We touched!

Today was a yucky day - wind blowing a hundred miles and hour and a fair amount of humidity in the air. So, I was hoping for a little shorter session than yesterdays! I decided to see what I could get done using my saddle horse, Roxy. My mustang was immediately curious to meet her so that made getting close pretty easy. I was by myself today so I had to do the roping, and it took several tries, but I got him caught. It was funny, everytime I swung my rope he would start shaking his head as if to say "try and catch this!". I worked on the same things as yesterday, only this time I had Roxy's strength to help me. I got within arms reach of the colt quite often, and today he reached out and touched my hand with his nose twice. I suspect that tomorrow he'll be even more willing to touch and sniff me. I also didn't have any difficulty getting the rope off his neck today, I just reached out and pulled the loop until my rope ran through. It was a short and simple session, but a good one nonetheless. When I went to feed him this evening he was staying closer to me than he had and didn't seem as concerned with me being in his pen. He even got his first taste of grain. So far, so good - I just wish I could come up with a name that I liked for him!