Lars and Olive settled into their new home with dreams of little feet in their future. Sometimes Lars would wake in the middle of the night shaking. Initially he tried warm milk and soothing teas to get back to sleep, but it was to no avail. Instead he found that physical activity was his only friend on those nights, so he got logs from anyone cutting down trees and stacked them out back. Whenever he couldn't sleep he'd go out back and work the wood. By the 4th month they had added a narrow hallway that ran front to back along the side of the house, and added a small porch and a kitchen door to the side nearest the garden. The winter was rougher than expected and Olive fell ill with the measles causing her to loose the child she was carrying. Unsure of what to do to help her through her grief Lars built her a chicken coop. She didn't warm up to the chickens right away. Yet she knew that Lars had built the coop and gotten the chicks out of love. So in addition to his favorite meal of salads, she made him waffles and pancakes using the fresh eggs. When another family fell ill to the measles, Olive volunteered to be one of the nurses. As the measles spread through the town, the disease left a wake of broken families and heart ache in it's wake. While the family Olive had tended pulled through, another family suffered devastating losses. After a brief conversation between themselves and the orphanage which was running out of room, Lars and Olive brought home two orphans. By this time Lars had finished adding a master bedroom downstairs so they turned the upstairs room into a room for the older child, while the baby slept in their room. Lars had made the front porch bigger as well. Time went by and the two children thrived under their loving care. They were able to redo the downstairs bathroom with a proper shower stall, and tile floor. The summer that Lars managed to get Olive a canning station, was the summer that Olive learned she was once again expecting. Lars did what he did best, and pulled from his supply of lumber and added another room upstairs saying "the growing boys will need their own space anyway. Olive was nervous, and when she reached her sixth month she was put on bed rest, just as Lars finished the upstairs bedroom. By the time their daughter was crawling, Olive was a regular with the ladies sewing circle. Lars once again did what he did best in between milking cows, tending their simple garden, and checking on the chickens, he built Olive a sitting room where she and the sewing circle could meet without children of all ages tumbling through and spilling baskets of thread and fabric, or using edging material as napkins. One crisp fall evening the orphanage called and asked if they had room for two more children, twins in their early teens. Without thinking to ask Lars first Olive said yes without hesitation. When Lars came in for his lunch, she told him about the call. Before she could get past orphanage Lars asked how many, and when would they be arriving. After Olive gave him the details he wiped the last of the simple salad dressing from the corner of his mouth and gave instructions to the gaggle of youth around the table. Once everyone had their new chores he went to his wood pile and got to work. By the time the twins arrived later that week Lars had added a full bathroom and bedroom to the upstairs. They turned the original room into a family room, and Lars finished wrapping the porch all the way around the house. The years ticked by, and eventually they had two more babies of their own. As each child grew up they would take weekend trips to check out universities, junior colleges, and apprenticeship programs. Each trip Olive brought home a new recipe. One of the children would always ask about it and she'd answer that she had tucked away the books for later reading. Time is never kind, and eventually Lars couldn't keep up with the farm. They gifted the cows and chickens to a young family just starting out. They did their best to keep up the garden, but in time just the simple front steps was more than they could manage. On a visit home their eldest child, took stock of the situation and sent out an email to the clan, for Lars and Olive had fostered and adopted over two dozen children besides their own three. In the end it was decided that Lars and Olive would move in with some of the children and check out senior homes in Island Paradise where their youngest child lived. They put one stipulation on their children, that the house built of love and all it's contents be put on the market as is for some new family to enjoy and grow in. The following month the Sunset Valley Paper Ran a front page article, complete with a color picture, with the headline "Kesses Family Farm Up for Sale". The byline listed the price at just under 98,000 to move in fully furnished; or a little under 42,000 to move in unfurnished with the furnishings going to the local charity shop that helped fund the orphanage. Cherri got to do routing testing for me, along with one other thing. I had to redo this one from scratch. The pictures below are why. That hole in the ceiling tiles shouldn't be there, additionally when I was looking for any other holes and found random ceiling tiles where nothing should have been. Additionally walkways weren't lined up as they had been to start. So even though no cfe or moo was used for the build I was seeing cause for concern.
Last time I played a lot with random ceiling holes, my sims frequently went to work in their birthday suits and no blurring. Ulp! On the plus, the redo allowed for me to get the basement in, along with a few tiny extra touches.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories
All
|