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Pets / Re: Meet Merlin!
« Last post by jpcher on November 06, 2025, 02:48:24 pm »Beautiful dog!
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Holidays / Re: Do apples feature in traditional American Halloween?
« Last post by Lula on November 06, 2025, 08:40:53 am »Has anyone else ever made rotting corpse faces? You carve a face into an apple and let it sit at room temperature for a few days...
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Pets / Re: Meet Merlin!
« Last post by EmmaJ on November 04, 2025, 06:14:05 pm »What a sweetheart! ❤️
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Pets / Re: Meet Merlin!
« Last post by Asharah on November 04, 2025, 03:44:43 pm »I love that face!
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Holidays / Re: Do apples feature in traditional American Halloween?
« Last post by Titanica on November 04, 2025, 09:42:20 am »Ah yes! Candied apples! I don't think I've seen one in a long time. I remember eating them as a kid though. The candy was the red, hard, stick-in-your-teeth kind of stuff and not a whole lot of the apple itself got eaten.
I do see caramel apples sometimes for sale in candy/chocolate stores. I often wonder who still buys those.
Candied and caramel apples are hard to eat, messy, and IMO not all that great. They do LOOK quite tempting though.
I buy caramel apples, and I love them. Especially the ones covered with peanuts!
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Holidays / Re: Do apples feature in traditional American Halloween?
« Last post by lowspark on November 04, 2025, 08:30:05 am »Ah yes! Candied apples! I don't think I've seen one in a long time. I remember eating them as a kid though. The candy was the red, hard, stick-in-your-teeth kind of stuff and not a whole lot of the apple itself got eaten.
I do see caramel apples sometimes for sale in candy/chocolate stores. I often wonder who still buys those.
Candied and caramel apples are hard to eat, messy, and IMO not all that great. They do LOOK quite tempting though.
I do see caramel apples sometimes for sale in candy/chocolate stores. I often wonder who still buys those.
Candied and caramel apples are hard to eat, messy, and IMO not all that great. They do LOOK quite tempting though.
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Pets / Meet Merlin!
« Last post by Nikko-chan on November 03, 2025, 11:29:00 pm »I realize i havent been here in years. Life happened. But. Meet my SDiT, Merlin!
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Holidays / Re: Do apples feature in traditional American Halloween?
« Last post by Hmmm on November 03, 2025, 03:06:50 pm »We did bobbing for apples a few times as a child but I don't think it is done anymore. I know my kids were never introduced to it.
Other apple related things from my youth for Halloween were candied apples or caramel apples. We did them at one Halloween party we hosted for the kids one year. I remembered why they seem to loose favor for Halloween. They took forever to make and only a couple of bites of any of the apples were eaten... which was the same as when I was young.
Other apple related things from my youth for Halloween were candied apples or caramel apples. We did them at one Halloween party we hosted for the kids one year. I remembered why they seem to loose favor for Halloween. They took forever to make and only a couple of bites of any of the apples were eaten... which was the same as when I was young.
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Holidays / Re: Do apples feature in traditional American Halloween?
« Last post by lowspark on November 03, 2025, 01:46:54 pm »I remember bobbing for apples as a kid and I hated it. Glad it's gone as a tradition because it's really just a big tub of saliva after about the third kid. Plus it's just hard to do.
I have also seen it set up by hanging the apples by a string instead of putting them in a tub of water. Still hard but maybe not quite as gross.
I don't necessarily remember it as specific to Halloween although that does make sense.
I do remember apples being a legitimate trick-or-treat bag filler. I remember always coming home with one or two in my halloween bag at the end of the night. I don't think any of us ever ate them though. Who wants an apple when there's all that candy!
I don't know what my mom did with them. Probably threw them away.
Then someone (supposedly) stuck razor blades in the apples they handed out so that put an end to that.
I say "supposedly" because who knows. Might have happened. Might have been urban legend. But anyway, that was the story when I was a kid.
I have also seen it set up by hanging the apples by a string instead of putting them in a tub of water. Still hard but maybe not quite as gross.
I don't necessarily remember it as specific to Halloween although that does make sense.
I do remember apples being a legitimate trick-or-treat bag filler. I remember always coming home with one or two in my halloween bag at the end of the night. I don't think any of us ever ate them though. Who wants an apple when there's all that candy!
I don't know what my mom did with them. Probably threw them away.
Then someone (supposedly) stuck razor blades in the apples they handed out so that put an end to that.
I say "supposedly" because who knows. Might have happened. Might have been urban legend. But anyway, that was the story when I was a kid.
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Entertaining and Hospitality / Re: Baby Shower Planning
« Last post by jpcher on November 01, 2025, 10:28:27 pm »Yes, we did the bring a book thing, but they only received six or seven books. That's okay. They were cute little baby books that couldn't have cost more than $10.
The invitation was worded "Please consider bringing your favorite children's book with a short message . . . "
So it wasn't a demand or even a request, just a thought.
The invitation was worded "Please consider bringing your favorite children's book with a short message . . . "
So it wasn't a demand or even a request, just a thought.