Bathing Outdoors
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Your bathing outdoor experiences ...
Return to DiscussionsSo ... what are some of your outdoor experiences? We've had 3 homes, including the one we currently reside in and they all had outdoor showers ... each one a bit more updated than the other. During the warmer Spring, Summer and Fall months ... I Always take outdoor showers and even sometimes in the winter. How 'bout some of you?
Growing up we had an outdoor rinse shower in the backyard near to the pool. (Well, it's still there, actually.) It wasn't used frequently, but I always loved as a kid when we had to use it before going in the pool. As I got older, I had my first job at a landscaping company during the summers, and weekends in the spring. I would come home absolutely filthy. My stepdad would hear my car pulling into the driveway and come outside to wave me around back. He didn't want me to get the house dirty, haha. Anyway, I'd go around to the back and undress. Water was always cold but usually felt okay for a hot day. My stepdad or mom would bring me out a towel, and if my clothes were really muddy, they'd have me rinse those under there with me too. I probably spent 4 summers under that shower for about 10 minutes each day! It was a refreshing feeling of course and also a freeing feeling, so I didn't protest too much each time my stepdad summoned me around back to keep the floors and house clean haha. Here's that shower with the memories:
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So ... what are some of your outdoor experiences? We've had 3 homes, including the one we currently reside in and they all had outdoor showers ... each one a bit more updated than the other. During the warmer Spring, Summer and Fall months ... I Always take outdoor showers and even sometimes in the winter. How 'bout some of you?
We are putting in an outdoor shower behind our house near our pool. Can't wait to take it for a test run!
I am in the process of putting in a hot tub and thinking about putting in an outdoor shower near it. the bad side is hear near the Oregon coast we do get temps from 80 - 100 in the summer but that is only for about 6-8 hours then it drops to 50-60 range over night.
Love bathing outdoors and usually use the poolside showers for my morning and night showers too at resorts (ie, not just for when rinsing before/after a dip in pool) instead of the shower in my room. Only time i tend to use the shower in my accommodation is when i need to shave 'down there' as that obviously involves a lot of intimate touching. In saying that though, having never stayed at a nudist campground, i've often wondered what people do when needing to shave and there are only communal showers without separate cubicles to use?
Dont have own pool or garden shower as weather hereisnt suitable for most of the year. If lived in a hotter climate, i'd definitely have my own outdoor shower installed and would use it everyday!
If one does any manual activity here the body get hot and sweaty. Thus if I am working with the plants on the roof terraces the hose often gets turned on my body to keep me clean and cool followed by an air dry session. nothing better.
My first memory of taking an outdoor shower was as a boy at my grandfather's house in upstate NY. We had come back from somewhere and (Dad and my brother) learned that he left a garden hose out in the sun to warm up so we could take a warm shower outside. Even though Dad was totally used to it (it was his father, after all) it was my first experience showering outside. I never forgot that experience and have taken every opportunity to do the same since then.
I now have a basic hose shower permanently mounted outside.
I've been back to taking all my showers outside again but will have to take a rain check for the next few days since ... it's now raining in Southern California! ;-)
What you piked out of talking a free shower, shame on you Andy. What harm would a little rain do?
We've used our outdoor shower often this year. Almost every time I finish with yard work, I clean up under that shower. I say almost, because more than once this year I was able to take a rain shower instead. We also use it to rinse off when we return from a swim in the bayou down the street. I haven't done much sunbathing this year, but when I did it was nice to be able to cool off under the shower between turning over. I also have a misting fan, so that's not entirely necessary. I just like taking outdoor showers :)
The grass is growing slower already, but the pine straw and leaves are falling more rapidly. I expect to take several more showers before it gets too cold here. I'm very happy I took a little time earlier this year to build it!