Wizzy Wiggs Saga — day three

Check out my husband’s entry to this challenge at: http://danhoyt.livejournal.com/20149.html?view=18101#t18101

And now my friend Kate Paulk has joined the fun:  http://katepaulk.livejournal.com/2794.html

 The Wiggs
Elf Hollow

Dear Mom and Dad,

I write in haste.  What a disaster today was.

It seemed like such a good idea too.  A single elephant could pull the entire sleigh no matter how loaded.

However, the elephant, being the size it is, when interacting with the magical field seems to cause… well… there is no other way of putting it, its own gravity.

We took off at a sharp incline and as soon as we were off the ground, we found ourselves orbiting the pachiderm’s behind in an ever narrowing circle.  Meanwhile, the temporometer was clicking maddly forward and then backward and then forward again.

It’s all a blur…  We hit the elephant’s butt and… well…. there is no delicate way to explain the next few seconds.  Let’s just say the excrement hit the sleigh.  Tons of excrement.

I thought that I could design a mechanism to counter the pull of the elephant’s nether regions, but Boggs — who is truly not a positive thinker — doubted me.

At any rate, people in the physics department at FAUGH say our test caused the Earth’s orbit to slow down enough that it threw the entire year off and they asked that we not use elephants again.

So… tomorrow… alligators.

Your Son,

WW

PS – Oh, don’t worry about the calendar, the guys in the physics dept are great.  They managed to contain the damage so that it will be okay if we just add an extra day every four years.  There’s also something with minutes every year.  They said not to worry about it.  It was a much bigger mess with the experiment with the pudding, back when we had to change from Julian to Gregorian calendar.