This is for the Boolprop’s Easter Challenge. In which I’ll have a farming only sim family. Barberry Stirrings was chosen to do this since I had a child copy of her saved when the Stirrings file broke. She was a favorite and I hadn’t found one that I wanted to do for her and this challenge will do nicely for her.
So here is Barberry Stirrings, she had the traits Loves the Outdoors, Angler, and Klepto, then added Handy and Green Thumb for the this challenge. Barberry will be living in Dragon Valley as it seem perfect for this challenge. Now, on to the challenge:
So welcome, Barberry to your new home. It’s not much but it will be a start from the rescue that happened for you unlike the rest of the town. It’s not much but a start for you.
“Not much, I don’t have a bathroom. I have one room.”
True, but you do have a pond and a nice bed and the bathing area is on the backside of the house and you have no neighbors, so you should be good.
Barberry need some seeds to get her garden started and since most of the funds was spent on the property and her new home. So, since Dragon Valley had a community garden and she’ll need to eat quickly, Barberry collect a little bit from the garden to have a variety to plant and eat.
“I think I could pick all of it and then I had have some to sell too.”
No, you will be growing your own, just enough to get you started on your own garden and so you don’t starve before you grow your own food.
Barberry planted what she could of her free starting food to get a started on her garden so that she could get some income coming in.
“Yeah, I don’t know how profitable this is going to be for me and I really want to be worth a lot of simoleons. Also, I need a stove and planter boxes.”
Not at this time as you don’t have the money and you have an outside grill and there’s fresh salad to make.
“No, lettuce for salad. I didn’t end up with any and I planted most of the rest.”
“I need a job so I can eat and buy stuff.”
You have a job it’s gardening so pick something else.
Barberry ends up enjoy an early morning trip fishing that just off the lot. After which she returned home for some food and to check on the garden that’s now spouted.
Barberry loves to fish and it close to the home so now she has some fertilizer for her plants when she get to that level of gardening skills.
Barberry even enjoys a bath in the outdoors.
“No, I really not sure about this tub outside.”
Barberry sends plenty of time on her garden and made a little bit of time to find some seeds around Dragon Valley as well.
Barberry was lonely and had a wish to talk about gardening with the locals, so off to the local library to see if anyone was there. She met Siobahn Murphy and introduced herself and then proceeded to talk about gardening. Shiobahn wasn’t very interested in gardening herself and Barberry didn’t make any friends. But she did stop by the garden to pick up some lettuce for salads and to plant herself.
Though many hours of gardening, Barberry eventually has her first harvest to sell to the local grocery store. It didn’t bring in much income, but she was able to get a pair of planters for the house.
Barberry ended up burned to a crisp from the summer sun while working in the garden in her pj’s again.
“This is not fun in the least and I still will not be able to cool off as my bath is outside.”
Might not have been so bad with a few more clothes on. But you try to see if local consignment store will bring in more money than selling to the local grocery store so you can start making more money from your gardening work.
“And no one is here.”
As the local consignment store was a bust as no one was there, Barberry sold the alchemy ingredients she had grown to the local alchemy store. These ingredients ended up with a bit more money then the regular vegetables that she had been selling.
Barberry was able to sell enough to buy the gardening center to help with the watering of her garden and she can identify any seeds she picks up. The trips to the consignment store for the vegetables does bring in more money but a harvester to help her pick faster has yet to be found there.
Of course all of the bathroom fixtures had to break when she went to use them and it’s getting pretty nasty. Barberry cleaned and fixed them along with experimenting on them to be cleaner.
Barberry’s days are busy with the garden and fishing to catch some fertilizer for her garden. She doing okay but with the fruit trees shedding the leaves fall in around the corner and there will be no crops except what room for the planters in the house.
The fall festival was in town and Barberry visited it to get some socilization in. She even made a friend of Daric Ordhen and they enjoyed a conversation about fishes and gardening.
Barberry made a few last minute collection of seeds that she wanted to find before winter settled in. And making sure she also got the last of the harvest in and put away some to eat on and list the last large consignments to be made at the both stores.
Barberry pulled out the outerwear to make pancake breakfast on her new stove that was purchased with the last things that sold. And she’ll only have a few things to sell now that the garden is caught in winter’s grip. Not that she’s caring as she has free time to skate on her pond.
Barberry spent the winter upgrading the toilet to self cleaning and the stove so it was less likely to catch fire. She did have trepidation about the tub.
“Because I’m likely to freeze taking a bath in the snow.”
Not if you hurry and then get back inside to warm up.
Barberry did some winter fishing as the waters at the river flowed to the ocean so it didn’t freeze up. Barberry did have a small indoor garden with seven planter squished into her house. That she cared for to keep warm. She also did the normally winter activities in creating a igloo to sleep in and a snowman and snow angel. We can’t wait for spring to get here.
A winter gnome appeared as well when she was cleaning up the old newspapers. It’s hip deep in snow. Through she still keeps want to join a regular job instead of farming.
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