Intro
This is the 78th story in the Smallville Series and is part 2 of story 73 Deadwood. That story was being told here in Wildwood and now continues where the story left off with the storyteller and her Woodman leaving Deadwood. It was year 76 SVT when they left and year 78 when they arrived to settle here. The location of their settlement is in the foothills of the Majestic Mountains just south of Valley Forge story 77 and west of Holiday Hometown of story 51.
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Map seed #937771503 Mountain One River, Small, Cold Mountain, Disasters Off, E8 Deer Duck Bear
Mods activated for this map and load order are:
Map Changing and Starting Mods: Banished UI Maps, Labor Window, RK Minimized Status, CC Light Rain, climate Cold Mountain, Fairy Pines Terrain, override maps, Settler Deco, Kid Tree Replacer Fairy Pines, Kid New Flora Edit, Override Fewer Trees, Wildlife Starts
Tweak Mods: Bigger Wheelbarrows, Fishing Dock +25%, Hunting, Hunting Season, Increased CC, 1:1 Alternative (Voeille), override Winter Clothes, Rocks Respawn, Tiny Smoke
Major or Must Have Mods: An Empty Square, Nomads (Kid), override Uneducated, Storage Crates, Jinxie Bitty Rabbit Hutch, Jinxie Bitty Village Set, Kid Abandoned Places SE, Kid Tiny Downtown, Kid Workplace Village
Supporting Mods: Campfire, ChooChoo Deco Tunnel, Kid Animal Shed Plus (upgrade testing), Kid Deadwood, Kid Deco Farm Animals, Kid Deco People, Kid Elf Girl, Kid Hedgerow, Kid in Transit, Kid Market Carts, Kid Market Food, Kid Traveling Trader, Kid Work Shop, My Precious, Tiny Herb Patch, Tiny Quarry
Mod note: Kid Animal Shed Plus has been updated with a chicken house, greenhouses, and a mill/baker. Feed requirements for the animals have been adjusted. Kid Elf Girl is a deco mod.
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So, weary traveler, where did I leave off? Oh yes, Woodman and I were leaving Deadwood with the peddler's wagon and donkey. Actually, Woodman's real name is Gusta, and I'm Dela, but I still call him Woodman. He calls me Elf Girl. Anyways, we left Deadwood and stopped first at Holiday Hometown where the railway workers were still laying tracks to the north and west. Woodman knew some of the workers who were happy to see him alive and well. A few agreed to settle with us in the west when their work was done. Next we went North to his hometown, a Dwarf settlement that had expanded above ground and was now called Valley Forge. His family were overjoyed that he was still alive, but not with the fact that he had an elf with him and a dark elf at that. A few of his old friends there agreed to come with us to form a new mining settlement. Now I'll tell you about Wildwood.
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Chapter 1
Woodman chose the location for our mining town halfway between his family and mine. His family would not accept an elf any more than mine would accept a dwarf. My mother did not even come to see us off. His parents were grateful that I befriended their son while he was a tree caught up in the witch's spell and that I never gave up until I was able to break that spell. They insisted we take goats, sheep, a crate of chickens, and some feed and seeds with us when we left. They gave us more apples, potatoes, and flour too. It was slow going especially because we stopped often for the old donkey to rest. Any animal that lagged behind road in the wagon while we walked. The railway workers from Holiday Hometown were waiting for us when we arrived.
The year we left Deadwood was the same year that the tunnel and tracks were laid heading west out of Holiday Hometown. The workers laid tracks across a river but saw more mountains in the distance. They dug a tunnel into our valley but to the west were more mountain that bordered a large body of water like the one back east. The railway could go no farther west. They went back to the first valley and built a turnaround to take the work train back to Holiday Hometown. Four of those workers with their families returned to our valley with carts of supplies and were waiting for us. They built a makeshift bridge to cross the river and began fishing from the deadwood trees. They gathered resources and built a bitty storage barn by the stockpile. We arrived sometime later that year from the north, with our peddler's wagon and our livestock and 3 families from Valley Forge. There were then 30 of us altogether, 16 adults with 14 children, here in this valley.
