Yes, I remember quite well what it was like to live in Massachusetts. Its seemed like it took forever for the summer to come, and then it was all too short. Now is really the best time to thong in Mass. because the sun is at its highest point. My backyard used to get covered up by the trees in August.

I now live in Florida, and it's great but not quite perfect. The nearest thong friendly beach in quite a drive away, and you really need to go for the day to make it worth while. The spring is great, but during the summer we get a lot of very strong thunder storms, it seems everyday. I've got a great backyard though with a pool, sometimes I can even be out there in January and February.

I think a lot of people wear thongs at home and around the yard. The rule of thumb is "People wear them more, where less people can see." I think you should start thonging once the weather gets better and let the chips fall where they do. I suspect you will notice a couple of surreptitious peeks from neighbor windows but once they have seen you once or twice the novelty will wear off.

If you want to be cautious about it then socially inoculate your self. You do this by meeting the people first. It's generally true that peoples first opinions count. If they have met you socially then they are less likely to be thinking "The weirdo next-door" and more likely to be thinking "That's Mr xxxxx out in his yard" So do what you can to fit into the community. Join the local residents association, talk to every neighbor you can, get to know them, go running in the mornings and say hi to every one, etc.

A good plan is to hold a party, maybe a house warming or something. (A regular party, not a thong-pool party). Invite the neighbors who overlook your yard on the excuse that you would prefer that they be at your party instead of phoning the police about the noise! Or if they have kids, that you don't want any one to feel left out. Go round in person to invite them. Even if they don't come, you will have opened up a personal communication and you may find they invite you in to say hello, or for a cup of coffee. Plan it at least a month out, so you will have time to personally get to invite each neighbor with out being rushed. Take your time in the introductions and let them know what skills and resources you bring to the neighborhood. Are you a computer whizz do you have a fabulous set of tools? People think better of others when they know them, have been extended hospitably by them, and are a useful resource.

You may not think you bring much value to the community, but you will be surprised. Write out a list of what you do bring. It can be as simple as commuting to down town at 7:30 each morning. Every one needs a ride now and again.

This may seem a lot of work to go through just to keep your neighbors happy. The benefits of being integrated into your community extend much further than that. Learning how to work with your community is difficult and ever evolving but gives life long and rewards. Only one of which is that when they see you thonging in your yard they are less likely to pull the fire alarm and more likely to ask you about what fertilizer you use to keep the grass so green.

I agree JM. Get to know your neighbors. Be friendly and at worst they will think of you as eccentric. If act hermit like it's then you become a weirdo.

   As for the law, It is always in flux because that's the way lawyer's like it. but a general rule is a person cannot approach another person with the intention of being offended. As long as you can demonstrate that you weren't trying to draw attention to yourself, you should be fine.

    It's just like someone deliberately looking through their neighbors windows and then wanting to complain because the neighbors are having sex on the kitchen table. If you don't want to see, don't look.

Off topic: Hurray!!!!!! for me, I am not a begginer anymore.

I must say that I agree with JM. It's best to get to know the neighbors first and make that first impression a positive one.

About thonging in your back yard, I was wondering if you have a privacy fence. I realize that wouldn't shield you from the second story windows of the neighboring house, but I would think that if you were in your own fenced in yard, there would be little that anyone could do to you. Although sometimes all people have to do is spread word that there is a weirdo living in the neighborhood and that by itself could cause tension. Best thing is to learn a little about the neighborhood and take it from there.

I have a 6 foot privacy fence and last year I spent a good bit of the summer laying out by my pool working on my tan. As of yet, I haven't received any indications that any of my neighbors noticed me thonging out back, but I always keep in the back of mind that at anytime, someone could easily walk through my side gate and catch me there. If they do, then there is nothing I can say if they are offended, but quite honestly, the only person that might see me would be the meter reader.

Congrats on the new house and I hope that you get to fully enjoy the thrill of owning your own home. Good luck and Happy Thongin'.

I try to be discreet while thonging in my backyard and stay in the backyard only.  I also keep some shorts and a towel andy just in case.  PA has had a case legal case of an man wearing a thong in his back yard while cutting the grass and gardening.  His neighbors call the cops.  He was later cleared of indencey charges but this was after he spent some time in the local jail and had to cough up some cash for legal fees. 

