About a week after Pastelle was sold, Katie was waiting near the Sparrow's Piebald Unicorn training facility, looking for the van that was bringing in the new mares, when she spotted a very familiar-looking (equine)face. Going over to the little restroom building, she was delighted to see that she wasn't wrong; although there were grey hairs on her face it was Blue Moon, the second mare to bear a zorse foal to Electrum!
"Hello, sweet girl. It was Cognac with Champagne, then you and Harvest Moon." That was before she'd even met Bill. The mare seemed pleased to see her too, pressing her face against Katie's shirt. Her owner came out and chatted with Katie a bit before mounting up and riding home. Katie was so pleased to learn that the dear mare was doing well and now nearly a neighbor, she forgot about the new mares! She spotted a van pulling away and ran to the house. One mare was already being brushed out by Wren. "This must be Goldenrod." Wren grinned.
"The other one went over there, Mom." Katie looked and saw a striking mare galloping along the fence line. "Be careful, they said she was fisty. Fasty?"
"Feisty," said Katie, catching the look in the mare's eye. "Stay away from her for now, please. I don't want you getting bitten or kicked." The mare introduced herself to Adam peaceably enough, however.
Katie walked over, and sure enough, the mare held her peace just long enough to check her out, then -Snap! Katie rebuked her severely.
That temper would need to be dealt with, but right now she had to settle the mares into the prepared stalls and introduce them to Electrum. Everett saddled up Elation and took her out for a training run.
He had plans about the next mare, so he rode Elation down to the little gorge where the wild band often gathered. The mist was pretty thick in the hills. But there they were, including the literal lilac dun he had his eye on. He dismounted, turned Elation loose to mingle and settled in to watch the purple mare. It would take a long time to build enough trust to take her home, so he might as well start now.
Back at home, Electrum was none too pleased with Bonfire's manners. Goldenrod, however, was the epitome of equine graciousness.
Everett came home with Elation and took Bonfire out. Maybe tiring her out would reduce her interest in fighting. If not, she'd find it harder to get in a fight away from the other horses. He'd almost finished his scuba training, so he rode her to the gym. Once there he praised her good behavior under saddle and then tied her back behind the building where no one was likely to notice her.
Meanwhile Katie was working with Goldenrod, who was well broken to flat riding but knew nothing of jumps. Cavaletti time!
Night descended. The horses (except Elation) were bedded down and Katie and Wren went to bed too. The gnomes were amusing themselves in the yard. An elder gnome demonstrated his greatest golf shot, then performed a balancing trick, imitated by the youngest. Then most settled in for a nap.
Everett had taken a nap of his own after his swim - he'd gotten certification to scuba dive out in the bay - and gone back to the waterfall in the gorge. Elation finished training on the way out, and the local unicorn came to visit under the full moon. It was so peaceful a scene that he nearly nodded off while observing. He woke to find the purple dun mare only a few inches away, investigating the curly toes of his shoes.
I'm working on fixing the pictures; the new forum doesn't like the old size-adjusting code, so I have to pull the "width=650" out of each picture name individually. I do have enough pics for a new post, so I'll update tonight or tomorrow if I can.
I've apparently got 760 pictures in the thread so far. I'll put up a post about Iris tomorrow (she's born in photo 761), and keep fixing the older pics.
Katie decided to travel to the past again. She'd heard there was a prehistoric magical gnome - perhaps the ancestor of all the ones she had? - and was determined to find one. Unfortunately, getting out of historic time was hard. She kept playing the Fool for medieval kings, discovering America, and fleeing lions in the Colosseum. But she persisted.
Tonight however, she might have done better to stay, as Crayola decided she was tired of being pregnant and evicted her foal two weeks ahead of schedule. Introducing Iris:
Not quite so rainbowy as hoped, she had washes of green and a very subtle orange, plus her dam's black spots quite clearly splashed across her rump. Iris was a big filly, and suffered not at all from her early arrival. In fact, the vet opined that had she waited, she would have been too big for a natural delivery. She was a born runner and never walked if she could gallop.
