Chapter 6


  The damaged storage barn had been demolished and rebuilt also.  What little was stored in it was removed and put in crates out front.  When the barn was completed with sturdy new doors, the items were moved back in and harvesting in the hedgerow and fishing from the old pier began.
 




  The fish dryer was also demolished.  Although we stopped drying fish and the drying racks were used as firewood, the bears still returned.  The dryer shack where the fish were cleaned, smelled like fish and still attracted the bears.  They damaged the door and badly scratched up the front of the building where the racks had been.  We hoped our meager food supply would last over the winter.  Our potato harvest was small; most would have to be saved to use to seed the 2 potato fields the following spring.  The field in the old part of town was weeded and prepared for spring planting.  Our small patch yielded some wild oats, mushrooms, and asparagus.



  Our tool supply was getting low.  The anvil in old town was put to use and the worker in the workshop began making iron tools instead of linen clothes.
 


  It was late winter before all the families were settling into warm rebuilt houses.  Roosevelyn and Suellar's cottage by the small stream was rebuilt and they moved in with their twins who recently turned 5.  Gerhardin and Moriane in the house next to the fishing pier moved into the vacant house where Moriane's daughter, Alizabette, still remained.  The house by the fishing pier and the one across from it were both demolished.  Gerhardin and Moriane moved in just in time for their daughter, Thelenor, to be born.  Alizabette moved into the house across from them when it was rebuilt.  Although she was not happy her mother married someone not much older than she herself was, she was thrilled to have a half-sister.

   

@kid1293  I'm very glad that you still think about Banished, because there are a lot of city building games now. Regards

Hi @taniu
No, I am not bored. I have many games to play and I still think about Banished now and then.

Chapter 5




  In our part of town, again thinking of our future food supply, we planted a small patch next to the potato field.  The returning families said they came across several families that were struggling and told them to head this way if things got too rough on their own. We transplanted some hazelnut bushes, wild oats, asparagus, and mushrooms from the wild into our new patch.  There were a lot of mushrooms growing by the lake.  We wondered if one of the returning couples would begin fishing from the old pier; it seemed to be sturdy enough yet. 



  Thor and Ryannabell continued to gather flax, checked their old cottage to see if there was anything left in it worth salvaging, and cleaned up the apple tree hedgerow behind it.  They would start harvesting from the hedgerow as soon as the damaged barn was rebuilt.  Their old cottage was also going to be demolished and rebuilt.  The damaged abandoned house next to the vacant house was being rebuilt for her sister, Brigett.  The 2 women cleaned up the cemetery, and Thor replaced the fences around it and the ones around the flax patch.





  It was early autumn before the cottage and abandoned house were rebuilt and Ryannabell and her family moved into their cottage and her sister into her small house next to the now vacant one.

  Hello taniu, yes the beauty of nature can even make a rundown old town look good.  Poor bears have to go do their own fishing now, no more free lunch for them. 

Stay well, taniu

@Abandoned   poor village, a lot of repairs, but there are beautiful colorful trees, maybe spring has come? , it will be better, and what about the bullies - bears? Regards

     I love spring, the grass is green, flowers are blooming in different colors, trees are blooming, the sun is shining, it's warm, "you can warm up your old bones like a cat" is OK. Warm greetings Kit - you're not bored in retirement, are you?

Chapter 4


  The families moved back to old town even though the houses were in bad shape.  One couple with no young children moved into the small house by the old fishing pier.  The wife, Moriane, lived there before with her first husband, the blacksmith, who died.  There was an anvil in the yard.  She married a younger single, Gerhardin, before they left.  Her daughter, Alizabette, moved into a vacant house with another couple, Roosevelyn and Suellar, to help with their 4-year-old twins.



  There was a ruined house on one side of them and a ruined animal shed on the other.  His grandparents raised mountain goats years ago.  The couple's house was over by the river and was a complete ruin now after a few windstorms and heavy snows; they could not live there now.  In front, of the vacant house they were in, was the old clerk's office that was in pretty good shape.  The storage barn was not; the roof was badly damaged.  Across from it was the small overgrown field where potatoes were always grown, and 2 other damaged houses were there by the field.



  Down the road, the tiny stone chapel was in pretty good shape, the cemetery next to it needed a good tidying-up.   The house across from the cemetery was not in bad shape but did need major repairs or rebuilding to be really livable.  The last couple to return, with their young son, used to live there; they were now staying in the vacant house at the end of the road. Thor and Ryannabell got to work gathering some of the flax from the tiny patch next to it when they discovered how low the clothing supply was getting.  A young adult girl, Ryannabell's younger sister, was staying in the vacant house with them.  There was a lot of work to be done in the old part of town.

Those bears got to eat too.  They like the take-out