During the daytime hours of the summer I like to thong while sunbathing.  I don't have a privacy fence around the backyard, but we do have some trees and bushes blocking the view to the backyard.  I try to beware of who is in the area.  Kids and others use a path behind our house as a shortcut to the next street.  My next door neighbor has seen me in a number of times and even has come up to me and had long conversations while I has in my thong.  She is in her early 60's and is an artist, so I guess the human body is no big deal to her.  But the people in the house directly behind mine are not so progressive.  I remember one summer day when they came home and saw me in my orange g-string thong.  They all could not believe that some one would wear someting so skimpy.  I saw the husband and wife pointing at me and making comments.  We are not on friendly terms with these folks to begin with due to other reasons.

  We also have a hot tub in our backyard.  We do have a 6 foot high fence around 2 sides of the hot tub. During the day I will wear my thong in the hot tub, but at night my wife and I like to go buck naked.  Our kids like to skinny dip at night as well.  We run our hot tub all year round, even in the winter with snow flying.

When I moved to Florida I arranged to have a 6 foot high fence constructed around my screened in pool, spa and deck. Since there are not two story houses around my home, the only way that neighbors can see me is if they walk up and peer over the fence. If that's what they want to do then they can blame themselves if they are offended.

I have neighbors who have never showed an interest in being neighborly despite numerous attempts on our part.  Therefore, when I wear my thong in the back yard, I do not care what their reaction.

FYI, they have neve expressed any negative comments either.

Each day is getting warmer and I'll be likely tanning in the backyard in my thong.  This past Saturday, my M-I-L invited us over to swim and enjoy some Texas-style BBQ brisket (smoked, very little sauce). I was at work, so my wife grabbed a few of my bikinis: my orange Joe Snyder Rio bikini and my lemon Joe Snyder thong. I guess she already wants me to wear very little for the swim season.  When I got there, my kids and step-F-I-L were already in the pool. I quickly changed into the orange rio bikini and hopped in the water. Brrr! We swam for a bit, my son wanted to show off his improving swimming skills. I ordered the kids out a little while later when their chins were chattering away. Of course, they refused to go without a fight. My wife got the kids into dry clothes, but she didn't want me to change. She wanted to see more of me in the tiny bikini. While getting stuff ready to eat, I showed my M-I-L the other thong my wife brought for me to wear. She said to wear it next time.

This past week, we were offered a free used hottub. We gladly accepted. We know the people and that they kept it well-maintained.  Apparently, they got a new jacuzzi bathtub and they use it more.  So, after it's setup and working, there will be plenty of hottub parties with thongs. My M-I-L let it be known that she'll be visiting a lot more to enjoy. I also let her know that the hottub is Clothing-Optional and that she could see me in my thongs or nothing at all. An additional privacy fence will be setup around the hottub, so she may thong too. Who knows?

I had a very notable experience a few years ago, resulting from my tanning and mowing the lawn in a thong, and sometimes surrupticiously laying nude on a reclining chair, all  in my back yard.  I lived on a golf course and a community rule was that no one could construct a fence higher than 3 feet within something like 25 feet of the golf course property (so that neighbors' views of the golf course were unobstructed).

One day my next door neighbor lady---a single woman in her sixties---employed a handyman to construct an eight-foot, solid wood fence between us, right up to the golf course.  Turns out she didn't like seeing me wearing so little!  So I had to sue her to get the fence removed.  (It really interfered with our golf course view, and this had a deleterious effect on my property value.)

The case never made it to court before she realized the fence had to be removed.  Turns out that:

1.  People may be nude if they're on their own property and can't be seen from public property.  (Therefore, they are not "nude in public".)

2.  The golf course was privately owned!  So the fence came down.

Glad I hired a lawyer to learn the law and my rights!  I live in Oregon.  People should check their state's statutes.  There's always someone out there who's determined to take away your rights.

I worked in my backyard for most of the day yesterday in only a thong and sandals. Since it was going to get into the upper 90's (ended up at 97 F), I put on some sunscreen and filled a large insulated cup with ice water.  I mowed the lawn, trimmed the edges, installed an above ground water fountain, planted some jasmine, and set up the splash pool (which is big enough for my whole family).  I have a corner lot, so there were lots of cars driving past.  Any pedestrians could've looked between the slats of my privacy fence and got an eyeful. I'm sure my neighbors right next to my house could've seen me since their front door pretty much opens into my backyard.   Any breeze that came up felt wonderful.  At the end of the day, I noticed that my thong tanline is looking more distinctive.  It was a good day - got a lot of work done in only my tiny thong.

