In Memory of Q-Ball, Sept 7th 2009

A picture of Q-Ball in happier days.

Today was a hard day for my mom and me as it was the first year anniversary of Q-Ball's death.

I can't believe it's been one year already since that horrible day that changed my life and my mom's life forever. We still miss her greatly as she had such a strong spirit that inspired us and made us love her so much.

My mom and I had a great Labor Day Weekend at Shelter Island with her friends Francesca and Donald. It really helped us usher in this sad day surrounded by good friends, wonderful scenery and good food. I will update on our Shelter Island weekend in the next PPP. When we got back to New York City we decided to go to the spot where Q-Ball was run over as we had not been there since that terrible day. We thought we should do memorial service for her.

Well we got some roses and braced ourselves on our walk to the Great Lawn.

To our surprise we were encountered with a significant improvement of the signage in Central Park about no bicycling on the path. There were tall triangular signs that said "No bicycling on the path" at every entrance to the Great Lawn and spray painted signs on the sidewalk saying that "Bikes must be walked on the path". Can it be that our letters to Central Park Organization have actually helped the organization in bringing about change in signage? Can it be that our beloved Q-Ball's death was actually not in vain? It had been a year that we went to this part of the park so I don't know how long this remarkable change has been taking place. It was a miracle for us. We are so grateful that Central Park has gone the extra mile to make both humans and dogs safer from bicyclists.

However we did see a guy speeding on his bike in the path and when my mom tried to tell him that he was not supposed to be riding his bike on the path he told her where to go. She ran after him calling for the police (no police where around unfortunately) but we are going to call for police every time we see someone doing this. We might even make a citizen's arrest one day.

We left flowers on the path, said a few prayers and wished Q-Ball much happiness in heaven.

Q-Ball we will never forget...

Chow for now!