A bit of home SN

[JOhnGw]

In response to this post from Jbee, I will try to do a recap on my SN since I got home from Fuerteventura in February.

Looking forward to more on French Naturism, both on the Res and SN as FRN.
Jbee

Indoors, I have redecorated the sitting room and the bathroom, while continuing my regular habit of never dressing in the morning until there is a particular need - often when we have dinner in the evening as my wife prefers me to dress for dinner.
Every Friday I put out the refuse and recycling naked and whever possible mow the lawn and trim the hedge naked.
I'll look out some pictures of particular activities for a few more posts but in the meantime here are a few stock ones from previous years showing SN activities which I have continued to do this year.

[ric]

ive also been carrying on as normal getting on with life, clothes free when conditions allow , normally either gardening in either mine or clients gardens or tinkering in my workshop.  its been nothing out the ordinary nothing different to what ive reported in the past....life just meanders on in the same old routine.

even the one day this month that i did stop off for an hours wander in the wood, it was somewhere ive often been before, i saw nobody else  and nothing of note happened.

[nuduke]

it was somewhere ive often been before, i saw nobody else  and nothing of note happened.

Rubbish, ric!  Plenty to note, I think viz: You were comfortable with the familiarity of the place, you felt the freedom of isolation to be naked in nature and you frolicked and revelled, skyclad, in the pleasant, fragrant, earthy bourne of the trees.


This is the problem!  We don't report as much because we think its mundane.  We are collectively awful at sharing feelings about what we do which are never mundane!  Speaking personally, I'm interested, ric, frequent experiencer of nakedness at home and work that you are, in what particular things you might have been up to.  Not an essay, just the sort of update you reported below.   So thanks for that.


I did some naked lawn mowing and gardening Tuesday and have been lolling around the house naked a lot.  Last week and earlier this I had quite a bad cold during a very hot spell and spent a fair time in bed under a fan and which, for some reason, when I was up and skyclad, the wife was a bit more tolerant than usual.  The weather has cooled off in recent days but the wife has been out a lot, so much opportunity to be naked around the house, chores etc., but a lot less than hoped as it has been a bit uncomfortably cold. Middle of today became nicely sunny and I was in a dressing gown.  Mrs N went to sit on the patio and I joined her and shortly afterwards during the conversation that had arisen, slipped off my robe to catch a bit of sun.  Now, the dear lady was sitting opposite me around the garden table and could not have seen any of my lower half yet, knowing I'd got naked in the sun started tutting and demonstratively looking away.  "Do stop that, I remarked.  If I was wearing trousers and took off my shirt you wouldn't have minded at all - you can't see my bottom half so what's the trouble?  You don't complain when were in bed and I'm naked under the covers* so why here."  She was unable to respond cogently.  I mentally carved another notch on my metaphorical malacca cane of confidence!  I didn't cover up though.  She soon stopped her negative body language and we went on with our conversation.


There!  Mundane as hell but perhaps vaguely engaging to some and so surely better shared than not posting my thoughts at all?


John


* = risky comment I realised afterwards.  Wouldn't want to give her further frontiers of complaint where none existed before!

[nuduke]

JOhn,
Enjoyed the videos but skipped some of the lawn mowing and car washing as, well, it is fairly homogenous viewing!
This however is also the stuff.  Mundane it may be but I note that you seem to have a totally secluded garden.  How did that come about - cultivation over years with aforethought or was it just like that?


The walking the waste bags video was interesting to me for 2 reasons, first that I too don't mind doing such stuff in the rain and also like to do it barefoot.  What do you do when you get back in?  Just use the doormat or do you have a routine to clean your wet muddy feet.  I tend to wipe them with a damp cloth and a bit of kitchen roll but to tell the truth at present our garden is pretty clean so when it's dry there's nothing to clean.  Also (3rd of 2 reasons) there was no need to apologise for the video quality - it had an artistic soft-focus quality to it!  And it's not essential, to make sense of the piece, to have your arse in full HD!


Do your neighbours know you are a naturist?  Do they see you when you go out of the front gate?


So, friends, once again an example of reporting the mundane being interesting, thought provoking and worth reading!


