Alas, poor Micklethwaite!

Today he turned up uninvited at the Hooperbagg residence. The teens had a load of friends over as it was the weekend so he went indoors before I noticed him!

Poor Micklethwaite! He died doing what he loved - burning food in other people's houses. A pity his retirement ended so soon!

I knew him well.

Yes, he was having fun deciding which of the beautiful ladies in the retirement home he wanted to woo.


I was really quite shocked, he sneaked in and started cooking before I even noticed him! He was really having a good time in his last few days, another resident at the retirement home had hired a butler (Hawthorn), who did all the butler-y tasks before Micklethwaite could get to them. So Micklethwaite was playing chess, playing cards, talking to people, joining in the Myshuno and smustling more than he did at first.

He is probably cooking for (and burning everything) for the Grim Reaper now.

Grim Reaper looks like he's saying, well honestly I'm surprised it took this long.

Grimmy did shake his head a lot, I think he is going to be ordering takeaway food from now on rather than letting Micklethwaite anywhere near his kitchen!

I played some in Sims 2 today with Coleen Coriander. A lady running a small cafe. Managed to get her business up to rank 2. She however rolled a fear of getting old and never marrying. I was surprised there was a fear like that! Then after she closed up for the day a friend of hers came by. They had 2 bolts of chemistry so I did try a small flirt. The guy Gotfrid fell in love right away. So now they're engaged. She has 8 days before becoming an elder so perhaps a little too old for kids. But at least she won't be alone.

In Arundel some very surprising things have happened.

Daniel and Anna Klein have divorced-because Daniel just can't stay faithful. Anna found him kissing Bridget Allen, and he moved out of the house when she made it more than obvious she no longer wanted him to stay. She officially divorced him. Her son isn't doing any better at relationships, either-after divorcing his wife after a very brief marriage when he was caught cheating on her, he invited his married girlfriend to move in with him and his mother. Anna doesn't like his new girlfriend, but that's not unusual for her-she doesn't like anyone very much.

But that wasn't the end of the story for Daniel-he later showed up at Melanie Carroll's house, and had a heavy duty kissing session with her. Melanie's husband Lawrence, who had already reluctantly agreed to take the potion for witchiness to make her happy, found out and enraged by this, he moved out to the Men's Boarding House at the same time Daniel moved in when Melanie asked him to. Daniel isn't interested in marriage, and while Melanie is still officially married to Lawrence she's still very much into having another child. Her son Wallace (from her first marriage to Nicholas Trottier) was dismayed at his mother's behavior, but he's going to try to be friendly with Daniel-only because he's loyal to his mother. His private thoughts about her behavior are better left unsaid. He's seen her do this before, and it's not very pleasant to watch.

Lawrence gave his soon to be ex-wife the homestead that he inherited. He knew he should have become a monk! He's thinking about quitting his job in the criminal career and doing just that! "Women! They're not worth the trouble!"

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in Veronaville. We celebrate it on the last day of November, rather than the preceding Thursday as the Americans do, because 30th November 2012 was the day Andrew and his mum Gloria arrived in the town, and moved into their picturesque little house at 19 Chorus Court. 30th November is St. Andrew's Day. and St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, where I live. So it is certainly possible that that is why the name "Andrew" came into my head. St. Andrew's Day is widely celebrated in Scotland.

So we shall be giving thanks tomorrow, that in the thirteen years since I started playing the Sims, nobody at all has died in Veronaville (or indeed in any of my other neighbourhoods). This is a great deal better than the first years of the colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts, so I think we have good reason to give thanks.

Quite often I visit 19 Chorus Court for Thanksgiving, and spend it with Gloria and Garry, Andrew and Julian. But I really play them rather often -- more than any other Sims in my game. Maybe this is not surprising since I count Andrew as my best friend. But there are other households in and around Veronaville, which I haven't played since 2022. And the family that's been waiting the longest are the Moores, who live in the Via Veronaville, and own a nearby grocery shop in Poet Place. You may remember them as the family where Scott Moore, the father, won't let his boys, Ross, a teen, and Othello, still a child, go to school, as he says he needs them to help in the shop. You will no doubt also remember that Othello Moore has a fully reciprocated childhood crush on Desdemona Capp. So in 2025 I'm going to celebrate Veronaville Thanksgiving with the Moores. So I've been setting everything up today (the 29th), ready to celebrate tomorrow. Of course a lot of other Sims will be there to celebrate with them. Amongst the guests are Andrew and Julian. Andrew really has to be there, as he is one of only a handful of Veronavillians, with the cooking skill necessary to successfully roast a turkey. So I am looking forward to a Thanksgiving Meal tomorrow with them all.

@Craft90 - that is nice! And he can, of course, help in the business too!

