How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[balead]

I'm really sorry to read the sad news about Taz, Ian. I know how you must be feeling.

[JOhnGw]

I'm really sorry to read the sad news about Taz, Ian. I know how you must be feeling.

Me too, especially as I met Taz almost a minute before Ian came into view.

[nuduke]

Ian,
I am also so sorry to hear that Taz has passed on.  He was one of us SNs for sure, by association and hopefully his memory will live on in your oft used avatar.
It sounds, from your description as though he had a relatively 'comfortable' end and that you spotted it coming in good time to avoid suffering. (Would that we humans were so fortunate as to have the opportunity to leave gently rather than suffer on - but that is a whole other debate)

Has Hazel taken it ok, presumably as they were well used to each other by now?
Your routine walks will, no doubt, feel different for a while but, surely, each will be a fitting memorial of your late and faithful hound.
May you enjoy many more with hazel following obediently on!

John

[nuduke]

Different interwoven response thread....

Lisa!  V. Happy to hear you have benefitted from the cataract operation and it's obviously proved straightforward to recover and with beneficial outcome.
But the description of increased spectrum vision!  Wow - I'm frankly totally amazed!  Do I take it that you have identified the additional wavelengths in vision by looking at a 'live' spectrum? 

I'm utterly fascinated - whilst not exactly a 6th sense, I would have thought that any additional spectral colours outside the usual visible spectrum would not be perceptible by the selection of retinal cells that nature gave us! I must suppose that our natural lens filters the UV and near IR out rather than there not being the ability to perceive them by the retina - and that the artificial lenses pass a wider spectrum which in fact therefore is perceptible (at least by some).  Do flowers and clouds look any different?

If so I envy you - an increased capacity in any faculty must be fascinating and hopefully advantageous. 

Is there a brand name for the technique or a reference that I could pick up and google to find out more?

John

[eyesup]

Sorry, Ian for the loss of Taz, your longtime companion.

We lost our Grendel 4 yrs. ago and we still miss her. Know what your going through.
We have since adopted two new members to our family, Benjamin & Franklin to keep us company.

Duane

[milfmog]

Thank you all for the thoughts. Losing Taz was not a surprise; he was starting to get frail and when his breathing became an untreatable problem there was really no decision to be made.

Hazel seems to be adapting to life on her own remarkably well, considering that she had never been alone before. Much as I enjoy walking Hazel, she's not Taz, but she is shaping up into a well behaved, fun dog and will undoubtedly earn her own place in our lives as time goes on. We are considering getting another dog to keep her company, possibly a rescue dog, but not straight away.

Have fun,


Ian.

[Kayaker]

Ian, my condolences about your faithful companion Taz.  This has been a hard year for a few here with the cycle of pet lifespans.  I lost my dog Dakota of 15 years about a month ago, and it was a very hard hit. She was a great dog.

I don't know Hazel but can relate to wanting to get her a companion after some time to adjust.  Give her a scratch on the ears for me.

[Kayaker]

Most all report a blue shifting.

Does that mean getting this procedure increases your relative velocity?
No excuse now for dawdling.

Science is amazing!
Let us know if the 2nd lens gives you the same results. If it has a different effect, you could be a walking, talking spectrometer. Infrared could be interesting as you could see how people are reacting to their surroundings.

Duane

Oh that's good... Two points rim shot!  Yes Duane I might become a singularity at this rate..

Nuduke - I had eye #2 done this week.  Interestingly, he did a different technique. Watching the lens fracture from the inside was totally different visually than the other one and not nearly as many colors, and didn't take as long.  But the recovering is a little tougher after surgery two.  Each one has required a second procedure called "burping" which is basically squishing on your eyeball like a Grape (there is a puncturing process) until postop fluid is released.  They seem to anticipate the need for it.  I don't know how many other lucky souls get the second procedure the next day.  I feel the hit of four procedures in three weeks this time around.  Too soon yet to tell on the success.  Recovery period is said to be about three months until vision settles out to get reading glasses. 