Crayola suddenly decided that all dogs were really wolves in disguise, waiting to pounce on her 'helpless' baby, so Adam found himself chased out of the pasture whenever she caught sight of him. Deprived of his equine companions, he tried to entice the gnomes to play. But they kept their own counsel, as always.
A strange guest arrived at the gate one night. Everett panicked and begged her not to kidnap anyone in the family, but she only wanted to phone home.
Iris, always in a hurry, grew up in a flash.
And Everett learned the hard way that one should unplug a dishwasher before trying to repair it.
Sorry I didn't see this sooner! Nice update. Iris looks pretty good although she didn't get all her mom's colors. The green is funny mixed in with everything else.
Elation, Pastelle, and Gilty's dam Goldenrod are all up in my studio now. Pastelle is also up in an 'uncaged' version, where I've raised a few of her butterflies up on top of her stripes. She actually has quite a few more hidden underneath.
Bonfire was still a very temperamental mare, but she was, gradually, improving. Katie rode her regularly, curbing bad manners and ensuring that the mare had plenty of exercise, hoping she'd be too tired for displays of temper. One day as they looked at a very interesting vehicle parked at the Consignment store, the mare voluntarily gave Katie a nuzzle. Although she more than half expected to feel teeth on her cheek, Katie held still, and then praised the mare profusely. She'd been ready to cancel the planned breeding due to Bonfire's temper, but perhaps they were finally getting through to her.
Katie was a bit alarmed when she spotted this guy chuckling wickedly in a corner of the bathroom. All the more reason to find a troglodyte gnome to thwack He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Gnomed with his club if needed. So changing into appropriate costume, she headed into the past again. Westward expansion and stampeding dinosaurs, ho!
Wren went to the fall festival and had a grand time on the skating rink - until someone asked her where her skates were!
Everett took a cooking class at the local bakery and learned to make his own pizza, then went scuba diving.
He located a treasure chest . . . but was unable to open it. Running low on oxygen, he made plans to return. He had to fend off the Fangsharks again, but this time he won.
The rainbow above seemed an excellent omen for the future.
Thanks to everyone who's following along. These are the last few photos uploaded at the moment, before I start building a new collection.
Everett had been invited, as a grand celebrity, to open the new teahouse at the old mill. It was a lovely site, rebuilt enough to be safe, but with its charm left intact. Gardens around the mill building grew various fruits and vegetables, including brand new cultivars of corn and cucumbers. Patrons were encouraged to harvest what they could use immediately, but leave some for others.
Everett was too dedicated a fisherman by now to leave any body of water unfished. There were an awful lot of sharks.
And because horses always time these things so carefully, he came home to see a brand-new baby bolting for the barn! Mom and baby were soon tucked up for the night.
Wren thought the new colt was adorable. "And he's got gilted spots, instead of gilted stripes like Electrum." So the gilded foal was duly named: Gilty Spots. He was very colorful, orange above, red below, an white in the middle, with lots of golden spots.
He shared his birthday with the baby gnome, who was suddenly a teenager. But while the Sparrows thought that an amusing coincidence, Gilty had other concerns - like breakfast!
I introduced Edsel in my challenge. Jasmine just gave birth to a gorgeous colt. A wonderful mix of both parents! Stripes and spots. I'll post pictures when I can. Not updated to that point but I'll let you know when it is.
I'm very happy with how he turned out. Makes it hard to part with him. I move this weekend and I'll have Internet now. So I'm hoping I'll be able to start updating soon. I'm also starting a new job so I'll have to see how much spare time I get.
Good luck with the move and the job. My job's been so mad recently due to absences that I've had no time to think! Last Monday we had four people call in, plus one on 1st shift, and one of them's not back yet - but I'm still not allowed to keep a relief person available.
Everett was enjoying his diving, exploring the local scuba park. One cave turned out to be occupied, and he immediately headed in a different direction!
