noise."Happy Misgiving! · 3:43pm Nov 23rd, 2017
I think I've mentioned it before, but one of the developmentally disabled adults that I work with conflates Thanksgiving and Christmas into "Misgiving."
So happy Thanksgiving to everypony who celebrates it, and happy Thursday to all the rest. 
I was thinking about writing some sort of inspirational Thanksgiving story. I considered drawing on my experiences visiting the family of one of our group home residents . . . they were a poor, mixed-race family, living on the basement floor of some kind of sketchy apartments, the kind of place I'd rather not go after dark. Just the same, they were warm and loving, and they had lots of food--all of it homemade--and insisted on sharing with me, since I'd brought Mr. H and his friend Mr. M (who didn't have anywhere else to go).
Or another possibility was when I visited a friend in Australia which happened to be over the Thanksgiving holiday. A bunch of the exchange students decided that they'd have a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner. They planned it out in advance, and came to the discovery that you could not get cranberry sauce in Australia, so one of the exchange students got their parents to smuggle in a couple of cans.
These are the kinds of things that I think about at the shop sometimes, because when I'm arm-deep inside an Econoline with your face jammed up against the dashboard, turning a bolt fifteen degrees at a time, I've got nothing else to think about.
That didn't happen, though.
What did happen is I got a booger in my nose, and then I was thinking about how ponies can't pick their noses.
And then I thought about that old bit of wisdom: You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' nose.
I should probably be sorry, but I'm not.
I don't know what time this is actually going to be posted. I'll be home with my parents, and perhaps during a bit of downtime, I'll take a couple of minutes to hit the submit button (I got really good at queuing things up when I was writing Silver Glow's Journal, out of pure necessity). Or maybe I'll be having so much fun, I'll forget, and it'll show up really late Thursday night or Friday morning. I guess if you're squeamish about sticking fingers in noses, you might not want to be surreptitiously reading this at the dinner table. But that's up to you. Can't say I didn't warn you.
This also means that I'll be somewhat offline for the next four days; the cell phone reception at my parents' house is sketchy at best, and while I can use their WiFi, my laptops are also both kinda sketchy. One's old, and one's a lot newer, but got a bath it really didn't want.
Not too much research went into the story, to be honest. I don't know if equines can get boogers (I assume they can, but who knows?); I do know that if the horse is friendly and knows you, you can stick your fingers in there. I wouldn't recommend trying it with just any horse, though.
And this might get cut in editing, but be cautious looking up horse nosebleed on Google Images. It's a real horrorshow.
Ouch Rainbow Dash looks highly annoyed in that photo of her in that turkey getup.
I think that Dash is not finding the joke funny.
Also forgot to mention that the next day at work, I had to scratch my butt.
Horse boogers... only Biscuit.
Since when can't you get cranberry sauce in Australia?
Why isn't it Scoots in the turkey outfit?
words to live by... I guess.
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Ever since that day, Harry has been terrified of Angel.
I love that picture. I bet in Equestria, the first Thanksgiving is when hungry pilgrims were able to find plants thanks to one pony with an animal-talking cutie mark, who got some turkeys to tell them where the best wild vegetables were. Ever since then Equestrians have a Turkey dinner every year, meaning they invite a turkey over for dinner and feed him on this day.
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Excellent term. We all have our share of misgivings around this time of year.
Apropos of nothing: I've had pretty good luck using other tangy jelly/jam products with chicken or turkey. The best so far was a jelly made from some sort of moderately spicy peppers.
PS: You just know the ponies have a tool designed to remove sharp boogers from their noses. Something like a plump cotton-swab?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's twisted the corner of a paper napkin into a long narrow cone and then drilled for the mother-lode...
Dash got that suit for... reasons... involving Gilda and make-believe.
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Yeah, I don't think she wants to be a turkey.
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I have to imagine that she's not. Totally adorable picture, though.
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It's an important topic that no other writer (to my knowledge) has had the courage to discuss.
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I dunno, this was 20 years ago. Maybe it's a thing there now.
Also sorta related, over Thanksgiving, I learned that canned bread is a thing.
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I thought I'd make fun of a different pony for once.
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I have seen one that has Scootaloo dressed up as a turkey and she looks about as pleased as Rainbow Dash does.
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That would be an interesting take on their Thanksgiving (if that's even a thing that ponies do). I could see that, too. It'd probably be either an earth pony or a pegasus that talked turkey, probably.
I also learned a couple of days ago that wild turkeys aren't terribly intimidated by a car.
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Really, though, how would it work? How big are pony nostrils?
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They probably do, but it's not the same as a finger.
I had a friend in high school who did that a lot. It was kind of weird, I thought.
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Dash probably loves role playing . . .
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Yeah, there's a bunch of them out there. Too many to choose from, really.
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I mean, since there's some in my fridge right now, I got really confused for a second.