Bonny's birthday

[Year count 220]  From now on the updates will be a tad more focused on everyday matters. Still some community news from the island, but also smaller snippets from a farmer family's life.

Richelle (Y.) and Godrian Greench run Greench Farm at Maccaroni Island (correctly named Magna Island). They are both 3rd generation after the 4 settler couples (the SimBasic story). Richelle descends from Yvonne & Yespar Yea-Low and Rita & Roger Redward. Godrian descends from Greta & Gabriel Greench and Bianca & Bolan Blumington. You get the point - Richelle and Godrian's 2 daughters, Bonny and Dorine, descend from all 4 settler couples! So - it will be nteresting to see if they look like any of those first settlers.

This morning Godrian and Richelle had a little quarrel.

Yes, they are talking about their oldest daughter Bonny's birthday! It's today, and a party is coming up.

Godrian served breakfast, and they calmed down a bit. They are about to rearrange the plants they grow here at Greench Farm. Also, Richelle is trying to sell their produce to Town of Galucca. They need to focus more on just one kind, and some time ago they decided on pumpkins, but they are rather big and bring in little money.

Richelle will be going to Galucca in a short while. Godrian carries the blue alien DNA, descending from the Blumington couple, so he is not allowed to leave Maccaroni Island. Richelle is, and she holds a growing secret; she is looking forward to see Dr. Mahogany again. He returned to Galucca a few years ago, but gave his address to Richelle.

She spends some hours here in the office daily, planning the pumpkin export. Right there on the table is the Gardener trophy that Godrian's dad, Archie Greench, received before he died.

Oh, those farming traditions.

Out there on the fields was Godrian alone. He had to tend the plants before baking a cake for the party. Then, suddenly he aged, too! Only from young adult to adult, nothing to celebrate, really. Just a bit weird seeing him out there behind the farm house, cheering al alone... :)

Well, there's still time to bake...

Guests started to arrive, and Richelle welcomed them with Bonny sitting on her arm. The woman in blue is Godrian's twin sister, Boletta. The dark haired one wearing a short patterned dress is another sister of Godrian, Graica. Boletta is married to Richelle's brother and reside the western region. Graica is married to another of Richelle's brothers, Reynar, and they reside the Eastern region.

The elderly man is Richelle's dad, Alex Yea-Low.

More relatives arrived, and the party was on.

The elderly woman wearing a hat is Richelle's mom, Dorothy R. Yea-Low. She is a tad insane, but can blame it on her age.

Reynar obviously forgot to bring something. Graica had found some advertisement in a magazine, and wanted o show it to her brother, Godrian. It was about cows. Real cows that would give milk, might be a good asset to a farm.

Bonny grew up, and it will be interesting seeing her live develop from here. From the look on her face it's easy to see that she is a bit scared to sit on an adult chair for the very first time! :)

Then everything went downhill. Yvilla R. River, daughter of the Redwards and married to Godrian's brother who couldn't attend, well, all of a sudden Yvilla ripped her outerwear off, and stood there wearing her swimsuit. Well...

Naturally they all reacted. Yvilla R. River is Bonny's aunt (like half the island population are aunts or uncles).

I think Yvilla is insane. She descends from Yvonne Yea-Low, who also was a little strange at times, and the freaking Agnes Y. J. Hawk is Yvilla's aunt. Much insanity in that family, LOL.

A little later, the guests left. The farmhouse is too small for parties. It was bedtime for Bonny.

Hm... someone hunting for eggs? Or chickens even?

Week 16 Day 4: Returning tourists

Last night was extremely cold on Maccaroni Island. Temperatures fell belove -10 C. The night was very cold indoors too, and it was quite a different reality to get out of bed this morning. Godrian got dressed and stepped outside to inspect the garden.

All plants frozen, and some sort of white powder on the ground. It was not snow, but he understodd it had to do with the low temperature.

Will the plants ever revitalize?

At breakfast, another disappointment occurred when they wanted to eat some leftovers from the Spookey Day party. All guests brought food, and the fridge was packed with leftovers.

Maybe they simply need a better fridge?

Nobody wanted to be outside, and Godrian found it was warmer in rooms with few windows. He decided to paint a little in the office.

The cat, Mishu, had captured a lizard, and brought it in as a gift to Godrian. Hm, maybe it was a rare creature that the Science facility would pay for?

A little later Richelle joined Godrian in the office. They had to make plans for Greench Farm. Now that Godrian's dad, Archie, is dead, there is nobody that will protest to their plans.

Even if Galucca grows the specie, if Greench Farm manages to deliver crops of better quality, there should be ways to succeed. So maybe grapes would be it? Godrian's granny, Greta, once planted various grapes on the farm, because she wanted to produce nectar. She never got to producing anything, but some of the plants are still there.

Godrian decided to walk over to the Science Facility to hand over the lizard. Even if it was a freezing cold day, it was better to deal with this kind of matters now that he couldn't do much on the farm, anyway. His friend Pahomas welcomed him at the entrance.

Pahomas invited Godrian into the lab.

The pumpkins? Didn't Godrian harvest one of them at the Town Square some time ago? And didn't he also keep some seeds?

 
Godrian walked back home, found the pumpkin seeds and stored them in a safe place, awaiting warmer days.

In the evening the little delegation that had been visiting Town of Galucca, returned. Richelle and Godrian walked down to Richelle's folks in Sunrise Valley, and they brought little Bonnie. Both Richelle's dad, Alex, as well as her cousin, Reynar Yea-Low, had visited the other world!

There were so many questions in the air, in fact they didn't really know what to ask, or what to tell. The trip had been quite overwhelming. The gifts they had bought were still in cargo, being delivered to the local store on the following day.

Dorothy Yea-Low is getting pretty old, and her answers are more often nonsense.

They told about tall buildings touching the sky, and lovely parks everywhere. The harbour was thousand times bigger than the little port here at Maccaroni Island. It was all big, but not everyone was surprised.

Irena has inherited those huge ears from her granddad Yespar Yea-Low, the original inventor and one of the settlers. Even if the Galuccians looked weird, she would probably fit inn quite well ;-)

Irena is Richelle's younger sister, still a teenager. She has already inherited this house.

They couldn't stay very late because Bonnie needed to sleep.

After going to bed, Richelle understood that the new baby was on its way! The room was cold, but if they had looked closely, they would have seen that the windows were not frozen. Richelle disliked being pregnant, but she hated giving birth even more...

A sudden end to this chapter, as the baby was born.

To be continued!