JoGeek

In a story I have an adult man who is bilingual Spanish-English (Grew up in the U.S., Catalan mother, but vocabulary heavily influenced by seasonal farm workers from Mexico). At one point, his best friend manages to get out of a boring chore, and he teases her by calling her a "conniving little moza." (as a translation of "wench.") It's the one piece of vocab I haven't managed to reality-check. Can any native Spanish speakers tell me if this is a good use of the word, or if there's a better one I should be using?

I have a wildflower growing in the wet part-shady areas of my yard in Michigan that I've been all over the internet and USDA plant database trying to identify. I thought it was a member of Ranunculaceae, since it looks so much like a tiny persian buttercup, but now I'm not so sure because I can't find anything that matches this flower exactly. I've uploaded (I hope) pretty thorough pictures here:

http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/aa192/JoGeek/My...

The main characteristics, as far as I can tell (not a botanist) are a hollow, diamond-shaped stem, small (1") very regular many-petaled flowers with a sort of waxy shine, seperate petals and green center. Two kinds of leaves, the first kind are on a separate stem and are palmate, deeply lobed. The second are only on the flowering stems and are a clump of three simple, elongated smooth-edged leaves. It is spreading rapidly through the shady, wetter area along the back of my house. Anyone know, even a common name?

Is there some reason (other than looking odd) you can't rig out english leathers and stirrups to put on a western saddle? It would be less expensive than replacing the too-short leathers on my saddle with proper western ones. It's only for hacking and trail riding, so I'm not concerned with what it looks like, only if it's somehow not practical or bad for the horse. Has anyone tried it?