Rain

(This is a story written by my grandson, Jakob, when he was eight years old.)

Rain

by 8 yr. old Jakob Harland; written on Feb. 15, 1998

Rain is a very special thing. You don’t get it very much. You only get it about 200 times a year. I like rain because it makes plants grow and fruit. It’s also fun to run through. I like the clouds because they are usually fat, and we call them fat people. Something I don’t like about rain is that sometimes it makes a flood, or it gets the place all muddy. After it rains, flowers grow, oranges grow, and we make juice to sell. Sometimes we plant seeds like pumpkins, flowers or vegetable plants.

Once I was running through the rain and my parents took pictures of me petting the dogs, riding the horse or running around and doing all that in the rain. There's a lot of pictures of me in the rain, and I think it is one of the best things in the world. Without rain there would be no flowers, no vegetable plants, no lemon trees, no pumpkin patches, no orange trees or apple trees. Animals, plants, oceans and humans need rain just like they need air, food, and love.