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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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, March 23, 2013

First event of the year

In a few weeks Bean and I will be rocking Pre-Comp at St Johns.

Or, I hope we're rocking it. It is March and today instead of being at The Taskmaster's with sub-freezing temps and high winds I'm enjoying my couch and the dogs pressed tightly against me keeping us all warmer. Mucking the corrals was unpleasant this morning, even the 5 minutes it took me to do it elicited a "Holy crap it's cold out!" when I got back in the house. (Note: having your poop pile within throwing distance of the corrals? Brilliant on my part.)

St Johns was my first event ever, back when it was held in June and was insanely hot. Our XC time was 6:04 in the morning.

First trot out of the start box. And before I made the pink striped saddle pad.


Last year we had high winds and snow. I'm hoping for the weather we had the second year: clear, not too windy and perfect temps.

I keep feeling like I'm not ready, then I remember I went to Coconino with her last fall and we weren't really cantering two weeks before and hadn't jumped a course of jumps. I think we'll be fine and I will make sure we do a couple more jumps before we set out this time :D

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