A Note About This Blog

I used to be a writer. Unpublished, but a writer just the same. I have several 100,000 word novels sitting on my hard drive. Then I fell off a horse and got a concussion that scrambled my brains really good (yes, I was wearing a helmet.) After that forming a written sentence was very difficult for quite some time. It's still difficult, but at least now generally the sentence structure isn't egregiously flawed. Verbally and written wrong words pop in, I switch words around, and sometimes I make no sense at all. It isn't because I don't have knowledge of grammar and punctuation, but my brain simply can't do it sometimes. Reading this blog you're accepting that there's going to be things that look like typos or make no sense. It's not because I don't proofread, it's because my damaged brain doesn't see what's wrong. I try my best, but things will slip through. I don't need them pointed out, I know they're there, but if I continued to worry about them I wouldn't write at all. I didn't for quite some time. It's painful as a past master of words to use them so badly, but fortunately the words don't seem to mind.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Almost here

Ride times are up:

Dressage: Sat 1:46
Stadium: Sat 3:14
XC: Sun 10:42

First time I won't be one of the first people out on XC. At my first event my XC time was 6:04 in the morning. Same venue, but back when the horse trial was at the end of June and the high for the day was supposed to be 105. They changed it to now, the middle of April, and it looks like we might get some snow. Poor St Johns, they really can't win.

Today Penny is getting a bath. I find it easier to bathe her before we leave and I spot clean after we get there. She's pretty tidy, except she has been known to lean her rear against the butt bar in the trailer, so I wrap her tail up pretty good for the ride. That first event I washed her tail at least three times and it was still green.

With that later dressage time I'll have most of the day to convince her to let me braid her. And if she's amenable I can do the difficult, earward part of her mane, let my hands take a break, and then continue the wither end.

I have not been sleeping well the last few nights. I can probably blame show nerves. This is the first time they've bothered me this far out.
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