Week 10 Day 1: Pregnant

It's finally the day when the Village Council has its regular meeting. On the first day of a new week, 5 Council  members get together to debate the development, needs, ideas and reports from the Maccaroni Island. The community is actually coming along pretty well, although there were surprises, and there already seems to be diversity.

While there are 4 busy households in the southern region, up north there are just two. And only the Black family had children. Alfonso Blumington at 3 Blumington Road is still single, living with his very old mom, the painting artist, Bianca. They have worked hard to raise money, because they owe much more to the bank than they are allowed to. Today the Council will probably react by telling them to sell the house or Alfonso's little Fish Park. Bianca has painted minimum 2 paintings daily, but today she realized that money isn't everything - she decided to paint Alfonso's portrait, to keep.

Up in the hill there is a small fishing spot. You can see the roof of their house in the background. Alfonso is a fisherman, he often walks up her to fish. From this spot there is a nice view down to Sunrise Valley, as well as a shortcut westwards to the graveyard.

Alfonso caught a few fish, but this morning he was even more excited that he finally got assistance from the cats!

The original wild Miozoo mine cats, Mio and Zoo, had learned to catch fish. This was the second time they joined Alfonso up here. Yesterday Mio caught a 16 kg Piranha, it was quite impressive!

Over at 3 Greench Farm, Bridgette and Archie did well, although they were facing tougher times financially. When Archie's brother Cody G. Major moved out to settle a few lots away, Archie had to take up a big loan to pay him out. It also means they will no longer get help from Cody harvesting. Luckily the oldest daughter is old enough to help with the crops.

Today Bridgette called her hubby into the nursery.

Both Bridgette and Archie has a strong wish of being surrounded by family, with 5 kids the chances would be good...

Bridgette's brother Albert had moved in with Archie's sister Carie at 4 Greench Farm. Yes, everyone on the island seems to be related somehow. Carie and Albert are not yet married, and they share the house with very elderly Greta (103) and Bertil Greench (102), who still do most of the gardening. Greta has retired, but Cari now works at Greta's Bistro. Greta never really owned the business, but perhaps Carie might buy the place one day. They had good money, and no debts, maybe Carie could even buy some new clothes at the Consignment store?

Carie is simply the type who would prefer not getting married. She loves Albert, they live together, and with kids they would be a good family. But would a marriage really change that? The Maccaroni community is so small, the marriage can't be that important... but anyway, although Greta had twice as many births as Dorothy, stopping by the Health Center would make it easier to keep everything quiet.

Not far from the Consignment store is the new House of Law. Christopher R. Black had been working there for a couple days to get the new laws ready on time. And today he got a surprise visitor...

Christopher was happy with his brother Randal's thoughts about the law affecting the past. It was the exact quote that Christopher would need to sue Randal!

30 minutes later the meeting started at the Village Hall. Randal took the lead from the start like he usually did, and Alex Yea-Low, Archie Greench, Bella B. Black and Yoseph Y. Hedgewall waited patiently.

This would be the first meeting where all 5 positions were legally taken.

Christopher was waiting in the hall, and entered the room to take a seat.

He read the entire text, because there wasn't any questions after each chapter. They probably needed to hear it all before they could know what was missing. But then, the debate took off...

There it was! Christopher had waited for this input from Randal, he almost worried that there would be no statement on the law's backwards effect, after all. While Christopher wanted to laugh and cheer, he tried hard to keep an innocent attitude.

Randal even took the honor of adding the mark to the laws...

Christopher was asked to leave the meeting. He had done his job, but was not supposed to join the further debate. So he walked back home, smiling. The others went on with the law discussions.

Bella sighed. Was there not even a single sign of goodness in that man? Well, she was happy for the positive vibe about the laws, and didn't want to disturb that feeling.

The new Maccaroni Law was approved, and the text can be found here! Randal realized that it was important to contact all the judges as soon as possible, because if they didn't approve the law before tomorrow noon, his wife Corinne would not be able to claim that heritage redone within the 7 simdays deadline.

Then the Council debated a few of the community builds and services, but no actions were taken. They agreed that a Bakery and some facilities on Maccaroni Beach should get priority. Randal also shared his wife Corinne's idea of beautifying the village with flowers, and that Cody G. Major was asked to produce plants.

Then Yoseph Y. Hedgewall reported the Maccaroni Bank situation, and it turned out that the total of the loans is smaller, but on fewer hands. 3 households even owed more than the §10.000 limit. Archie Greench owes §13.317, LaShawn Greench owes §17.328 and Alfonso Blumington owes shocking §26.450! How could that happen? Archie, sitting there, turned red (well, a mix of green and red), and said they would solve it within 3 simdays. He couldn't speak for his brother LaShawn, though. And nobody knew about Alfonso Blumington, so Yoseph was told to visit the Blumington house tomorrow.

The meeting ended, and Yoseph walked over to the Greench Market. Then he ran into LaShawn Greench.

How could it be that urgent? Maybe Yoseph should rather question this guy's finances?

Yoseph isn't a coward, but he often sees the bad in a situation. Right now he got a terrible feeling that something was wrong.

When Bella B. Black got back home, she found her hubby still smiling! They hugged and shared the moment.

So, right now Bella, Dorothy, Bridgette and Carie are all pregnant! Maybe there should be a Pregnant Mum's Club? No, at least not yet - but rather a Pet Club! Over at 3 Redward Heights there was a small get together, involving Constance R. Hamming, Graica Greench and Albert Blumington.

Didn't that sound sort of naive?

Albert got some good advice from Joe Hawk in the past, so he urged the two cats to have as many kittens as possible to save the Miozoo cat race.

Couple hours later the sun was setting. Albert was back home, and Carie returned from her job at Greta's Bistro. She had been to the Health Central just to find out that she IS pregnant. Still, she hesitated to tell her parents quite yet.

At the door her dad, Gabriel Greench, was being sniffed by a dog. But then the dog laid down to eat from the cat food bowl.

This chapter is way too long already... It got dark, and day ended... and tomorrow will be another day :-)

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