Summer Solstice

i.e. National Naked Hike Day

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The Pros and Cons of National Naked Hiking Day

By Liz Tracy Fri., Jun. 17 2011 at 9:00 AM

via hikingnaked.com

It's time to get nekked. But bring bug spray.

​​ Naked Hiking Day takes place this year on June 21, a Tuesday. Seems like an innocuous day to get out of your underwear and gallop out in the open air. Instinctively, it makes sense. It's like, yes, go back to your roots, be all tribal and shit. But then the actual logistics of this "free spirited" activity awoke in us thoughts of asshole mosquito bites, and nippular poison ivy.

There are pros and cons to wandering the wilderness in the nude. The idea of grabbing a hiking stick (an actual stick, you perverts), our Nalgene filled with filtered tap water, strapping on our finest hiking boots, and taking off everything else sounds like a really fun time! Let's look at what we should be specifically worried and stoked about.

Bugs, snakes, critters: Con

Bugs suck. In Boston right now, they have an influx of giant mosquitoes the size of an orgy of wasps, saw it on TV. Down here, our mosquitoes are twenty times as hungry. The Everglades are filled with child-sized munching bugs of all sorts, things like giant beetles, fearless grasshoppers, and critters that would turn Andrew Zimmern's stomach. Without the protection of fabric, you might as well cover yourself with honey and lay in an ant pile. It's like you're a meat kabob in a pen with starving tigers.

Achieving an actual sensation of freedom: Pro
Being naked rules. Maybe you're self-conscious. Here's a little note for you: get over it, you'll be dead soon enough, enjoy those flabby tits and flat tushies to their fullest. It's not like being naked in a warm enough climate is simply something that seems liberating, it freakin' is. It's awesome.

Rangers: Con
sn't there something, maybe everything, illegal about walking around nude in public? There was that women can be topless in New York thing, but generally speaking we mean. Does it make you a sex offender to be caught in the flesh in public? If you're hiking naked in a national park, and you get caught, would that make it a federal offense? These are things we need to know before dropping trou in the outdoors. Call your nudist lawyer friends, you've got at least one. Ask around.&

Other hikers: Pro/Con
After you get over being self-conscious, it kind of seems like it'd be fun to prance around naked, but running into other people on the trails might make the whole affair kind of either exciting or embarrassing. It's safe to bet everyone huffing and puffing in the summer air over broken twigs is going to be about 300 pounds of hairy man meat, so chill out, bring some pepper spray, bear spray, bug spray, and get ready to show Mother Earth the beauty she made in you.

Happy trails!

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Christmas in May

I moved in to the 'mobile home' (I'm told Trailer sounds too white trash) August 2010 so this is my first spring in my new place. It is so fun to see what little beauties are growing up all around. Makes me thankful for all this rain we've had. Welcome May flowers!
My grandmother has a green thumb and her roses are the BEST fragrance I have ever smelled. It's not often I get flowers but wild or home grown roses FAR outlast store bought editions. Take note future husband. And I'll keep in mind that its the thought that counts.
Maybe my interest in things that grow stems from g-ma. Or maybe its natural for God's creation to admire the rest of his creation. I planted a few strawberry seeds 2 weeks ago and am eagerly awaiting their arrival. Today I put some Simpson Elite Lettuce (Burpee brand, teehee. Really? Is that someone's last name?) in the ground. There's just something right about eating something you planted, cared for and watched grow.

Day 1
lovingly placed, miracle grow added, watered


Take a walk with me around my home. I don't know what any of them are but they are more beautiful than Solomon in all his splendor.

Jazzy planted this last summer. I kept it in my house all winter and thought it died. It was so pitiful. Now look at it! So many spiritual lessons to glean from that one.



This one is a violet. That's all I know.



I thought about posting these on facebook but honestly WHO CARES about the plants around my house. I'd bore myself with them. Yet I felt I had to document them somewhere and this is like my secret public soap box.

babies!

I like little kiddos. This seems to surprise people. My favorites are probably 2 year olds.
I don't necessarily have the burning desire to have my own (though these thoughts do frequent my mind the older I get and the more I see friends & family entering this stage of life - maybe I don't want to be totally left behind?) But I do enjoy making little stinkers laugh, get hyper and then giving them back. :) Here are some of my recent interactions.
Rielle modeling the bloomers and head thingee. They go with a dress I got her but the dress was MIA at the taking of the photo. She hates things on her head. Her daddy did some clever distraction while I quick snapped the photo - hands are in place to remove the unwanted head gear. Um, CUTE!
I like to laugh at things and take photos of funny things. Eye for the quirky is how other people call it. Whatever, I call it funny.
This photo was all my idea. Rielle was not a fan. Should the Lord choose to bless me with kids of my own some day, my poor children may be subjected to some ridiculous things for the good of photo opps. Sorry in advance!


This is one of April's twins (She & I worked at Camp Hebron together as counselors. She has 5 kids, the youngest two are twins). 50/50 chance of it being either Brynn or Brielle. I don't know. Her babies are wonderfully chunky.

Javan Michael - my cousin's fourth son. She & I are only 6 months apart in age. Can you imagine me with 4 boys now??




This is Cade. His mommy is Cherry (April's younger sister who is my age). She also has twins and then this little dude. His aunt Crystal & I had fun laughing at- with him.