How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[eyesup]

Becoming a desert rat. I suppose, isn't so much time, but becoming more than acquaintance. It is like any love, you know you have it when it brings a smile to your face. Then you move in, or make a point to bring it into your life. You then have become a rat and learn adaptations. Any one of your post has been evidence of your desert ratitude.

Then I guess I qualify. Sometimes I am out in the desert and looking at the horizon, it appears to just go on forever. That makes me relaxed and content. Am I smiling? Inside, definitely!

When people ask me how I like it here, my std. response is, "I like the desert, I don't much like the city." I realize that if I had to live here on my own with no towns or conveniences, it would be a hard life. You can mix civilization and the desert and find a medium (place not person).

Drought is a measure of change in long term environmental norms. When I tell people we have a drought, the question is, "How can you tell"? If you know what the norm is, you can see the effects. There have been so many people moving here that it has impacted the landscape to the point that it appears absurd. Many who are here attempt to make it "not a desert" because a desert is "so inconvenient". It is puzzling.

Duane

[jbeegoode]

The horizon DOES go on forever, but you end up where you started every so often.

I may have a comment to top that "so inconvenient" anecdote. The nightmare guy who first denuded the wonderland next door, told me the desert was "untidy." People come out here and make their properties dirt lots and everything washes away. It takes ten to hundreds of years, depending on what you do for it to grow back. Why would he live out here. Just move to town. Then I found out why. They didn't get along with others, no one here, no one before, no one after.
Jbee

[nudewalker]

I have often wondered why, as in our case here, someone would buy a wooded lot only to remove all the trees? It's just my own personal pet peeve, or maybe I'm a tree hugging hippie from way back? Same thing with people who build in known floodplains, if you build there then be prepared to be flooded. It may only happen once in your lifetime but it will happen. That's why I have always admired Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater as it's design was made to fit into the nature it was built.

[jbeegoode]

I built a strawbale cottage. The pad was only wider than four of five feet out from the foundation. I built up to conserve the space that I used. The lot is all natural. The pleasure that I have found through the years observing, interacting, appreciating with the plant and animal life has been simply amazing. It is a rich experience, diversity, seasons and changing weather patterns through years. It is a healthy place to sit. It is a place of naturism, that being defined as naked and in nature.

I mow no lawn, I trim trees and shrubs only as much as I need to function safely, it is easy to care for. Nature takes care of itself. I have taken what I need and left the rest. This works in my pristine desert environment. It is beautiful here. My neighbor has a dirt lot. It is much hotter, dusty and dirty. He has spent a great deal of money and time to put gravel where it erodes, and muds up, to plant incongruent  non-native plants that he must now water so that they don't die. It is no longer fully alive, only partially. There is no ecology nor sustainability. At times most of the year I have a garden with flowers,and they have none. I have fruit.

Yea, I don't get it. Is it to conquer and claim nature. Is it to see what one owns is more and feel impressed with oneself? Why destroy what we are given.

I can't hug my trees. They don't grow that way. The guy next door has his trimmed up like big umbrellas. He could hug them,, he doesn't. He could sit under them, but doesn't. All of the life that sits under trees in my yard can no longer make use of the trees over there. The life gives solid and nourishment to the trees in my yard. His suffer. There is life all around me in abundance. I don't get it about these people.
Jbee

[milfmog]

Here are my numbers for November (a little early but it is unlikely that I will get out this evening). Once again I have had an excellent month due to the remarkably warm weather we have been experiencing this autumn.

(As always the year to date figure is in parentheses):

Walks: 23 (224)
Skinny dips: 0 (11)
Bike rides: 0 (5)
SOC walks: 0 (2)
Encounters: 0 (6)
Naked geocache finds: 2 (112)

Total free range naked time: 73:33 (611:09)

Have fun,


Ian.

[nudewalker]

I have to agree with Ian that the mild November has led to much more free range time than normal for this time of year. Compared to last year where only five outdoor excursions were recorded there were fifteen walks and two hikes including a first which was a Black Friday hike. There was also the encounter with the woman on horseback which despite being in my vehicle was still naked from the waist down and was clearly in view. December does not look too promising but the beginning of the year in the south holds more promise!

