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Hang Umbrella

It hasn’t rained in a while… I’m not complaining, it’s been absolutely wonderful.

Yesterday I stood in the blistering cold to catch a glimpse of Santa at the parade,

It was so cold and windy that folks, especially families with small children left halfway through, but the general consensus was “at least it not raining”

Yes, we do get a lot of rain here and we talk about the weather just as much.

I was a tad anxious about the rain when I decided to move here, I wasn’t sure what to expect.

I’d read a lot about the rain, I’d heard people call the city Raincouver.

Someone said living here was like living in a tropical rainforest without the tropics.

I got an umbrella the first day I got here and it rained the next day.

I imagined I’d need a rain coat.

I went to several stores but couldn’t seem to find a raincoat; I was looking for colourful ones like I used to wear when I was little.

I got laughed out of several stores; no one sold raincoats and couldn’t understand why I’d want one.

An elderly shopkeeper finally took pity on me and said,

“Honey, hardly anyone wears raincoats here, just get a good umbrella, a good pair of waterproof boots and maybe a water repellent coat”.

And that’s exactly what I did, and I’ve been rain ready ever since.

Rain Boots & Umbrella E

As someone said, there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.

I finally got rain boots this year, which I’m enjoying very much.

I thought I was going to have to wear them forever when we got over twenty-three days of rain last month.

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