The rains have started

After spending Friday and Saturday at a conference, I get to enjoy my one-day-weekend with the annual beginning of the "rains". They start in mid-October and usually don't let up until next June. Occasionally we have an hour, half day, or day or sun. But we can mostly expect gloom, clouds, and rain for the next 8 months. :( In spite of this the kids and I took our weekly "coffee-cider walk" this morning. The kids got to try out the new rain-cover for the double stroller. I wore my (less than perfect) rain-coat and got wet.