This weekend will be more of the same in my backyard. I'll be wearing only a thong when I dig out space to install a pad for a hot tub my wife's step-sister is giving us.

I planned on getting a lot of work done in my backyard over the long weekend, but the off-and-on rain forced me to make some adjustments.  My son's swim meet was cancelled Saturday morning, so we took the kids to see Madagascar. The sun was blasting down by Saturday afternoon, so the kids and I played in the pool and with some water balloons my son bought. I wore my orange thong. When I was out of the pool filling and tying the water balloons, I heard the neighbor's door shut. Their door overlooks my backyard, so whoever went in got a clear view of me.  The kids and I had a great time cooling.  We got done playing and dinner was ready and I was picking up the dropped towels and such, when I heard the same neighbor's door chime open again. I looked over and saw one of the couple's mother with a huge grin on her face trying to make eye-contact with someone inside that house.  The family that lives there is my age, so this lady could've been the visiting mom.  My secret's been blown (but I'm not worried)!

Yesterday, I was able to start digging out the grass and attempting to level the ground for the hot tub pad.  Of course, only wearing my lemon-colored thong (with shoes).  I got it dug out, but will need to add a gravel layer.  The sun felt good on my bare skin, and I had my wife take a photo of me working.

I have lots of work to do in my backyard, so plenty of opportunity for me thong and work on that tanline.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, I got to do a lot of yardwork in the backyard wearing only a thong and sandels.  I did the usual mowing the lawn, pruning the shrubs, pulling weeds and maintaining the pool.  The pool is still on the cool side for me but with the temperature being in the high 80's and 90's, it won't take long for the water to warm up.

My neighbor behind us, was doing some painting on the facia board of his two story house sure got an eyefull of me (we are separated by a 6' tall redwood fence).

Yesterday was an awesome day. Extremely hot here in the midwest.  I have been wearing my solar sliding front and back string bikini over the past week or so.  My wife has frowned on my wearing it. I finally told her last week that she might as well get used to me wearing minimal swimwear. (She's known that I prefer thongs for underwear for quite a while now).  Today she actually encouraged me to wear the slider. 

Trust me I took advantage and slid it to as small as it would go...front and back. Her comment was that if the guy next door (yards are kinda close together) can mow his lawn in just his shorts with his gut hanging over, then why  shouldn't I be out in my thong....kewl!!

She even got up the courage to go topless while in the pool.  I never thought the day would come.  It was a great afternoon of fun in the sun.

Congrats on your bravery ThongBoy. You will find that with each day, you will become more comfortable about wearing them. As for your parents finding out, that is something you will have to work out. Each parent has different outlooks on matters of such. Hopefully your parents will be open minded enough to listen if you decide to let them in on your secret. As long as you are in the privacy of your own backyard, I don't see any harm.

Now as for my backyard thongin', it has come to a temporary halt due to the colder temps. I also lost a good portion of my privacy fence during a recent storm, but will be sure to have it all replaced by the next tanning season.

I think JM Runs speaks wisely about attempting to build neighbor trust before we are seen wearing little or nothing in our backyard.  Above, I wrote of my neighbor experience, but I failed to mention that I had previously initiated friendly neighbor contact when I, as a professional musician, learned that she was a piano teacher.  I was even into her home to see her twin pianos, but she never visited my home.  So when she decided to have the handyman build an illegal six-foot fence between our yards as a way of shielding her tender eyes from my thonging and nude sunbathing, and I went over to her house during the construction in order to have her stop, she beat it into the house and stayed in there to avoid me.  She wouldn't answer her doorbell, either.

So I tried to build confidence and I tried to intercede before I called my lawyer.  Too bad.  This ended up costing us both a lot in lawyer fees, and fortunately it was settled before we went to court.  I have to think that either she didn't think about the expense of violating ordinances, or she just didn't think I would sue.

Just thought I'd bring up this experience so that readers of this board will realize that, even though you may try everything to establish rapport with neighbors, you can never outguess what they'll do next, when motivated.

likewise thong and go nude in my back garden. I take the view that it is my garden and if the neighbours want to look then that's up to them