moment. I hope to be at least popping the odd comment in just now & then for the next few days.

John

[jbeegoode]

Flipping Ada, guys & girls I am ssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooo exhausted!!!!
The month of August for me has been about packing up my house to move (In the hinterland of the East Midlands near Grantham for the UK members and the map fanatics). 

Actually I have had a lot of nude time - being as how I had nobody to offend for the future I mowed the lawn naked without bothering if anyone was looking, sorted the garage naked and have done a lot of packing work naked usually whilst the wife was out but sometimes not and if she objects just a pair of light cotton pyjama shorts which seems not to bother her.  Easy to slip off & on.  And of course there was the lovely AHG day.

Throughout the 2nd half of the month stress was my constant companion with only me and my solicitor having done everything in an efficient, timely and correct manner.  Everyone else was lacking attention to detail at best through to rank incompetence at worst.  And it was muggins and my solicitor that had to bear the burden of everyone else's lackadaisical attitude and careless, error prone service lacking in any shred of regard for customer service right up to and including the completion and moving day where we lost more than half the day through the incompetent carelessness and errors of one of the lawyers that has been a millstone round the neck of the whole transaction since April.  The desire to strip and walk naked in cool woodland was fierce but I never got the opportunity to stray further than the garden.

But after the abovementioned titanic struggle, we finally got moved on Thursday & Friday last.  Our new house is great for SN.  Hardly overlooked inside and a huge swathe of garden where I can be confidently naked out of anyone's sight.  This morning I was picking up apples from the garden and sitting drinking a coffee outside, in the buff, in the little bower of ivy covered fencing that is completely private, having got out of bed and walked down naked.  Perfect!  And there will be much more to come. 

We have moved to a flat part of the country just into Lincolnshire into a large village/small town where only a mile or two or a few minutes drive or so gives one the possibility of naked country walks albeit that the very planar landscape, mostly given over to intensive arable farming, does mean that an ambulant white shape of a secret naturist walker can be seen from a very long way off.  However, I shall be foraging for trails soon and hopefully come springtime, I will be able to be a proper FRN!

It remains to be seen if our new lifestyle and premises allows me to work in my office/study naked as much as I used to but it's a really nice room, light wood floor, angled ceiling, velux windows half way up making lower half of body shielded from the one or two windows of other houses overlooking that part of the house at a distance so it'll be great to be buff there when I can.

Wifely tolerance level has been as before with inconsistently hot and cold moments when I'm naked but better than historically.  She had a little panic over me going downstairs at night when the lights were on, past a side window in the stairwell that looks over the street outside and across to houses on the other side and gruffly closed the venetian blind (didn't make me dress, note, just shut the blind).  However, the next day, as she opened the blinds she noted, as I had done, that the chances of anyone seeing in were small and has not mentioned it since.  But as I descended to make tea this morning she tutted and grumbled at me doing it naked.  I usually grab a garment and just carry it - this seems to create less concern.

So, I'm doing this post amongst boxes and packing materials EVERYWHERE confident that over the next few months I shall have hopefully new and exiting news for you all of my naturist exploits.

But as for now, I'm running on empty, stamina-wise, very tired (we both are) and too much to do - so excuse my lax and scant attention to our FRN/SN discussions at the moment. I hope to be at least popping the odd comment in just now & then for the next few days.

John

and congrats,
Jbee

[JOhnGw]

And from me. 

[nudewalker]

Me too!  By the way, perhaps the wife will find that things will get done faster, better and with you in a better mood when chores are done naked. In fact there is a fall project of wall paper removal and repainting that I'm looking fore ward to because 1) it can be done naked and 2) it will bring about more harmony in the house.

[nuduke]

That's a good thought, Nudewalker.  Our vendors have painted 3 walls in each room a nice calm neutral off-white but have decorated one 'feature wall' in each with a variety of revolting, heavy patterned wallpapers.  A fall (autumn) project for me is to get these papers removed and painted a plain. neutral colour or preferably the same as the other walls.  I think I might convince the Mrs that stripping wallpaper nude is cool and convenient and saves ruining good overalls!!

John

[nudewalker]

That's a good thought, Nudewalker.  Our vendors have painted 3 walls in each room a nice calm neutral off-white but have decorated one 'feature wall' in each with a variety of revolting, heavy patterned wallpapers.  A fall (autumn) project for me is to get these papers removed and painted a plain. neutral colour or preferably the same as the other walls.  I think I might convince the Mrs that stripping wallpaper nude is cool and convenient and saves ruining good overalls!!

John

Bring back memories! Our place was much the same with one wall in each room wallpapered for accent. I do remember commenting that the sitting room and master bedroom had paper described as "New Orleans Whorehouse" flocked velvet. I never mentioned before as free as we were in the house with casual nudity my more full time naturism was after we became empty nesters. Once the misses got over the "what if someone sees you, comes to the door, or you forget your naked" and warmed to the idea that I mentioned before about working happily she may become convinced.

