Storm's new Buds!

Well, the endurance boys are back home at Terri's. They did a great job "mowing the lawn" at my place and Storm was getting bored with the goats I think, as they won't hang real close to him. We got the hot tape set up for him (was just living in the no-climb by itself right now as there were no other horses to tempt him out) and then brought the boys up to the fence one by one on the end of a lead to say high. Storm zapped himself a few times when he got to close, but then stayed a ways back, so he seems to really respect it now that he knows it is there. Being the typical Humboldt Horsewoman, Terri was wearing flip floppy type shoes and of course Oli jumped on her and stomped her foot pretty good when Storm got zapped the first time (our horse know what THAT sound means, LOL). It made a nice big lump and bruise, but what else is new, LOL. Oliver (the bay sabino, about Storm's age) was easy. He said hi and then proceeded to ignore Storm.
Then I brought over Cheyenne (the big grey...20 going on 8). He WAS the head honcho of the ranch and Terri and I both figured there'd be a "showdown" to figure out who the REAL "stud" was, LOL. I wish we could find our cameras (both of us have the same one and BOTH of us can't find it...they are too dang small!). Chey arched his neck as high as he could over the fence (man, he would have made a MAGNIFICENT stud...sighhh....poor dude never got a chance, LOL) and sniffed noses with Storm (we were at the pipe corral side...easier to go over as the wire side has the tape on top and is higher...) and they both snorted, squealed and "struck out" (stomped the ground and stuck a foot out a little, but no "real" strike...) and sniffed more and so on. You could tell they were talking about who was the big dude and Chey was telling Storm to stay away from HIS guy (he and Oli are SO the gay couple...really cute actually. I have a few gay friends and these boys are as close as horses could be to the human relationship, minus the sex, LOL). But after a little bit of that, both settled down and Terri tossed out a bunch of hay on both sides of hte fence. Close enough to see each other, but not right "on" the fence. All three went to eating and it was fairly anti-climactic. Here are a bunch of pics (with my blurry cell phone...I WILL find that camera one of these days, LOL) from about half hour after the initial meeting...
OH! and I found Storm's FAVORITE itch spot... I HAVE to get pics, or better yet, video, when we find the cameras....he LOVES his belly scratched and the faces he makes...PRICELESS!