Autumn Treats

For supper we ate spaghetti squash. Not straight, Spike chopped them in half, loosened up the filamentous pulp in the rind and filled the halves with oats, fresh ground green alfalfa sauce and cubed carrot chunks. The oats were boiled until so soft and juicy that they pop when you bite them. I ate three of these half squashes, along with the sweet third cut hay they were served on. That was probably two too many. The fattening season is at a full gallop.

Nightmare Night is a big thing in Ponyville and already ponies everywhere have been decorating their houses. Earlier today when Spike and I went shopping at the bazaar, we picked up candy for Nightmare Night as well. Even though the castle is just outside of Ponyville, quite a few fillies and colts come knock on my door. My plan was to beat the last minute rush when all that's left for Nightmare Night treats are baby carrots, apples and sugar cubes, but I didn't want to stock up on candy to too early; Spike would eat it all. We got dried sweet and sour cherries, candied dried crabapples dipped in chocolate, peppermint oil alfalfa cubes, rock sugar and a big basket of Pinkie's rock candies from Sugarcube Corner. The dried sweet and sour cherries are the best of the lot. If I wasn't so very stuffed with squash, I'd be tempted to snack on a few.