Unique and Unusual Elephants

Once upon a time, in a faraway land in Africa, there lived a herd of unique and unusual elephants. They were short and tall, fat and thin, wiry and bony, pink and blue, metal and glass. They were a
happy bunch of elephants who spent their time among the unique and unusual flora, eating fruit and grasses and the leaves of the tradescantia pallida, or wandering jew, and schefflera, or, as we call it, the umbrella tree.
One day, Pinkie, the big, fat, fuzzy momma elephant, said, "Let's have a picnic down by the lake".
The rest of the herd agreed and began to gather fruit and greenery, plus some libation.

The elephants played tag and hide and seek (which was hard to do because of their size)

and frolicked in the lake. Some of the elephants laid on the beach, reading and

chatting with each other. SUDDENLY, the sky darkened and, instead of rain,

table lamps fell from the sky!!

Chalky, the tall white elephant, had a severe injury to the back of his head. Funky, the pretty

little girl elephant, lost an ear and part of her tusk. The paramedics were called (because

every one of the elephants had an iphone) and the injured elephants were quickly rushed

to the veterinarian hospital. Bill, the famous elephant vet, was staying at his

pied-a'-terre in Cleveland.

He was busy baking an apple pie but dropped what he was doing, jumped on a plane and soon arrived in Africa. He was rushed to the veterinarian hospital where he operated on Chalky.

Chalky is recovering nicely, for those of you who are concerned. Funky has to wait for

another vet, who does plastic surgery and the attaching of body parts. They are even hopeful

that Funky's tusk can be re-attached. Probably going to use Crazy Glue, if they can find a

gallon around somewhere.

The elephants returned home to find that they were famous! They were on the news, on

CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and PBS. Fox News reporter, and crazy man, Glenn Beck,

reported that President Obama was seen throwing table lamps out of a plane that was flying

over Africa. Unfortunately, no one got a picture of it. Isn't that strange?!?

When Bill, the vet, returned to his home in Cleveland, he was shocked to find the house

burned to the ground! He had forgotten to turn off the stove and the apple pie.... well,

you know what happened. It is reported that Bill has decided to move to Sylvania, OH.,

a small village to the west of Cleveland. 

NOW TO THE TRUTH!!!!

I wanted to do a blog about my elephant collection so I gathered them up and put them on the

window seat. I was doing a jigsaw on the table and the board scooted to the left and knocked my table lamp right on the elephants. The two elephants in the picture with the killer lamp did break

when the lamp went flying. As I sat there looking at this catastrophe, a story started to

form and this is what the outcome was. Did you notice the elephants on the bags

with the fruit and flora?  And, Bill, did you notice your name???   :-)

And, lastly, the lamp was not injured.