twilightpony | Hay Anything (And Everything) Feast

It's just about time for the first cut harvest. Cloudsdale gave us one last shower this morning, leaving dozens of drained, white fluffy clouds behind. Then Pinkie threw us her 'Surprise Hay Harvest Make Way For The New Harvest Feast And Party Party' at Sugar Cube Corner. It was after sundown so Dash could make it and so Applejack could join us after tending her acreage. We had Sugar Cube Corner to ourselves. Pinkie planned this party earlier than last year because this year the first cut will overlap with the Summer Sun Celebration holiday, and not even Pinkie can be two places at once.

Since it was a surprise party, Pinkie only told us about it when she handed out invitations an hour before. Or in Rainbow Dash's case, as soon she got home. Balloons were involved.

This year I suspect she got extra help from Applejack in decorating Sugar Cube Corner. Not only were the tables replaced with straw bales draped in red checkered tablecloths, but along with the paper lanterns, drying fresh cut hay hung in bunches from baling twine crisscrossing the ceiling, and more hay filled apple baskets along the walls.

Of course, Pinkie and the Cakes prepared and served hay in every way imaginable. Hay soup, hay crackers, hay bread, sweet and sour hay silage, hay tourtiere, crispy fried hay, hay casserole, fresh cut hay salad, hay smoothies, hay ice cream, hay cake, hay cookies, hay tea... With the fresh green hay in the baskets, Pinkie and Rarity braided hay tiaras and necklaces for all of us to wear. I still have mine. I'm still deciding whether to eat them tomorrow or keep them, like Maud Pie does with her rock candy necklaces. I couldn't eat them now, I'm so full I feel like I'm going to pop.