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The Horse Snows the Way
Dec. 21st, 2015 11:44 pmToday is the last day of Autumn and the beginning of Winter. Of course there was the Running of Leaves to clear the trees, then together with my friends I raked up the leaves and prepared some of the critters for hibernation in the new denning areas. And then Rainbow Dash made it interesting. She tried to stop Winter.
Rainbow Dash has a pet tortoise that she really likes, although she usually tries to hide her affection. Today there was no doubt -- she tried to keep her tortoise from hibernating.
We were out in the Whitetail Woods raking up the leaves that the Running had knocked out of the trees and expecting snow. Fluttershy swore she had seen a few flakes earlier, but then the skies cleared again. Foals were running around crashing through the piles we'd already made, which was funny to watch, fun for the foals, but not so fun to rake all over again. Fortunately they ran off looking for even bigger leaf piles to scatter and I got my pile loaded on Applejack's compost cart, for use enriching the fields, or to be just piled up to make safe havens for mice, snakes, insect larva and small critters.
So while we were doing that, Applejack noticed something was going spectacularly wrong in Cloudsdale. Next thing we knew, Cloudsdale spat out a giant snowball which went flying straight for us. Fortunately, when it hit, it only buried all of Ponyville and surrounding areas fetlock-deep in snow. Some spots it was knee deep, but generally, the snow spread out pretty evenly. Instant Winter. That put an end to raking the last leaves.
It turned out that the snow dump was Rainbow's fault. She was trying to sabotage Cloudsdale's snow cloud production, and all due to her ridiculous unwillingness to let her tortoise hibernate. Well, she failed and she had to accept that a tortoise has to hibernate. There were a lot of shed tears and I got chided for being insensitive!
This is a friendship problem, and Dash had to see that sometimes a friend needs his rest. Dash is usually so brash, but I think it's her Element of Loyalty that was pushing her buttons here. Tank is very loyal to her and that resonates with her Element. It's probably fortunate for the rest of us that our pets don't embody our respective Elements or we could be saddled with the same feedback Dash gets from Tank. Dash doesn't want to hear any of this and my less than analytical friends aren't helping me, but they helped Dash. That's another Friendship Lesson. Empathy. I just hope Dash doesn't dig Tank up mid-Winter to see if he's alright.
Well, Winter's here and Dash's crisis is over. It's like Algernon97's lesson about Friendship, we can have quarrels and rough moments, but we're friends and we'll always be friends.
Rainbow Dash has a pet tortoise that she really likes, although she usually tries to hide her affection. Today there was no doubt -- she tried to keep her tortoise from hibernating.
We were out in the Whitetail Woods raking up the leaves that the Running had knocked out of the trees and expecting snow. Fluttershy swore she had seen a few flakes earlier, but then the skies cleared again. Foals were running around crashing through the piles we'd already made, which was funny to watch, fun for the foals, but not so fun to rake all over again. Fortunately they ran off looking for even bigger leaf piles to scatter and I got my pile loaded on Applejack's compost cart, for use enriching the fields, or to be just piled up to make safe havens for mice, snakes, insect larva and small critters.
So while we were doing that, Applejack noticed something was going spectacularly wrong in Cloudsdale. Next thing we knew, Cloudsdale spat out a giant snowball which went flying straight for us. Fortunately, when it hit, it only buried all of Ponyville and surrounding areas fetlock-deep in snow. Some spots it was knee deep, but generally, the snow spread out pretty evenly. Instant Winter. That put an end to raking the last leaves.
It turned out that the snow dump was Rainbow's fault. She was trying to sabotage Cloudsdale's snow cloud production, and all due to her ridiculous unwillingness to let her tortoise hibernate. Well, she failed and she had to accept that a tortoise has to hibernate. There were a lot of shed tears and I got chided for being insensitive!
This is a friendship problem, and Dash had to see that sometimes a friend needs his rest. Dash is usually so brash, but I think it's her Element of Loyalty that was pushing her buttons here. Tank is very loyal to her and that resonates with her Element. It's probably fortunate for the rest of us that our pets don't embody our respective Elements or we could be saddled with the same feedback Dash gets from Tank. Dash doesn't want to hear any of this and my less than analytical friends aren't helping me, but they helped Dash. That's another Friendship Lesson. Empathy. I just hope Dash doesn't dig Tank up mid-Winter to see if he's alright.
Well, Winter's here and Dash's crisis is over. It's like Algernon97's lesson about Friendship, we can have quarrels and rough moments, but we're friends and we'll always be friends.
