twilightpony | Good Times

Brrr! It's really brisk outside today! Cold, with a little wind that nips at your hocks and pinches the ears. I wore my soft red cloak with the hood up when I went out this morning. Not many ponies out in the streets when it's cold like this.

Spike and I spent a good part of the day preparing for our planned game night. Baking bread, setting up the candle and stand for the melted chocolate, setting out the cushions, tables, games, quills, ink and paper. Cutting the carrot sticks, mixing the hay salad, making silage salsa and hot beet pulp soup, grating the carrots and apples for the grated apple and carrot salad (with pine nuts!). Setting out tea pots ready to brew peppermint chocolate spice tea, apple cinnamon tea and jasmine tea. Bowls of hay crackers, peppermint sticks, sugar cubes, alfalfa wafers, apple chips and oatmeal sesame seed snap cookies, and a few jars of apple butter. Maybe we over did it.

Sundown and Rainbow Dash was the first to arrive. She called dibs on the Ring Fling game and challenged Applejack to a best of three the moment she walked in the door. I got everypony's cloaks, blankets and saddles hung on coat racks while Spike came down with the soup and lit the candle under the chocolate. Everypony here, we had soup, set up more games and got down to having fun! Mostly, we played Bundle of Sticks and Ring Fling. It's easier to chat and nibble on snacks with those games.

We spent a cozy evening eating and laughing and generally having a good time. We demolished that melted chocolate dip. We dipped hay crackers, carrot sticks, alfalfa wafers, even the fresh bread. That stuff is addictive.

Everypony has gone home now and I've stored away what was left of the salads. Spike ate the last of the salsa. Wouldn't want that to go bad. I guess I'll be eating grated carrot and apple salad with my breakfast tomorrow.