Do you like the outdoors?

[SwimOdin]

For 19/20ths of my life, I was an indoor kid. Video games, computer, tv? Yes. Sunlight, fresh air, activity? No. The pandemic changed that for me and got me outside and loving it. Now I feel like a transcendentalist if I sit under a tree.

 

So, have you always been an outdoor person, a nerd, or something in between?

 

pic related, I’m sitting under this right now

[Raptorpat]

Using the outdoors seems nice when I'm stuck indoors, but my old-lady-palace was so overgrown that once I'm out there working in futility on reclaiming it I just kinda give up after a while.

Protip: don't plant an aesthetically pleasing plant if it also happens to be an incredibly invasive vine with roots and shoots that span the entire property, because once you let it go it's already too late.

[lupin_bebop]

I used to like the outdoors as a kid, because I’d have fun and had a reason to go outside. I used to play basketball, soccer, volleyball, etc. outdoors. Also used to explore and discover things and free run. 
As I got older, I have hated being outside more and more. I still LIKE being outside, but only if I have a reason to. Like, going swimming or mowing or something that has some sort of destination/result attached. Otherwise, I stick indoors. 

[Sawdy]

The things I do indoors are frowned upon outdoors…. 
 

Serious answer - I do… I have a few spots in the state parks here where I can just sit and read or fish, and no cell phone service… it’s amazing. 

[André Toulon]

I mean, I was a poor kid in the south....outside was almost all I had....when mama got a better job, I spent more time inside because we had cable and I could rent more games.

As an adult, if I don't have to be outside I usually avoid it but sometimes you need to ....dare I say, touch some grass

[DragonSinger]

I like outside when I know I can get back inside within the day. Camping would make me anxious as hell. Outside isn't as fun as it used to be now that I have to worry about my deadly allergy flying and stinging my ass nearly all times of the year because it stays warmer. Eating at a picnic table shaded by trees and a good distance away from trash bins is still a top ten life experience for me. It's usually peaceful and a nice mix of modern comfort and nature. Shoutout to whoever put a Burger Fi next to a park because you can just walk to a table with fresh hot food.

[NewBluntsworth]

Yes I live outside

[tsar4]

Depends on the "outside".  I prefer green, not gray & black.  That's one of the main reasons I left Chicago, "greener pastures" in the non-idiomatic sense.  I could still stand for even greener.  The solitude of a forest with a creek.  I've lived near creeks & rivers as a kid & loved to backtrack up them. 

If I could choose an existing house to live in, it would be Fallingwater, despite it being a bit too big.

[SwimOdin]

1 hour ago, DragonSinger said:

I like outside when I know I can get back inside within the day. Camping would make me anxious as hell. Outside isn't as fun as it used to be now that I have to worry about my deadly allergy flying and stinging my ass nearly all times of the year because it stays warmer. Eating at a picnic table shaded by trees and a good distance away from trash bins is still a top ten life experience for me. It's usually peaceful and a nice mix of modern comfort and nature. Shoutout to whoever put a Burger Fi next to a park because you can just walk to a table with fresh hot food.

We might live close to one another, there’s a Burger Fi up the road with a park. Or maybe they do that everywhere.

[Seight]

It's nice when it isn't hot, so...maybe 7-8 months out of the year at this point.

[katt_goddess]

I grew up in the middle of nowhere near the Canadian border. I spent as much of my time as I could running in the woods, swamps, and meadows with all the wildlife like the feral creature I am. If you wanted me, I was probably deep in the woods somewhere, up a tree, reading a book and surrounded by cats who also decided to hang out in a tree. As long as there was plenty of shade, I was fine. 

Now I live in a city environment. Photo-sensitive, I tend to only be outside early in the mornings before the sun can really start to cause damage in order to get a little fresh air while reading. There is a tree outside my window that I sometimes sit under on my day off to relax but it's currently relaxing a giant ditch-witch so that's out. I bike everywhere so that probably counts but otherwise I prefer the indoors. That's where all my crap is. 

I am not the person to go camping with. My body temp drops really fast once I'm asleep and more than once people have panicked because I was cold and not moving in the morning.  I'm just hibernating, leave me alone. 

