Aaron Part 1 – Wicket Earp

Fair Warning to those who read my blog. My boyfriend passed away last week, so I foresee that I will be writing mostly about him for the foreseeable future. To be blunt, I wouldn’t wish this experience on my worst enemy.

Anyway, Part One of my wish to share how amazing he was with the whole world (or my little corner of it).

Part One is the story of how I met the love of my life…and the birth of Wicket Earp.

Back in early 2021, a couple of friends invited me to a nerd Facebook group. There I saw alllllll the nerdy things that make me happy. And this guy…I didn’t know him, but I enjoyed interacting with him (spoiler alert, it was Aaron).

So, this one day, I was looking at mouse pads for my new home office that was decorated in all things nerd. I came across one that had an Ewok with a gun riding at AT-AT. But Amazon had it listed as “Cute bear riding a wooden camel with gun.” I was outraged and took my outrage to the nerds.

Along came the guy that I had enjoyed talking to. He made a couple of anti-Amazon jokes with me. And that was that.

Until the next morning. I wake up and check Facebook. He had posted a 3D print design he had come up with the night before. Of a cowboy Ewok with a gun riding an AT-AT. He said he had gotten the idea from a friend and decided it needed to be real. I very excitedly replied, “OMG. I SHALL CALL HIM WICKET EARP!!”

Two weeks later, this was mailed to my work for me.

And so our friendship began.