Prince Preston and the Engines

        There once was a wonderful prince named Preston, who lived with his two brothers, Princes Taylor and Sawyer.  The brothers lived with their parents, the King and Queen, up in the rainy, snowy, windy mountains.

        Preston was in charge of cars, trucks, tractors—in fact, anything in the kingdom that ran with an engine—and he made sure they all kept running properly.  This is a huge job, and he liked doing it.

        One day, the weather went crazy. Not only did the rain fall down in buckets, but then it became cold and windy, and a blizzard blew in, and the snow fell like a heavy blanket. The cold wind blew it around, so no one could see anything at all.

        Prince Preston thought about the problem, and he called his brother.  He said, “Taylor, I need you to ask your friend, Mr. South Wind, to make the cold wind to stop blowing.”   Taylor did.

That warmed things up immediately. Now, something needed to be done to clean up the snow.

        Prince Preston told Taylor and Sawyer that they could get the royal snowplow, the backhoe, and the bulldozer going to move the mess out of the way.  His brothers agreed to help Preston help their people.

        However, just as they went to the royal parking area, they discovered that the vehicles could not even be used.  The storm had tipped a tree onto the royal backhoe. The bulldozer was in a ditch, and the snowplow was completely upside down!    

        Preston decided to pray. “Dear God, please give me a brilliant idea.”  Then he had it!  A brilliant idea.  He looked up at God. “Thank you,” he said.
     He called his cousins Prince Samuel and Bennett in their kingdom, and he told them to come right away in their royal helicopter, bringing their giant.

They arrived without delay.  Their giant friend was happy to lift the tree off the backhoe.   After that, he lifted the bulldozer out of the ditch without any problem, and then he righted the snowplow.   Of course, they had to stop him from pulling up all the other trees while he was at it!

Preston led the parade of heavy equipment as the princes started moving the all the snow away that busy day. 

Of course, the giant helped.  He lifted trees that had fallen across roads, and rocks that had been pushed into the wrong place by snow.  He made as much noise as he could as he threw the rocks back into the mountains.  This made him happy.

When the big job was finished, Preston and the other princes had a big party for everybody who wanted to come celebrate.  The King and Queen let everyone stay up late and have strawberries. Yum!  How glad we are to have a person like Preston on our team.

I wrote this for Preston in March, 2011