@Tynynounours Season will cause many changes. Well, the general gardening update has changed plant values. Now it looks like obscene amounts of money are to be made in flowers, not alien plants. I liked the design I had, but with the plants only growing half the year it wouldn't be the same visual spectacle. Just not worth it. I dunno. I have so many unanswered questioned about plants and values and yields. Yes, Katherine has her mother's smile.
@oshizu You've reminded me that the family really ought to visit Rosalind who has a daughter with Gavin. Ros is the forgotten one. But Alexis is sociable - she invites, and that's why we go. And then there's the Flint family that moved into a very nice Oakenstead which was destined for one of the green twins. Machinations on that front have already begun. Hopefully only one of the green Slipshod boys will need a (humanitarian, compassionate) street rescue, because I aim to grow a spouse for one at Oakenstead. We hope.
Not sure about green Zests, although that would be very cute and is to be hoped for. Their mother is surely going to pass along some of her strange looks.
@BallerinaHippo Wolfie is doing well! I had no idea toddlers could use the doggie doors, and was as amazed as you are. I think in most houses there's no point to the doors. But this is so big, and it allows the dogs to get straight to their food without a massive detour that it makes sense. I'd not have accidentally had this moment in a smaller house. (I've been testing gardening on a 20x15 lot. It could fit in the entrance hall + grand living room of this house. Madness.)
I see I missed the start of your Sharebear legacy. I'll be catching up on that.
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Chapter XV.
Apollo returns! You missed his fluffiness heartily!
And three generations all together. Not long now before Cornelius bites the dust, and I can't say I miss his pink mohawk.
And here he does indeed expire. He was heading out to Business, but didn't make it there. He had an accident. And the gardener had just arrived too.
I love the drama much. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely...
The gardener is less theatrical, and takes the proud man's death in his stride:
Presumably Alexis invited Scartlett over to mourn their father.
Neither seem too cut up. They might have had some personality conflict with their so-called "evil" father - hey, maybe that's just character defamation. People can be mean, and, apart from cheating on Persephone with the maid Katrina Whitman and spending the family fortune building Katrina a home in the same neighborhood (we'll have to visit that and her brood one day), what did Cornelius ever do to upset people? Was is it the maniacal laughter? Gah. Some people enjoy that. --And don't just roll your eyes and think "yeah,
only other evil sims". Now there's a "right" way to laugh? just so some fragile folk aren't "offended". Nonsense, I tell you. No one likes the "evil" sims for who they are! ;p Anywho. Alexis and Scarlett don't seem too wounded. I can't say if the toddler is Drew or Kurt.
And who was walking by... but fan favourite Mr Donald Lothario. Ooooh.
There's Chadwick in the background with Persephone, too. My cogs were turning at this point. Zesty had failed to produce a daughter... and a space in the household had just opened up for a morally questionable gentleman. More of that later.
Katherine aged up as a Happy Toddler. I'm like you. I can't be asked to micro-manage my way to Top-notch Toddler.
And that's the freshly rotated and extended dining room. It feels grander now.
Persephone finished off the read-to-child goal which is always the first thing to do, so we can do the first homework while focused and have that count toward the aspiration.
After that was done, it seems like there was a trip to CAS for the purpose of this portrait. Of Katherine. Who is very like her mother, only not blue. But I do like Wolfie's eye colour! That's a win.
Finally the garden was mostly grafted, and hence the picture. Rather pleased with that. The only constant in life, and Sims 4, is change. So while this garden is no more, we look back on it and enjoy it or something.
With Katherine's childhood and having a backlog of dirt clumps, we haven't been Adventuring lately - the plan was to go every weekend - but Persephone in her adventuring outfit is with her adventuring prizes, and Scarlett adventurously comes home from bodybuilding... adventurously.
Persephone then ages up to Elder. That's the same swimming outfit she had in the temple. Those were the days! I had the home club use the diving board as one of the activities so that the glorious pool gets used, which explains why they're always in their swimming gear. Um. In winter I think I'll change that.
Don Lothario strides purposefully across the hall. You may have noticed him - also in his swimming shorts - in the garden earlier. He is with us to romance Alexis and hope for a girl. Don makes good looking kids as we know. I think this time might be an exception. Also, Johnny's Age Away serum test didn't work. So he's not long for the world, and now that Don is in the Windmille, he's been aged back to the start of Elder. I've used Don a fair bit, so he's not destined to be a permanent member of the household. I always intended to move him in with Alexis.
Yup. That floor pattern is gonna change a few times.
And one last shot of the glowing gardens at night. This is after all what I had in mind when I was laying out the beds in the early days.
And the entrance hall has changed again.
At "Winterfest" we put the tree here, and a big red carpet that fits so nicely with the floor pattern. This floor is settled. It's not as busy, it's more neutral. Apart from the central swirl it's just black and grey marble.
This was Seasons prep. I kinda expected that outdoor gardening might not be the way to go, so I built a conservatory on - taking inspiration from another house. Those are dance floors as skylights. The glass roofs are great, but this is a fairly elegant solution too if you want a flat roof. Ignore the paintings on the outside of the house. That happened because of major remodeling. The vet clinic has swapped sides with a bedroom.
And then Seasons arrived. I wasn't sure we'd get snow in Brindleton, which is why I loaded this family up starting in winter.
And that's Wolfie as an elder already. :/
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Next time! Winterfest at Windmilles & Wine! Cas awfulness! A visit to the Flints at Oakenstead as plotting continues apace!
