He called him by his name!

I was up early this morning and the first thing I did was go see Walter since yesterday's winds prevented me from going outside.  I was half way there when his owner who was working on his shed...spotted me.

I had no other choice but to greet him.  He met me at the fence that separates our properties. We made idle chat mostly about the winds yesterday and I asked him how his horse was doing.  To my surprise he said, " Walter's eye is doing fine" jajajajajaja...he actually called him by the name I gave him!

A little background if you are new to my other blog and came to check this one out.  I would always come and talk to this wonderful, lonely horse.  At first he was afraid of me but one time I noticed that his water barrel was empty so I brought him water which he happily lapped up and from then on he considered me his pal.
                         
I asked the owner's kid what his name was and he told me he did not have a name, something that I thought was rather odd.  Who has a horse or pet without a name?  So I took it upon myself to give him one and I named him Walter.

One time his owner saw my mother outside and he came to ask her if his horse was not a bother because at the time our weeds were high and he would come graze here.  My mother told him it was not a bother to have Walter around and that her daughter made sure he always had fresh water.  He made a face and said "Walter?" to which my mother said "Yes, Walter...that is what my daughter named him".  So having him call him by that name is rather surprising :)

I saw his eye was alright but full of horse flies so I left as I obviously could not take his picture in front of him.  Around 11:30 a.m. I was surprised to see his owner giving him some hay.  He normally only gets fed in the afternoon after the kid comes home from school.

This afternoon as soon as I saw his owner's truck leave, I walked back to the corral and spent some quality time with him and took the following pictures...

Thank you for visiting Walter's World.