John

[jbeegoode]

What's that that looks like hoops and a whale tail, back among what looks like a forest? What's that? Your forest, too? Do you compost?

Nice yard.

I haven't used, maybe not seen a lawn mower like that in 40 years...hey, no lawns. Looks like they improved them and made them lighter over the years. It that plastic? Mine used to give me heart attacks every time it stalled. Didn't know if it would start again. I had to switch arms when one wore out trying to get it going again. Then there was that delicate process of priming it just so. I saw one in Sears once at the Tucson mall. Certainly no riding mowers, there. Grass yards are so small that an old fashion mechanical push mower is sufficient. I used to do it every Saturday morning and get woken up by the noise of the neighbor's. It is kinda like shoveling snow, something they do on another planet.
My son got patch of grass for his dog in his backyard. about 5x8 feet. I think he used a weed-eater on it.
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

Lawn mowing again yesterday although this photo is from earlier in June. 

[JOhnGw]

Various answers:

The lawn mower is a smaller version of the one Bob uses. These days they start like a dream, except when they get muck in the carburettor, but that's easily diagnosed and dealt with.


I do compost and turn over the bunkers every spring.

The hoops you see are the fruit cages we use to stop the birds eating all the soft fruit on the bushes at the top of the garden.


I also barbecue naked every time the weather is good enough.

The first picture is the old brick barbecue which I built myself and saw about twenty years good service and the second is the new barbecue which was installed last year when we had the back patio remodelled.

I also took some footage of painting the garage windows naked but haven't edited it down to a sensible length yet.

That's all I can think of at the moment but I will continue to report the totally enjoyable naked mundane and everyday stuff as often as I can remember.

Editied to add that most of my earlier videos are boringly long before I realised that shorter is better.

[eyesup]

Same here. Mostly everyday chores and mundane tasks. I have very little space in my yard not visible to a neighbor so there’s not much to do there. Anything indoors and occasionally a quick task outside. Of course the heat cut any extended outdoor activities.

Duane

[Safebare]

In Austin we lived on a cul-de-sac in South Austin, a more relaxed area.  The manual mower would cut the grass, but the lot was larger than practical, so I bought a second-hand electric mower.  One Sunday a neighbor stopped by to explain that she was irritated that neighbors woke her up before 8am that morning, but when she came out to investigate saw the neighbors on the other side of her with their loud gasoline contraption, then noticed me cutting my grass and wondered why the other neighbors couldn't be more like me.  The fact that I was nude at the time was not mentioned.  I miss that neighborhood.

[eyesup]

Nice! So would I!

Duane

[JOhnGw]

Cleaning the car as well as mowing the lawn today.


Picture and video from earlier occasion.

[ric]

suns just about setting , just spent an hour in the back paddock with a hose and a brush scrapin the green fungus and mud off the transit van, its changed from a browny greenish to gleaming white and rust.  figured if i needed a cold shower i may as well do summit that needed doing...must be nearly two years since i did it last,  back then mrs found it amusing that i did it naked,  this time she hasnt commented at all.

[eyesup]

Does it qualify as SN if you appear to be out in the open in the neighborhood?

Duane

[jbeegoode]

suns just about setting , just spent an hour in the back paddock with a hose and a brush scrapin the green fungus and mud off the transit van, its changed from a brown greenish to gleaming white and rust.  figured if i needed a cold shower i may as well do summit that needed doing...must be nearly two years since i did it last,  back then mrs found it amusing that i did it naked,  this time she hasnt commented at all.

Green and brown sounds like you washed off the camouflage. Get better gas mileage?
I sometimes wear mud on my truck like a 4x4 trophy.
Jbee

[eyesup]

I no longer wash my car at home. I believe the car wash’s here are required to capture and recycle a specified amount of the water they use. There is less water waste from a car wash compared to doing it at home here. I only go there occasionally. I’m not that caught up in having a shiny car. I really don’t care that much. The water district’s rules allow you to wash at home if you use a shutoff nozzle. We only get 4” of rain a year in a valley that has more than 2m people. We have to be careful of waste.

Besides if I leave the patina of dust layer in place it helps to shield the paint from UV degradation. Although I don’t think my wife buys into that. 

Duane