There were an assortment of relics underwater, many marked with discreet tags that identified them as park property. The chests, on the other hand, could be emptied, if a diver could open them. This time he found a chest he could open and claimed a gem and an ancient plate. In a day or two, he knew, the chest would mysteriously be full again, just as in the tombs he'd explored in Egypt and France.
Adam the flatcoat had settled in well, and adored the hotdog toy Wren had bought him at the pet store.
Gilty Spots was sleeping in the frost as often as in a stall, but he seemed to take no harm from it.
Best of all, Bonfire seemed to have finally mellowed out in response to dedicated training. She was playing nicely with the other horses and Adam, friendly to humans (and genies) and courting Electrum herself. (New foal on the way!)
Spooky Day rolled around with a flurry of crisp nights, and Wren decided to be an alien this year. The evil gnome became possessed by a local ghost and alarmed a neighbor who saw him hovering and shaking. Afterward, the ghost fed Gilty a bottle. (!)
Everett was still stalking the wild purple dun mare, whom he had named Violet. Apples in the moonlight were a powerful argument for the friendliness of two-legged creatures.
A week after Spooky Day, Bonfire gave birth to Ember, a lovely dark charcoal-brown filly, with her dam's fiery mane and hooves, and two white stockings from her sire. While Katie admired the new arrival, Bonfire snorted and shied, and Katie looked up to see a herd of guests beyond the fence, including the local unicorn.
So for a while they could enjoy the antics of two foals again, colt and filly. Although neither was striped, they were certainly striking!
Morning started with breakfast for everyone, including Bonfire. Despite the gloriously mild, sunny start though, the clouds soon rolled up and the temperature plummeted. When Everett glided out to watch his shy Violet, there was a foot of snow on the ground. Thank goodness for a genie's ability to hover! He still had to stand in the snow to watch her, but he didn't get soaked just getting out and back to the wilder zones.
The gnomes were doing gnome things. Several gathered around the barn's back wall, as if watching an invisible television set . . .
. . . but they turned out to be just grouping with the rest, as if the barn weren't actually there.
Not all of them enjoyed the snow, though.
Katie returned from a trip to the Renaissance with a new outfit that was actually quite comfortable in the chill. Wool for the win!
The foals played for a bit in the snow, then came in to the warm barn. Wren got an excellent shot of Bonfire's mis-matched eyes as they did, by getting down on her level.
She also tried out the panorama setting on her new camera.
As the sun set, Adam had a nice 'chat' with a wild horse at the horse park, and Gilty Spots grew up.
Katie took him right on out to start training in the snow. Later, when the full moon rose, he joined the mares for a late supper.
It was nearly as bright the next day when Wren came out to feed and groom the herd. No school for two days - and then a weekend!
Electrum preferred the warmth of the barn to the cold winds, and Adam was happy to join him there.
Thanks! I'm not playing as much right now, but I'm still working on the challenge. (Oblivion, Hyrule Warriors, Sims 2, & Sims 3, all eat up so much time individually, let alone en masse!)
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"Hello, sweet girl. It was Cognac with Champagne, then you and Harvest Moon." That was before she'd even met Bill. The mare seemed pleased to see her too, pressing her face against Katie's shirt. Her owner came out and chatted with Katie a bit before mounting up and riding home. Katie was so pleased to learn that the dear mare was doing well and now nearly a neighbor, she forgot about the new mares! She spotted a van pulling away and ran to the house. One mare was already being brushed out by Wren. "This must be Goldenrod." Wren grinned.
"The other one went over there, Mom." Katie looked and saw a striking mare galloping along the fence line. "Be careful, they said she was fisty. Fasty?"
"Feisty," said Katie, catching the look in the mare's eye. "Stay away from her for now, please. I don't want you getting bitten or kicked." The mare introduced herself to Adam peaceably enough, however.
Katie walked over, and sure enough, the mare held her peace just long enough to check her out, then -Snap! Katie rebuked her severely.
