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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Not like in the movies with cattle

Today the Danish Warmblood Inspectors were in town so I went to watch them. It was interesting. It was all local horses, saw one of my friend's horses basically get all 8's (she's a nice horse.) I also saw them brand the babies... That was super interesting. However, the worst part? It was seriously hearing the brand get heated up. It takes forever, and it's loud. The branding itself? Basically instant. The brand was off their butts before they even realized it was happening.

Brand new hot brand




I actually think the heating up traumatized the humans more than the branding traumatized the horses. Now, I'm not about to brand my horses, but it wasn't nearly as horrendous as I thought it would be. Hot brand smells like burning horns on cows though and that's not a smell I particularly wanted in my nose again (many hours as a child, I lived on a cow farm.) Out here in the west, a brand would be helpful, harder to steal.

Interesting is that hot branding is illegal in several European countries, including Denmark. So, Danish Warmbloods can't be hot branded in their own country. Why the hell are they doing it here then?

A friend has it in her head that she wants to get her mare American Warmblood Society approved so she can get dressage awards. They're one of the few sporty horse registries that allow Quarter Horses. Now we're plotting to bring AWS inspectors here.


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