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Chapter 2
The area Woodman chose for our settlement was a bit warmer than Valley Forge. When we arrived the temperature was above freezing, the sun was shining, and the snow had melted. It was quite a bit colder though than it was in Deadwood, but the pine trees were the same and there were deadwood trees scattered around. The soil was the same iron rich soil. I saw a few deer and bear and there were rabbits in the hedgerows. I didn't see any chipmunks, squirrels, foxes, owls or other birds, but I thought I heard some ducks. I really liked the ducks back in Deadwood, just as I like the old donkey we were given for our journey. He was now our first priority.
We parked our covered wagon by the storage barn and began unloading some of the supplies to share. There was some wild grass growing next to the barn that the livestock began feeding on, we would plant more there. We fenced in that area and build a stable for the donkey next to it. There was a stable room on the lower level of the attached house where he could be brought inside on the coldest winter days. One of the families with a toddler moved into that house and would care for the donkey. He would have plenty of visits from the children just like he did from me when I was a child. Later a school would be built across from the stable.
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Enjoying it! Kinda brings me back to my early days just starting out playing the vanilla game years ago. I almost would get "attached" to the settlers and have fun tracking them and each name through the years. Now on a lot of my playthroughs I'm so eager to get to the "big stuff" that I lose a little of that.
:) Always nice to hear good things about this great game. Glad you like my story :)
Chapter 3
I could visit the donkey everyday since our house was built next to the stable. I could also feed the chickens in the animal shed that was built for them across from it. It was not the same as feeding the ducks and wild birds but it was nice. The house was nice too. It was no treehouse but it was built from fragrant pine wood and had an upper loft above the fireplace, as you can see, weary traveler. There was the grate for my frying pan and small kettles, and a hook for hanging the large kettle. An even larger kettle was still in the wagon, I had no idea then what we would do with that large kettle.
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The front room of the house had the wood table and benches. Woodman built these 2 rocking chairs that we're sitting on here before the fire sometime later. More baskets hanging from the rafters for supplies were also added later. The coats hanging on the wall next to the fire stay warm and dry, and the little wall of storage crates by the door keeps the winter wind from flooding the room when the door is opened. The room behind the fireplace has a bed up against the fireplace wall, a big cedar chest, and wooden hooks on the wall for clothes, and a small table with a candle. There is also a small curtain off area for washing up. There was room enough in the bedroom for the wooden cradle that Woodman built for our first child, a girl we named Adalupe, who was born in late summer of that first year. I was 16 at the time and we figured Woodman was 18, he had not aged a day in all the time he was a tree because of the witch's spell.
Woodman thought I would like a house a bit farther away from the other families. There were 3 houses built side by side behind the barn and hedgerow. A hutch had been built for some of the rabbits that were hiding in that hedgerow. There were winterberries and branches to be gathered there. A notice board was set up in front of the barn with some of the early town records posted. A larger house and a woodcutter were built by the stockpile, and 2 more houses. The first frost of the season was very early in autumn and we still had not built shelters for the sheep and goats.
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Chapter 4
By the time it snowed in late autumn we had an animal shed built for the goats behind the chicken shed. Their outside area was on the south side of the shed facing the winter sun. The sheep shed was built closer to the river and the outside area was sheltered from the cold wind and blowing snow by the two wooden houses built to the north of it. Next to the sheep shed we built a grain house to grow corn and oats for us and for the animal.
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A deer decided to help himself to some feed in the sheep shed. I said there was no reason to hunt the deer because our food supply was good and varied at the time. I had been out in the forest gathering wild foods and herbs before the snowfall. I also gathered branches for firewood like I did with my brother when I was a child. Woodman again said I reminded him more of a wood elf than a dark elf.
