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More from Equestria and sleep. The change from being a unicorn stallion to a pegasus stallion has not been without frustration and troubles. Nor has settling into our new place been without its adventures [link] .

First there is the whole thing with the wings and the feathers. I have to remember that I now have two large, strong, additional limbs to get caught on things and knock things over with. Next there is the preening of the feathers for which I am receiving a crash course in. Actually Rainbow Dash has warned me that if I don't learn to take proper care of them that I won't be flying anytime soon. What is worse is that I seem to be prone to morning feathers. Of course this problem is aggravated by Petina rolling over on them while were in bed. In fact in general my personal hygiene has dropped a bit since assuming this pegasi form.

Part of this is due to the fact that when I had been a unicorn I had picked up horn levitation pretty quickly and it had become my all purpose power tool. Now I am quickly trying to learn the skills that many adult ponies have had decades to perfect.

This problem is further complicated because a certain white unicorn mare [link] keeps levitating things up to high for me to easily reach. If I had mastery of flight this might not be such problem but at the moment I am still just an earth pony with a couple odd appendages tacked on to him.

Now when I first arrived in Ponyville one of the exercises that the doctor/ apothecary Charity Hooves [link] gave me was a simple test to help me gain better uses of my hooves for holding and handling objects. Effectively teaching me how use what I refer to as my gecko hooves. This involved roll a ball back and forth between my hooves. Of course once I learned how to levitate things I really didn't follow up on these exercises...Oops. This is something of dilemma for me because even a young unicorn foal masters these skills long before they can use magic to levitate objects. Time to play catch up.

Also I am having to learn how to lip write since I can no longer levitate a quill, pen or a pencil. As such the quality of my writing has, well suffered. And don't even get me started on what my drawings look like.

The object in the top right corner is fire starter that we purchased when we first got the cottage. It is made of brass and is filled with lamp oil. A wick is inserted into a tube that lets it soak up the oil. When one wants to use it, you simply flip its cover lid over and with one hoof depress the spring loaded striker arm while the device steady with your other hoof. Quickly letting go of the striker arm lets the spring spin a small pyrite wheel against a fixed steel element. The shower of sparks generated will usual cause the wick to ignite almost immediate. To extinguish it you simply flip the cover back over and wick is snuffed out.

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More from Equestria and sleep. The change from being a unicorn stallion to a pegasus stallion has not been without frustration and troubles. Nor has settling into our new place been without its adventures [link] .

First there is the whole thing with the wings and the feathers. I have to remember that I now have two large, strong, additional limbs to get caught on things and knock things over with. Next there is the preening of the feathers for which I am receiving a crash course in. Actually Rainbow Dash has warned me that if I don't learn to take proper care of them that I won't be flying anytime soon. What is worse is that I seem to be prone to morning feathers. Of course this problem is aggravated by Petina rolling over on them while were in bed. In fact in general my personal hygiene has dropped a bit since assuming this pegasi form.

Part of this is due to the fact that when I had been a unicorn I had picked up horn levitation pretty quickly and it had become my all purpose power tool. Now I am quickly trying to learn the skills that many adult ponies have had decades to perfect.

This problem is further complicated because a certain white unicorn mare [link] keeps levitating things up to high for me to easily reach. If I had mastery of flight this might not be such problem but at the moment I am still just an earth pony with a couple odd appendages tacked on to him.

Now when I first arrived in Ponyville one of the exercises that the doctor/ apothecary Charity Hooves [link] gave me was a simple test to help me gain better uses of my hooves for holding and handling objects. Effectively teaching me how use what I refer to as my gecko hooves. This involved roll a ball back and forth between my hooves. Of course once I learned how to levitate things I really didn't follow up on these exercises...Oops. This is something of dilemma for me because even a young unicorn foal masters these skills long before they can use magic to levitate objects. Time to play catch up.

Also I am having to learn how to lip write since I can no longer levitate a quill, pen or a pencil. As such the quality of my writing has, well suffered. And don't even get me started on what my drawings look like.

The object in the top right corner is fire starter that we purchased when we first got the cottage. It is made of brass and is filled with lamp oil. A wick is inserted into a tube that lets it soak up the oil. When one wants to use it, you simply flip its cover lid over and with one hoof depress the spring loaded striker arm while the device steady with your other hoof. Quickly letting go of the striker arm lets the spring spin a small pyrite wheel against a fixed steel element. The shower of sparks generated will usual cause the wick to ignite almost immediate. To extinguish it you simply flip the cover back over and wick is snuffed out.