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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Santa Fe approaching

Pony Toes and I are off to The Event at Santa Fe (formerly Event at Goose Downs) on Thurs.

We decided to go on closing date and I'm a little worried about the fact that I haven't been riding her much. How can she possibly be fit enough? Then I remember XC is only 5 minutes long. We'll be fine. It's always a fine line at my place: work her enough to keep her fit, but not so much she'll go lame due to the hard ground. And oh, is it hard right now. I need to keep her sound more than I need to ride. The last time I was in this position was last fall, prepping for Fall Coconino.  A week before Penny tripped and I fell off: breaking my finger and hurting my shoulder. Penny came out of that lame. We're trying to not repeat that. Long walks the rest of the week, not gallops in the pasture.

Our goals:
Best free walk ever
Having fun
Not dying


Good goals I think.

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