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Our food supply was good and so was the supply of animal feed. The sheep could be fed oats from the grain house, wild oats, or thatch. If we wanted mutton instead of wool we would just feed the sheep more to fatten them up. The chickens preferred corn from the grain house but they could also be fed wild oats. We could raise chickens for either eggs or meat. The goats produced good tasting goat's milk when fed thatch, corn, or wild oats. There was enough corn and oats left for us.
Chapter 5
By spring of year 2 we had another thatch patch planted and a feed store built to store it. A worker could bring the thatch from the stockpile and other thatch patch. We also built a corn crib to store the corn. The corn used for feed would dry much better when exposed to the sun and wind then it would in the grain house. Fresh corn would go into the corn crib and dry corn would come out to feed the animals or go to a mill and baker.
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That spring 14 adults with 2 children arrived from Holiday Hometown. They were dwarves who had finished their work for the railway. They were welcome to stay with us. We needed the workers. One immediately went to work in the grain house. We assigned more builders to build houses and start laying roads. A tailor was built next to the sheep shed and a blacksmith's anvil was set up by the stockpile. The first placer mine was built on the riverbank to pan for gold ore. The first house for the newcomers was built next to it. In early summer the temperature was still above freezing and I had help gathering wild foods and herbs. By the first snowfall in early autumn all the newcomers had house.
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Oh boy! I really like this one and that new addition by
@kid1293 is great. Thank you both.
:) I think the update to Animal Shed Plus is a good one :) I especially like the corn crib. With no worker assigned it is nice deco for farm. With worker corn production is increased - corn in and more corn out.
Chapter 6
Some of those families moved into worker cabins that were built by the mine that was dug on the west end of town. Dwarves were known to be miners so that is what they would do. There was some gold and silver in that mountain but they would mine for the rough gems that were more plentiful in the shaft that they dug. The pine forest southwest of the mine was quite thick. Two foresters would begin cutting trees, they had quality axes from Valley Forge. We needed more logs for firewood cutting, it would be another long cold snowy winter. Folks only went out when they had to. In early spring of year 3, our son, Deshauncy, was born.
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We decided we would built a permanent bridge across the river, one that a river boatman could pass under. We would build a trading post and hope for a good trade value for our gold ore and rough gemstones. While deciding the site for the trading post, a large herd of deer was spotted across the river and a pack of bears was just south of town. A hunting stand was build by the bridge and there was soon a bear roasting on a large spit in town by the stockpile and storage carts.
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The trading post had just been completed when 18 dwarves with 6 children came to town. They were from Prospect to the North and most were originally from North Mining Town. They said Prospect's gold mines were playing out and the mines in North Mining Town were not producing as they once did. Ores and gems were needed for their smelters, gem polishers, and jewelers. They would be happy to stay and work in our mines. Woodman welcomed them and ordered more houses to be built. I was definitely feeling outnumbered by so many dwarves.
I'm so excited to see the additions to Animal Shed Plus! It's one of my favorite resource mods.
Good to know. :) I think you will like the update.
Chapter 7
Like I said, dwarves are miners and stone cutters and toolmakers who are more interested in ore and stone than anything else, all the dwarves except for Woodman. He may have founded a mining town but now seemed more interested in wood. He was always building something, a chair, a chest, a crate, a shed. He said he really came to appreciate the forest and the smell of the pines and the wood while he was one of the deadwood trees in the forest of Deadwood. He was happy being a builder building wood houses for the newcomers.
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Most of the new houses were built across from the gold mine that was dug after the gem miners discovered a vane of gold ore at the end of one of their shafts. Another mine would be able to explore that vane further and extract the gold ore. By early winter of year 3 all the newcomers were housed. The new houses caused a shortage of firewood so a 2nd woodcutter was built and 2 more workers began cutting firewood while laborers went in search of downed branches. Woodman built me a wood branch cart just like the one my brother and I used back in Deadwood when I was a child.
