Creatures of Habit

"She doesn't like her head touched," the tour guide explained, while the old mare leaned her head over to Jill and rubbed her lips on the visitor, ha.

The other mare, the big one, the most difficult, the Belgian, enjoyed meeting Jill too.  It was obvious.  And all day, whenever Jill looked over there to the paddock, the mare was looking back at her too.

It helped of course that she'd thrown piles of long tall grass into the sandy paddock several times when she passed by through out the day.  With the knack of timing the three piles so the big mare got the most, but no fights broke out, true.  But also there was the fact that horses ENJOYED leadership.  That someone was the boss of them was RELAXING, lol

Also, they learn by pattern.  So if their first pattern with you is that you are afraid of them, they pick up on your fear and are MORE afraid than you are (because the BOSS is afraid so it must be really bad...

Jill told the story of not being afraid of heights (aka refusing draft barn training for a fill in position) only to find herself standing on the edge of a windy cliff (aka surrounded by giant dinasours alone) ha.

And, Jill hoped to spend more time with them!

Speaking of which, had she actually handed a guy a piece of paper with her email, phone, name, date, time and location on it? LOL.

Jill's roomie had once been the youngest person doing such a job in Canada.  And, she was woman in job class that was 80+% men, so she felt proud that she'd actually broken through the glass ceiling, even if her pay cheque wasn't quite up to the par.  When she told the story of falling in love with her first husband, it was because she awoke to him playing John Hiatt's "Have a Little Faith in me on the Piano."

Her date charmed Jill at least with his retort, "I would have fallen for Joe if I'd heard him do that song." He went on with other stories, such as that he'd been at a Blue Rodeo members solo show in small town with only about three people were in the audience.  And, that the rockstar came to his backyard the next day with a six pack and played music all afternoon...  "That's why I can never bother to catch a Blue Rodeo show at Ontario Place or whatever giant venue."