twilightpony | We Eight Ate and Ate and Ate

Pot luck supper was delicious and full of surprises. Applejack whipped up some kind of poplar bark oat crunch chips with a pureed trout-lily leaf dip. The tangy aroma of the poplar went really well with the sweet dip. Rainbow Dash brought a fresh bedstraw and alfalfa sprout soup. Spike, Starlight and I brought fresh baked oat bread, silage and dandelion blintzes, an assortment of jams to go with them, and third cut hay. Pinkie brought a few dozen cupcakes, all different. Fluttershy brought a mixed spring greens salad made up of oat sprouts, early timothy grass shoots, dandelions, and bedstraw. Rarity brought a crystal corn, beet pulp and hay casserole spiced with saffron.

Between mouthfuls, Spike told everypony, in great and gory detail, all about getting summoned by the Dragon Lord and becoming the Dragon Lord himself, if only for a short while. We were all quite proud of Spike the Brave and Boisterous, or whatever it is they call him in the Crystal Empire. I doubt he'll get a statue out of that adventure, the dragons we observed in the Dragon Lands didn't strike me as being of the type to celebrate cooperation and generosity.

I tossed the Picnic in the Fields Day question over to my friends. They thought it was a good idea. They also voted me to be the one to go see the mayor. I'll do that tomorrow.

After we'd stuffed ourselves silly, we lounged about digesting and chatting. Rarity had brought her sketchbook and pencils and she spent much of the evening sketching out ideas for camouflage-themed clothes. A lot were rock and crystal inspired, these she called camo-Maud clothes. That attracted Pinkie's critical eye, but Fluttershy was attracted by the leafy designs, and she lectured Rarity on and off about different mimicry and survival strategies. Between the two of them, Rarity got an earful.