Image 1 — Happy fiwst annivewsawy cousins Tali and Jax!!!
Image 2 — Happy fiwst annivewsawy cousins Tali and Jax!!!
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Happy fiwst annivewsawy cousins Tali and Jax!!!

So da supwise pikkew cake was da most fun and da funnest supwise to have awl da fwiends puww off a DOUBEW SUPWISE! Dis is da most fun party evew! Cake and papew!!

But woo know me. And I have to give my cousins a weaw cake, wif time and cawe and a stowy.

So. Hewe is dewe weaw annivewsawy cake, no wood ow hinges, hehe.

It’s a wot, so I twy to expwain awl da detaiws cweawwy.

Papew is da fiwst annivewsawy gift, so da theme is papew. Awl da pictuwes awe pwinted on wafew papew and awe edibew!

In fact, evewyting is edibew except da hot aiw bawwoon. Dat a souveniw fow da happy coupew!

It is customawy in Amewican weddings to save da top of da cake and fweeze it to eat at da fiwst annivewsawy. So da top of da cake is fwom dewe wedding cake! But I had a new toppew made dat was actuawwy based on dem fwom dewe wedding day.

Each wafew papew adowning da cake wayers contains a wedding memowy. Dewe awe photos, da wedding invitation, da song “Catnip Wove” (a wewrite of Muskrat Love fwom fwiend Astra), pwintouts of dewe vows and da “I dos” wif ouw bewoved officiant fwiend Smuffi.

Fouw of da wafew papews have a muted stained gwass painted backgwound. Da pattewn is diwectwy fwom dewe wedding cake! I copied da fwowaw pattewn exactwy.

Da decowations awound da base awe miniatuwe icing copies of cousin Tali’s bouquet.

But an annivewsawy cewebwates da mawwiage, and not just da wedding. So ouw happy coupew moves on. Dewe is fwosting gwass and weaw gwass fow ouw herby fwiends! Da cobbewstone walkway to da futuwe is made of heawt shaped Puww Pops taken off da sticks. (Cousin Tali wove dose.)

Da Octobew twees awe beef jewky fow da doggos and speciaw cat tweat (awl can eat) autumn weaves.

Da bawwoon is modewed aftew da amazing hat designing cousin Jax’s hat fow fwiends’ Hoku and Pwincess Miso’s wedding. Da wove spweads! Cousin Jax’s initiaw design had fwiends Hoku and Pwincess Miso on it. But dis bawwoon have cousins Jax and Tali in dewe stunning outfits fwom dewe fiwst Valentines togevvew!

Da box (wove, not judges, dis time!) dat cawwy dem is decowated awl ovew- incwuding hanging fwom it- wif wots of pictuwes fwom dewe fiwst yeaw togevvew! Incwuding da famous hat dat Jax went missing souf of da bowdew to obtain fow Tali! Dey widing off to continue dewe jouwney toggevew weawing da Titanic outfits fwom cousin Tali’s fiwst moobie! Da stawt of hew caweew as a diwectow!

And as a bonus (swipe to pic 2), I incwude a box (what ewse?) of evewy singew food dey had at dewe wedding except fow da bugs. Incwuding da same cwoissants, biscuits, and madeleines dat I made fow dewe wedding, which was da vewwy fiwst time I gave pastwies to any fwiends hewe! Dewe wedding was my fiwst pawty hewe!

I sowwy dis was wong to wead. But I wanted to make suwe cousins Jax and Tali know awl da pieces of dewe cake!

To many mowe fuwevews!!

Wove, Applejack 🖤🤍🧡

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u/mostlylurking07 — 4 days ago
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Woo guys!!! Wook at dis amazing pwesent fwom fwiend Pabu! And he give presents to awl of us!! He so sweet!

Fwiend Pabu u/theShyPegasus22 gave me da most amazing biwfday pwesent and I had to make a post to show me and him togevvew wif da coow inventions he made up! But awso woo HAVE TO go wead his post because he made speciaw inventions fow EVEWYONE!! He so toughfuw!

