Crochet Me Crazy

Yesterday Jeff was at the stables all day with the horses so Alison got up and went with him. I went down there for awhile and helped Jeff try to de-tick some of the horses. The ticks are bad right now and they all seem to have them real bad. Now here's something that won't mean anything to anyone reading this, but to us its an amazing transformation that we've seen in one particular horse over the time we've been there. It's been a gradual change in him and this week in particular, I am seeing such a change I never thought I would see from this particular horse. Silver is a big white horse that was very intimidating to me in the beginning. He always had this wide eyed look and was very stand-off like. No matter how nice you were to him, he just wouldn't come around for the longest time. I put my mind to get over my healthy fear of him...I finally felt like I was starting to win him over. The first thing I saw was he started to relax. The wide eyed look that he always seemed to have seemed to disappear. I realized he was starting to finally trust us. He was still aloof but I figured that would be the way he would always be. I really wasn't expecting a change beyond this point and was satisfied that he was at least more relaxed now. The thing that really amazed us was this week....this horse has actually started coming up to me and Jeff as well. He actually came up and wanted to be petted. He has never done this before. He would let us pet him but he was always too proud to come to us. Both days this week, this horse has virtually had a personality change. He came up to me yesterday and I let him smell the pumice stone and then he rubbed up against me as I rubbed him. I even worked on getting some of the bot eggs off of his legs. Like I said, since you don't know Silver, this story won't mean anything to you, but this has been the subject of quite a few conversations in our family this week. I'll be interested to watch Silver's reaction this week when he sees the guy that ran the horses this past summer. He's coming for a visit over Thanksgiving. The horses didn't like him. They are all so calm and relaxed now. It's going to pain me if I see the wide eyes in Silver come back when he sees him.