Rite in the Rain all-weather spiral notebooks are printed on coated paper that sheds water, so notes taken in rain, sweat or mud stay put. We carry three: a 3 x 5 in top spiral, a 4-5/8 x 7 in side spiral and a 5 x 8 in top spiral.

We keep them on the job site and in the shop, and they're just as handy in the kitchen while you work out a recipe. Write with a pencil or an all-weather pen; water-based inks like gel pens and fountain pens bead up on the paper. The covers are Polydura, a tough, flexible plastic, on a Wire-O spiral, and the pages carry Rite in the Rain's Universal pattern of 1/4 in rules over a faint 1/4 in grid, for notes and drawings to scale. The 3 x 5 and 5 x 8 have 50 sheets (100 pages). The 4-5/8 x 7 side spiral has 32 sheets (64 pages) of green paper in a green cover.

Jerry Darling started Rite in the Rain in 1916, after seeing Pacific Northwest loggers struggle to keep their timber counts on paper in the rain. He and his wife, Mary, hand-dipped the first sheets in their own coating at home, and the company still makes its paper in Tacoma, Washington.