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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Naner's first jumping show

On Sunday morning, while the sky was still dark, I loaded my horse in my very own trailer. Good thing it has lights inside, or I don't think I would have ever gotten her on. We crept down the gravel roads, on the lookout for deer, and got to town before the sun came over the mountain to blind us. The Albertson's parking lot was nice and empty at 7 am and I took up about 15 spaces when I parked.

With a Venti Salted Carmel Mocha Frappuccino in the cup holder and a 20 pound bag of ice in the truck bed, we went the rest of the distance to the barn the show was at. No problem parking, since I was the first one there. Banana was quietly eating on the trailer so I left her in there while I got the show office set up. People checked in and after about two hours I tied her to the trailer with her hay net and she continued to be a good girl.

My other mount showed up, Quirky the Connemara. We're still applying small amounts of pressure to him and he's getting better. After his freak out in the warmup at Watermelon I decided it might be good to go in a flat class with people I know can steer, so at the last minute we did a Hunter Under Saddle class. He was pretty fabulous. Quick, but listened. We placed 4th out of 10 or something like that. Then we did Pile Of Poles, to take out the possibility of him bucking. He decided then he was tired and I had to constantly keep my leg on him so he wouldn't walk. As a result, he had a lovely, constant speed to his trot and we placed 2nd out of 4.

Naners was a good girl. She stood around patiently as we waited our turn. Our cross-rail round was decent, considering we hadn't actually ever jumped a whole course before. We placed 4th out of 5. Our 2' round she whacked a rail and it flew about 6 feet, but we placed 3rd out of 4. I was very happy with her, though oh do we have a lot to work on, but it's just that she needs miles.

Afterwards back to the trailer she went, where she stood quietly napping for the rest of the day and I was stuck back in the office. When we got home she got to go out with Red (who is back) and his buddy Pinto and she couldn't be happier.
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