An awesome topic on staying nude when people come over! I had been nude now for 98.7% of the time today and yesterday.

Where I lost it was when I was working in my backyard (most of the day) and a UPS guy came by with a COD and saw me behind the trash cans by the house. I walked on around back through the back door, grabbed a pair of pants and met him at the door.

What I did later was repent for not having faith!

I also stepped out the backdoor (I have a deck) and my neighbor came in with his big tool truck and he backs in, which means he sees straight into my door when he is in the truck! Of course, he just backed in and saw me nearly step out, and I was full monty! I stepped back in and closed the door and put something on before going back out.

But it was a short time, I might have been clothed all ten minutes yesterday.

Today, I was nude all day too, except where again, my neighbor came home at noon to play golf (Wednesday treat) and I put something on for a few minutes.

Other than that, nude all day until this evening when I'll be going to church.

But should I have stayed nude and not worry about it? After all, I did pray for direction yesterday (and today) and as soon as I did that, it seems that everything went well all day. And part of that prayer was our prayer we use here. So why did I cover up? Why did I show concern?

I am weak. But we'll all get there.

I am beginning to beleive there are far few people that will be offended than we think.

Boyd Allen
"May the Lord protect our nudity from the sight of those who will not benefit, and may he allow us to be seen by those who will."

I was naked after CJ and I took our hike after lunch. She won't hike with me naked. She'll work with me on the property (out of sight of anyone) with me naked but won't hike with me naked.

Anyway, after that, I washed one of my cars. She informed me that there were a couple of the students next door on their lawn. So, I covered when going between the garage and house within sight of them up there. CJ went out to take something to the church building.

When she came back, I was of course nude washing the car, which is behind a bunch of evergreens from where the girls were sunning themselves. She remarked about my not having any pants on. I informed her that I was behind the evergreens.

Can't feature this interchange sometimes.

I've been nude when the UPS guy has come by and a couple times when the mail lady drove up to the garage to deliver a package.

Ralph

Boyd,

Wouldn't it be easier to simply walk over to each of your neighbors, introduce yourself and tell them that you are a naturist and would like to be nude in your yard, but you wanted to find out if they would be alright with that first?

It's always easier to appologize later than to ask for permission now!


Boyd Allen
"May the Lord protect our nudity from the sight of those who will not benefit, and may he allow us to be seen by those who will."

Boyd,

It is possible that trying too hard to prepare our neighbors for the big day we emerge totally naked from our house will backfire on us.

Would we be making too big a deal of this by talking it up?

Would we be creeping our neighbors out if we just sullenly slink around nude on the edge of their property?

"Would we be creeping our neighbors out if we just sullenly slink around nude on the edge of their property?" Yes, you would. But who does that?

I just work in my own property, stay away from the edges next to theirs and not "slink" too much. And as you have already observed, do as much while neighbors are gone as possible. And if they show up suddenly, I just step out of the way, or just "wave" with a nice friendly smile if they got a good look and no time to slip out.

But that hasn't happened yet, at least that I am aware of. I honestly think some has seen me working in my yard and never knew they were there!

Boyd "Lost That Slinky Look After I Got Married" Allen

Boyd Allen
"May the Lord protect our nudity from the sight of those who will not benefit, and may he allow us to be seen by those who will."

As I've said before, my wife isn't interested in be nude... yet, but she is changing slowly. We have a lake side cottage in western NY, along with 3 other family members on my wife's side, and with my wife being a teacher, she spends a few weeks at the cottage during the summer. This means that when I'm home, I'm nude almost 100% of the time during those weeks. Not to long after moving into this house a few years ago, I believe the neighbor across the street must have spotted me nude, and hasn't spoken to me since! I have done nothing to him since we've moved there, and in fact I usually try to go out of my way to be friendly to him. Nudity is the only possible thing I could have done to offend him.

Oh well! I'm sure that both of my next door neighbors have seen me nude in my back yard, and we are all on speaking terms. And I'm pretty sure that the neighbor across the street and up one house has noticed me skinny dipping in our pool, and we are still on speaking terms. I'm not loosing any sleep over the neighbor that isn't talking to me, and maybe some day he'll come around.

Rob

"It's a Jeep thing...you wouldn't understand!"

My neighbors directly across the creek seem NEVER to want to talk to me. Have seen the husband, wife and (I think) daughter with a couple kids down there at times. All of them seem to avoid me, actually hide or turn away when they see me down there.

Yet, the postal lady waves me a cheery goodbye when she delivers a package at the garage.

Ralph

While dressed, ask them over for a cookout or something social. Even going somewhere off property (safe place) like a restaurant or other activity. In other words, put them into a situation where they have to talk to you, but in a friendly and safe way and place (better if place is their choice).

You often need to meet people at their level, you know, like Jesus does. It's hard to ignore you or turn away if you are standing at their door knocking.

Put them in a position where they have to say or do something besides pretend to not notice you.

"Knock and it shall be opened unto you"...then they slam the door!

Boyd Allen
"May the Lord protect our nudity from the sight of those who will not benefit, and may he allow us to be seen by those who will."

Good suggestion, Boyd!

What if you were a person who knew nothing of naturism and you frequently spotted some neighbor, whom you knew nothing of, "lurking" on the edge of your property totally nude?

Some folks would be really spooked by this. It's not to hard to understand someone reacting that way!

Of course Ralph could do nothing and these folks would remain sullen and suspicious for as many years as they are neighbors. But I don't think it is good for neighbors to live in fear and suspicion of one another.

Right or wrong, it seems clear that Ralph is going to have to do as you suggest, to meet them in a friendly manner in such a way that they cannot ignore him.

We don't have to be best buddies with our neighbors, having them over to the house all the time, but its a matter of mutual protection for us to know one another by name and be able to contact one another in cases of emergency. If either one of you were away and burglers broke in or there were a fire. It's just common sense to have some basic civility between folks who live adjacent to each other.