Color spectrum shift of natural light is still to the blue end causing morning  light to be beautiful lavenders.  Colors of ambient sky is more purple than blue for sunrise and sunset,  a very soft lavender glow that is more perceptible to me than others watching the same sky.   We've been staying at the beach and there have been very nice sunrise/set sky experiences.  Reds are more saturated, blues, purples are deeper.   I'm comparing in natural light.  Flourescent doesn't have the same purple glow.

The lens brand is Crystalens version "x" whatever the latest release was about 2 years ago.  I like the results.

I'll stop blathering about it  now.

[nuduke]

Blathering it is not, Lisa.
Very interesting to hear your experiences.  I'm not squeamish but if it were me I'd much prefer not to feel / sense what was happening during the replacement.
Wishing you a speedy and successful recovery - take it easy!
John

[Kayaker]

Wishing you a speedy and successful recovery - take it easy!
John

Well John, Murphy decided to throw me another curve ball.  I ended up with emergency surgery last week with a really serious medical emergency not related to eyes.  Sigh.  I am very weary of medical challenges of late.  I am out of hospital now and recuperating at home.  We have had citywide severe flooding to boot which has added s little complexity but is a Godsend on timing just prior.

So to quote the famous words of a cult movie, "I'm not dead yet... " but sure have had my fill of being tested.

Larry is a good nurse... As well as a wonderful husband.

[jbeegoode]

Git well soon. Blessings sent, play your music, naked, barefoot, in water, and you all should be recovered speedily.
Thanks Tanman.
Jbee

[nuduke]

Good heavens, Lisa. 

Murphy's indeed.  One never can tell when medical misfortune may strike.
Glad you are recovering and hope it's a 1-off never to be repeated.
Look after yourself and keep the 'nurse' busy getting you recuperative broths and what not.
Wishing you a speedy recovery which, given the gap since you wrote this post, is hopefully complete or nearly!

John

[nuduke]

Hello again, friends.
I have been off air for just short of a fortnight as I have been on holiday in sunny warm lovely Florida Keys (Islamorada to be precise)!  I'm sure you haven't even noticed!!
Not much naturism possible, we were staying in a busy commercial resort and travelling around.  However our room had a mosquito netted balcony overlooking a sparsely used golf course so I was able to loll around nude sometimes in the warm humid air of the subtropical southernmost part of the US of A.  Of course Mrs N kept up a general clucking about the danger of me being seen but I managed to keep her in reasonably good form about it.  Because of the very warm climes, she was more prone to being naked around the hotel room herself.  Nice to see she isn't so screwed as to reject the balmy caresses of the Florida night air, or more exactly, the air conditioned Florida night air!

Enjoyed reading all the back posts.  Kept my comments brief as so many to read and now the weather is improving, there are more trip reports hoorah.

So my month for FRN was comme-ci comme-ca but what there was, was nice!  I do like the US in the parts I have been to!  That's been the far SW and far SE. Would I like Spokane as much, I wonder?  Our only gripe was the difficulty in Florida of getting anyone to understand the concept of black tea (not such an issue in California).  It was rare, lukewarm and watery when found! One way or another we asked quite a few waiters for tea (not sure why, probably it's refreshing properties in hot weather).  We discovered that the American education system falls short of teaching its alumni that you DON'T have half-and-half in English breakfast tea!!!  2% is fine, whole is better!

We retuned to exceptionally cold weather for April!  Dang!

John

[jbeegoode]

What no foray onto the golf course under the light of the full moon? Condos line it?
Jbee

[nudewalker]

Well John, it seems like your Florida visit was much like mine. Stolen moments of SN and reminders that you may be seen. But another month the has passed and the numbers are not all that great. However yesterday I returned to the wildlife management area frequented last fall and managed a two mile hike so things are looking up.