How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[jbeegoode]

I see, thank-you. Just a thought, a proper meditation, is best practiced in nature, nude.
Jbee

[nuduke]

Quite so!
John

[JOhnGw]

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One thing that this spring summer will be a feature of my naturism is to be naked in the garden.  It's pretty private and I can do some gardening in the buff.  This will inevitably cause me to be indolent - why hike for a sunbathing spot when you can just flop in the garden.  I am inherently lazy this way but I do like a nice hike so hopefully I'll get out to some interesting locations clothed probably mainly. 
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John

That's the reason I haven't reported much FRN lately - too comfortable being domestically naked.

[nudewalker]

It seems that everyone took the ground hogs advise back on the 2nd and hibernated or at least stayed in their burrows (houses) for the month of February. At least our clocks spring ahead on Sunday so that means more daylight for us and days becoming longer also. Time to start making summer plans!

[eyesup]

. . our clocks spring ahead on Sunday so that means more daylight for us . . .

Point of clarity and pontification. The amount of daylight doesn't change.
I reckon it's how we reckon it that does. At least the days are getting longer.

Duane

[nudeed]

Actually the days aren't getting longer. A day is 24 hours. However the amount of daylight increases as the time of sunset becomes later, along with earlier sun rises. At least until July.

[jbeegoode]

March, around the house, out back working on the sweat and also sweating several times during a cleansing fast. Several trips to Havarock at various temperatures.

Had a nice day out at the other sweat. DF and I took a nice nude walk about around the community and surrounding desert.

Later, at a B-day party, I met a guy who had been working on an outside washing machine that day, as we passed by Adam and Eve barefoot (such a pleasure) during that walk. After conversing a few minutes, I recognized him and he remembered us. He said, "Yea, I thought to myself, God I love this place," and smiled. It is an intentional community out there, lots of people involved living there and plenty of surrounding desert State Trust land, miles of it. Not such a pretty desert, but quiet, calm and a grand sense of wide open spaces and big sky, where we are welcome and accepted naked. We also walked the labyrinth.

February was quickly gone! No groundhog was seen. A chipmonk. The javalina referred to wrongly as pigs weren't home that day. They look like little warthogs to me, but don't tell them that I said that. I visited them today for an hour or so. The were alarmed, I sent the energy, they calmed and came back and relaxed in the shade, as I relaxed and meditated in the sun on Havarock. I was up wind, they could smell me, I'm sure.
Jbee

[Peter S]

. . our clocks spring ahead on Sunday so that means more daylight for us . . .

Point of clarity and pontification. The amount of daylight doesn't change.
I reckon it's how we reckon it that does. At least the days are getting longer.

Duane

In mediaeval times there were 12 night hours and 12 day hours. Without mechanical clocks to regulate such matters, the length of any particular hour varied with time of year.

Peter

[nudewalker]

It seems that everyone took the ground hogs advise back on the 2nd and hibernated or at least stayed in their burrows (houses) for the month of February. At least our clocks spring ahead on Sunday so that means more daylight for us and days becoming longer also. Time to start making summer plans!

What I meant to say is now our daylight will start later and since retirement my waking time is closer to 8/8:30 it will make the daylight seem even longer.  There was a TV news poll just last night asking if we should go on Daylight Savings Time permanently. Didn't watch the 11PM news to see the results.

[Greenbare Woods]

What I meant to say is now our daylight will start later and since retirement my waking time is closer to 8/8:30 it will make the daylight seem even longer.  There was a TV news poll just last night asking if we should go on Daylight Savings Time permanently. Didn't watch the 11PM news to see the results.

Hey, that's a great idea.  What if we kept the SAME time all year?   We might even just called it "standard" time.   

People could get up and go to bed whenever they wanted without some GOVERNMENT telling us how to live our lives.  What a radical concept. 

Now that I'm retired I tend to nap in the afternoon and get up about 3-4 AM.  Actually, when I worked I napped in the afternoon, but stayed up to after midnight, so i slept later in the morning.

Its none of the government's business.  Get the government off our backs and out of our pockets. 

[John P]

People could get up and go to bed whenever they wanted without some GOVERNMENT telling us how to live our lives.  What a radical concept. 

Now that I'm retired I tend to nap in the afternoon and get up about 3-4 AM.  Actually, when I worked I napped in the afternoon, but stayed up to after midnight, so i slept later in the morning.

Its none of the government's business.  Get the government off our backs and out of our pockets.

I don't see your point. You don't seem to have kept anyone else's schedule any time, so who's getting pushed around?

They don't do daylight saving at all in Arizona, right JBG? Except on the Navajo reservation, where they like to show they're not bound by what the white people do. But then, the Hopi reservation is within the Navajo reservation, and they like to show they're not bound by what the Navajo people do. So the Hopi don't do daylight saving. Everyone's opposed to someone else, it seems.

[JOhnGw]

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Get the government off our backs and out of our pockets.

Actually I wouldn't be bothered about the government raiding my back pocket if they would also raid multi-millionaires' back pockets in the same proportion.
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[ric]

i also wouldnt be bothered about the gov raiding my back pocket... theyre welcome to the accumulated crap that resides there... might make it more comfortable when sitting down.
ive always kept my wallet in a side pocket cos i feel its less easy for dippers.... especially if my hands in there as well.

[eyesup]

a further point of clarity and pontification with some nitpicking thrown in for grins!

Actually the days aren't getting longer. A day is 24 hours. However the amount of daylight increases as the time of sunset becomes later, along with earlier sun rises. At least until July.

Scientists think that About 4.5 billion years ago, a large object perhaps the size of Mars, impacted our young planet, knocking out a chunk of material that eventually became our Moon. This collision set Earth spinning at a faster rate. Scientists estimate that a day in the life of early Earth was only about 6 hours long.

We can use extremely accurate atomic clocks to measure exactly how much the rotation is slowing down. One hundred years from now, a day will be about 2 milliseconds longer than today. Two milliseconds is 1/500th of a second, or how long it takes a car going 55 mph to travel only 2 inches--in other words, much less than the blink of an eye. So, if you live to be 100, you can't complain that the days are getting shorter! At this rate, though, you don't have to worry about the days getting enough longer to change things very much.

So, in fact the days are getting longer by 0.00002 second per year. 

. . . more nitpicking!

No groundhog was seen. A chipmonk.

Doing what? Paternosters? 

Yeah, Bob! I agree.
DST was enacted to keep people busier on personal business each day so they would spend more money instead of heading home to relax. If a business wanted to keep it's own arbitrary time and started losing business they would have quit doing it. So they got the government to do it.

Duane

[eyesup]

My wife and I went on a short hike yesterday. Temps hit mid 80's.
I'll not speak it out loud but maybe spring has . . . oops!

Duane