How's the Cottage Living so far?

I'm having so much fun. My sim is living in Windenberg and I'm enjoying that as I've never played in Windenberg. I have my oversize crops started. For the first batch I wanted to get nine harvestables so I could stock up for cooking but my sim autonomously talked to them and encouraged plant growth and now they're at four. So I turned autonomy off. :p I have two bee boxes and one each of the bug boxes from EL. I still haven't purchased any farm animals. Maybe today.