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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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, October 1, 2013

Another first for Naners and I today: we trailered out for a lesson. There's a decent H/J trainer that is only 15 minutes away from me. I'm so glad we went. Naners is now quietly trotting in and out of lines of fences. However, she threw in some of her lovely, "I've never jumped this oxer before. I must jump it like it's four feet high and I'm a deer!" moments. Among other things, we did a astroturf half roll top and holy crap, did she jump big. It was 2'3", she jumped it like it was 3'6"/4'. I am amazed I stayed on. Fortunately, she doesn't run off after she does these amazing vertical feats so even if I'm a bit unseated (and of course I am, she just jumped like she was clearing that wall at the end of The Horse In the Grey Flannel Suit) I can recover and stay on.

Trainer agrees that Naners just needs more mileage over fences. She thinks she has a good amount of talent and with some work we'll be where we need to be. I like hearing that.
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