Gotfrid was a townie so he have all the 28 days left in the adult stage. Which means he could raise a potential child when Coleen passes. So I could keep the place running. I would have to add another floor through. Coleen lives in a studio apartment above her cafe. There isn't much room left! I'm sure Coleen will love a child too. She's a Family sim after all.

I would go for immediately adopting a child.

It's been a minute! I managed to escape from "real life" to play a household real quick.

It was a beautiful fall weekend and the Inadas celebrated their 3 boys' birthdays by throwing a big birthday bash at home and inviting all the kids and their parents from their church. The twins, Aster and Draco aged into teenagers and their baby brother Cyrus aged into a child. When Luna was renovating Cyrus' room, she started feeling really sentimental when disassembling his crib and changing table. ...But then quickly changed her tune when she felt the all too familiar signs of pregnancy at the end of their session. While definitely unexpected, Luna and William are happy their family is expanding. They just hope its not another set of twins. They're going to hold off on telling the boys for a bit since they JUST put the baby stuff away.

I have a new mod that 'resets' the number of days left for elders. Usually if it triggers, it'll say, "XX may live a few more days'.

However, in the Carroll household, it popped up "Suzanne has a bad feeling that she will not live much longer.' I immediately checked the 'days left shrub' by Inge (available on her simological site) and the days she had left dropped from 17 days to 1! (she's 73).

The next morning she withdrew all of the money she'd put into the bank for safekeeping and gave her husband everything in her inventory. She had just sold her business for a hefty amount, having hit level 10 that very day.

It's startling because her husband Bobby was supposed to go first.

I'm going to have the very first elder death in Arundel in the next round.

I decided to finally find out what's causing crashing on my community lots, turns out it only took about 10 swift minutes of mod pulling to find out what it was (mods which I actually didn't really use at all). Great success! This game is so empty without community lot gameplay.

Not happening in the game, but in the forums and I suspect that most people don't check the contest threads, so I'm sneaking it in here. Anyone can vote. You don't have to have taken part!

Submissions closed for the calendar contest.

As for the judging.

If a month has only one entry, then I presume that they win by default. Only counts for January and March.

This is the list of pictures. https://modthesims.info/showpost.ph...70&postcount=53

You can vote for one picture per month, TS2 or TS3 (not both, as they'll all be in the same calendar). Just click agree on the picture of your choice.

Voting will be for one week, from today (3rd Dec) to 10th Dec. That still leaves time to actually do the calendars before Christmas.

Any questions then let me know. Otherwise, go forth and vote!

In beginning of Pleasantview, John Burb and Jennifer Pleasant are married, and Lucy is a bun in the oven. That means it only remains for Beau Broke to be born and unborn baby Broke to be conceived.

Dustin is a child and has black hair. Angela and Lilith are toddlers and have black hair. Everyone has black hair. Vanilla genetics dictates it (Brandi has two genes for black, Mary-Sue does as well). Well, Dina's hair is red dyed blond and Nina's is red. I plan to give Dustin and Lilith custom hair colors when they are teens.

Bella Goth will be abducted. I already have a story for it. She will end up in Strangetown living with the Smiths at first. Strangetown has been added as a subhood. Lola and Chloe were aged down to teens and sent to La Fiesta Tech along with Nina and Don Lothario, which I think will be fun.

Michael Bachelor and Dina Caliente are together. I just aged her to adult, and they had the chemistry to go for it, despite the age gap. Will Michael Bachelor die and Dina carry his ashes back to Pleasantview? I'm not sure, but it would be a way to get her off the alien planet and into Pleasantview, so maybe.

Will Skip Broke drown in a pool in his backyard? Again, maybe. Skip has been messing around with Gordon King's girl, Zelda Mae, so there is a motive there.

Will Darleen Dreamer die in a fire? I don't think so, unless the game makes it happen.

Will Don and Cassandra get engaged? I don't see it happening in a million years. They barely know the other one exists and there's no attraction there, but in theory, I could change Don's aspiration in college, and I have been thinking about making him knowledge aspiration...

Crime rates are soaring in Sonder!


Dilly saw it happen-


And promptly reported it.

Interesting. I didn't know that someone other than the victim could ring the police.

Me neither, but she clicked the phone and there was the option. I thought she looked so distressed, and she's the kind of sim who I think would like to help.

Simsample - Would you know what texture that is on Dilly's hair? I love that mesh, but haven't found a texture of it that looked good with the other hairs I had, and that one looks like it could fit.

Working on my 100th upload - hold thumbs, everyone?

Not playing, because of the creation in the making (I do miss my sims)!

Well done @Justpetro !

@AnMal It's Y2 sims, in the New Hair System. They did so many hairs, very nice too!
https://y2sims.tumblr.com/post/6684...ystem-colors-by

Thank you, @simsample!

Work done, I believe - I made a couple of mistakes that needed to be fixed, but the upload will be ready as soon as I have taken 1001 pics and written 1001 words. Why do we do this to ourselves anyway?

Oh, yes, it is fun.