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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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.

Monday, October 20, 2014

DQ land






Despite the big, shiny ribbon above, Banana and I had a rather inconsistent weekend in the land of DQ's. Our first test on Saturday, Intro B, we got a 60%. Then we got a 52% on Intro C. Then Sunday a 50% on Intro B, then we rallied and got a 65% on Intro C. It would have been much higher but our canter transitions were shit, giving us 4.5s, but there were a whole lot of 7s and an 8. I was thinking about too many other things than the smoothness of our canter transitions. The judge really nailed me on Saturday for rigid arms, something I struggle with. Intro B on Sunday I was shooting for no rigid arms, but then we had a crappier test. Talking to some friends, one of them gave me a tip that help. I also realized my reins were far too long. With those two fixes, up went the scores.

So, DQ land. Warmup was not insane. Banana was the fastest moving horse out there. Plus, because the tests are longer not as many people are warming up at the same time. Also, at least from this sample of riders they actually spent less time warming up than most eventers I've seen. Only a couple were warming up for more than half an hour. They all seemed friendly, but the barns were almost quiet. Very rarely did I see horses being hand walked, a constant activity at an event. There were some freaking gorgeous horses there though.

I finally did the scallop braids on Banana and they stayed in all weekend. She needs a little more hair for them to lay right.




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