That temper would need to be dealt with, but right now she had to settle the mares into the prepared stalls and introduce them to Electrum. Everett saddled up Elation and took her out for a training run.
He had plans about the next mare, so he rode Elation down to the little gorge where the wild band often gathered. The mist was pretty thick in the hills. But there they were, including the literal lilac dun he had his eye on. He dismounted, turned Elation loose to mingle and settled in to watch the purple mare. It would take a long time to build enough trust to take her home, so he might as well start now.
Back at home, Electrum was none too pleased with Bonfire's manners. Goldenrod, however, was the epitome of equine graciousness.
Everett came home with Elation and took Bonfire out. Maybe tiring her out would reduce her interest in fighting. If not, she'd find it harder to get in a fight away from the other horses. He'd almost finished his scuba training, so he rode her to the gym. Once there he praised her good behavior under saddle and then tied her back behind the building where no one was likely to notice her.
Meanwhile Katie was working with Goldenrod, who was well broken to flat riding but knew nothing of jumps. Cavaletti time!
Night descended. The horses (except Elation) were bedded down and Katie and Wren went to bed too. The gnomes were amusing themselves in the yard. An elder gnome demonstrated his greatest golf shot, then performed a balancing trick, imitated by the youngest. Then most settled in for a nap.
Everett had taken a nap of his own after his swim - he'd gotten certification to scuba dive out in the bay - and gone back to the waterfall in the gorge. Elation finished training on the way out, and the local unicorn came to visit under the full moon. It was so peaceful a scene that he nearly nodded off while observing. He woke to find the purple dun mare only a few inches away, investigating the curly toes of his shoes.
I've apparently got 760 pictures in the thread so far.
Tonight however, she might have done better to stay, as Crayola decided she was tired of being pregnant and evicted her foal two weeks ahead of schedule. Introducing Iris:
Not quite so rainbowy as hoped, she had washes of green and a very subtle orange, plus her dam's black spots quite clearly splashed across her rump. Iris was a big filly, and suffered not at all from her early arrival. In fact, the vet opined that had she waited, she would have been too big for a natural delivery. She was a born runner and never walked if she could gallop.
Crayola suddenly decided that all dogs were really wolves in disguise, waiting to pounce on her 'helpless' baby, so Adam found himself chased out of the pasture whenever she caught sight of him. Deprived of his equine companions, he tried to entice the gnomes to play. But they kept their own counsel, as always.
A strange guest arrived at the gate one night. Everett panicked and begged her not to kidnap anyone in the family, but she only wanted to phone home.
Iris, always in a hurry, grew up in a flash.
And Everett learned the hard way that one should unplug a dishwasher before trying to repair it.
Life goes on!
edited: typed the wrong name for the foal. Ooops!
Imaginary Friends Legacy: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/563003/baptiste-imaginary-friend-legacy-updated-6-18-new-baby/p1
p.s. I went ahead and moved over the rules to this forum. You can find them here: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/770712/official-rules-50-foals-challenge-sims3
(Yes I am SIMyth. I'm on my main account over here.) I hope you post there with your great story updates and *gasps* announcement of challenge completion when you get there. Have fun!
Katie was a bit alarmed when she spotted this guy chuckling wickedly in a corner of the bathroom. All the more reason to find a troglodyte gnome to thwack He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Gnomed with his club if needed. So changing into appropriate costume, she headed into the past again. Westward expansion and stampeding dinosaurs, ho!
Wren went to the fall festival and had a grand time on the skating rink - until someone asked her where her skates were!
Everett took a cooking class at the local bakery and learned to make his own pizza, then went scuba diving.
He located a treasure chest . . . but was unable to open it. Running low on oxygen, he made plans to return. He had to fend off the Fangsharks again, but this time he won.
The rainbow above seemed an excellent omen for the future.
