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It was a little bit of a stressful day at Luna Farm. We knew that the baby calves will be taken away, but it sure has put a bit of a strain on Choco and Oreo.

Sunday, aside from planting new seedlings the lady from the agency arrived to pick up Mateo. He was ready to head to Yodel Farm. They've decided to pick up the girls on a different day, and I guess that worked out. They came in the middle of the night.

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 It's Sunday! I am super stoked that Saibara invited Clair to the Flea Market. Not because she needs to buy something but I found out that there's Filipino food in Sims 4!!!

Why did I not know about this? Probably because all I do in Sims (before this) was play University, become a writer and a teacher, that's it. Every.Single.Save. 😝

I tried playing Legacy and quickly got bored, thank goodness I found Harvest Moon challenges!

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 Oh, boy! Autumn!! I wonder what "Seasons" will actually bring to my game. I am not sure if anything will change colors and things. One thing's for sure -- I AM GLAD BECAUSE THERE WILL BE NO MORE THUNDERSTORMS! Riiiiight?

Early morning Autumn looks so nice. It just feels different. 

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It's Monday (in-game) and Clair has been working non-stop because of yesterday heartache. Yes, we all know they're technically not together anyone, and she has to keep telling ignoring his "date" calls because the challenge says, dates are only allowed on "calendar date" days. 

The Moonlight Farm has finally been leveled up enough that there are new animals coming! May was super excited on a phone that I could barely make out what she was saying. Horses! miniatures, ponies, and horses!! What? We had to rush to go to the Yodel Ranch to see.

This little one was a bit worried about me coming around. He finally let me pet him a little bit. 🥺What a sweetheart. 

I cannot believe this beautiful creature warmed up to me pretty quick! 

This was a big softie as well. Awww, my heart is so full! Thank you to these sweet, gorgeous creatures.

Wait, oh no! Before the day ended I got this call:

Don't play with Clair's heart like this. I mean, Popuri... Argh. Okay, I had to click "Of course!" I wasn't really sure if the romance bar was going to suffer if I had clicked "Ghost him", I was not going to risk that. So any day now, he may ask me to go out -- but it's not challenge-allowed. 🤷What do I do?!

The next "date day" is not until 3weeks later. 🙄 ((Re-checking rules and loop-holes)... There are no rules against dates in the MTC.

Here's what's from HMRC:

So... the only rule is to make sure the Romance bar is 50 and above. I have to check that before he asks Clair on a date. 😅

Okay, this is the funniest thing. I left the game unpaused while I was typing and lost half of Tuesday. But look who just popped up at the farm!

Check and double-checked!

Also, NO, I did not cheat. I was just right-clicking the relationship bar to see the numerical values. No game cheats are allowed in this Challenge, aside from moveobjects and the first relationship values set-up for all the townies (which is why Popuri was still flirting with Kai).

At Romance level 54 Clair can now accept date invites from Kai, but she cannot invite him until it's gone up to level 70 and above. So really there's 3 weeks in-game to do that. 

Since part of the Challenge is to make sure that Clair revives the farm and marries one of the marriage candidates, she also has to have a max out friendship level with the the family who Kai is closest to, that would be Zack. 💪 So for Wednesday, after all the farm work, we're going to try and sweet talk Zack for a blessing.

So far, he's not quite sure about what to think of Clair. 😅😅😅

Thursday was spent all day taking care of the farm because I made some changes... First, I installed the Farmland Mod by awesome Arnie. I do want to play his story mode save as well, but I REALLY want to have some of his items for my Mineral Town Save. I tried out several things, but for now here are the changes: 

I kinda like it, it looks more natural (?)

The reason why I had the gates anyway was because I thought the neighbors would just come to my farm, and steal my fruits and things. Well, I learned that if I have NAP disable, it shouldn't happen, so I took the fences down. It is for some reason also now easier on the eyes, I don't know exactly why, it just looks better.  

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 I've decided to change my Simstagram Preset. I was using "It's time to rest", and I have moved on to a softer preset called "Coffee and donuts" (Lightroom). When I post on this blog, you usually see the RAW images from Sims Screenshots folder, but in my Simstagram they're a bit more on the roleplay/storytelling mode. 

The top two pictures on the right has a neat scroll that I copied from my sister. Woots, Faye!

We spent Sunday really working on the farm itself, planting and moving certain crops. Again, I have no good eye on landscaping or farm layout talents on any game, at all. I just plant whatever I have on whatever plot of land is there. HELP!

I literally just used the tool to color the fenced areas. 😂

I am not allowed to move the building around but if you have ideas about the "farm" area, let me know! 

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So we now start our weeks on Sundays. Have I mentioned that I hate Seasons? (I told my husband this and he thought I was talking about real life, so yeah. I hate it in real life too. I only like cloudy days and Autumn.)

After the morning farming, I was invited to a flea market, so why not. I have to do the house 3rd (and final) upgrade anyway. I knew I needed a couch, and a new chair. So here's the chair I bought! Luckily, the couch (no longed pictured) was the same type!! 

Then later in the afternoon, Kai just showed up at my lot, and of course I let him in. It's not against the challenge rules. 😁 He presented himself in like this. 😆 I had to snap a photo!