Shuffling pets - and another foreign bride

In their efforts to make Gina an Ark Builder, the Bernard/McGovern family ended up with a total of four horses, four cats and three dogs and four each of every single minor pet.

Gina sold most of her minor pets - she kept one of each, but even then it's a struggle to fit it all into their house. They use the money from selling the pets to build a stable and redecorate the house somewhat.

The garage door is restored to its proper place, and the animals are all kept in the garage for now. They're not done yet, but they're broke.

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Meanwhile the older two generations of Bernard are adjusting quite well to living together. It's not ideal, the house is very small and they actually have more than enough income to buy a much bigger house. If there was one on the market, that is...

They do have just enough room on the lot to add two very small extensions. With a bit of rearranging, they now actually have larger bedrooms, two separate bathrooms and a half bath/laundry room.

It may not appear very extensive, but this extra addition does give them enough room, to take in two of Gina and Raphael's cats.

Stacia doesn't really have room for cats in her new house - so dumps the cat she took with her on her brother Trevor and his family, who live next door to Gina and Raphael. Now she has two horses and a dog, but she's confident she can make room for them, so she keeps them.

Somehow I can't bring myself to delete animals once they're adopted. Which leaves me with a LOT more pets in town than I'd planned after three attempts to do the Ark Builder wish.

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In the meantime I played Christopher Somers for a while. He was single for a long time, while his sister Melanie is a grandmother by now.

In Champ-les-Sims he met Francois Lambert and his adorable daughter Jeanienne, who really seemed to like him. So Christopher decided to invite both of them over to Winchester. And once she got there, she agreed to marry him.

Francois decided to move in with them for the time being - there was nothing for him in Champ-les-Sims, so he preferred to be near his daughter.

He actually ended up dating Stacia McGovern for  a while, but that didn't last. And although Jeanienne dislikes children, he knows it's likely that they will have at least one baby - which would mean that there's no room for him at his daughter's house, either.

And sure enough, Jeanine does get pregnant. And has twins.

So poor Francois has to look for another place to live. For now, it has to be the retirement center.

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And just a random picture of a community lot. This is the new spa in town.

And this is the ground floor of the local hospital.

(Both have rabbithole rugs stashed away.)