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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Double lunging

Today I learned how to double lunge. I knew how to ground drive; it was one of my favorite things to do with Penny in the winters when it was too snowy to ride. Double lunging is just slightly more complicated. For Banana, who thanks to her Parelli training likes to turn in and come at you, it gives you some control over her outside side to keep her out on the circle. She's pretty good, but I had to consciously remember to stay more towards her rear than her shoulder as she circled, otherwise she stops and starts backing up. Then you have to run fast to get back behind her, otherwise she just keeps going back. Things to work on.

Meatball was very alert today and desperately wanted to do more than I was letting him.
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