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Salsa debuts in an iPhone app – PonyCall

Posted on July 16, 2010 by horsegirlonajourney

The latest version of PonyCall includes a photo of Salsa!

PonyCall is an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app (available from the iTunes store) that lets you send text messages and emails in speech bubbles from a pony, like this one:

If I’m not mistaken, the horse in this photo is Shadowfax aka Blanco; he was the original star of PonyCall, before they discovered Salsa. 😉

You can take photos of your own ponies and add the speech bubbles, or select a photo from the included Samples album. (That’s where you’ll find Salsa!) You can move the bubble around and choose from different bubble styles so it fits nicely with the photo.

Some screenshots from the app:

My friend Jeff Consiglio was one of the app creators, on a mission to bring cuteness to the world, one mobile device at a time. They’ve also developed KittyCall and PuppyCall but of course those don’t have Salsa in them.

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Dreaming on a cool spring night

Posted on June 16, 2010 by horsegirlonajourney

I let Salsa and Rock hang out in the arena this evening while I had dinner and a DVD with a friend. When I went out just before midnight, Salsa was ready to return to his pen to eat the rest of his dinner. But Rocky was curled up in the cool sand and asked me, quite clearly, for more time before he had to get up.

I hunkered down next to him and rested my eyes for a while.

He lay flat and dreamed and I saw all of his eyelids twitching, while he made cute little sounds. His eyeball was visible most of the time, flickering and shifting, obviously not seeing anything outside of his mind. I’ve never been close to a horse in REM sleep. So interesting!

(This video is probably excruciatingly boring to anyone but me and immediate Rocky family, but scroll ahead to about 1:35 to hear the cute sounds.)

He’s dead, Jim!

Eventually, I haltered him and asked him to get up so we could walk back to his pen for the night (for which he earned a cookie). But how cool to have relaxed with him for half an hour or so at midnight, with only the occasional ranch sound to accompany our shared breath.