The Nude Life

After what seems like months and months (well, actually, it has been months and months!), we leave Texas tomorrow to fly to Central Florida and sign the papers for our new home in a nudist resort. The walk-through is on Thursday, and the transfer of ownership (and paperwork, keys, insurance, upkeep responsibility, etc., etc.) all happens Friday morning. We will spend the weekend getting light housekeeping set up at the new place, and trying to settle in for a few days of actual vacation as well.

Buying our home at Cypress Cove and getting everything lined up for retirement in the next few weeks has been a huge amount of work, but also a lot of excitement. We had about 50 nudist friends over to our house in Texas last weekend to help clear out much of the furniture and other things we won’t need after the move, followed by a really fun pool party that night. It was sad to think it might be our very last nude pool party here in Texas, but we can’t complain after all the many, many happy times we’ve had in this house for the past 15 years as nudists.

Moving into a nudist resort is not without some unique complications. Example: our homeowner’s insurer wanted to get some photos of the house for their files, so they have a record of the house they are insuring. That meant working out a time for the photographer they hired to come by and gain entrance to the resort to take the photos, and when I called him to confirm the details, he admitted it would be his first time ever to visit a “nudist colony.” Of course, I gently corrected his use of that old and distasteful term, and assured him that he’d be visiting a perfectly ordinary American neighborhood, with one particular difference: none of the folks he would encounter were likely to be wearing anything.

So, again our apologies for the lack of frequent blog posts of late, but I think they will improve in both regularity and content once we get the keys to our new place in hand and can relax a bit in our new community of nudist neighbors. Until then, thanks for your readership and for the many encouraging comments sent our way via e-mail.

Yes, our posting rate here at The Nude Life is not what you’d expect from any decent, high-volume blog, but it’s the best we can do under the circumstances. The circumstances, it turns out, are those that have us as busy as can be getting ready to move to a nudist resort in Florida to live full-time in just a very short while now. So while other nudist bloggers have all but given up on their blogs (very understandably so), ours is still here — while we’re busy building The Nude Life full-time.

The countdown has begun to the day we move to Cypress Cove to settle in to our new home, and the 18,000-odd details that it will take to make that happen are underway now. Selling our current home, disconnecting from jobs, clubs and other entanglements with our “past life” are proceeding along, and we are optimistic that this will all be wrapped up in a month or two.

Our nudist friends know of our plans to chuck it all and move to a place where clothes are not needed anytime, anywhere, and I have no doubt at least some of them will take us up on our offer to have them come and visit when they can. Virtually no one else has any idea that we are even moving, let alone moving into a nudist resort, so when/if the day comes when they start asking about our new home, we will be truthful with them but considerate in not trying to shock them with the revelation. We have “nothing to hide,” as it were, with our news of taking up The Nude Life full-time, but neither do we particularly care to share the details of our private life with people who are only casual friends.

Meanwhile, summertime has arrived in Texas and we are back to our routine of simple nudity day and night around the house and pool, as the temperatures and warm breezes make clothing a bother. We’ve had the chore of cleaning and emptying out the house in preparation for putting it up for sale made less onerous by being able to do nearly all the work nude. So although our rate of posting has slowed down, we’re every bit as nude as you’d expect from nudist in Texas in the Spring — we’re nude most of the time!

And indeed this weekend, we will be holding a “nude garage sale,” inviting our nudist friends over to pick and take away the items and furniture we won’t be moving with us to Florida. That’s followed by what might very well be the last-ever nude pool party at our house for those dear nudist friends…the end of a very wonderful 14 years or so of fun fun fun nude parties at our house through the years.

So, dear Reader, excuse the lack of postings for the time being as we work on making our dream come true. The Nude Life Blog will be here, and we promise updates as time allows. Meanwhile, don’t neglect The Nude Life Forum, where you can connect and discuss The Nude Life with others from around the world.

For too many months, we have longed for the warm sun to dance upon our bare skin again, to soak up its magical glow, to refresh and relax clad only in its life-giving radiance. We have literally dreamt for summer’s luxuriant caress to warm our shoulders, to be as Nature intended under the sun’s brilliant rays.

That day has finally arrived here in North Texas, at long last. Today was our first full day of bright, warm sun and springlike temperatures, a day we could enjoy in the most natural and pleasant way possible, and which reinvigorated our love for the nude life. The afternoon’s relaxation nude in the sunshine, soaking up spring’s first warmth fully and from head-to-toe, made us remember again why we are so glad to have discovered this wonderful way of life.

Our pale skin is testimony to how long we have been deprived of the sun’s lovely glow upon us, but we made a good head-start on regaining some all-over summer color today. The week ahead appears to offer more invitations to remain nude as much as possible indoors and out, as mild, sunny spring days are forecast for the coming week. And then summer will follow, with warmth and sun so brilliant and luxurious that only the most foolish or most closed-minded would contemplate enjoying it in any way but nude.

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.

How are you enjoying the arrival of Spring where you are? Share and discuss with other nudists from around the world in The Nude Life Forum!

Our dearth of postings over the past few weeks can be explained by a goodly amount of business travel that has kept us away from the blog, but mainly it’s been that we have been very, very busy making all the arrangements to make our move to Cypress Cove near Orlando in a couple of months to start the nude life full-time.

We’ve been getting a real education in Florida’s homeowner’s insurance market (which was ruined by state meddling); in the Florida mortgage lending meltdown as the housing bubble bursts there and elsewhere; and in a couple of dozen other things we’ve had to arrange to make things happen for our new life as full-time nudists living at Cypress Cove.

I’m happy to report that everything is on track, and we have figured out a neat way around the mortgage mess as well as landing some reasonable insurance coverage. We anticipate closing in mid-May, and moving there from our home in Texas soon after, hopefully by June or July.

Now all we have to do in the meantime is quit our jobs, sell our house here, give away or sell 90% of everything inside it, and move. Figuring out what we can fit from our 3,800-sq.ft house into a single 8′ x 8′ x 16′ PODS moving unit is going to be interesting, too!

We know it will be worth it. Our nudist friends here who have asked about our plans are envious of us already, and we can’t help getting excited by the adventure, fun and freedom that will accompany this life-changing shift in location and lifestyle. Breaking the news to our few remaining relatives and friends (all of whom have no idea at all that we are nudists!) will come when it has to: never, if they don’t want to come visit us (which most won’t), and honestly and without shame for those who do.

I’m very glad to have had our guest bloggers Steve and Angie posting some new items during my slowdown in posts, and I hope they have a great time at Haulover Beach this coming week. Let’s hope they post some reports from their visit and perhaps a few vacation snaps as well!

Meanwhile, The Nude Life Forum still has regular visits and posts from nudists all over the world. If you haven’t checked in lately, by all means drop in again soon and let us know what’s on your mind! And, happy Spring Equinox to all those in the Northern Hemisphere! Summer will be here soon!