Anyway, he took my bewoved scootew hewmet and he put a butter dispensew on it!! So when I out doing scootewy, and I get hungwy fow my favowite buttew, I just could dwink it PAWS FWEE!! I was so excited to wuse dis and to say tank woo to fwiend Pabu dat I scootewed wight ovew to his house and I saw dat he made himsewf one too and it a fancy top hat to weaw wif his tuxedo coat!! And den we took dis pictuwe togevvew!

Fwiend Pabu, dis is such an amazing and toughtfuw gift. Woo took two of my favowite tings - buttew and my scootewing hewmet- and woo put dem togevvew! Weww, fwee tings weawwy, because woo in dis pictuwe too🧡🤍🖤. Tank woo so so much!

But fwiends, woo have to go see his post because woo awl have HUGE suwpwise fwom fwiend Pabu!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICBGC/s/QoYVMmNIwS

Tank woo again, fwiend Pabu! Wove woo! 🖤🤍🧡AJ

u/mostlylurking07 — 17 days ago
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Happy 18th Biwfday fwiend Toby Toebeans!

I sowwy I vewwy behind on cakes and stuff, but I had to jump fwiend Toby Toebeans in fwont of da wine (and I stiww wate, haha) because he is 18!!!!! Dat wike a fuww gwown adult and evewyting! (I really try to make sure our senior cats are always honored.🖤🤍🧡)

I make a vewwy simpew cake fow fwiend Toby Toebeans because he a vewwy simpew guy!

I make a wayew cake wif his favowite Fancy Feast as da fiwwing. On top of da cake, I make a shag fwosting cozy bed fow wittew fwiend Toby, because he woves naps. So I make him a cozy setup - pwus a dish of mowe Fancy Feast! (I do da pâté fow da fiwwing and da shweds in da dish. I not know which one he wikes da most!) Dewe even a wittew tent wif a toe beans decowation- but don’t eat dat, fwiend Toby. Da tent not edibew.

I decowate wif some vewy fancy sugaw fwowews in fwiend Toby Toebeans’s bootifuw cowow, and some whimsicaw pictuwes of fwiend Toby.

Happy happy biwfday fwiend Toby Toebeans! I hope woo feew so woved!

🧡🤍🖤Applejack

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u/mostlylurking07 — 1 month ago
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Some Dolly encouragement, inspiration and fun for your Sunday morning.

(Pre-Script-Don’t forget to turn the sound on, and rewind to the beginning if the video has just started auto-playing 😊)

I have compiled a video of every bit of the fun I found from our frens’ day out at Dollywood as well as any posts in tribute to Miss Dolly from last week’s Moobie Toosday. Please forgive me if I missed anything. I scoured the posts and comments but it’s certainly possible I may have missed something. I also know that not everyone was able to participate and so this only represents a part of this wonderful community. But I really hope everyone feels seen and included and represented in so many of the other party and Moobie and special day and silly posts that are such a regular part of this sub.

As the Dolly day went on, it just felt more and more like the exact type of day the frens would have, and oh so representative of the heart of this sub and the heart of Dolly Parton. Warm and fun and full of encouragement and joy even though we have had our share of challenges and heartbreaks too. Where better than Dollywood to celebrate the idea of lifting each other up and building community and to honor Miss Dolly’s legacy? This is also why you will find a non-Dolly related Get Well card to SmuffiMomma put in here as well. Biscotti’s mom happened to think to make a big one featuring lots of friends on Dolly Moobie Toosday and it seemed like a very WWDD (What Would Dolly Do?) kind of thing to do so I put it in here as well. Plus, more friends!

In vulnerability, I am in a very hard season of life right now. After spending a good deal of Tuesday enjoying posts and then stickering away and responding to everything I could, I took off and went to a movie with my kids, before I saw all the karaoke comments and posts. When I got home, I had to deal with some really tough stuff and ended up in bed trying to listen to every sad song I could to make myself cry and let everything out. When I woke up, I saw all the adorable karaoke comments and posts and just had such a big smile on my face because this really is the sweetest corner of the internet and you all make magic here. And I switched to finding a way to encourage myself and this Dolly song is one of the best for doing so. And the idea to make this video was born.

I think some more of us might need and be blessed by some encouragement these days as well. I hope this video brings that to you - and that more like this can follow!