[Davie]

My month is getting better. As the weather forecast was looking good I headed up into Derbyshire and the little and lovely village of Parwich. I headed up north along footpaths well out of site of farms and villages. Eventually I turned east then south back towards the village. As I'd seen a group in the distance I covered up and then saw another single male. He turned out to be an 81 year old semi retired farmer. We had an interesting chat and we both moved on, he in one direction and me in another so I stripped off again. It was a lovely day out and the village has a lovely pub. I must have done well over half the walk naked but at one time I almost covered up due to a chilly breeze, which fortunately abated as the day went on. A good day out

Davie 

[nuduke]

Sound of me coming up for breath from the melee of moving.
Gosh, guys, moving is a slog, is it not?!
Sorry I haven't had much time for the forum.

However, the pile of empty cardboard boxes has risen sharply and the available rooms are appearing gradually.
My office where I usually pen these missives  is a tip! 

However, great news - our back garden is indeed the mini naturist paradise I'd been hoping and I've been having coffee breaks in the garden and and walking around in the sun quite freely...it's great! I've been out stargazing in the evenings too. What's more I've been more naked around the house and dearest wifey has been generally a bit more tolerant as she too realises the risk of being seen is small and I think she realises that when nude, in the bedroom, say, the silly inconvenience of covering up for going 10 yards up the corridor to fetch or carry something is a bit ludicrous.

Today we had a well-deserved lie-in and around 12 noon, thanks to clement September weather, we were both taking coffee in the 'bower' - an ivy clad fenced off area with a table and chairs that catches the sun most of the day - in our dressing gowns.  I slipped the top of mine off and luxuriated in the sun, remarking to my wife that I'd left my lower half covered out of respect for her.  But I was soon naked as the garment slipped off my legs.  She didn't seem to mind (I think view was impeded by table).  As we conversed we talked about our pipe dream extension with swimspa (it's grown from a jacuzzi!) and I asked permission to get up and clarify on the ground a point that we were talking about, which she acquiesced to.  For a couple of minutes I was naked, pacing out areas of the existing patio.  Then I walked to another part of the garden and returned. 
"I'm going in now" she said. 
"Why?"  I enquired. 
"Because I'm not staying out here if you're going to prance around naked". 
"Please don't leave on my account," I said, putting on my robe, "I was just enjoying a bit of unfettered nudity". 
"I know," she said "that's what I don't like - it was all very well when you briefly got up but then you started prancing around". 

As we walked into the kitchen she said "I will make one concession - I'm not going to expect you to wear a bathing suit if we do manage to get a jacuzzi....as long as that doesn't apply if we have guests". 
"Of course not, dear!  We naturists are very discreet and have no desire to offend or embarass others."
"And we'll have to get a solid back gate so we won't be seen from the street", she remarked, with a co-operative sort of air! She seemed satisfied!

More progress, I think.

Today I took the first of what I hope are many walks to get more exercise.  This was of course also a recce for potential SN trails.  Unfortunately the main trail close to the village along the local river had no opportunity as the adjoining houses were close to the riverbank on one side and the country very flat with superb visibility of anyone walking the fields. I could see people in the houses and gardens very clearly and so they me also.  Being a Sunday, there were lots of walkers out.  Nice walk but disappointing SN prospects.  However, that was just about a 3 mile round trip and very close to our road and my expectations were not high to start with.  I now need to try a couple of other routes and start taking short trips out to neighbouring countryside to find some trails.

John

[tanman]

Congratulations, John, on the house move ... sounds like a great place for outdoor naturalness! And your patience and persistence with your wife (incremental gradualism) is also paying off with her increased acceptance of YOUR nakedness! I clearly remember your challenge and frustrations since 2007, but, you have WON !!!

Have fun, naked in your own paradise!
Larry (tanman in Texas)

[jbeegoode]

She seems to recognize some activities as practical when done nude. She has her own concept of everything in its place. She has yet to recognize the expansion of those boundaries seeing nudity as the primary norm over clothing, as she doesn’t understand the value, health and liberty of exposing the body’s skin to its world. That feels out of place, but she is attempting to accommodate you. I’m curious. Do you think that whether you define your behavior, or identity as “naturist,” or as “a naturist,” or “nudist” would affect her judgement and how she complies to the new norms that you are both heading toward?

There is more education to do. Associating nude with pleasing sensuality, relaxation and good heath in her mind will increase her adaptation. The spa will help immensely. I’m glad that that is something that you both have interest in. For most, clothing in a spa, especially with one’s own husband, becomes silly and impractical very quickly. It creates these associations and change begins. We are all naturists, but most still don’t realize it yet. Small comments like, how good new sheets, or clean ones feel nude, the newly discovered “euphoria” of sunshine, air, sprinkles, stretching exercises, etc., slowly break down resistance, if they are presented with a smile and increments. Like, “Wow, I never realized how good that could feel,” “wow, I just can’t get over how….” If you begin to do things that you never did for yourself out in the backyard, or more regularly, because it is better nude, she might see value enough to accept more nudity in both of your lives. There is that difference between tolerance and acceptance, which will matter as change in her.

Just saying, highlighting, suggesting, just  in case.

In the meantime, you have license in your own realm to wallow in rights of divine dignity, dude! Woohoo! A naturist playground, a retreat into reality, piece of what is right in your life.

You have a healthy running walking 3 mile course to establish patterns of healthy alone activities away from home. You have maps, satellite photos, personal drive, transportation, craft and countryside, which must “bare” fruit for you. You’ve got it all! All you need to do is make use of the opportunities that are being presented to you and enjoy it.

Shall I assume that your gully by the golf course is history? 
Jbee