Hang 'Em High
Feb. 24th, 2016 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyCanterlot looks very pretty. It's three days until Hearth's Warming and it looks like everypony in Canterlot had a hoof in decorating the streets together. A lot of houses had star shaped lamp posts framing their walkways and Applejack really liked those. When we passed by a shop selling them we ended up buying a bunch for the castle and some more strings of lights, bright ones.
Rarity bought green cloth and several huge bolts of really heavy duty red cloth. We rented a cart to haul all that to the train station. Back in Ponyville, Applejack went home to get her hay cart and we took it all straight to the castle. Then we stopped for lunch.
After lunch, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie set up the street lamps on the balconies. Fluttershy and I helped Rarity bring over her sewing equipment to turn the new cloth into ribbons and bows. First a red "ribbon" that was as wide as the castle entrance hall walkway. When that was finished I traded places with Pinkie Pie to help Dash and Applejack hang it on the castle, and Rarity got to work on a giant green ribbon, complete with a frilly pleat and the strings of lights. It was early evening when we succeeded in hoisting and tying down that one too. It hangs below the front balcony and above the castle entrance.
Then we had supper. We devoured everything Spike had put on the table. I don't quite remember what all we ate, just that it was delicious. We were all kind of giggly too, we were so tired.
Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie had to go home after that, Dash had to rest up, but Rarity wasn't finished. She had kept some cloth aside to make the bows. Gargantuan bows. Two of them. One for the spire and one for above the door. We had to agree that bows would complete the gift-castle look. So after supper, I helped Rarity hold up the cloth while she folded, tied and sewed it into two identical red bows, with a few long lengths of material in the back to tie it in place on the castle. Then she put some magic in the cloth to stiffen it and hold its shape. That took all evening and I'm very tired. Rarity has gone home. Tomorrow Dash will be back to help me hang up the ribbons and we'll be done.
Rarity bought green cloth and several huge bolts of really heavy duty red cloth. We rented a cart to haul all that to the train station. Back in Ponyville, Applejack went home to get her hay cart and we took it all straight to the castle. Then we stopped for lunch.
After lunch, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie set up the street lamps on the balconies. Fluttershy and I helped Rarity bring over her sewing equipment to turn the new cloth into ribbons and bows. First a red "ribbon" that was as wide as the castle entrance hall walkway. When that was finished I traded places with Pinkie Pie to help Dash and Applejack hang it on the castle, and Rarity got to work on a giant green ribbon, complete with a frilly pleat and the strings of lights. It was early evening when we succeeded in hoisting and tying down that one too. It hangs below the front balcony and above the castle entrance.
Then we had supper. We devoured everything Spike had put on the table. I don't quite remember what all we ate, just that it was delicious. We were all kind of giggly too, we were so tired.
Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie had to go home after that, Dash had to rest up, but Rarity wasn't finished. She had kept some cloth aside to make the bows. Gargantuan bows. Two of them. One for the spire and one for above the door. We had to agree that bows would complete the gift-castle look. So after supper, I helped Rarity hold up the cloth while she folded, tied and sewed it into two identical red bows, with a few long lengths of material in the back to tie it in place on the castle. Then she put some magic in the cloth to stiffen it and hold its shape. That took all evening and I'm very tired. Rarity has gone home. Tomorrow Dash will be back to help me hang up the ribbons and we'll be done.
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