112 Day Challenge ~ Kathy Ragsdale

Week 8 - Fall Draws to a Close (the halfway mark)

If you are wondering about the total lack of excitement on Kathy's face, it can be simply summed up in the fact she is yet to have harvested one of the elusive Life Fruits (she does have a life fruit plant in the ground, and it is at 'harvest stage). 

To sum up the past two weeks ... The weather has been relentless. It has stormed almost all the time. The garden has frozen and unfrozen multiple times but essentially has remained barren of produce. Kathy is running out of the apples she had stockpiled and has been eating more saltwater fish lately.

A Few Important Milestones

For the most part Kathy has settled into a familiar grind, with a few days set aside for money making or working on her novels. She has also been knocking down her required Community service hours raking more leaves around town, and tutoring young people who show up around the GreenWire.

But ... On Wednesday of week seven, Kathy repaired her tenth plumbing fixture. This now means that any plumbing fixture she repairs from this point forward will never break again. This is important and I use it a lot, because it essentially means she can upgrade any plumbing fixture to 'self- cleaning' and when it breaks and she repairs it, it is like getting two upgrades for one. This becomes an ultimate time saver for plumbing items when they no longer need to be cleaned nor repaired.

She finished two romance novels, Just Friends (best seller) and Walk in the Rain (hit). At this point she has written six books (no flops, two hits, and one best seller). Kathy has made over 30000 simoleons in Royalties and is currently receiving 17206 simoleons in Royalties a week. She has also achieved the writing skill challenges becoming a Speed Writer and Romance Novelist. This makes writing novels faster, and with more hits or best sellers if they romance novels.

Although it is not an official rule of the challenge, I always have my challengers purchase upgrade one community lot. This means that not only do I get a Sim to add to a town after the challenge, I get a lot to add to any town as well in the future. Kathy picked the Shoreline Cabin in Hidden Springs, and it has been described in the previous post.

It was decided that Kathy could spend one night in the cabin (comfortable bed, warm and dry) if she upgraded all the electrical and plumbing fixtures in the cabin. Needless to say, she spent Saturday through Monday upgrading everything in the cabin, only taking a break to eat, sleep, socialize, shower and escape for a short while for a party at Sebastian's house. Anna Menon toured the upgraded cabin shortly after it opened again. She doesn't look too pleased about it, but honestly, Kathy doesn't really give a rat's rear what Anna thinks ... 🤣😂

On Wednesday of last week in Fall, Kathy spent most of her day with Catarina Vanderburg. Little Alexandria Vanderburg was born. On the following Thursday, Kathy got ready to close out the season with visit to the Fall festival and then a Feast Party at the Song's house. As her standard practice, she cooked a pumpkin pie for all the partygoers. Friday, she put in a solid day making money from cloning gems. Kathy made enough to secure what was necessary to purchase the remaining property around town she was interested in.

Kathy chose to spend Friday night at the cabin. She woke up the next morning and finished her latest novel enjoying the rest, and beautiful view the bedroom in the cabin offered. 

Wondering what she was going to do for the rest of the Saturday, and the last day of Fall, she decided to purchase a bottle nectar (she had a wish to do so, and it paid 1500 Lifetime Reward Point ... 🤣) Not long after enjoying a glass Ryan Anderson and Bert Alto showed up at the cabin. Kathy then decided to go bowling at Eastpark Lanes.

While there she ran into Pierce Shawkti and Sebastian Vanderburg. She visited with most of the patrons and bowled a few games. Kathy had a few drinks at the bar there, then decided to head back to camp, and get some rest before seeing what Winter had to offer.

Yeah ... Kathy only has 14660 simoleons in the bank ... But she has over 2 million invested in properties around town. New properties she acquired over the past two weeks ... The Shoreline Cabin, Hidden Springs City Park, Hidden Springs Fitness Center (the big gym), Hidden Springs Research Center (where she conducts most of her science projects), and St. Invictus Hall of Knowledge (the public library and a previous challenge project completed by challenger Chris Harper).

Lifetime Reward Points Available: 84523 ... Having purchased everything to cover her basic needs, I haven't really decided what to purchase next ... 😆🤣😂

Happy Simming ... 💖