[jbeegoode]

Boy, did November ever suk! I was naked nearly the entire month, but laid up indoors. I hobbled out to get some sun on the rock out of my door. I managed a walk of a couple of hundred feet after weeks of fantastic weather just out my door. BUT, in like a lamb out like a lion, I am out and about the last week or ten days of the month. I'll publish about my first hike and recovery next week. Been dancing, been digging the veggie garden, been to the sweat. I'm stir crazy still, I'm putting more value into exercising working out NUDE and getting in better physical shape than ever, I'm brown and kickin'.
Jbee

[eyesup]

I have often wondered why, as in our case here, someone would buy a wooded lot only to remove all the trees?

Where I grew up in East Texas, the most expensive land was land that was cleared and was good for either grazing livestock, or farming. Both required the trees and undergrowth to be removed.

If you were able to find cheap land, it was most likely heavily wooded. To make more money on the sale, you clear cut the land. This type of real estate market facilitates the removal of trees. From an economic view, it made sense. From any other, it doesn't.

I like trees, dark shade, cool glens, lighted clearings, all of it. Remove the trees and you change the ecosystem. In my book, puzzling behavior.

Duane

[nuduke]

We will be putting a sauna in the back garden when we get it sorted

I'm not a lover of saunas so 'sauna' you than me for that one!

Jbee, I take it from your current remarks that your foot injury is well on the mend.  Medical report, please!

I did quite a bit of nude things inside and out in the early part of the month and especially a couple of long sessions organising the garage in the nude and taking advantage of the warmer weather for nocturnal nude starbathing.  However in the last 2 weeks its been coldish, dankish and uninviting to step outside.

I'm embarrassed to say that all the other activity in getting our new nest together and much assorted journeyings near and far have meant that my exploratory walks have been nil in November and only 3 in 2 months.  However, the autumn/winter if one can find the weather gaps is the time for exploration and I met some people who are ramblers whom I'm meeting on Thursday to get the low down on the area.

John

[jbeegoode]

Local ramblers! Please, let us know how that evolves, how you slyly scope and what info that you gain without letting the cat out of th ebag. Something tells me that you will end up getting out and about with the textiles for some hikes. Will you ask them about places to commune with nature quietly and privately, without including the nude aspect of the inquiry?

There are a group of locals from a destructive development next to the Tortolitas that have group hikes. I now get their newsletter. Before I hike the Torts, I always check to be sure that I won't encounter them. Meyer Lansky said, "Stay closest to your enemies,"....well, maybe not enemies, but it would be good to know what they might think, if an encounter. Would you mention the "Naked Rambler" if the conversation gave an opportunity? Nuduke and his secret double life, dum dadad dum, dada dumdy dum dum, dadda DEE Dum, dad da da....(James Bond).
Jbee

[JOhnGw]

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From an economic view, it made sense. From any other, it doesn't.
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Duane

I'd like to rephrase those two sentences:

From a financial view it makes sense. From an economic view it doesn't.

[nudewalker]

Local ramblers! I do get notifications of hikes from the REI store but most are too far to participate. The few that I have managed to get to have given me the chance to scout out new places to explore; naked of course. Most of what would be considered local ramblers here use the rail trail which has become a very popular site. In it's infancy a naked summer solstice hike was done on it along with a number of nude bike rides. There are a number of ATV trails that crisscross the trail in the more less populated places that have provided hours of naked entertainment.

December has ushered in cold, gray damp weather. As I sit here drinking coffee and typing the misses is in flannel PJ's asking how can you walk around naked? She's currently talking to her sister by phone as the doorbell rang. The UPS driver will drop off packages, ring the bell and leave. She had to make the comment to her sister that I was walking around naked and had to get shorts to retrieve the package. Outed again!

[eyesup]

Yes, John, that would be more to the point.

Thanks.

Duane

[milfmog]

We will be putting a sauna in the back garden when we get it sorted

I'm not a lover of saunas so 'sauna' you than me for that one!

That's OK John, you are welcome not to share the sauna

...however, should you find yourself in the general locale of Chateau Milfmog, you have my phone number so give me a call and wander over for a beer. (If driving precludes beer, tea and coffee are always available).

Have fun,


Ian.

[Davie]

I have a sauna and it has been well worth the investment. I put mine in the garage and with the lights out in the garage but the dim one on in the sauna I could be almost anywhere.

Davie