The Nude Life

If all goes to plan, we will arrive at our new home in Florida a week from today, and then take up The Nude Life full-time at long, long last. Between then and now, we have an increasingly daunting list of tasks to complete, not the least of which is closing on the sale of our house here in Texas and then driving with our cat some 1,100 miles to Central Florida in our sub-compact economy car.

It has been a three-month-long effort to scale down our belongings and ties to the home we have lived in for 18 years in North Texas. About three-quarters of everything we owned in the way of furniture, clothes, books, appliances and other detritus has been given away to friends and charities. When the moving truck shows up on Monday morning to cart away the balance of our material possessions, it will amount to what is typical for a two-bedroom apartment and not the 3,800-sq.-ft. single-family home it was when this process began.

To say we are excited about the big move finally happening would be an understatement, but there is also a fair amount of dread in the mix, as we have a hellacious amount of “stuff” to do in the next seven days before we can finally shed our clothes, open our first cold beer at our new home, and head down to the pool for an afternoon’s relaxation in the nude for the first time as residents of our new community.

With all that happening over the next seven days, don’t expect any blog posts until we have arrived in Florida and the cable guy arrives to hook up our TV and Internet at the house and we’re back online for good from our new home. Wish us luck if you have a mind to, and we’ll be back in touch from Central Florida by this time next week!