Aren’t Rainy Day Walks a wonderful and worthwhile idea. Not surprising that they were originally started by a ‘kid’ anxious and determined not to grow up and out of such a delight, not to waste so much of life on the inside looking out, not to go along with a gloomy forecast and close down to adventure.
The practice is spreading. Manufacturers of Wellington boots are ordering more order books. Names like Splash and Dewdre and Mistelle are appearing in Birth Announcements. Puddle stomping contests are becoming common and irrigation experts are having light bulbs appear above their heads. The sale of water-collecting umbrellas is bumbershooting upward in areas of water restriction. Complexions are becoming dewy and inspiring dewy gazes. Some people have been heard to say, “Drat, a sunny day.”