Jan 08 2009
Rain is great for walking
I developed a theory years ago that most people are most comfortable in the kind of weather they were born in. So if you were born on a mild spring day, like me, you feel best when it’s between 10 and 15 degrees Celcius, with a slight mist and the smell of fresh mud in the air.
My theory falls apart with my husband, born in the middle of February, who detests snow - though that is more due to the impending shovelling than anything else.
We had some weird weather last night/this morning. It started snowing lat yesterday afternoon, and turned to ice pellets at about 8 p.m. By this morning the temperature had gone from -7 Celcius to about 3 degrees celcius and raining. Shovelling the driveway was back-breaking, but I got it done in about 45 minutes.
Even though I was soaked inside and out (sweaty from the effort and soaked by the rain), all I could think about was going for a nice walk.
I didn’t get out until an hour and a half later, after getting the kids to school and finishing tidying up from breakfast, but man, was the walk good.
My older son doesn’t share my love of walks in the rain, but the younger one does. Maybe that’s because the older one was born in the hottest part of August (pregnancy tip - don’t time your due date for the end of August, it’s horrible), and the other at the end of October.
Or maybe my youngest enjoys the fact that when you take a walk in the rain, you are pretty much the only one out there. And that makes it pretty special.
