Week 2 starts out dark and rainy. It is also Olivia's transition day, her additional trait is friendly. ------- My mental story dialog, says that Kathy feels a little guilty about how much cake the children are eating, but she took the job straight out of high school and hasn't learned much about nutrition herself. Funds are still tight, the crib is sold for a nice bed for Olivia, and Kathy moves her rusty bed frame over to where the main house will eventually be. Since there is no school, all of Kathy's charges are given permission to explore the town. Kathy reviews the letter from the uncle, it would seem his motives in helping were not so pure. The house is become an upscale cottage with walkout basement that blends in with the surrounding community. For this summer the vegetable garden was okay as it fed the children and helped pay the rent, he however has plans for a small ornamental garden. He does give permission for one or two planters, should any of them want so long as they fit the theme of the house. With Olivia now a child Kathy is free to spend more time with the dragon at the community garden. With the money earned the walkout basement is fully roughed out, and ready for when the uncle sends supplies & workmen. Kathy feels a little better about having every one under one roof again. All of the twins have been working hard, Janina even found a paid internship with law enforcement. She's confided in Kathy that she wants to become an international super spy and help track down their parents. Even though it's not the top quality Pamela wants to get right away, they finally have a little extra furniture. Kathy gets the bathroom floor scrubbed extra clean and sends 250 to charity. Janina manages to learn a charisma point from the purple dragon and decides that Paul will benefit from time with it. Kathy catches Pamela trying to skip school by sneaking off the side. A quick exchange of letters and the uncle approves a temporary fence to ensure no more sneaking off in the opposite direction of the school bus. (For some reason, everyone has treated the side of the property as the main entry point.) Kathy and John are glad that fresh vegetables and fruits are so popular. John has already reached level 6 of the gardening career. Even though he's working as a gardener now, he starts to feel that sciences in general are more of his calling, but he's waiting until the deep frost sets in before signing up for the science center job. (The careers mod at nraas industries on wiki space, allows teens to work at more places than ea permits.) The first floor is finally walled in and roofed with the floor boards for the second floor. Kathy moves some of the furniture upstairs. The space echos, but it's a nice spot to talk with Pamela, and help her as needed with the night's homework. Fortunately the deep frost and winter are still a few days off. Kathy and Paul manage to get good harvests from the community garden. The kitchen is finally fleshed out, the uncle is adamant about basics to start and everything can be upgraded later. The chairs surround the new table nicely, and Pamela is thrilled to finally have a computer in the house, even if it is a cheap one. She immediately sets out to work on the writing skill that she needs to improve for school. Kathy finally learns how to cook. Feast day arrives and everyone enjoys a meal together at the table. Olivia is given permission to go trick or treating later if she wants to. Pamela finishes her school work on the computer. The deep frost that preludes the first snows of winter settles into the valley. John finally switched jobs, wishing that she'd gone to college first instead of taking a job as a nanny right off the bat Kathy attempts to write a fiction book, it flops so hard she receives an award for worst book ever. Everyone except Kathy and John receives a holiday bonus. The money is used on furniture, and everyone agrees that not having to walk outside first thing in the morning in the bitter cold will be nice for the bathroom. The next couple of days go by in a blur. Despite her failed first attempt Kathy takes another shot at writing a book, a sci-fi this time, and this time she does much better. As she writes she dreams of joining a sports team. Checking the calendar she notes that it's almost time for Olivia's next transition. Pamela stills grumbles about wanting things to be posher, but everyone agrees that things are much nicer than when they first arrived. Week 3 Day 1 Olivia's birthday arrives at the same time as the construction crew, and the deep cold of winter. Janina is suspicious when the uncle says mystery investors have funded the final construction phase. (Every so often sims who don't have a lot of simoleans will receive random lump sums of money. In this case, they received with minutes two separate installments of 10,000; so a building I went. After all I didn't cheat them the money the game mechanics decided they needed it.) Kathy decides she can wait until some other day to tell her charges that they are only allowed to stay until Olivia reaches her final transition to young adult. Kathy is also glad that the uncle wanted the building completed before he worried about landscaping. House is now shelled out as I want it. Including wall textures. To blend in with Dragon Valley, I popped around to a few empty houses and saved their wall covering coloration's, along with other build features that had been custom colored for the world. I changed the roof to thatched I'll have to have Kathy make another charity donation. Ground Level: Walk out basement along with the two out building are given the stone treatment. Floor is replaced in the shed and the basement. Still need to deal with windows and plumbing for the outside bath along with the basement bath. Main room will probably be a work/athletic room, Servant/Staff bedroom, and a small full bath. Eventually the perimeter fence will get replaced and the pit's will get their final touches and embelishments. First Floor: After careful consideration, the original foundation is replaced with stilt foundation to match the deck. A temporary corner support is placed for the back section, eventually a DV column will be moo'd into position in that corner. A few columns are also needed for the deck space that will also take moo'ing and testing. First floor is going to stick to an open floor plan, kitchen windows still need to get replaced along with the rest of the windows for the first floor to be added on. Currently a half wall defines the kitchen space, they might get replaced with full walls. Dining is right next to the kitchen. The space is divided by the stairs. On the far side of the stairs is living room space along with home office. First floor also still need it's half bath. Second Floor: This is the family's sleeping quarters as well as play space for toddlers and children. There is a master bed and bath in the back corner, with a small baby/toddler room attached. Next is a small child/teen room. a mediumish open space acts as childs play room. There is a second full bath accessible from this hall play space. To the side of that are two larger child/teen bedrooms. This floor has all of it's windows. Roof: I had hoped to add end caps but the only ones that would work were from a non DV set/world, so I went with the dragon & ridges. I'll need to moo two more ridge pieces into place to fill the gaps. Windows for implied attic are as wanted to match the rest of the house/cottages final look. From here out it's furniture, decor, and landscaping. I have two sim weeks until Olivia transitions to young adult.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Categories
All
Archives
July 2019
|