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.
