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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2017, 12:43:51 AM »

It's cold and wet in the UK too, Bob.  Not as low temp as Washington State, but I know well the short duration of being totally naked either in snow or just cold wet conditions.  Give me a dry, crisp starlit night for a bit of naked cold endurance.
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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #31 on: February 02, 2017, 05:50:16 AM »
i think it's running warmer than normal in TN.  Spent a while naked tree work today,  61F and clear.   more rain and cooler coming in the next few days.     I'm getting through winter keeping busy.  Working steady on beneficial projects.   Trying to set things up to grow food higher quality and flavor than anyone has ever had.   I tire of the commercially produced tasteless junk called fresh produce found in the normal distribution system. 

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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #32 on: February 02, 2017, 06:12:07 AM »
Up late tonight Rueben?
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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #33 on: February 02, 2017, 08:26:38 PM »
The official data is in.  January HERE was the coldest January since 1979.   Almost 40 years ago I moved to Richland, WA, USA during the big freeze.  This year has been almost that bad in these parts.  We still have snow on our yard that fell in November.  I'm a big supporter of "global warming."  Bring it on!   Sadly, all that's happening is another freeze. 

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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #34 on: February 03, 2017, 07:00:03 PM »
We must be in the same weather system as Southern California as there has been rain almost every day or an early morning snowfall followed by a cloudy day. For the year I heard our area is about 14 inches below our usual snowfall amount. Snow has been more of a nuisance, just enough to make driving dangerous, but not enough to make it a winter wonderland. The groundhog saw his shadow yesterday so that means six more weeks of  winter which I hope includes at least one major snowfall or the snowblower got tuned up for nothing!
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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #35 on: February 04, 2017, 01:36:36 AM »
Apparently there's a vegetable crisis in Europe, with rationing of broccoli occurring in some places. Not to mention, tight supplies of courgettes and aubergines:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38852721

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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #36 on: February 04, 2017, 01:46:11 AM »
I'll appreciate my broccoli more. Children are going without in Europe.
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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #37 on: February 04, 2017, 01:50:36 AM »
Not to mention, tight supplies of courgettes and aubergines:


I had to google those vegetables.   North America calls them something else.  Sounds like "global warming" is getting so sever that vegetables won't grow very well.  Brrrrr!

We are in the middle of a two day blizzard for the first weekend of February.  Snow is piling up on top of snow still left from November.  I could use some "global warming." 
 
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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #38 on: February 04, 2017, 08:35:09 PM »
Its high of 75F warmer than the usual down here. We always seem to have warmer when you up north and east have colder. The whole winter pattern is whacko...suits me, even if I did have to put up with some extra rain for a few weeks. Everything is soaked up. The saguaros are fat and happy, except the ones that got too glutinous and fell over from the water weight, when the soil got so unusually soft/wet or wore away with flooding.

Spring IS coming, guaranteed. Think summer. Think summer. Think summer...or migrate...or stoke up a sauna...or green house...or....

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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #39 on: February 05, 2017, 11:41:00 AM »
Apparently there's a vegetable crisis in Europe, with rationing of broccoli occurring in some places. Not to mention, tight supplies of courgettes and aubergines:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38852721

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We've got the "crisis" here in the UK because we import so much of our food. Bad weather in Southern Europe hits crops we shouldn't even be eating this time of year if we stuck to home-grown and seasonal produce. After WWII, when we nearly starved, there was a concerted campaign to become self-sufficient in foodstuffs, but no one learns from history any more.

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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #40 on: February 05, 2017, 03:42:02 PM »
aparently southern spain has had a lot of rain in the last 3 months which has hit the production of both salad and fresh green vegetables.... but ive not seen any shortage in the shops either here in somerset or last week in the canary isles.

wandering round fuerteventura its really obvious that a lot of their farmable land, what little there is of it , isnt being used anymore.  the majority of the food for the tourists has to be imported, presumably mostly from spain.

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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #41 on: February 07, 2017, 01:35:42 AM »
Hi Jbee.

I have done a lot of nude camping, hiking, canoeing, and just sittin' at home. I love the freedom so much that it was a MAJOR factor in the decision to purchase some land. There is a story here. We've been looking for land for the past four years and we've seen and investigated a few potential sites, but this one jumped off the page. Here we find a drilled well, a septic bed, a building site, a power line, a road set and settled for 30+ years, and a seller that was in a difficult position and had to close. A little more than two years ago a great orange glow alighted the neighbouring sky one night before the onset of winter. The five bedroom house that was started as a project in the 80s, and never completed more than being roof tight, was unoccupied but under control of some rental tenants. Their stolen generator had set a spark in the building and the great marijuana gro-op in the house was thusly set ablaze.

