Friday Night

October 9, 2009

Hello Again,

It’s Friday night and I do not have a hot date set up, don’t even have a luke warm date set up, so I spent the day going thru my digital negatives and have posted a new gallery to my web site http://www.vwimages.com , if you get a chance stop on by and check it out and let me know what you think.

The work week is over and the weekend begins, I hope that your week was without trouble and if there was that the trouble was small and easily take care of. May the weekend be good to you and may you get a chance to rest and enjoy. As for me I go back to work on Monday and wish I did not, but got to pay the rent and all the other stuff, so this weekend I will spend the best part of it getting ready to head back into the streets.

The vacation week was nothing special and during the week I went to help out a friend who was struck by tragedy. I got a call in the morning early in the week by my friend who was concerned that her son’s dog had not come in during the night, which is not the norm for Johnnie. As we talked I told her that I would drive by and see if I could spot him out on the road roaming around. A short while later she called and was in tears and told me not to bother she had found Johnnie, from the pain in her voice I knew it was the worst, my response to her was I would be over right away. As I drove up to her place I spotted her husband and a friend with shovels and just grabbed one and off we went to bury our friend. When I got out to the field where he lay I knew that coyotes had taken our friend. We hurried to bury him before her son got home from work, for this was his friend and companion and none of us wanted him to see him in this way (the sight was not good). The grave was dug and we put Johnnie to rest, her son did not see his friend and this was a good thing. Not the way one should spend a vacation, but it is the way friends help each other out so I have no regrets about doing what was needed.

I live in the country, there is ranch land and farm land around this area and coyotes are part of life as are many other wild animals. I have lost a cat to them (Cibolo) and have nothing good to say about them (coyote). My friend and her family will miss this fur person for sometime to come, he has been with them for 12 years, their son got him when he was 8 so he grew up with this friend and he is missing him something special. We all do for that matter, I have known Johnnie from the time he entered their home and he has always greeted me as part of the family. I miss him also and am sorry that he had to be taken in such a horrible manner.

I am going to share some photos of fur friends lost with you, this is not to make you sad or angry, but in hopes that the photos will make you smile as they do me. I miss them (especially Bronx, Brooklyn and Cibolo) but all the fur people I share with you on this page, but when I look back at these photos I do remember the joy of capturing that moment and the joy of each one deeply. So please do not be sad when you view these, but enjoy and celebrate with me what they have done!!!

Until the next time, keep in a smile in your heart!

Love,
Pete