Part 2 of the Earth Series. Click here for Part 1
After about 1,000 years, parts of the divot started to whine about being cold. The bottom part of the blob near the left edge could feel the warmth on its toes, so one night it tried to sneak down the globe. But just as it was pulling away, the rest of the blob grabbed it. For a long time (about 1,000 years), the sliding blob kept sliding and the grabbing blob kept grabbing, so pretty soon they made a string thing between them the way you do if you try to pull taffy apart after you’ve been chewing it for a while and one blob sticks in your hand (or your mouth) and there’s a string thing to the other blob in your other hand (or Terry’s mouth). The string thing the blobs made looked like a tail hanging down from the big blob but it wasn’t one; it connected the blobs. The north big blob we call “North America” and the south one “South America”. Mostly we call the in-between, stringy part “Mexico” but sometimes “Central America”. (We can’t use “Middle America” because the parts in the northern blob that got stuck in Missouri and Kansas already took that name.)
The blob near the right edge felt the warmth on its toes too. It was bigger and quicker than the other blob but it got tired sooner, which means it pushed south quickly but ran out of steam and didn’t get very far, though some lower bits did fall off and stick closer to the bottom of the globe, near Antarctica, where the penguins live when they’re not in the movies.
All this time, God kept watering the blobs when they got too dry. (He tested this by throwing rocks (meteors) at them to see how much water came out from the holes they made (not counting tears from the crybaby blobs). He also filled the in-between parts with water to give animals and people a place to swim and take trips. (The only time the animals and the people took a trip together about 1,000 years later when God, who was watching to make sure Jesus didn’t fall in one of the waters, accidentally over-watered a spot and made everybody jump on a big boat that Noah made (even though people laughed at him) — except the dinosaurs, who weren’t allowed on board because the big ones ate too much and the smaller ones ate too many.)
About 1,000 years later God invented animals. He took the clumps and the sticky parts of the blobs and mashed them with his hands and then twisted and turned them in his fingers to make heads and things. He started off with the elephants and rhinoceroses and giraffes because they were the easiest. He was proudest of the birds because they came out so beautiful and were the hardest to make because they were so little. After he was finished, he had some leftover bits and pieces, which he stuck together every which-a-way, which is how we got the platypus. The monkeys made him laugh so much –even the ones who had different names like Baboon and Orangutan and Chimp — he made another kind of monkey with less hair (so they would turn different colors when the sun hit them) and called them humans.
Then God took a rest for about 1,000 years and let everyone play with everybody else.
(Go to http://grantidotes.com/earth-teenage-years/ for Part III of this 3-part series.)