Happy New Year everyone! At the end of every year, I’m more and more gobsmacked at how quickly they’re flying by. Seriously! The last I knew, it was still July (and goodness knows, it still FEELS like July outside!)
The Farmer Legacy, despite all the problems we’ve encountered in 2024, has done moderately well. I’ll get into the nerdy stuff in a few moments. I’ll talk about the struggles and challenges we’ve had this year; most of it is health-related, but we had a déjà vu moment in October.
First things first. Hubby spent most of the first quarter of 2024 in the hospital, whether it was actual admissions or ER visits. We racked up some serious hours in waiting rooms. I had my own, less severe but nonetheless troublesome, problems. A back injury in April still has me out of order, and a fall injury in late December, 2023, brought a hiatal hernia. Don’t get old, kids. Haha!
Back in the beginning of hurricane season this year, I published a story that’s been in my “work in progress” folder since Ian visited us in 2022. If you read The Storm back in July, you may remember the harrowing tale of a category four storm headed right for Isla Paradiso. In October, when Hurricane Milton took aim at my hometown, that chapter almost felt like a verbatim foreshadowing of what we faced. I watched hours of hurricane footage researching for that chapter, but there’s nothing quite like the very real fear of having one pointed right at you.
Hurricane Milton is history (thankfully!) but the storm brought a serious upper respiratory infection that both hubby and I caught. He spent another three weeks in the hospital, while I doctored at home with a 102 degree fever. October was really lost. I don’t remember much of it. By and large, we’ve been healthy since then (knocking on wood!)
Getting back to business! The Farmer Legacy grew by five chapters and “teasers”—four in Generation Two, and one in Generation Five—one-hundred-twenty-four pages, and more than sixty-one-thousand words. While that doesn’t sound terribly impressive, let’s consider the numbers for 2023. Granted, 2023 was a horrible year for me, so the chapter that I published was a feat.
And now, for YOUR contributions to The Legacy; you visited this blog 398 times for a total of 707 views. Considering how much content I actually got published this year, that’s an impressive number of you who came out to visit and read about Destiny, Arthur, Jason, and my twin girls from Generation Five. From the bottom of my humble heart, thank you!
The Farmer Legacy will return, barring any more medical emergencies or other distractions, full force in 2025 with chapter eleven expected in January. I’m about halfway finished with the “skeleton” of the chapter, and now that the holidays are in the history books, I’m ready to get cracking with Destiny and Arthur’s love story.
I’d like to take a moment to thank the content creators who make storytelling a lot more fun. Bee, at Poses By Bee. If you haven’t seen her site or her beautiful poses, you’re missing out! Sandy at Around The Sims 3. No one still makes quality items consistently for The Sims 3 like ATS3. At least fifty percent of my custom content is hers. Fresh Prince Creations makes the most beautiful, realistic cars for The Sims 3. All of my custom cars in the game are from FPC. I’d like to thank the following artists from The Sims Resource: wingssims, Leah_Lillith, Nightcrawler_Sims, Ekinege, Pralinesims, and BEO Creations. Thank you ALL so much for the beautiful Create-A-Sim content; hair, makeup, clothing and so much more. There are so many more to thank, I couldn’t possibly list everyone. But to every artist who devotes countless hours to make our games better, a blanket thank you for all you do.
I invite you to stay tuned to the Farmer Legacy in this coming year. I have many chapters planned and two in the immediate works, plus side projects for Destiny and Arthur. I’m going to try editing Generation One in my spare time and prepare it for submission to an Indie publisher. Good things are on the horizon for my little family. Please, won’t you stick around and invite your friends to read with you?
On behalf of myself and Chris—my Photoshop wizard, editor and, sometimes, my muse—we wish all of you a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year! Thank you all again for reading and commenting. I appreciate all of you more than I can say.
Poses courtesy of Poses by Bee. Destiny’s gown by BEO Creations. Arthur’s jacket by Spladoum at MTS. Christmas decorations provided by Severinka. Champagne glasses by Inna_Lisa. Other custom items listed on my Custom Content page. Special thanks to Chris, aka the Photoshop Wizard, for his touch-ups on the cover photo.
Cover photo by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi from Pixabay
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