Goofed, was wondering why you said the Darned wasn't the guy with the life preserver. I knew he wasn't the Darned one, so had to check why. I wasn't sure what his name was, so meant to say Summer one, but instead typed Darned.
They are my gardening sim couple, so all they do is garden pretty much. Poor things only get to leave the garden when they start to go all squirrely on me.
They had just started a new garden so they had planted the perfect plants and I put up the sprinklers and turned them on. Have them fertilize them, then they make the circuit around the plants to bloom them. I keep them doing that until the plants mature. By then they are going nuts and so I send them to the festivals.
So, sprinklers are going off for the whole time, probably two (max three) days of sim time as it was the smaller garden. Checked on the other side of the trees in case I missed a plant and there he was, under a sprinkler with his preserver on, leaning back on his hands, all comfy like.
As for the mysterious gnomes, I have the gem cutter so I don't send any gems out. But had from China the five metals and so had sent out a bunch of them, gold, mercury and the two that start with p (can't remember what they are or how to spell them) no iron or silver are sent out to be smelted. Using the elixer my sim was searching from the time he arrived to the time he left. I had the meal bars and shower cans for food and hygine, steel bladder so no pit stops. Rough three days for him; let him relax and do whatever he wanted for a couple days after he returned.
The one I haven't been able to get is the winter one. Had my sims build over 40 snowmen and no gnome.
Edited:
Sent my sim to China so she could get the cookbooks. Decided to check adventures and got the five metals. Put her on static and off she goes. Ended with LOADS of metals and a few gems. Made over 300,000 on the trip. Also received back five of the little critters. Sheer luck that she made so much money in China, usually between 60,000 and 90,000 is a good haul.
I think the program had a hichups
, as soon as I collected the metals from an area and went to another area, they popped back up. Not normal. I'm not complaining, though.