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 Unpublished, but a writer just the same.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.

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Where have I beeen?

Did you miss me? Did you even realize it's been like six months since I last posted here? I didn't.

In late spring/early summer Naners maimed her left hind, then her right hind, then blew abscesses out of both front feet in late summer. That mare and her legs.

In late June I turned in my Master's thesis. It kicked my ass, but it's done. It took me about two months to recover. I did not do a stellar job, but it passed and I now have my Masters in Equine Science, though I don't have the actual paper yet.

Since then we went to a dressage show:

We got a 68% on Training 1 and a 62% on Training 3 from an FEI 4* judge, so I was pretty darn happy, especially since, as usual, we were not as prepped as we should have been (see above note about abscesses.)
(we need to work on that open mouth problem. And I need to get my freaking hands up)

The day after the recognized show they had a schooling show with the same judge and we did western dressage! I did four different tests in two days... that really worked my rather shitty memory.


We got 64% on both Basic Level 1 and Basic Level 3 (equivalent to Training Level). There was an 8! The western saddle was brand new, I'd literally ridden in it for 30 minutes on Friday and the show was on Sun. We'd tried out the demo version last fall and both Naners and I liked it, but it took me almost a year to actually buy it. I think my Eq is much better in it than my dressage saddle, but it also depends on how various body parts are feeling.

It's hard to tell, but the shirt is ombre dyed, darker at the bottom than the top. I did it myself and I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. The pants are navy Piper boot cut breeches.

We took a very scenic route on our way home... fortunately we came up this, didn't have to go down. It was a neverending uphill.



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