A Birthday Stack of Friands!

Had a fun morning with the friends at The Social Space (TSS) Potong Pasir. There were many birthdays this month and for April. And brand turns seven this month too! So we celebrated them all together. Heh. 

Of course the floofs were there. This is really the 'Sunday Doggo Social Club'. It's for them! BossPup Mogi has totally come out of his shell on Sunday mornings. He has always been timid, and while curious, is skittish. He's still wary, but he has come to know this pack and the hoomans; he looks forward to just hanging out with everyone. Choya likes Mogi enough to actually get up from her usual corner to go greet him if he comes in later than she does. However, save for Choya, the rest also knows that they get a buffet of treats at this meeting. They literally expect it. LOL

We didn't bother with an actual cake. It's a tad hard to slice and be neat at the cafe. Also, this early in the morning, nobody wants cake. So we needed something small and cute like muffins. Then we remembered that the cafe does delicious mixed berry friands. 

We toyed with the idea of doing a giant friand, but that means we still have to cut it, and I dunno if the logistics can be done to adjust the ratio of ingredients at this last minute. Never mind. So we got a stack of those and made that the 'birthday cake' instead. That went down well.

I've come to like this quiet neighborhood of Potong Pasir. While the park connector and greenery has made it really beautiful and conducive for walking the dogs, it's the humans that make a community. While I never bother to integrate into any communities, but should that organically happen, I don't mind it. I do need that coffee, and the humans are cool too. 

It's quite a privilege to get to know these new friends, and over the year, realize that we share many fundamental values and a similar outlook in life, and at work. It's not just about the whisky or the gin okay. We have common ground that goes beyond just coming to a shared space every week for coffee.