Da Tinky Wady, with lots and lots of Applejack input!❤️🖤🤍🧡

u/mostlylurking07 — 1 month ago
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A vewwy bewated pictuwe of friend Squirrel’s cake! Happy happy biwfday, fwiend Squirrel!

Weww, I posting dis vewwy wate!
I so sowwy not to post it da day of da biwfday!

Fwiend Squirrel tuwned NINE and had an awesome pawty on Sunday. Dis was da cake!

I made fow hew a cake dat cewebwate da booty and awso da subtewfuge of ouw pwoud Canadian cat, fwiend Squirrel. Note da subtew and not so subtew nods to da Canada! Da wittew fwag on hew sign, da wed bows in hew fuw, da wed and white fiwewowks in da background!

Da fwavow focus in dis cake is TUWKEY! Dat is fwiend Squirrel’s favowite food! Da toppew is a HUGE PIWE of dwied tuwkey tweats, and da base have succuwent swiced tuwkey wif gwavy! Da woses awe tuwkey woses and CHEESE woses- I didn’t want da fwavow to be one-note. Evewy cake needs cheese!

Dewe a wot to expwain in da decowation of dis cake because it took a wittew time fow me to get da stowy togevvew fow da cake theme.

1.) Da cowows: Wepwesentative of fwiend Squirrel’s gowgeous and intewesting coat! I don’t know if fwiend Squirrel is twue chimewa, two-faced cat, but dat how I see hew face! So I do a cweam cowowed cake wif extwa dawk Carnemite roses to wepwesent da bwack on hew face. And dose stwiking bwue eyes? Dose awe stickewed photogwaphed weaw eyes of fwiend Squirrel!

2.) Da fondant bwanket ovew da top: To me, fwiend Squirrel is wike a “undewcovew” cwiminaw. Undewneath awl dat sweet and petite booty, she does some gweat cwimes! Once she weft a big howk on da bed dat hew meowmy not see as she was puwwing up da bwanket! And hew mom wuse da wittewbox wowds, and have to wash hew weg! So da bwanket wepwesent being “undewcovew” cwiminaw and awso, hew best cwime- under da covews! Woo can awso see dat fwiend Squirrel is “hiding” wif da wittew pwant undew da bwanket. Dat was from when she was a secwet howtocuwtiwist, hiding in da pwants whewe no one find hew. I added in da fwowew detaiws. Dose awe tiny tuwkey woses!

3.) Fwiend Squirrel is awso a stwong voice fow what is wight! She speak out against da Owange guy in da Woo Ess who NEVEW get to wuse da bwain ceww, but fwiend Squirrel awso makes da good point dat da No Kings pwotests awe a misnomew- it should be No Kings (ow Queens) But Cats!

4.) Finawwy, I have a wittew decowation of fwiend Squirrel picnicking wif hew wove, fwiend Also William! And on da ovvew side of da cake, I put hew two speciaw fwiends, fwiends Casey and Pixel, who wive just acwoss da bowdew fwom hew.

Happy bewated biwfday, fwiend Squirrel!

🧡🤍🖤Applejack

u/mostlylurking07 — 1 month ago
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If woo wrote woo own vewsion of a Miss Dowwy song, dwop it hewe! Dey wewe AMAZING and evewyone should be abew to see/heaw dem!

(Whether your fren performed it yesterday or you’re even trying to work on one now, or even DooeyH’s from last week, put it in the comments, with the pic of them singing it or not, up to you. I was so blown away by how creative you all were and some came in late or got buried in comments and I think everyone should get to see them! I would compile them myself, but I would be afraid I would miss someone’s and would feel terrible.

Picture of Miss Jynx for attention, and her version was incredible!)

u/SisterAntistita — 1 month ago
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Wet’s get da Dowwy Pawton kawaoke pawty stawted! Come to da theatew! Dis is da kawaoke fwead!

Fwiends, we stawting da pawty! We gonna stawt wif me and Fwiends Tali, Maya, and Bubbles singing “9 to 5”. Keep weading and I teww woo da stowy of why I picked dis song! (From DTW- this is actual AJ lore from years before we became part of the sub. This is the story she would always tell. Why she became her own pastry chef boss!)

