Thursday... the weekend is nearly here!!!!

[sexycelticlady]

I am looking forward to the weekend so much. Not only do I get to spend it with some great people but will probably get to play at the Lair with my favorite Dom (Socalsox) and see the Indy movie :)My brother texted me last night with some bad news. One of my mother's ponies has to be put down. In the past couple of years, since moving to Aberystwyth, my mother has become somewhat of a hippy and has surrounded herself with animals including two ponies she and her best friend helped to rescue last year. We always had horses while I was younger and up until my horse, our last one, died when I was 18. It is something that I miss a great deal and my mother did also. She is unable to ride anymore (a shame as she used to compete and won lots of trophies etc) but these ponies satisfied a need in her and getting them back to health has been her goal for the past year. Unfortunately for one of the girls this is not to be and her feet have reached the point where the hoof has completely separated from the soft tissue and she is crippled. My mother is devastated. It is times like this where the distance becomes apparent. I wish I could be there for her. I know, I have my own life to lead, but I feel terrible guilty for not being there.
Pets are always wonderful companions but it comes at a price when we eventually lose them. Or have to give them up. I miss my cats, we had 4 black terrors. I know they are well looked after but nothing can compensate for having to leave them behind. I wonder why humans developed these companionships with animals originally. There is no doubt it is wonderful but I am curious as to how the first domestication of an animal was viewed and undertaken. Something we will never know but it has certainly left us with a wonderful legacy :)

Anyway, time for the gym I think :)