The most important rule of dog-walking in Oregon

Bring your rain coat.

Even if you don’t think you’ll need it.

Basically from Mid-September thru May.

I took Koko out recently on one of those the-weather-can’t-make-up-its-mind days and I left the coat at home. Big mistake.

We walked out and looked left – beautiful!

Then looked right – not so beautiful.

The clouds looked a little ominous but I figured we’d beat the rain before it moved in.  Basically I was too lazy to walk back up to the apartment for a jacket “just in case”.  And two seconds later the sprinkling started.

We made it almost all the way around our loop before it started to sprinkle harder.

And then a little harder, going from the sprinkle category to full on rain.

And a little harder (I wish that was a UFO and not a “something” on my phone lens!).

And then we moved from the rain category to a full on downpour / dumping / drenching.

Koko didn’t seem to mind though, she just shook it off and kept going.

Weather: 1     Sarah: 0

Lesson learned.