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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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, January 18, 2014

A rose by any other name

Banana's name is officially changed from the silliness that was Zips Smokin Annie to the sentimental Dragonlady Anne.


It wouldn't matter if all we were doing is eventing, but if we do indeed start doing straight dressage and we try to go for the quarter horse dressage awards the horse has to be shown under its registered name. This does mean I also have to get her a new brand inspection, which is sort of a pain in the rear, but I'll survive.

(What's a brand inspection you ask? Out here in many of the western states you have to have a piece of paper saying your horse is yours issued to you by the brand inspector. The brand inspector checks out all your paperwork to ensure you actually own said horse. Bills of sale mean almost nothing: brand inspections do. You can't travel out of the state without one. There are short term brand inspections that are good for so many hours and then there's the "permanent card." The permanent card is what I need to get replaced. At least it shouldn't be as big of a production as getting the first one.

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2 comments:

  1. AmandaJanuary 20, 2014 at 11:18 AM

    Aw, I love it. Is Dragonlady Anne after Anne McCaffrey?

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  2. PamJanuary 20, 2014 at 12:16 PM

    Yes, Dragonlady Anne is after Anne McCaffrey. She loved horses so after her passing I decided naming a horse after her would be the best way to honor her memory. She would be completely tickled by it.

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