True Blue Grit

I met up with Rarity, Applejack and Pinkie Pie for muffins and tea at Sugar Cube Corner today. I told Applejack I was thinking of tasking Applebloom to make long chain molecules from plant sources, like reeds or wood. With long chain strands you can make just about any shape.

As for Sweetie Belle, I told Rarity that she was getting good juggling small items, so I want to increase the difficulty and get her make patterns in colored sand, as a way toward visualizing moving air molecules, either as a shock wave or a shield. All I lacked was the sand. So I asked Rarity to dye some sand for me in different colors. Rarity had a better idea.

We went over the the Carousel Boutique with some sand, which she dyed, but she also pulverized some gem stones into sparkly grit and crushed some semi precious rocks too, for variety. As she looked down at the platters of sparkling grit, I could see the flash of inspiration in her eyes. I think she's going to incorporate gem stone grit into cloth for extra sparkle. Sapphire Shores is going to be blinding.

Pinkie got in on the task too. Pinkie knows rocks. She even makes rock candy from rocks (how does that work??). Now I have quite a lot of colored sand in various jars. All the colors of the rainbow, plus white, black, brown and grey.

I stashed the jars of sand and grit in a cupboard at the castle (and I told Spike not to eat them) and I went calling on Zecora. Over a cup of fur-leaf tea from the raised bogs of the Crystal Empire (it's not bad), I explained what I had in mind for Applebloom. Zecora wrote out a few procedures for extracting polymerizing compounds from woody sources for Applebloom to try.

Now, what to have Scootaloo try? Maybe have her build something from components she makes herself, from scratch. Like a composite material.