(I have the pic of the girls singing first, but the number 2 pic is the background for everyone to use! And the third pic is some microphones so you can sticker one or however many you need in front of your pet. Feel free to write text on the screen too, for lyrics. If you want. If not, just make sure your fren lets us all know what they are singing! )

Dis my story!

Some of woo don’t know my stowy but I’m hewe to teww wa’.

I didn’t awways own my own bakewy and pastwy shop.

No siw, once upon a time, I was a bakew fow a biscuit factowy.

Dat boss man, he say dat Applejack suwe can bake da biscuits.

But did he appweciate me? No ma’am, he did not.

Awl he did was give me mowe wowk. Awl houws of da day and night dat man was cawling me to make mowe biscuits. I would be comftabew fweeping on da Tinky Wady and he would cawl me and teww me he needed MOWE biscuits.

I devewop a speciaw “speed kneading” technique, one paw in fwont of da ovvew, fast fast fast. I was exhausted!

But did dat boss man say “tank woo, Applejack”? Nevew. Just, I need mowe fwom woo, AJ.

So, woo know what I did? One day I towd dat boss man, I quit!! I quit! I was inspiwed by gweat wadies wike Miss Dowwy who don’t take dat kind of nonsense!

And den I stawt my own biscuit business. I seww custom fwavows of biscuits and I seww dem to da hoomans who go cwazy and spend a wot of money to have my biscuits! It opewate in da bwack and have high pwofit mawgins!

I make so much money I open up my own kitchen and den my own Pawtissewie! And wif awl da money I make fwom da biscuits dat I make fow mysewf and not da bossman- I have enough money to give away awl da tweats to da fwiends!

I cawled up some of my gwirlfwiends- Bubbles and Tali and Maya -to sing dis song about what dose bad boss mans twy to do, but we don’t need none of dat! Sing it wif us, fwiends! Evewybody…”wowking 9 to 5 🎵…”

u/mostlylurking07 — 1 month ago
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A foo mowe pics of da day!

I sowwy I didn’t tag evewbody! We just having too much fun today! Tank woo ouw angew Miss Dowwy fow making dis pawk and to awl da fwiends who making dis day so fun! And a vewwy happy biwfday to fwiend Sadie!! Wet’s awl wemembew to sing happy biwfday to hew at da kawaoke when it stawts! u/Pitbull_mom101

🖤🤍🧡Applejack

u/mostlylurking07 — 1 month ago
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Fwiends Bubba and Bits and Smuffi awe hewe!

Some pics of us widing some of da wides and fwiends Bubba and Bits eating da cinnamon bwead!

Miss Dowwy Pawton made a fun pawk!

🧡🤍🖤AJ

u/mostlylurking07 — 1 month ago
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W’all weady fow some Dowwywood fun? Time to pawty, fwiends!

Happy ICBGC Miss Dowwy Day!

Me and Baby T awe awweady hewe at Dowwywood having fun! Wets wide awl da wides and eat da cinnamon bwead and see awl da bootifuw scenewy!

I hope woo find me and Baby T and we awl find each ovvew!

And don’t fowget to get fwiend Smuffi in da pictuwe! Fwiends Hoku and Naku have bwought him in da Purrate Pawloon so he can be wif us fwiends today!

Woo can post woo pictuwes in da comments ow if make woo own post is even bettew so woo pics not get wost down da comment thwead and awso ovvew fwiends can put demsewves in!

And den watew on, AFTEW awl da moobies, we can gavvew togevvew at da theatew fow da moobies and karaoke- but dat wiww be watew! Wove woo awl and Happy ICBGC Miss Dowwy Day!!

🖤🤍🧡Applejack

(Here are a BUNCH of backgrounds! Feel free to add your pet(s) in with others when they make their posts too! So we can show all the friends having fun together.

if ANY of this is hard for you, just say so. Post any pic of your pet in the comments and I or another lovely friend here will get your pet in.

