Volunteer Help Wanted
Tom Sawyer famously
got his buddies to help him whitewash a fence by pretending how much fun it
was.
Well, I guess I am like
him, except I don’t have to pretend—working outdoors free of all clothing really
is fun!
You
might be reluctant or unwilling to mow your own lawn nude, mainly because
people expect you to at least wear your bikini. But our naturist reputation is
so well established, that even the Jehovah’s Witnesses aren’t surprised to see
birthday suits here.
A
few years ago a teenage girl in Maine rightly did not want to have to wear her
top while mowing her lawn. She rode her mower topfree for awhile, until some
neighbor thought it disgusting, obscene and filthy to have to see her bare
chest, and that put an end to that. But that can’t happen here. Here you can
shuck your bottoms along with your top and have a blast mowing our lawn!
We
are rather secluded anyway. Only a few land owners further up the road drive
by, and they aren’t surprised to see a nude or two taking a walk along the
road. One landowner once drove by while many of us were lying on the lawn,
spelling out “NLI” as a plane photographed us (see photo on p. 99 of NLI No. 25).
If
you give us 5 hours of your time, you can pitch a tent or park your camper on
our land for the night. Then you might want to sally forth from here to explore
the many sites in northern Vermont where skinny-dipping is customary, or maybe
some where it isn’t so customary anymore and you can help restore the place to
its original purity and integrity. You can also use our Finnish, wood-fired
sauna and have some fresh eggs from our coop.
Things
we need to have done include:
·
Farmwork: cleaning/repairing
the chicken coop, repairing sheep fencing
·
Yardwork: cutting
firewood, hauling it, stacking it, mowing the lawns, gathering debris like
fallen limbs and burning this brush, helping with landscaping & gardening
·
Other:
Painting & staining, repairing the road by filling in pot-holes with stones
If
you would like to help out as a volunteer in some way, email me and let me know.
Believe me, we appreciate it.
N.B.
We do not work on the Lord’s Day, and we don’t let anyone else work for us then
either. According to tradition, this is Sunday, the day when Jesus rose from
the dead, and when the Holy Spirit first descended on the infant Church at
Pentecost. If our house is on fire, you can help us put the fire out on Sunday,
but you can’t stain our house or mow our lawn. If keeping the Sabbath was not
important, it would not be one of the ten commandments along with “Thou shalt
not kill” and “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”