Celebrating April.

I lost a dear friend to cancer last Friday night...

April O'Farrell was, in a word, pure ENERGY!

She was indeed special to me. When I first saw April back about 10 years ago I had "that" reaction one gets when seeing a woman Iike her....Wow!!

Fellas, you know what I'm talkin' about.

Right away we clicked. As she did with everyone she met. She just had that effect on you. She was new to the post office so immediately made it my business to "show her the ropes" :) ;)
One of my first memories I have of her is, after work one day,  I needed a ride home and even though it was out of her way, she said "Sure!"
She drove a pick up truck at the time and was very confident behind the wheel if you get my meaning ;)
We came upon a merging lane in the road and an 'average' person would've yielded to the traffic but she sped up and made it in by a hair!! Letting out her classic sexy, cackling laugh! I was in the passenger seat quivering in disbelief that we were still alive but I had an excitement as well coursing through me and turned to look at her with the thought in my head that...."I HAD to have this woman!!!" LOL
I did, of course, make a mental note NOT to ask her for a lift anywhere from that moment on :o

Months passed and my sightings of her came and went, as that was the nature of the position she held, and she eventually ended up spending most of her time in other depots.
A few years passed and when we saw each other, as brief as those encounters were, it was always nice, funny, memorable. She genuinely cared about you and you knew it from the way she treated you. She cherished every moment and drew the most she could out of every experience.

And then, ...this one time,...at band camp, ...just kidding.. ;)

I believe in my heart that, even though we didn't connect in "that" way, she held a special place for me in her heart. As did I for her in mine.
I remember a lovely summer's day, not too long ago, that we took her two gorgeous dogs out for a run in the surrounding forests near the Grand River where we shared, bitched & laughed about life. It was a great day.

The nature of the game when one goes from depot to depot is that you do loose track of people. And when I learned of her cancer, after visiting her depot looking for her, it was an absolute shock.
Obviously, we reconnected and ever since there have been the ups and downs of that tragic disease but throughout, she was forever uplifting and positive.
She talked about "When I get back to work..etc." Amazingly, during our chats, it was her that brought me out of my being down in the dumps about my trials & tribulations. She was just soo optimistic.

....and now she's gone but...she will remain alive in my heart forever and ever. There'll never be another like April Mellissa O'Farrell. ...My friend.

Love & memories forever.

















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