Applejack got right to work, kicking and scuffing dirt and dust out of the ground. That was the easy part.

"It's more often than I used to. Back home, running the farm was a full time job. Now I've only got a few little trees and I've got so much time. I wish I could've been this active back home, though."

Sometimes it seemed like half her friends didn't know how to take care of themselves.