How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[jbeegoode]

There is a difference between the urban and suburban, or country kids. I taught both, I lived with both growing up. We are a product of our environments and we can only know what we know. However, whether it be around a resort pool, or out on a hike in a pond, once the kit is shucked off, especially in the sun, we are all akin. We are all naturist in our being.

I have taken stuck, urban, wrapped and trapped by work and a busy life people out to say Redington Pass for three hours. Three hours naked in nature and they are completely changed, questioning their lifestyles, and acting like they have had a week or two of vacation in Hawaii. it is magic.
Jbee

[nuduke]

Three hours naked in nature and they are completely changed, questioning their lifestyles, and acting like they have had a week or two of vacation in Hawaii. it is magic.

I can relate to that! (Never been to Hawaii though!).

Gosh it's warm in the uk at present.  Went out to the bin in a dressing gown last night and, whilst windy, the air was positively balmy.  My dressing gown came straight off and I revelled in the particularly unseasonal warm conditions.  Mind you, one wonders what the downside will be!  The following day we had some ordinary flies in the kitchen.  Where they came from is a mystery - flies don't happen at this time of year! (I hope we haven't ignored a bit of food that's gone down a crack somewhere ) but there have been several flies (or it's just one that is resistant to fly spray!).  Does that mean that the summer will be utterly infested with insects leading to excessive bat and bird populations?  Also I was up in the loft today and I saw a wasp on the wall.  I presume it has found it's way in somehow and was overwintering (Not any more btw!).  Maybe that means there's lots of that and in the spring there'll be loads of huge wasps, bees and hornets.

Maybe there will be a 180º reversal of the current south-westerly airflow and we'll get arctic conditions in Jan-March.  Maybe the yin & yang will mean winter ends up May-August?  Hope not.  I want to get a tan this year!

The news on TV is reporting that there might have been places in the UK yesterday that had the warmest december day on record.

John

[jbeegoode]

May you all have a nice warm winter, all winter and one good cold snap in the middle/latter of spring to take care of the pests.

 Dang, it's been pretty cold here. Several freezing mornings in a row, and breaking lows out of the old norms near records. Opportunities do knock, Carp diem.
Jbee

[nudewalker]

As the Christmas rush comes to a close and with the rest of the month devoted to celebrations and packing for our winter hiatus in Florida it seems as good a time as any to recap the month. Despite it being both winter and hunting season I still managed six walks in the relatively warm (six days over 60F so far) weather. And for the first time in memory there was a Winter Solstice hike; if you consider a mile and a half a hike, to the top of one of our hills. Not far mind you but strenuous none the less. And with that I will leave you with a post from my Facebook this morning. Do you sit in the dark with nothing on but the lights of the Christmas Tree? Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all who read this!

[nuduke]

Impending Happy New Year to all.

I've been 'offline' for the Christmas holidays as have a) been away from home with tenuous wifi b) fully occupied plus a bit looking after elderly nonagenarian relatives, trying to add a bit of unaccustomed pleasure over Christmas.  One has to be a saint.

Back home now with post Xmas visitations from family and friends now over and a welcome day off today (why does everything have to be crammed into a few days!).
Hope you are all well and had a pleasant festive season.... I'm about to read the posts to find out what's been going on!

As we are near end December I might as well report on my month...
Very little time naked.  I reported on a few short forays into the garden in the unusually warm weather, which continues, but being away over the festive season with a lot of wind/ rain /fog and no  walk on the golf course on boxing day for a sneaky nude moment (as per last year), it's been a low month for FRN or Sn or whatever, although I'm naked as I write this but am about to don a dressing gown as it is getting chilly before the central heating comes on!

By the way, I hear news of severe weather down to Texas due to a conjunction of H & L Pressure along that latitude with floods and tornadoes.  How's things in AZ, Jbee?

John

[Greenbare Woods]

December has been F'ing cold here.  High today about 20F, (-5C).  Snow up to your knee.  The cold kind of snow that forms crystals and sparkles.  Way too cold for me to be out frolicking naked in the woods.  No warming expected for the next two weeks.  Our average January temps are usually low 30s, on the + side of C. None of that forecast in the near future. 

But the day is already a few minutes longer.  Can spring be far away. 

