Rambling tales of SF sims (with bonus cat pic spam)

[Caspin]

Woke up ludicrously early this morning but at least I’ve had plenty of time to play!

Minty discovered that Caspin’s repair of the kitchen sink was not entirely successful. Come on then, you show me how it’s done!




You will all be pleased to know that he’s now quite domesticated and enjoys hanging out all the stupendously flat clothes. I may decide not to kick him out after all!




I have been trying to sink a basement because someone wants a nectar cellar to fulfil their LTW but we don’t really have enough money. I’ve made a start by building a garden shed behind the veggie plot, then I can put a staircase in there. Eventually the cellar will be put in and I’l try to place a nectary in town so we can use their machines.

Meanwhile, the gardening is going extremely well and a random butterfly spawner that I popped in has started to yield up these very pretty purple butterflies




Caspin and Ollie’s Big Day Out

Well, OK, maybe it wasn’t sufficiently exciting to warrant capital letters but I enjoyed it! We went to see some of the new public buildings in Monte Vista. They’ve done a nice job on them, very picturesque. Ollie did some busking at some of the sites and Caspin offered support from the middle of the hedge.




There are several public swimming pools in the town, I like this one best. Caspin is at her most clumsy at the moment (just as in RL as it happens!) and kept falling face first into the water. For some reason Ollie found this entertaining. I can report that Ollie won all the ‘hold our breath’ contests, which would probably be true in RL as well.




After our day out we stole Minty’s car and drove home. That’s us there in a black Prius. The walled part of the city looks very nice under the stars.




Back at the house Ollie remembered his homework and made a start. No homework = no pizza. So get to it!




Caspin attempted pizza-making. This can be an expensive way to make dinner - she threw this dough into the air and it never came back down (EA don’t do gravity?) - maybe it’s on the roof! Anyway, she had to get out more dough, which cost more money. Minty will never get his nectar cellar at this rate!




Oh holy crap she’s playing with naked flames again - stand clear!




Minty came home from a long shift at the diner and was pleased to find some pizza left out for him. The sims get new ‘baked goods’ moodlets from eating pizza. Mmmm, pizza




That concludes my big day out with Ollie. I hope he had a nice time. At least I know he’s done his homework




It would seem that Minty felt he had eaten too much pizza and needed to work it off. Yes, you bend those knees now! Caspin decided to just sleep it off and went to bed. If he starts doing star-jumps I’ll cry laughing.







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And Yet More Monte Vista Pictures and Updates

I’m really enjoying this game, it’s hilarious having SF sims to keep Caspin company!

[removed], you are now married to a guy who, I hope you don’t mind me saying, is a handsome devil. Sadly he is lacking in style, however, choosing to wear a bathtowel and riding hat wherever he goes. Also you are now a famous freelance journalist, but I’ll try to keep the paparazzi from bothering you too much. It occurred to me (too late) that I should have put that One Direction guy into the game with you

I think I need to sneak into Ollie’s villa and plant a laptop, as he doesn’t seem to be progressing in his writing career and I suspect that might be why. Don’t worry, I’ll get on the case next weekend.

Meanwhile, I am determined that my household will feast upon ambrosia! We went fishing to skill up ready to catch deathfish. The game decided it was a date (try not to be too scared/scarred Minty), because all adult sims are now besotted with Caspin thanks to the new OTT attraction system. Well I wouldn’t mind going fishing as a date, I suppose, but maybe not in the dark!

Minty’s an angler and caught lots of trout, which I later made into fish and chips. Yummy things to eat in this game (except for one of the lasagne options for the new wood oven - lemon and aubergine - aubergine is OK, lemon not so much in a lasagne). I think he is level 8 now so we are making progress. Just need the death fish and then ambrosia is go!




I like following the car home and admiring the views. Monte Vista’s very hilly but there don’t seem to be as many routing problems as with other hilly EA towns (why did I say that, jinxed it now probably).




Meanwhile the basement has been placed and some nectar racks are ready and waiting to be filled. We had about three bottles already, ones that Caspin bought in some other previous game, but we are going to make the rest from scratch. We need at least 50 bottles and they have to be worth a heap of simoleons. I placed BluebellFlora’s lovely nectary in town so we headed over there to harvest loads of fruit and use the machines.




And here we are squishing. Squish squish squish! This stuff is 100% apples so it actually cider. Sadly it turned out quite cheap and poor quality but we’ll only get better from here. I’ll get out my spanner and whack those machines, that’ll help. Also maybe Ollie can come and help squish




Oh yes, the ice-cream nemesis is back! Mmmm fudge




OK I have to go and make a RL pie now, so you will not be subjected to any more of this rambling tale until next weekend. Also I note the cat pic spam deficit and will try to rectify this next time.