I had a moment of panic last weekend when I realized that not only did I need to write the posts for this week, I needed posts for the days I will be in Nashville.

So this week, instead of reading blog posts (which is what I WANT to be doing) I’ve been looking through pictures, blog drafts and news feeds looking for ideas to fill those three days.

Thankfully, I think I have a plan in place, I just hope I have the time to get it done!

The Importance of Rain Gear

Personally, I like walking in the rain.

It’s relatively bug free. That’s a plus with sweet blood like Delilah’s and mine. For some reason we attract bugs like honey does.

Just about nobody walks their dogs in my neighborhood in the rain.

I’ve worked hard with the dogs on getting them past other dogs and we do remarkably well if the dogs are in their yards, but try to walk these two past a dog walking on the other side of the street and you’re risking a dislocated shoulder.

Considering the amount of snow we had this past winter, we’ve been surprisingly lacking in rainfall. I don’t see it as a problem.  Our lakes and rivers are still high from the snow melt off but our meteorologists keep screaming about high fire risk and that IS a problem.

So these weather peeps have been peeping about rain for the last few days. Some areas of the state got it and some areas close near us got it, but we did not. So I was quite pleased when I woke up Tuesday morning to discover it was raining.

Except I don’t have a rain coat.

But Hubby has this light weight gear designed for fishing, so I borrowed his ‘Gilligan’ hat and rain jacket, harnessed up the dogs and headed out the door.  (Oh, you want to see a photo of me in the hat?)

I don’t know about you, but I wear one particular pair of pants when I walk the dogs. (I can’t walk them in my work clothes because Delilah is such a saliva factory that I am continuously wiping my hands.) The problem with these pants is they fit 15 pounds ago.

Fifteen pounds to the plus and your pants might not fit you (or you could have an incredibly bad wedgie or worse…camel toe) but fifteen pounds to the minus and your pants still fit, although they may need a titch of  help staying up.

My pants are so loose, well, I could pull them down without unbuttoning them. Right handy if you need to pee really badly, but not quite so convenient when walking dogs. Especially two like mine, who trip you, wrap you in leashes, step on your feet…well you get the picture.

To ensure I don’t experience an unexpected breeze in my nether region, get arrested for indecent exposure or traumatize some poor child, I have taken to threading my treat bag strap through my belt loops, which helps hold up my pants.

Back to the story. So here I am in Hubby’s ‘Gilligan’ rain hat, with his X-Large rain jacket on walking my dogs.

The jacket works great! It doesn’t get too hot, because the material is light weight and the rain just runs off it. But there is a tiny little problem.

Hubby’s rain jacket is X-Large and I’m not. So the jacket hits my legs just below my hips. As I mentioned, the rain just runs off it, and because of where the jacket is hitting, the rain runs directly on to my pants. Which wouldn’t be such a problem, if the pants weren’t too big to begin with.

Ah, you’re nodding your head, you see the problem I did not anticipate.

Yeah, my legs get soaked from my crotch to the bottoms of the pants. And water on material is heavy. So the weight of the rain on my pants is pulling the pants down but their also sticking to my legs.

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