Last week, Nate became Sim Nation's first zombie Business Tycoon. Doo Peas Corporation is now mostly run by his underlings, which gives him more time to focus on his family (while the money keeps rolling in merrily, of course).
The Babbling's homelife is busy and hectic, with three adoptive children running around, but Anna wouldn't have it any other way.

Seeing as Bo Nadhira is the official head of the family now, the name of the Babbling household has changed accordingly. As you can see, a new house came along with the new name, as Ivy and Bo tore down the old structure completely and built a new one from the ground up. The entire ground floor is reserved for work and laboratory space (and a garage which isn't in use). 
I have to say I love how their house turned out, both outside and inside. It looks quite modern (fitting, for a pair of scientists), but not reminiscent of the concrete shoebox style.



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The Greengrasses recently spent a large chunk of their money and time on building a new farmhouse, as well as a barn to store their goods. (I've been looking for some decent farm animal downloads as well, any suggestions?)

It's only a small farmhouse, and they will probably have to expand again once the family grows larger, but for now it comfortably houses them all.

The Picklethorpes have a busy homelife, and this week was no different, so this is going to be quite a long update. 

Pater Familias, Protector of the People, Captain Hero and Cheese Enthousiast Arthur Picklethorpe is enjoying his elder days. The kids are all grown up (or mostly, in Brie's case), he's ready for his retirement, and things are still humming along smoothly between him and his wife Violet. Plenty to be thankful about, and now plenty of time as well to eat lots and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches.

Freesia and Rajat have set off out into the wilderness together, which isn't as far away as you'd think. The little settlement of Riverside Hollow might have tamed and domesticated the landscape around it somewhat, but it's still a day's walk away from forests that haven't seen a sim in hundreds of years, maybe even longer.
Their reason to go and set up camp in the great outdoors is twofold: Freesia has been officially accepted by the Adventurer's Guild and now works fulltime for them, and needs to have a basecamp to push her explorations of the region further, while on the other hand Rajat's newfound lycanthropy isn't fully under his control yet, and it's better that he stays away from regular sims until he has sorted himself out.

It's a dangerous world out there, but Freesia Fenwick laughs in the face of danger for a living!

 Last week, Flora Fenwick and Adam Stibbons decided to move in together. Flora, being the build-happy Mayor she is, had a house constructed next to the Town Hall to serve as the official residence to her family and those of future Mayors.

(Credit for all buildings shown in this update goes to Stoffelsim @ MTS.)

 Riverside Hollow has reached the double digits in weeks! I read through all my updates a few days ago and completely fell in love with my silly little town again, so I've picked up where I left off. Yay for more BaCC updates :)
I played week 10 for the Fenwicks before my hiatus, so this update is actually several weeks (months?) old. I've also changed the aging mod that I'm using, switching down from 2 days = 1 year to 1 day = 1 year. I want to see the town moving along a bit faster. Everyone's ages have been updated accordingly and seeing as we're just on a generation switch-over, the change shouldn't be too jarring. 

Flora moved out last week to live together with her fiancé Adam Stibbons, and noone has seen Freesia around for a while, as she's off on an expedition into the forests together with her beau Rajat Patanjali. That means the Fenwick household has been reduced to Felix, his son Fox, and Fox's girlfriend Hannah Greengrass. 
The new housing arrangement gives everyone some much-needed breathing space, even if Felix misses having all his kids around. He's been feeling rather lonely and morose since his wife Lily died. Flora has taken over his mayor duties full-time now, and he's been making himself useful helping out with her myriad of building projects. 



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