The Gnome-out Update

gp: March 9, 2010


Just a Quick Update


The meltdown continues at the Great Gnome-out. With yet another date hitting 50 degrees F, the ice at the Grizwald Pond continues to shrink. We are only a day - two at best - away from our brave Gnomes and other Enitities being on an ice island completely surrounded by water.

"Yep", said Mrs Grizwald, the property owner. "She usually melts out the back where the current flows first, then melts out the edges. We usually end up with an ice island in the middle".

Oh Ho! Wouldn't that carefully guarded knowledge have been useful to our Contestants when picking spots!

As our host has pointed out, the back edge of the pond is almost all moving water at this point - and it's Gnub that will likely swim for real first because of this. Gnub, who still hasn't recovered from his last fall, reguardless of how it happened, is the Gnome who was positioned furthest out on the pond. Even as this report is being written, the edge of the water is only inches away from Gnub's prostrate body.

In the only other action for the day, Ptthbshurtmmmm, our largest contestant has finally tilted over, and is down on the ice. This leaves Jakemily Emiljaky - whose mushroom is proving a good idea, and Ribbit still sitting.

Gerald Putzny for Gnome Press International