Housing update + Soldier and Ripley: 7 & 8

The last update I mentioned that the group had moved to a new home, so I thought I would take this moment to introduce it properly, since you will be seeing a lot of it in pictures to come.  When Fern moved in she brought a bit of money in with her (something I had completely spaced out would happen and honestly felt a little guilty for).  However, selling the trained offspring, as well as racing and selling Orion, brought in enough money to make the move without Fern's cash I think.  These pictures are from my game where it currently is and not when they first moved in, so they have had time to remodel and expand a little bit with the money they have made since moving.

Now the horses have a proper barn, which is bigger than the actual house lol.  Ignore the unicorn running around, we'll get to him later...

I was testing out different stall types, to see if there were any moodlet buffs or anything for being in or eating from a more expensive stall, but it appears the horses don't give a hoot how much money you spent on their living quarters.  The stall on the bottom left though is the self-cleaning stall lifetime happiness reward (if you haven't seen it yet) and I have to say it is awesome and I would love to replace all of my stalls with them.  At first I was a little worried that it meant I wouldn't get any fertilizer from it, but instead of having to clean the stall yourself you just walk in and collect the fertilizer.  My only complaint is that they do still have to go into the stall to get it, so I try to use mine as a bathroom exclusively and make my horses go into the other stalls to eat/drink/sleep so I can collect the fertilizer at my leisure without having to kick horses out first.  It is still a nice time-saver though.

Next we have the house.  It definitely isn't finished yet but it works for now.  The upstairs is just an aviary of sorts (not sure yet if I'm going to make a better one outside the house yet) with a few birds in it.  It is very unfinished and I don't have any screenshots of it.  The main floor uses an open floor plan, with a small bathroom and single bedroom right off the main room.

And Teila's little garden.  Ignore the weeds, Teila was up early that morning training the newest adult and hadn't gotten to it yet.

And a couple shots of the whole lot, complete with creepy ice cream man: (these last two were actually taken in the middle of the night but in build mode with daylight turned on, and of course he is still there).  This is at 1007 Pomona Promenade.

I also felt that the starring ladies needed some better screens of themselves. since the main one of them is kinda far away.  Here we have some better shots of Desi.

And Prairie.

Then I have this extra pic of Prairie.  I had the game paused for some reason or other and when I panned over to Prairie I saw this and had to giggle.  She totally looks like she is laughing at the image of herself floating over her nose.  I wonder if something got into her water.

Lastly, I can't post an update without pics of babies, so now we go back in time to see foals number 7 and 8, both from Cavatina at the Equestrian Center.  First we have Prairie's colt, Soldier.

And Desi's colt, Ripley.

I think the two are quite obviously brothers lol.