Everett had been invited, as a grand celebrity, to open the new teahouse at the old mill. It was a lovely site, rebuilt enough to be safe, but with its charm left intact. Gardens around the mill building grew various fruits and vegetables, including brand new cultivars of corn and cucumbers. Patrons were encouraged to harvest what they could use immediately, but leave some for others.
Everett was too dedicated a fisherman by now to leave any body of water unfished. There were an awful lot of sharks.
And because horses always time these things so carefully, he came home to see a brand-new baby bolting for the barn! Mom and baby were soon tucked up for the night.
Wren thought the new colt was adorable. "And he's got gilted spots, instead of gilted stripes like Electrum." So the gilded foal was duly named: Gilty Spots. He was very colorful, orange above, red below, an white in the middle, with lots of golden spots.
He shared his birthday with the baby gnome, who was suddenly a teenager. But while the Sparrows thought that an amusing coincidence, Gilty had other concerns - like breakfast!
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Been slammed at work and home this week - I need to get some play time in so I can post an update.
Here is a picture of him as an adult when Elias was training him.
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There were an assortment of relics underwater, many marked with discreet tags that identified them as park property. The chests, on the other hand, could be emptied, if a diver could open them. This time he found a chest he could open and claimed a gem and an ancient plate. In a day or two, he knew, the chest would mysteriously be full again, just as in the tombs he'd explored in Egypt and France.
Adam the flatcoat had settled in well, and adored the hotdog toy Wren had bought him at the pet store.
Gilty Spots was sleeping in the frost as often as in a stall, but he seemed to take no harm from it.
Best of all, Bonfire seemed to have finally mellowed out in response to dedicated training. She was playing nicely with the other horses and Adam, friendly to humans (and genies) and courting Electrum herself. (New foal on the way!)
Spooky Day rolled around with a flurry of crisp nights, and Wren decided to be an alien this year. The evil gnome became possessed by a local ghost and alarmed a neighbor who saw him hovering and shaking. Afterward, the ghost fed Gilty a bottle. (!)
Everett was still stalking the wild purple dun mare, whom he had named Violet. Apples in the moonlight were a powerful argument for the friendliness of two-legged creatures.
A week after Spooky Day, Bonfire gave birth to Ember, a lovely dark charcoal-brown filly, with her dam's fiery mane and hooves, and two white stockings from her sire. While Katie admired the new arrival, Bonfire snorted and shied, and Katie looked up to see a herd of guests beyond the fence, including the local unicorn.
So for a while they could enjoy the antics of two foals again, colt and filly. Although neither was striped, they were certainly striking!
Imaginary Friends Legacy: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/563003/baptiste-imaginary-friend-legacy-updated-6-18-new-baby/p1
Morning started with breakfast for everyone, including Bonfire. Despite the gloriously mild, sunny start though, the clouds soon rolled up and the temperature plummeted. When Everett glided out to watch his shy Violet, there was a foot of snow on the ground. Thank goodness for a genie's ability to hover!
The gnomes were doing gnome things. Several gathered around the barn's back wall, as if watching an invisible television set . . .
. . . but they turned out to be just grouping with the rest, as if the barn weren't actually there.
Not all of them enjoyed the snow, though.
Katie returned from a trip to the Renaissance with a new outfit that was actually quite comfortable in the chill. Wool for the win!
The foals played for a bit in the snow, then came in to the warm barn. Wren got an excellent shot of Bonfire's mis-matched eyes as they did, by getting down on her level.
She also tried out the panorama setting on her new camera.
As the sun set, Adam had a nice 'chat' with a wild horse at the horse park, and Gilty Spots grew up.
Katie took him right on out to start training in the snow. Later, when the full moon rose, he joined the mares for a late supper.
It was nearly as bright the next day when Wren came out to feed and groom the herd. No school for two days - and then a weekend!
Electrum preferred the warmth of the barn to the cold winds, and Adam was happy to join him there.
And a strange one - where's the toy shop?
Your horses are beautiful ^^
I see, that's a lot of games XD
It's great that you still have a bit of time to play your challenge, seeing how you're busy ^^