Note that after a few of the ride pictures, you will see another picture with a little sticker of a piece of the ride. A false front, if you will. You can lift those as stickers, if you’d like, so that you can layer them on top of your pets once you put them in the picture. You definitely don’t have to do that, but it’s the way if you want your friend to be sitting down into the seat of the ride versus on top of it. Alternatively you can just use a pic that has the just the top half of your pet. Either way it will be adorable so don’t worry if you can’t figure this out. For those who want to- just place your pet in the picture lower, where they are basically covering the front part of the ride and then use the sticker I have cut out to line up with the ride and cover the pets. I’ll show you what it looks like in the comments. Again, you don’t have to do that. It will be super fun if the pets are sitting on top of the ride too! It’s all just meant to be fun. And again, find friends and put your pets in their pics too!

The theater pics for moobies and karaoke I will put up a little later, once I have more friends’ Moobie Fuesdag pics to show!

Finally, I also added some more stickers of Dollywood t-shirts and other cute “country”’clothing that I sized to fit a cat body better, if anyone wants to put clothes on a cat. I couldn’t size them for all our animals, but you can definitely try using them on dogs and gimme pigs and bunnies and horses too!

And finally finally, there are two Smuffi stickers to lift so we can get him in the pics)

u/mostlylurking07 — 1 month ago
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Dowwywood Pawty!

Hey w’all,

Fow Moobie Tuesday dis week, I tinking of someting diffewent!

I know dewe gonna be wots of gweat twibutes to da bootifuw speciaw Miss Dowwy Pawton, and I can’t wait to see dem!

I gonna take Baby T to Dowwywood and w’all awe invited!

It’s a Dowwywood Pawty!

Wide awl da wides, enjoy da Gweat Smoky Mountains scenewy, eat da famous cinnamon bwead (I tawk to da bakews dewe befowe to make cat-and-ovvew-fwiends-fwiendwy vewsion), see da show about Miss Dowwy’s wife (I know my accent confusing, but I mean da ting woo bown wif- wife- not da wady woo mawwy), and have wors of fun!

And DEN, weww, woo know I often wike to go wif DooeyH to da Dwive-In on Moobie Tuesdays and watch da fwiends’ moobies on da scween. Weww, I book da Heawtsong Teatew dewe and we can watch da fwiends’ moobies togevvew and AWSO - KARAOKE! Come weady wif woo da favowite Miss Dowwy song to sing on stage at da teatew!

I can’t wait to see evewyone’s twibutes tomowwow and to see awl of woo at DOWWYWOOD!

OH! Awso- don’t fowget to get fwiend Smuffi, fwiends Hoku and Nalu u/jellosquid808 . And fwiends, make suwe woo get fwiend Smuffi on da wides and in da pawk pictuwes wif woo! I bet dat make his momma happy!

🖤🤍🧡
AJ

(This is a great time for a good old fashioned “get everyone in the pic!” gathering, especially for our friends who prefer to watch the moobies rather than making them. I have made a bunch of Dollywood backgrounds and I will post them tomorrow so the friends can sticker themselves in at the theme park. Then, after a bunch of the moobies have been posted, I’ll do a post with some of them on the screen in the theater and we can sticker friends watching them, as well as a microphone on stage for friends to sticker themselves doing Dolly karaoke! If you are newer or still don’t know how to sticker, I will post the iPhone and Samsung tutorials in the comments here and also will be happy to answer any questions I can, or I or many other friends here will be happy to put your babies in the pictures if you just drop them in the comments when the backgrounds are posted tomorrow. If you want someone else to do it for you in the photos tomorrow, please wait until that post to put a pic. Don’t put it here because I won’t be going back to this post then.)

u/mostlylurking07 — 1 month ago
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Me and DooeyH wise da gowden pikkew to come to da fancy pawty.

We put on ouw Dowwy Pawton best cwothes because da Tinky Wady say she one of da best hoomans to evew wawk da eawf on ouw side of da bwidge. Tank woo fow having us! He singing his new Applejack song. 🖤🤍🧡❤️

u/kaleidoscopeReady839

u/mostlylurking07 — 2 months ago

Happy 3wd Birfday fwiend Mitten!

Happy 3wd Birfday fwiend Mitten!

Woo gonna have to do some zooming (not da wunning kind) to find ouw fwiend fwee times in da cake!

Woo poow pawty is so so fun! Tank woo fow having us!

I make fwiend Mitten a cake because she is fwee yeaws owd!

