Barberry may have gotten old, but she still keeps her garden growing. She even finds time to can some more jams to snack on. The cheese plants have turned out well through the winter in the indoor planter boxes.
Springs are busy with the outdoor garden taking off and so many money trees have blossomed from the seeds she has planted toward the end of fall. Barberry still hasn’t been able to find anything to help with the harvesting of her crops.
Siobahn hosts parties every other day with Barberry attending several of them to hang out with her friends. Both the elderly ladies enjoy chatting about their lives.
On one trip to the consignment store to drop off Barberry’s latest harvest, she finds an abandoned green dragon. Barberry ends of stealing it and taking it home with her. Plum had been lost so now she had the green Path. Path ends up being very usefully in that she can harvest and grow the garden with her special abilities.
Barberry achieved her life-time wish of Living in the Lap of luxury with the latest sells from the consignment store. She’s worth over $100,000.
Barberry turned in the outstanding cheeses that she had grown for additional money from the grocery store as well as learning how to grow steak plants, which she will try out when she gets home.
The garden keeps Barberry busy through the summer even with the help of Path. But she did have her largest sell come through as well. Path also enjoys chats about the garden so she doesn’t miss her friends too much.
Barberry still finds time to socialize. She had deliveries to some new people and made a new friends of Aiden Dwyer-O’Connell.
Barberry has started to fish out of her water wheel well when she gets up early before starting her day of gardening. She tends to pull out the large fish that some how find their way underground to her water wheel.
The colors of fall ways bring smaller harvests from the garden as the chill sets in, which lets Barberry have time to fish more. She went late to find another death fish.
The Dwyer-O’Connells hold several parties where Barberry ended up making friends with their oldest son Patrick. He seems to find Barberry very interesting.
“The sweet man gave me the first flowers anyone has given me and I like him.”
And you old enough to his mother. But yeah, the only sim that’s ever given you flowers. Not even Daric did that.
With winter approaching Barberry busy a new coal stove and a wood stove to increase the variety of foods that she can cook from her produce. And upgrades have her getting the handiness skill to level 9.
Barberry is getting up there in her old age and loves the rocking chair. She also has done well with her reputation at the consignment store. She is worth $156,511.
It comes to the sad day that Death comes for our Farmer Barberry Stirrings right when she was going to enjoy a bowl fresh made mac’n’cheese. At the end she was worth $165,920.
The snow was finally gone from Dragon Valley and Barberry went searching for a few new seeds to try out. She found a few to take home and plant in the rain.
Barberry had a busy spring. She hung out with Siobahn Murphy-Finnigan during one of her trips to the consignment store. She had her bills on time. And worked hard on her garden making sure new plants were in place.
Barberry had a birthday and became a full adult. She was pretty pleased with herself and is currently happy enough with her farming life that there was no mid-life crisis for her.
Barberry really wanted to learn the nectary making skill, so after she grew some grapes she got to practice on learning something new to add to her farming life. She did end up with too batches through the first was a terrible nectary.
She did earn plenty from her crops enough to reach over $25,000 and then wanted more funds. And the cash crop for Barberry is mushrooms.
Barberry had been wanting a hot tub to relax in and with the last batch sold, she earned enough to have the cheapest hot tub that we could find. She found it had a happy dancing before getting in.
Barberry took time on the Love day holiday to pick flowers and attend the party that Daric was throwing. She also stole a kiss from him and then a dragon egg from him.
The egg hatched a purple dragon, but Barberry did have her garden to tend so he was named Plum and left in the house.
Barberry spent her days farming. Between tending to the her crops and selling them she was doing well on her income now specially with the prices of mushrooms. Barberry went fishing for fun and fertilizers for her garden between tending to the plants and end up delivering fish and produce to some of the individuals in Dragon valley. Her most common delivery is to Shauna O’Connell.
Barberry has two pets to feed as well. Her fish Dana which is the first tragic clown fish that she caught and then Plum the purple dragon. Dana didn’t live too long as she was floating in her bowl after a party one day.
And the farm prospered with the largest income coming before the end of summer. Once again the mushrooms are a gold mine for her. Plum was there for her to chat with if she needed more company and the summers quickly passed. And she earned all of the gardening challenges.
In the fall, Barberry hurried to the last of the crops in and make a transition to her house pots for the some food and money through the cold winter that it’s coming up. She even found time to visit the fall festival to pick up her pumpkin to carve and had a fun time in a apple bobbing contest.
The first frozen breath on all the outdoor plants occurred on fall holiday and she was invited to Daric’s costume party which she accepted. There was even time to watch the stars and discuss the gardening again.
Barberry has progressed past salads in her home grown food and now is enjoy spaghetti from her perfect tomatoes. But she had also lost Plum to an unforeseen problem, so she’s without any pets. She does enjoy fishing on the last warm day of the year before the snows move in.
Barberry did a lot of fishing in the winter months. Enough to say that she caught all kinds of fish even through there were still some species that she hadn’t seen yet. She also was able to master the fishing skill.
Nearly every day Siobahn called to invite Barberry to a party that she was having. Barberry did attend a few sometime she was just to tired and smelly to go to a party. But Siobahn is one of the few friends that she does have around town.
Barberry’s elder birthday snuck up on her and she wasn’t very happy about getting old. She ended the evening with a drink at the local pub.
Barberry took up canning her left over fruits so that they would last and she has some nice tasty jam to eat too. So that she has something to do as her indoor garden doesn’t take as much time with the fewer plants that she’s growing.
Barberry caught the elusive death fish one winter evening. Now, I believe she’s caught all the kinds of fish you can find in Dragon Valley. Also this winter came the lost of her best friend Daric.
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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