Today’s Susan Sovereign column actually fit the screen of the scanner. Usually I have to post this Sumner Press writer’s work in two pieces. That makes it difficult to read.

This November 8, 2007, column is mainly about daughter Anna’s attempt to save the fish in the family pond in Lawrence County.

You see, there was as little fall rain down in this southeastern part of Illinois as up here in McHenry County.

Dad “Sam commented at the dinner table that all the rain we had received in the last two months must be about one or two teaspoons full.”

“Daddy, was that enough rain to help? And what about the fish in the pond? Are they thirstying from no rain?” Anna asked.

Her dad told her “every little bit helped, and that, if it didn’t rain soon, the fish would have problems.”

The rest of the column tells how Anna tried to help the fish.

It’s here.