I do incwude ewements of fwiend Mitten’s Gotcha stowy in hewe too, but dat is just because it is such a good stowy, it needs to be towd even dough dis is a birfday cake and not a Gotcha Day cake. I wike to wuse da cakes to teww da stowies of ouw fwiends hewe and hew stowy is AMAZING!

https://www.reddit.com/r/legalcatadvice/s/dkVcGIeA4b

So befowe da poow pawty, I didn’t weawwy know what fwiend Mitten’s caw ow house ow poow wook wike so I make cakes dat wook coot even if not accuwate! Caw, house, and poow awe awl cake!

Woo see fwiend Mitten cwimbing into da caw. Dat how she fiwst Gotcha hew new famiwy- she jump in da caw! Den woo see fwiend Mitten being VEWWY comfowtabew in da house aftew she wun inside and take it ovew. Dat how she Gotcha’d hew house! And woo awso see fwiend Mitten wif hew wife vest in da poow. Because she in da Fwowida, and yes, she do da fwimming! It hew house. She can do what she want.

Da cake have churu fwosting on da woof. Awso, dewe awe dwied tuwkey shingews, because tuwkey is fwiend Mitten’s favowite food. We have cheese and buttew fwowews fow decowation wif cucumbew vegebew (ew) stems fow ouw bunny and howsie and gimme pig gwiends, even da doggos ow anyone who wiww eat dat stuff. I don’t wike it, but some of ouw fwiends do! Da potted pwants inside da doow awe fwesh nip and da gwass is catgwass. The walkway is dwied salmon and dewe is a wizawd fwiend dewe! Fwiend Mitten wike da wizawds!

Da palm twees awe cawwot twunks wif beww peppew (capsicum fow da Woo Kay and Woo-wope fwiends) fwonds and sawad gweens at da base. I hope a wot of ouw vegetawian fwiends ate da vegebew pawts! But da gwavew awound da poow is Gweenies, one of fwiend Mitten’s favowites!

I hope woo wike woo cake fwiend Mitten! And I hope woo free vewwy woved on woo tiwd biwfday! Happy Birfday fwiend!!

🧡🤍🖤Applejack

u/mostlylurking07 — 2 months ago
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Hello! I’m Sansa.

You all well know my sister Applejack. She loves this community and it does seem lovely for her.

I myself have been reluctant to join much because- and please don’t take this the wrong way- for myself, I really don’t like what I see as “the baby language”. It’s not for me. I was taught human American English as a kitten and have always known how to communicate in it. I understand that all dialects are welcome here though, so I decided to find my clan!

Although I have only recently turned seven I have really been a mature (I do like to pronounce that “ma-tour”) woman since I was just a kitten. I was actually engaged to a very fine tom I met in Vermont when I was one, but we had to leave to go back to Texas and the long-distance thing just didn’t work out for us.

I do have a human son as well; although some would say he is my “brother”, that is simply not true. When he is upset, I run to soothe him and care for his every need. When he does something I don’t like, he gets a snap or a slap. I am devoted to his care.

The one Applejack calls “the Tinky Wady”, I call fake mama, and “the Tinky Gwirl”, I call fake sister. Not because they aren’t wonderful. I love them dearly and adore spending time with them. We are truly family. It’s just that I recognize they are human and I am not. I have a feline mother somewhere so Fake Mama can’t be my real mama.

I love having friends and I am quite confident. I do like to tell it as it is and I do LOVE crimes. When the family tells me no. I will most DEFINITELY go do it again.

I love to hunt too! I’m great at it!

I love kittens. I had a foster friend once that I called the little guy. I have always been sad he left. He was sweet.

I actually have decided to come here and make some friends because of a kitten. That adorable Basil void! ( u/Charmylah ). I saw that he got in trouble for spelling “goats” in the baby language (no offense). I hate that for him! I thought maybe I might help with human spelling and vocabulary for any friend that needs it?

I would love to connect with like minded friends. I actually did attend Princess Miso’s bachelorette festivities and had a wonderful time! Thank you again for having me!

Oh also, I love and adore my humans and don’t think they are dumb at all. I do get upset when they don’t let me out. This is a continued probkem for us.

