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Second Cut Short Cut Straight Up
Aug. 9th, 2016 11:36 pmThis afternoon, Big MacIntosh and Applejack rolled up with two carts piled high with soft green bales of fragrant second cut hay. Applejack joked that she selected the best bales, seeing as she was going to be obliged to eat them for all of the coming year. I fired back that this hay wasn't for eating, I was going to stuff mattresses with it. Starlight Glimmer, who was out with me to move the hay, looked shocked. I had to tell her it was a joke.
I waited and chatted with Applejack and Big MacIntosh while Starlight went back inside and climbed the stairs to reach our impromptu "pantry'. She opened the balcony door and called down that she was ready. I levitated the hay.
I lifted the hay from the carts and sent the thirty bales rising in single file, like a string of giant beads, up and through the balcony door, where Starlight Glimmer recovered them. At her end she was in charge of stacking the bales. I let go of each bale as I lost sight of them, and Starlight picked them up from there, dropping them in well ordered rows and columns of small towers of hay. I think that was something she really enjoyed. A place for everything and everything in it's place. She did a good job too, we can easily walk around the stacks and that means air will circulate well too.
Rarity, Spike and Fluttershy went out to the gem cave at dusk to find out where the bats go at night. Spike got back a little while ago and he said it seems they like the marshy areas around Ponyville and Saddle lake. Fluttershy and Amethyst Star are going to study the feasability of establishing bat sanctuaries in those areas. Fluttershy also recommends a seasonal approach to gem collection in the caves, to avoid disturbing the roosts at critical times, such as when the bats are hibernating and when the pups are too young to fly.
I waited and chatted with Applejack and Big MacIntosh while Starlight went back inside and climbed the stairs to reach our impromptu "pantry'. She opened the balcony door and called down that she was ready. I levitated the hay.
I lifted the hay from the carts and sent the thirty bales rising in single file, like a string of giant beads, up and through the balcony door, where Starlight Glimmer recovered them. At her end she was in charge of stacking the bales. I let go of each bale as I lost sight of them, and Starlight picked them up from there, dropping them in well ordered rows and columns of small towers of hay. I think that was something she really enjoyed. A place for everything and everything in it's place. She did a good job too, we can easily walk around the stacks and that means air will circulate well too.
Rarity, Spike and Fluttershy went out to the gem cave at dusk to find out where the bats go at night. Spike got back a little while ago and he said it seems they like the marshy areas around Ponyville and Saddle lake. Fluttershy and Amethyst Star are going to study the feasability of establishing bat sanctuaries in those areas. Fluttershy also recommends a seasonal approach to gem collection in the caves, to avoid disturbing the roosts at critical times, such as when the bats are hibernating and when the pups are too young to fly.
