For purely selfish reasons - and medicinal ones - I BEG that we get smow over rain.
After bracing up the neck and layering like the stay puff marshmallow man, then bracing up each girl indiviually and doubly (with an anti-pull and choker for extra protection), I then SHOULD have to take them right out front or across the street....
With the rain, even having deeply treaded, non-skid, anti-slip shoes, I have almost bitten the bullet.
And, as much as they seem to dislike the bath from the sky, it takes them longer to find their "right" spots.
Cleaning the three of us after, in the correct healing mode, then puts me straight on a course to napville.
Smow, on the other hand seems to be so much less messy, less risky and the girls are very happy to have the big flakes all around them.