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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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.

Monday, April 9, 2012

A couple days out...

Today I rode Penny with one goal: don't piss off the pony. I was able to achieve this goal. If I try to get her to carry herself properly and don't ask absolutely perfectly she gets pissed at me. So, I didn't ask. We worked on quiet contact, which gives me a quiet, happy pony. Harmony is more important going into an event than proper carriage: loose contact with a quiet pony gets better scores than contact and a pony fighting with you, not to mention it is not at all fun for either of us. So, I'm feeling pretty good right now. I don't expect a good score, I just want to get around the test with a quiet, happy pony.

I lunged Meatball over some ground poles, hoping he'd figure out he doesn't need to launch himself over them. Mission accomplished there too. He went over a raised rail, not even a foot up, a couple of times and that ended up well too. He definitely learned something, so I'm going to work that into our regular routine.
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