Backyard Nudity

It all started with the purchase of this fabulous kiddie pool for $3 at a garage sale while I was garage saling with a friend with a van (very important since even $3pools don't fit into my car). I got it as a puppy puddle since the dogs love to find mud puddles to flop in after hot bike rides, and I just thought it would be cleaner and more convenient to just have a small pool they could use. And I'll admit that I figured I do have a lot of small visitors that would also put it to good use. Not to mention those hot days when I just need to lounge in the pool... (jk, I haven't resorted to that just yet).

The dogs weren't really sure about the puppy puddle, I think they prefer the mud. So for the last 6 weeks they have pretty much only gone into it if there is incentive... like treats... floating in there. Then Suze started walking into it to drink while wading. And this week we managed to get all the way to a full scale laying in pool lapping water and cooling off. I guess it takes 95 degree weather and 15 minutes of chasing a ball to adjust to anything. The puppy puddle is finally a success! Anyway, I digress. Where was I? Oh right, the nakedness.

So... the first day I had kids over for a dip in the new pool, a week or two post surgery, some people swam in only diapers, for awhile anyway, until they were too full to stand, at which time they went stark naked. Some preferred nothing at all. The naked swimming digressed to naked running around the yard to naked swinging to naked standing at the fence watching the neighbors in their pool. All of this happened while four capable adults had a great visit on the patio, mostly not seeing the naked gawking because of the jungle (garden) between us and them. Awesome. (see, that jungle on the right would make it hard to see the fenceline and the nakedness!)

This weekend we had some more backyard nudity. One niece prefers to strip naked on the patio, not inside where I kept suggesting, but right there on the patio. She did it at least half a dozen times in 3 days... Not to mention today, a hot sunny Saturday, when I had six nieces and nephews over for awhile. Mostly it was playing in the hose and in the pool and an elaborate game on "the ship" and a picnic lunch, also on "the ship." And plenty of nakedness, although today's nakedness was mostly in the form of undies. Although later in the day one girl decided to strip off her suit (on the patio) to wrap in a towel, and then got distracted and climbed the playstructure, leaving the towel below (again, the jungle was obstructing my view). And to end the day on a naked note, the kids were finishing their post dinner popsicles and Ben says "I gotta go potty" and races over to the pine tree to give it a drink- there in broad daylight and in full view of the neighbor's house. Excellent.

Hope your backyard is just as exciting :)