Apr 01 2008
The return of nude season
April “officially” marks the beginning of “nude season” here at our house. It’s the time of year that the weather has finally gotten mild enough that we can reliably and comfortably go clothes-free through early October.
The clothes came off and stayed off for most of the past weekend, except for our ventures out of the house to run errands and play some nude whirlyball over the weekend with our nudist club friends. All of them are looking forward to the warm weather we enjoy so much all summer long here in Texas, as are we. It’s just downright frustrating to have to spend so many days indoors, fully clothed, from November through March when the weather is mostly too chilly, too cloudy or otherwise inhospitable to our nude enjoyment.
This will likely be our first full week at home working nude all day, and of course staying nude through the evening, nights and weekends, with the windows open and the mild breezes refreshing the air in the house. These six weeks or so of warm but mild weather are delightful, as we can be nude all day and night indoors or out, without the need for air-conditioning during the day or heat overnight.
After quitting work-time at 5:00 PM each day, we usually retire to the backyard pool area for a beer or two and some reading, listening to music or a card game or two, before starting dinner. Not having to bother with changing in or out of clothes during the day and night to be perfectly comfortable is a delight — certainly one of the chief delights of working from home.
So, with the arrival of April 1, the laundry load goes down, the electric and gas bill goes down, our comfort level and well-being go up, and even the day at work is infinitely more tolerable now that “nude season” is here.
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We folks up North envy you, it’s still trying to be winter around here. But, the grass is greening, everything’s muddy, and the winter’s crop of frozen dog poop is thawing. Ah, the sweet smell of… Spring!
So, when you move to Florida, do you tell your non-nudist friends that you’re just ‘moving’, and hope they never come to visit, or come right out and DO IT?
Most of our family and friends know about us so that’s not much of a problem. I think we’d probably chicken out on telling others and deal with it if it ever came up.
Cute little story: We were at Mazo Beach a couple of years ago, chatting with a couple we’d met, from Iowa (of all places) when they got a phone call from their kids. We were cracking up listening to the story they wove about how they were camping on the Mississipi River! Jeez, the things we have to go through.
It’s funny that social taboos have relaxed enough that, in most places, it’s OK to be openly LGBT, or a politician, but still not nudist. We have to confine our lifestyle to secluded settings, and then need to continually fight legislation prohibiting even that!
What are they afraid of? Just watch the evening news, what are our leaders and lawmakers up to? All sorts of ‘improper’ stuff. Affairs, prostitutes, drug abuse, financial scandals, whatever. And WE’RE the ‘bad’ people?
Celebrities parade their visits to rehab clinics like some sort of badge of honor. Maybe WE need rehab, huh? Someone to teach us to hate our bodies and hide them in shame. Yeah, that’s it.
Oops, did it again. On the pulpit. Sorry about that. -Steve
For the few non-nudist friends we have (and it really is the minority of our good friends, probably less than a dozen), we will tell them we’re moving to a gated resort community in the Orlando area; if they press us, we’ll tell them that it’s in Kissimmee, in a development we have visited before and really like; and we’ll be glad to share photos of the house and neighborhood as well.
If they say they want to come and visit, we will tell them they are welcome to do so, but that they should know that we live at a nudist resort. Whatever reaction comes from that is up to them, but it won’t affect us one way or the other.
For the vast majority of our good friends, who are our nudist friends, they are excited for us and many of them will be making plans to visit us as soon as they can!
Later,
Mike
Spring seems to finally be springing here! Temps in the 50’s and maybe 60’s today. Yay! It’s so nice to see the sun again. We’d be at the beach today if we didn’t have family business to attend to.
Fellow Sun worshipers, rejoice! Fear not, Summer is coming! -Steve