Week 8 Day 5: Lonely old man

It's the day after Yvonne Yea-Low's death. When she didn't return back home, they went looking for her, and luckily, Alex had observed his mom crossing the bridge walking north. Her grave was found in the mine, and her husband Yespar did not understand what she had been doing down there. They brought the remains to the little chapel built where Yvonne Yea-Low herself planned a graveyard. The first funeral on the island will take place tomorrow.

Word had not spread to Joe Hawk yet. He has aged, but everything else is unchanged. He lives in the western region, near the mountain on a tiny lot a bit off the road. He hasn't improved his shed, although he did save up some simoleons from working at the Consignment store for a while. His old parrot Emmy is still around, and the wild dogs are doing okay.

Dooshee and Mathilda could try for puppies again, but because they have no house, they have fleas most of the time, might be a reason why they only get irritable when trying for more puppies. Joe is an Animal lover, he would like to secure at least one puppy before Mathilda gets too old.

Mathilda seems eager, while Dooshee is more occupied with his fleas...

Over at 5 Redward Heights, Rita Redward finally produced a series of cosmetics. She worked with such products back in SimCity, very long ago. She found soft mud and various plant ingredients, mixed it all in different ways and can now offer make up to the island's female population.

That was exactly what Roger wanted to hear... Right down from their home, was the headland where Roger had tried to make a bonfire to signalize back to the others that he was safe and alive. When the matches were gone, he took a while to make fire, and that was when the others waiting on the smaller island, thought he had not survived the first 24 hours on Maccaroni.

Over at 3 Blumington Road, also Bolan now needs a cane to walk. He hardly visits the pond to fish, and it's also too far walking down to the sea.

Bolan dreamed of building ponds in his garden, stocking it with fish, and spend more time fishing and less time walking. But as he dug the first pond, they decided to move up north. And up here, he never got to digging anything. Now Alfonso was interested in taking up this plan,but in a more community friendly way.

The moon was up already, and Bianca had been walking for hours. She felt sorry for Joe Hawk, everyone talked about him in some way, now Albert even said the lonely man was suspected for stealing from the Warehouse. Why didn't they visit him before? Bianca had talked a little with Joe at the Consignment store, when she was at the Gallery anyway, but that was already long ago. She thought that to prevent crimes, it was important to involve everyone.

Bianca is normally rather shy, but now that she is very old (95), she was less afraid because there wasn't really a lot to risk. Whatever happened would happen. If she made a fool of herself, so what.

Joe was at home, and so were his wild dogs.

And they walked inside Joe's little shed. Few years earlier Bianca would not have dared, but now she really wanted to get to know Joe Hawk some better.

Well, maybe Joe never met Agnes? Now that Agnes' mom is dead, could it happen...?

At 4 Greench Farm, Carie Greench's place, Greta was about to serve some lovely salad when Carie walked in. Carie had been out, and wasn't expected home quite yet.

Archie and Bridgette got a cat from the same household, but a previous litter.

Albert Blumington, the Sculptor, had been dating Carie for a short while only, but they are both interested in animals, and found they share other interests, too.

At 3 Blumington Road, Bolan and Bianca were right outside their home. In the distance is Black Heights, that's where their daughter Bella moved with Christopher Redward. Most likely Bella will take Bianca's maiden name, Black.

Yes, Bella and Christopher at 4 Black Heights have been slow. They didn't seem to find the guts to get those sparkles going. Their relation had been greatly improved, but Christopher was still sleeping outdoor.

But tonight something happened. It was like a stream of good wishes hit them, and before they could avoid it, they were kissing devotedly.

Tonight they got engaged, and for the first time Bella invited Christopher to come sleep with her!

To be continued in 2 days!

Week 8 Day 4: Health Care

Yvonne Yea-Low's thriving lime tree garden, is among the Yea-Low main family's major income sources. Hardly any other household grows the lime fruit. These limes are very special to Yvonne, but her health has not been the best lately, and she realizes that she can not keep tending this part of their garden.