[jbeegoode]

Must have been the coldest December on record. The old all time low has been hit and close to hit, numerous times and that will not change into January. Highs in the 50's in Tucson?!? I've worn my overcoat more this month than several of the past years combined. I'm spoiled, Bob's report puts things into perspective, yet, I'm plain sick and tired of this cold stuff, already. We were to go Eden hot springs for New Years, but may blow that off for sitting in front of the fire. It may hit mid-60F a few hours in two afternoons this weekend and we ARE stir crazy. DF even suggested hiking someplace where we have to wear clothes, because it's too cold for nude hikes. If there are no winds and sunshine, there will be no stopping us getting some sun. My son and I saw Star Wars at the 3D IMAX today. It was even cold in the theater, especially during the scenes on the frosted planet and in space. I threatened to move to the tropics today.

I am still managing to stay brown, thanks to a few opportunities, diligence and the sweat with its windbreak, rays, warming the core enough to stand out naked in between rounds. I got the results of my blood tests and physical today. I had had low vitamin D last time. Thanks to determined sunshine all over the body and 4 to 6 organic good cholesterol eggs in my smoothies each week, my body is now manufacturing enough to score in the healthy range. I suspect the sauna extremes and hard brushing are helping those layers of skin to perform more efficiently, too. The experiment payed off and everything else is good and excellent. It makes no sense that Vitamin D supplements work. The natural way, eating correctly and lots of naked sunshine time is illegal, or hindered by the law and social attitudes. The Norwegians have it correct. Antiquated unconstitutional law is literally killing people.
Jbee   

[nuduke]

We seem to have had freaky weather all round the globular item.
If ...

DF even suggested hiking someplace where we have to wear clothes

Then there must indeed be a shift in the fabric of the universe!

Jbee, I might remind you that we in the UK live like this half the year!
However, from our temperate climate standpoint, you have my sympathies.  Living in the pretty perpetually warm AZ climate, and appreciating and using it as you do then the loss of it, however temporary, must be as bad relatively speaking as freak wet conditions in the NW UK, although a bit of chilly AZ weather doesn't evict you from your home and destroy your possessions as the UK flooding has done for many thousands of homes.

I was listening to the radio and absorbing an article on the weather, putting our current climatic conditions down to a particularly active El Nino in the Pacific.

Atmos = Chaos so there's bound to be a change and probably a swing in the opposite direction before long.  Hang on to your hats and gather the jumpers and spades in the UK and strip off, stockpile the ice and return to hot, naked, lovely life in AZ!

John

[johnb]

Time to finish off last years (2015) figures, and bring things up to date.

November
Walks x 2 - total time = 50min

Driving x 4 - total time = 6.5hrs

December
Working in woods x 3 - total time = 4hrs.

Can I finish by wishing everyone here on this board a Happy and Naked New Year,

John

[Greenbare Woods]

We seem to have had freaky weather all round the globular item.
John

The only constant about the weather is that it forever changes. 

[nuduke]

Good heavens, we are in Winter mode indeed!
I haven't posted for 10 days!  A record gap, I think.  And only a few posts to look at.

It's not surprising as last month and thus far in January was a fair old low for naturism for me.  So much happening and also my intended investigation of the local and distant walks has been much impeded by all sorts of domestic and family vicissitudes - not to mention less than clement weather and short days.  I'm trying to take things slow and steady - there's been so much to do moving home in September and still busy with it and getting acclimatised to the new and more rural environs and exploring all the new and pleasant opportunities that are rolling in on life's swelling & ebbing tide.  Still, we have the spring ahead!  However, domestic nudity will be at a premium as we are having a bit of building work done, so the garden won't be my own for a while.

Incidentally, spouse negative progress news.  We were having a little heart to heart yesterday about a few things (not traumatic, don't worry!!) and the wifey took the opportunity to have a dig at my increasing nudity about house and garden and tell me how much she disliked, nay, hated it.  Damn!  Thought I was doing much better on that front in the new environs.  I need to keep 'cave' for a bit, I think!  This marks a return to her usual intransigence on the subject after a period of seemingly modest emancipation.  Hopefully she will thaw a bit in the warmer weather.  She said she has no objection to whatever I want to do on my own nude but she doesn't like it happening around her.  Since, in retirement, we are together much more, that gives me concern.

Sigh

It's a long winding and bumpy road I tread.

