September Pony Pals Magazine

Not much time to blog lately, with the September issue and increasing traffic at ClubPonyPals.com

Thanks for stopping by!

August Pony Pals Magazine

 August Pony Pals Magazine

is now online. 

Cats

The darker cat, Smudge, still will not go outside. 

Solstice slow food

Every day here is another item getting bigger. These long days of intense sunlight make things grow so fast. Here in the desert it is a trick to keep them wet enough.

Boysenberries are in.

They take a half hour to pick.

Every day.



Beans are up, they need to be dusted with diatomaceous earth every evening. You can see a slug in this picture, chowing down before the sun hits the plants.

Then there is the tomato garden below, 

with eggplants and onions...and a gopher that I am trying to trap  -- unsuccessfully so far.

 These tomatoes are doubling in size every day. Likely first ones will be ripe in a couple weeks. Why were there no Early Girls this year?  These are Better Boy plants.

The potato garden was slow to start this year but looks good, the sunniest area is just about ready to replant with new seeds.

If potatoes were not so common, they would be a gourmet expensive food. As it is, they are a staple.

Oh, and school is out.  Our site traffic has doubled.  Welcome to summer!

Pony Pals Magazine

We published our first issue of our new Pony Pals  Magazine today.

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/190091

You can download a copy for free or buy a printed copy.

Photoshop atrocity

 

http://www.justfab.com/press.htm

Ok, I get it that this is an ad and the idea is to promote the shoes. 

And I have been guilty of photoshopping in items into a photo where they did not exist before. But....Why did they only put in ONE shoe?  The other is a red shoe.  

Now maybe if she was making a fashion statement -- like a guy wearing one red sneaker and one blue.  But I suspect the photomaniupulation came down to they only had one angle on the shoe that matched, so they threw that one in and figured no one would notice.  


Or that bloggers would post how bad it looked. LOL

Slow Food in a Fast World

When I work on our site and game I am always on the run.  There is more work than the day can hold, so I'm in a constant state of picking and choosing today's most important tasks. 

That rush-rush carries over to my cooking sometimes too.  "What's fast?" I think.

But on the other hand I also do not eat "fast food."  No burgers. No fries. No take out.  No pizza.

Plus, I grow vegetables in my gardens and there is usually something ready.

This week there is lettuce (wonderful, fresh tender spring heads). Fresh green spring onions.  And there are peas. Not snap peas, English podded peas.

Every few days there is about a quart of pods ready to pick.

Now English peas are delicious. The fresh ones are divine, sweet when lightly cooked and they take no time to cook.

But you have to shuck them out of the pods.

As I open each pod, marveling at the peas lined up, my mind goes a mile a minute.  What am I doing here?

Don't I have to get back to WORK?!! 

Can I afford this time away from the computer?

Is this bowl of peas going to be the reason I don't get everything done?!!!

But I keep shucking them.

I think of English peas as the original slow food. 

They really are.  To prepare them you must SLOW DOWN.

And that is why I grow them.