Dorothy and Alex Yea-Low also resides in this eastern region. They are the only household in Sunrise Valley, and this far it has been a little lonely. But now they had a son, Reynar, and days will be busy like never before. Alex works as an Inventor, spending much of the day at the Warehouse. Dorothy is waiting for the new Health Care center to be built, as she was promised to be in charge for it.

Little Reynar got Dorothy's red skin - it's a little strange how the Redwards' DNA seems to win again. Dorothy's older brother and Alex' sister, Randal and Corinne, have 2 children by now (Yamir and Rosanne), and both got the Redward family's red skin. In fact I was hoping that the Yea-Low family's skin would be passed on to at least some children, but this far there's actually none! At the Greench Farm there are two kids, and Greench DNA seems to win  over Blumington DNA. Maybe Maccaroni Island will end up with only a red and green population? Of course, it's way too early to tell...

Then Dorothy's mother-in-law, Yvonne Yea-Low, was on the phone; The Health Care center was already done!

The Health Care center will be their future hospital. This far it's quite small, but still one of the largest community builds on the island. Dorothy is the only person who will work there, in fact she is now signed up for the Medical career. The center is located on 5 Yvonne Drive.

There are no known diseases in the island yet, which is a bit strange in fact, but there will obviously be health challenges in the future...

A stairway leading down to the cellar, yes. Not much down there, but a cold storage room intended for storing medicines and various remedies and herbs.

(There is actually a full sized hospital down there, but we will pretend there is just a storage room, okay? :-) )

Suddenly Yvonne felt a little dizzy, she had to lay down for a moment. It was the perfect occasion to test the lounger behind the divider board, a spot intended for patients needing to relax between examination and leaving the building. We will never know if Yvonne just acted in order to test Dorothy's nursing qualities...

Over at 3 Redward Heights there's lots of news! Jess recently moved in, and Constance found that Cairo was female, and even expecting puppies. Yesterday Jess and Constance got married, they decided to take Rita's maiden name, Hamming, because there are already two Redward households in the region. In indexes and such they will be listed as Constance R. Hamming and Jess G. Hamming, where R and G is a reference to their previous last names.

Today Cairo gave birth to two very sweet puppies! They are both girls, and were named Vox and Muffy.

The puppies got partly different colours than Cairo and Kia, it might be easier to see when the puppies grow up. They would not allow Constance to pick them up, even if she played and talked with them for nearly a full day.

Over at the Warehouse, Roger Redward was about to proceed his plans. He had brought Rita to witness everything, but of course she did not know it. When inventors and sculptors use the Warehouse facilities, they place a §50 object in the shed as a payment to the community. Although the Warehouse is community owned, Roger has been picking up those items, and made anything he could to make Joe Hawk seem guilty.

Long ago the toddler Agnes was found in Joe Hawk's shed, but Yvonne had realized that Joe Hawk only saved Agnes from the wild dogs, not intending to harm her in any way. She thought the cave man was a quite reliable person.

Back at 9 Yea-Low Ring Agnes and Beetle discussed how Agnes had been treated by her mom, Yvonne, a few nights ago. Agnes had walked up north, and her mom had hysterically grounded her.

Beetle is Agnes' invisible friend. Others see him as a doll, and they think Agnes is rather insane when communicating or playing with him.

Late at night, Yvonne could not rest. She did not hear the voices, but she could not stop thinking about them. She feared something was coming up soon that related to the small, black beasts that she set free up north many years ago. Agnes had been near Maccaroni Mine the other night, and that was about where Yvonne set them free. Yvonne had also found black creatures near the house lately, but she felt they were connected to the north.

While it felt wasted, she kept looking... If she would find them, she would kill them with her shoe! Or cane! Or both! Every single one of them!

She was in no hurry, she could wait! Sooner or later one of them would show!

Oh oh... looks like the first of the 8 settlers just died? Was it natural, or were any black creatures involved?

To be continued in 2 days!