John

[jbeegoode]

The more society sees of casual, natural, innocent nudity the more accepted it becomes. The society in your Mrs. mind may well do the same. "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead", I say. What's she to do? Complain, get used to it, accept it, fight to the death over something quite minor for her and major for you and your health and your welfare? She has no problem with it, except when around her, so you are doing nothing wrong, but it is it wrong in her presence?...nah, you've got her, within time. Stiff upper....

I still think the hot tub is key, if only for that reason. Is there a hottub or hotspring getaway that you both could share?
Jbee

[milfmog]

I just realised that I have not shared my December figures, nor the year-end totals, I can only apologise for my tardiness and put it down to the continuing advance of years and the toll that that is taking on my memory...

Here are my numbers for December, (as always the year to date figure is in parentheses):

Walks: 19 (241)
Skinny dips: 0 (11)
Bike rides: 0 (5)
SOC walks: 0 (3)
Encounters: 0 (6)
Naked geocache finds: 1 (113)

Total free range naked time: 84:07 (695:38)

The mild weather certainly had an impact on my time out and about and a puppy that will take all the walking she can get was a bonus, giving me more excuses than ever to go out. My full year total is more than 50% up on my best recorded year previously.

Have fun,


Ian.

[nuduke]

My full year total is more than 50% up on my best recorded year previously

Wow, Ian.
That pup is driving you onwards in a big way.  How's Taz?  Does he demur on some of the walks these days?  How are you?  Fit as a Butcher's Dog I'll wager after 50% extra walking.

Jbee, you are right. She's going to have to come to some sort of terms with me!!  A couple of days ago I spent from early morning about 8am to late evening about 11pm fully clothed and with socks, underwear, jumper - the lot.  I was in 'normal society' for various things, meetings etc.  When I took them off it was such a relief.  Yesterday (or was it Thursday) the sun was out in the early morning and streaming through the glass doors and large window of the kitchen. I was making the tea, naked and really comfortable with sun on my skin.  It occurred to me that she will have the greatest difficulty in keeping any garments on me in the summer!  This I will broach before we get there!

After the Xmas gap of busy-buzzy-busyness, I recommenced walking activity this week and have now recce'd a good deal of the walking close to our village.  No real SN opportunity as land flat and village backs on to river walks so always in view.  Next week I'll start further afield (probably in a field!).

John

[milfmog]

How's Taz?  Does he demur on some of the walks these days?

Taz is fine, getting old (he turned 14 last month) and more inclined to plod along checking out the smells than to chase things, but healthy and happy in himself. He has now earned the right to decide for himself whether to go for a walk or not, I will not force him out. He frequently decides not to come out first thing in the morning and then demands a walk in the evening, so I am getting more opportunities to go out and about with the dogs than before (although the evenings are generally busier).

Here are my numbers for January 2016, the colder wet weather kept the opportunity for naked walking down, however, I still logged more hours last month than any previous January (by about an hour):

Walks: 16
Skinny dips: 1
Bike rides: 0
SOC walks: 0
Encounters: 1
Naked geocache finds: 14

Total free range naked time: 26:05

A few details to keep Dave happy...

The skinny dip was a sneaked few minutes in the spa pool at Center Parcs Woburn Forest (Carole and I were there for a short break last week) and as it got dark fewer people went out into the outside pool so I was able to dump my cozzie on the side and spend about 10 minutes as nature intended before others came out and discretion became the order of the day. I also managed to spend most of my time in the saunas naked with a towel for cover if anyone should look like they were going to object; I only resorted to the cover up a couple of times when a woman (I assume!) in a burka came into the room I was using. Why anyone would want to attend a spa and wear a burka is completely beyond me.

The encounter was early one morning. I was walking Hazel and out route includes a couple of hundred yards of minor lane running parallel to the fast dual carriageway that replaced it some years ago. It is very unusual to see cars on the lane at any time, as it now almost impassible without four wheel drive and mud tyres. I was about half way up the section I walk, with Hazel on a lead to ensure she did not try to go through the hedge and run across the fast road, when a car came around the bend and up the lane. I felt rather like a deer in the headlights but simply called Hazel in close and made her sit on the verge while the car passed. I waved my thanks to the driver for slowing down and saw no visible reaction to my state of dress. However, once the car had passed, I made a point of adjusting my route to get off the lane in case the car came back.

Have fun,


Ian.