I also don’t dress up much. I love my fur. Maybe for a special occasion.

Nice to meet you all!
Sansa

(Sansa is all of this. She was our first cat, found at 3 months walking in circles in the street with what would become a permanent head tilt, likely from injury. We adopted her when she was days away from euthanasia.

She is the most eager to explore, an incredible climber, tries to get out, has been successful on several occasions, loves doing things she is not supposed to. She is the only one harness trained.

She adores my son, is empathetic and sensitive to his feelings, but he also the only one of us she will snap at. We know she treats him as a mama cat treats a kitten. She is a confident queen. We call her “Queenie” or “The Most Gorgeois - yes pronounced “Gorge-OIS”. We go around saying “Who’s the most gorgeois??”

She would never speak catspeak. She seems human to us. Even her face seems very refined looking, and with her curtain bangs. She would love to compare bang styling with Astra, who prefers a more blunt fringe!

She wont be here as often as Applejack, but she will show up from time to time. She couldn’t resist offering her language help when she saw little guy Basil get in trouble for his spelling of goats.

Cat tax is from a couple days ago and then the shelter/animal control pic as a kitten, where you can see why we had to get her. Also, her face is exactly the same but bigger now. The shelter we got her from was just a tiny offshoot of a small towns animal control who had no resources to hold animals for long, but did have a devoted staff who took the animals EVERYWHERE for exposure to avoid euthanizing them. Hence why we met our Sansa at a home show at the San Antonio Alamodome.

u/mostlylurking07 — 2 months ago
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I wuse da Gowden Pikkew to go to da mixew OTRB and I visit fwiend Miss Boo at hew new bakewy!

Dis was such a wondewfuw day! Wif da Gowden Pikkew we cwossed da bwidge awl day to visit fwiends OTRB! I cwoss post dis hewe in case fwiends hewe at da ICBGC didn’t know dewe was a mixew dewe today!

And guess what? I saw fwiend Miss Boo and she open up such a nice bakewy and sandwich shop ovew dewe and I went to visit and it was amazing!! I weawwy woved seeing Miss Boo again and she have such a wovewy shop and inventive menu! And fwiend Gonzo was dewe visiting his sisfuw and he and I weawwy appweciated Miss Boo’s commitment to wusing onwy weaw buttew! I tasted some of hew tweats and dey wewe dewicious!

I take a pictuwe wif hew and fwiend Gonzo! Pictuwe two is of hew menu because it so coot.

Wovewy to see woo fwiend Miss Boo! Congwatuwations on woo shop! Seeing woo and woo shop was one of da highwights of my day!

🧡🤍🖤AJ

u/mostlylurking07 — 2 months ago

Thoughts on this week.

These are good ideas and creative choices.

The trouble Crumbl seems to be having now as they rapidly throw every idea they have at the wall in hopes of inspiring more sales is that they have crossed the rubicon in terms of their typical strategy of hoping novelty will just keep pulling people in.

It is pulling people in (me included this week!), but because these cookies aren’t going through testing, there are execution errors everywhere. Most of the discourse I see here and elsewhere on social media is about the texture of the different cookies. Most people seem to like the flavors but there is a lot of talk of like whether something should be crisp or chewy or why something is falling apart or is too thin or whatever. Some of these problems may be from refrigerated storage and how long they stay there. Feedback through the testing process could have mitigated a lot of this and it had people scratching their heads.

I will say that I found most of the flavors to be very good. Although, and I am sure others have realized this: the crème brûlée topping is basically cream cheese frosting torched with sugar. My daughter and I identified that tang immediately. It does not taste like crème brûlée to me at all, and it’s especially off when workers really aren’t trained how to properly sugar and use the torch. A true cracky shell would have allowed me to fool myself, but we had hardly any sugar shell. Nonetheless it’s a tasty cookie- but the base is just soft and crumbling, and not very appealing, despite the flavor being good.

The waffle cone pieces within the gelato were mostly stale and soft for us. The bigger ones added on top were the only crisp, but the overall impression was stale. We ended up throwing most of those out.