The house burnt to the ground. Now with two years past we came along at the end of the selling season and placed our offer. We did all the checks that any reasonable buyer would perform like test the water in the well for contamination, assess the work to clean up the metal debris that remains on the site, check the legal instruments describing the property, called and talked neighbours of the property, and so on. We closed the deal and now we are the happy owners.

The perimeter of the land; that is, the distance to walk the entire property line is about 2.6 kilometers (1.6 miles) and it is all forest inset with a beautiful wetland and pond. A lake is less than a mile away. The nearest neighbour is about a mile away. I can imagine tossing the clothing as soon as I reach the property line and living free for days at a time on this newly purchased hardwood and softwood forest. We have pine and oak and maple and who knows what else. I have much to explore (in the nude -- when the warm weather arrives). The area amounts to 100 acres.

For now, we are using our truck camper for a weekend shelter as we build a cabin. On Saturday night we had a great campfire. Alas, spring cannot come soon enough, but I can be patient and for now there are no bugs to bother us while we build. It's damn cold out though.

Cheers,

Alf



We bought some land before Christmas and since then we've been out to the site most weekends, staying in a small camper and working on a small camp. The nights seem long, but we deal with it with a campfire when the weather cooperates. Otherwise, it's into the camper for a card game, a movie, or early to bed.

I feel an inner peace when I walk the lane late in the evening under the dazzle of the night sky.

I can hardly wait for warmer weather to arrive, but then there will be bugs.

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Tell us more. Trees, grass, hills, acre, two, or more, or less? Nearby neighbors, nude potential? Can we come visit? ;D Wildlife? What kind of camp are you making? Rustic wood structures, tent, firepit, composting, anythiong that you might elaborate? We are talking about gettaways in National Forests and a portable camp set up. Tent with warm stove, shower, airbed, rugs, 4x4 back into the site and hike everywhere nude.
Curious....
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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #42 on: February 07, 2017, 07:54:07 PM »
Quote from: Bob Knows
Snow is piling up on top of snow still left from November.  I could use some "global warming."
Hang in there, Bob!

I saw in the news that the Blackfeet Indian tribe, near Glacier National Park, declared a state of emergency because 4 ft. of snow was dumped in a recent storm.

It has not been normal weather here this winter. Not so much the temps, but more rain and cloudy days than is normal.

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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #43 on: February 07, 2017, 08:25:24 PM »
ALF! Come springtime, a welcoming Eden! How immensely lovely, a forest to meander with no close neighbors. This is obviously a place where dreams grow.

The definition of a lake and a pond where you are is often very different from what passes here. What are the dimensions of the lake and pond. Would the pond be a swimming hole? Would the lake make for boating? Rolling hills or flat?

Is it the wetland that makes for the bugs, or is there escape from that with a small distance, or a ridge? Mosquitoes, or is this up north where those midges-things that are reported here are so thick? The mosquitoes in Michigan were less some years rather than others. A good freeze later in the spring would whack them for months to come. Some times of the day, like sundown, they were a real a nuisance. The direct warm sun, seems to bug the bugs and they keep to the shade. Would this be the pattern over there? Can you set up a house for bats there?

One hundred acres is about what a mom and pop nude resorts have for hiking and camping. A past girlfriend and I used to hangout at her dad's retreat of about 80 acres, but it was mostly grassland. I've got a feel for what you have there, BUT with forest, woohoo! I'm feeling excited so you must be a mile high!

I built my home here. It is fun to create such an endeavor and apply that, getting to know it more as time goes by...nude all over.
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Re: The Annual Coping with Winter Thread
« Reply #44 on: February 07, 2017, 11:05:39 PM »

Oh, Alf
It sounds like a naturist paradise!
You need an RV to get there and park there when you visit.  Remember Larry Tanman's Barn/Garage weekends?
Or are you intending to set up home there?


Either way, dear sir, you surely cannot refuse to post a few pictures now and again when you are in 'residence' on your new land for your old pals and SN followers here to learn of your naturist wanderings and exploits? 


I look forward to the occasional post.  As previously opined, you have been away from us for far too long, o prodigal!


John