[💜 mahala_la_la]

Spent a lot of my youth outside, but now I'm only outside if it's absolutely necessary.  Mostly because the weather isn't nearly as tolerable.

[discolé monade]

i have to be outside at least 1x/day. i do not like staying indoors, and i get antsy. 

indoors meant being grounded as a kid. and i hated that. being grounded for months at a time probably added to that by middle school. 

i was always an outdoor kid. latchkey gen and all that jazz. 

be home when the street lights came on. 

[Vamped]

On 8/20/2022 at 3:22 PM, DragonSinger said:

I like outside when I know I can get back inside within the day. Camping would make me anxious as hell. Outside isn't as fun as it used to be now that I have to worry about my deadly allergy flying and stinging my ass nearly all times of the year because it stays warmer. Eating at a picnic table shaded by trees and a good distance away from trash bins is still a top ten life experience for me. It's usually peaceful and a nice mix of modern comfort and nature. Shoutout to whoever put a Burger Fi next to a park because you can just walk to a table with fresh hot food.

The only way I go camping is if I can go camping like Pete in the Goofy Movie 

[viperxmns]

Yes, either an outing to the botanix garden or going birdwatching somewhere

Often need some outside time for sanity, esp on nice days

[Top Gun]

I am very much an indoor cat. I've spent a few days at a stretch this summer not even setting a toe outside, and I barely even noticed.

[Jman]

Depends on what the “outdoor” is.  I’ve gotten into bike rides when it’s nice out, and I like hanging out by the beach and the pool, especially in the era of wi-fi and tablets.

But rain and the like?  I’ll pass.

[little_girl_lost]

I'm an inside kid.

 

In fact the other night my job had an emergency, they called me out of bed, so run to work in my night clothes (shorts and slippers) something must have bit me while I was outside, cuz I woke up the next morning with this

 

[Sawdy]

9 minutes ago, little_girl_lost said:

I'm an inside kid.

 

In fact the other night my job had an emergency, they called me out of bed, so run to work in my night clothes (shorts and slippers) something must have bit me while I was outside, cuz I woke up the next morning with this

 

Looks like a wolf spider but… if it develops necrosis… that’s a brown recluse sista… the bit marks look to far apart tho

[scoobdog]

25 minutes ago, Sawdy said:

Looks like a wolf spider but… if it develops necrosis… that’s a brown recluse sista… the bit marks look to far apart tho

Necrosis usually takes only a few hours, right?

[Sawdy]

1 minute ago, scoobdog said:

Necrosis usually takes only a few hours, right?

My friend it didn’t hit her for a day, but it became a bullet hole quickly front there

[scoobdog]

Just now, Sawdy said:

My friend it didn’t hit her for a day, but it became a bullet hole quickly front there

You don't want to mess around with Brown Recluses.  We have bit of overgrowth in our yard, so you never go out there without long pants and closed shoes.

[little_girl_lost]

I got this bite on friday night/ early saturday morning around 2:15 am, i went to bed, woke up around 9:30 am to find an itchy bump the size of a hive, i ignored it, but some hours later it swelled up and got the big red circle around it. its still swollen and itches, but i'm not touching it except to keep it clean with isopropyl.

[Sawdy]

3 minutes ago, little_girl_lost said:

I got this bite on friday night/ early saturday morning around 2:15 am, i went to bed, woke up around 9:30 am to find an itchy bump the size of a hive, i ignored it, but some hours later it swelled up and got the big red circle around it. its still swollen and itches, but i'm not touching it except to keep it clean with isopropyl.

Most likely wolf spider… it would be hurting like a puncture wound with heat behind it

[nameraka]

sure.

there's a state park up the street with about a 900 ft mountain that I used to hike regularly back when I had weekdays off. beautiful up there.

I don't go anymore because on weekends all the shitheads come down from the city and you can't see the trails for all the people. 

so, yes. I like the outdoors. like most things, I just wish it had fewer people in it. 

 

[Sieg67]

Aside from the things out there that bite me and the sun burning my paper white skin, I enjoy being outside.
Not that I do it all that often.

Edited August 24, 2022 by Sieg67

[StarPanda]

I love the outdoors 

and I also love the Indoors