Rain - just a little

Okay, so I shouldn't have said anything about rain yesterday because it rained today. It wasn't a serious rain, mind you. It had just kind of decided to go ahead and do it and it hadn't built up a head of steam yet. After our first walk in the rain we went out to MEC and cased the rain gear. Being wet on the bottom half of your body is miserable. It awakens memories of wet accidents in the early childhood. Warm blankets turning wet. As a species we hate being wet. Rain pants, then, with longjohns underneath. The thing is when it is raining temperature is crucial. You need to know so that you can decide about layers. Is it a three layer day or a four layer day on top? You don't want to be more wet from sweat than from the rain itself. It was confusing this morning because my iPhone said 9 C and our home thermometer said 11.9 C – a huge difference in terms of layers. Then you need to decide: hood or umbrella. Having been raised in Calgary, I still hold a slight bias against umbrellas. They are effete the oil barons said. But here's the thing. You can look around more under an umbrella, a crucial element in any walk. Looking at the sky even a little makes a walk or breaks a walk. Even today with the clouds when we turned east on Viewlynn as the sun rose behind the clouds we could still see a distant mountain range and all was right with the world. Our hoods are like blinkers, we can see neither up nor to the sides. Just the wet pavement in front. Hardly worth the effort. Need to think that through. 'Cause the rains are a comin'. That we know for sure.