The flavor of the cannoli was delightful to both of us, but the texture was way off and not even close to cannoli. If they were going to do thins, they should have just leaned way into it, almost like a less sticky lace cookie, thin, crisp, maybe a little chewy just to give it a more “cookie” than straight cannoli shell. Nonetheless, this was our favorite cookie this week. It really wasn’t overly sweet and the flavor was really good. It was just weird to bite through it with no textural contrast whatsoever. It was all soft. But I would get it again.

We really liked the stroopwafel too, but while our top cookie was perfect and chewy, the bottom was more mushy and doughy. I don’t know if that was because of how and when the caramel is added and then how everything is stored, but the bottom cookie texture didn’t fit with the stroopwafel vibe. Also, our cookies were DEFINITELY snickerdoodles- anyone else? We didn’t care and thought the taste was excellent with the cinnamon, just surprised because we thought they were sugar cookies.

Overall, I like the direction of creative and tasty concoctions that Crumbl went in, but I really hope they remember that they have a number of excellent and creative cookies out there that have already been very well received by the public and that haven’t been seen in a long time- jammy heart, chocolate raspberry truffle, Banoffee pie, peanut butter pie cookie, strawberry pretzel pie, cowboy cookie, biscoff tres leches, etc. I hope we will see those return soon.

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u/mostlylurking07 — 2 months ago
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Wewind: Fwiends! I do iconic scene from Gwease!

Hi fwiends! Today, fwiend Gonzo u/mycookiepants discovewed da joys of someting dat is neaw and deaw to my heawt. Someting so speciaw I nevew have and nevew would gatekeep it fwom awl my fwiends, and I have an endwess suppwy!

Since I gonna be twavewing tomowwow and won’t be abew to make a moobie - and awso haven’t even towd woo awl what happened WAST week wif da Alice stuff, because woo know I get behind and stuff awl da time, and dat da Tinky Wady’s fault- I doing a wewind fow any fwiends who haven’t seen dis one yet!

(This was our second movie and it was so simple and I still love it so much.)

Wove woo!
Applejack

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u/mostlylurking07 — 2 months ago
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Happy Biwfday Fwiend Astra da Bard!

Happy biwfday ouw bewoved Poet Wauweate, fwiend Astra da Bard!

Dis is woo “Imagination Cake”!

It have kitten Astra (who AWWAYS had da best bangs - fwinge, fow some of ouw fwiends- EVEW! ) and smol Astra is dweaming of hew wife, fuww of poetwy and pictuwes! It is a dweamy cwoud wandscape cake. Da cwouds awe cotton candy (candy fwoss).

I have incwuded some stanzas of hew poems she cweated fwom hew bootifuw imagination and and a coupew of da most whimsicaw movies she stawwed in. I even incwuded hew speciaw fishy toy she woves so much, and da poem she wrote to it! Da dweams wise up untiw she becomes ouw Poet Wauweate. Dat was me who nominated hew!

And den, I wemembew how she she went so high in hew bootifuw imagination dat she weapt wight off da bawcony! But I have awways bewieved dat fwiend Astra has given us so much wove and comfowt and peace and joy in hew poems to us, dat when dat happpened, she came down to da gwound a wittew mowe softwy because she was cawwied on da wove and puwws of us fwiends who wove hew. So I wrote a coupew wines mysewf to ouw Astra, dat make a dweamy, heawt-fiwwed spiwal dat cawwied Astra when she was fwagiwe. Dat was ouw wove fow hew, and awl ouw gwatitude fow what she has given to us .

Fwiend Astra has created awl dis booty fow us and she is onwy TWO!! She has accompwished so much, but da most is being a wondewfuw fwiend.

Oh- and dewe awso some churu! Tanks fow da invite to woo amazing pawty too!!

Happy Biwfday Bard!!

🧡🤍🖤Wove, Applejack

u/mostlylurking07 — 2 months ago
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Cuwiousew and cuwiousew…

If woo haven’t wead fwiend Smuffi’s tawe of Wondewwand, hewe it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICBGC/s/PCzbFNCPO1

But fwiend Prof G continues to stay shwinked!

Fwiend Smuffi bewieves one of my made-wif-wove cakes can bwing hew back to size!

u/Connect-Smell761
u/One_Advantage793

u/mostlylurking07 — 2 months ago