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I had another reminder of home when I went to the feed store to fetch some corn and oats to feed the old donkey. There behind the corn crib was a small flock of ducks eating some of the corn that had spilled out of the crib. I did so enjoy feeding the duck in my neighbor's pond back in Deadwood.
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Chapter 8
Shortly after that group of dwarves arrived, Hannon, the general goods merchant came to port. He offered a trade value of 3 for each unit of gold ore and 5 for each rough gemstone. The amount did not justify having 7 miners doing the work. Hannon had nothing with him that we need so no trade was made. The newcomers said we would surely get a better trade value for gold bars made from the ore and for finished gemstones rather than rough one. We took their advice and built a smelter and a gem smith near the mines. When Hannon returned later that year, he offered a trade value of 8 for the gold bars and for the emeralds. Again Hannon had nothing we needed. We would have to rethink whether 9 workers was worth the effort.
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We would also have to rethink our food supply stability. We had a few months without snow and there was some wild foods to be gathered. We thought it was worth having a gatherer's shed and a permanent gatherer working near the miner's houses. I would continue to gather wild foods and branches north of our house. We also built a soup house behind the grain house. We would grow potatoes, carrots, cabbage, and onions; good vegetables for making soup.
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What mod are the mines and gemstones from?
Oh, sorry, I see I missed that one when typing the mod list in the Intro. The placer mine on the river, the mountain mine, the smelter, and the gem smith is from an old CC mod called My Precious. I don't believe it is available on the CC site any longer but, if not mistaken, it is included in the full CC mod.
Chapter 9
In early spring of year 5, Woodman told me he had a surprise for me in the forest north of our house where I often went to gather the wild foods and branches. He had disappeared several time on those days that the temperature got above freezing. It was not quite that warm but it was sunny on the day he wanted to show me the surprise. Just as we were about to head to the forest a laborer came to tell him that families had come through the tunnel. Woodman told me to go on ahead, I couldn't miss finding the surprise. He was eager for me to see it.
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Well, I was surprised and delighted with what I found in the forest. Woodman had rounded up some of the ducks I had seen and dug a small pond and planted a hedgerow for them. He started building a wall to protect them for the winter wind and drifting snow. When he found they had survived the winter he couldn't wait for me to see them. He built a wooden bench so I could sit and watch the ducks and the children. They were only 2 and 3 years old at the time. There were some bears nearby but the wall, when finished, would keep them away. When I went back with the children to feed the ducks on a warmer day, I found that Woodman had carved some wooden sunflowers and a squirrel. He said he knew how much I missed the wildlife back in Deadwood, now I would have wood wildlife.
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By that time, the folks that came through the tunnel had started building a boarding house. They were on the train from Holiday Hometown that would head east after turning around on the other side of our tunnel. An early winter snowstorm made that impossible. They took shelter in the tunnel waiting for a midwinter thaw that didn't come. Our end was blocked by drifted snow. They survived on hunting and some mushrooms but were weak and exhausted and came to us for help when the snow began to melt. They would build a boarding house like the one back in Hometown to stay in while they decided to stay or go back when the train tracks were cleared of snow and ice.
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Chapter 10
There were 14 of the newcomers, 8 adults with 6 children. The boarding house was completed by late summer and the train had long returned to Hometown without them; they would stay here with us.
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There wasn't much room for building on that side of the river, and Woodman did not want anything more built in the forest north of town. He had almost finished building the wall around my wildwood garden. The wall extended from the garden to our house, separating it from the rest of the town. There was plenty of room for houses in the valley west of town past the mines and forester. The boarding house would come in handy for anyone else stranded at the railway turnaround in the future.
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We would have to give some thought to the development of the west side of town and to the future of our mines. The gold bars and emeralds were still stocked at the trading post. When Hammon returned we traded wool and hide coats for oats and wild oats. Our food supply was good and we wanted it to stay that way.
The trees look awesome. Thank you
@Abandoned for showing them.
Small note - I found them as a package on the internet. I had only individual pictures
to see, but they looked good. I gave them a try :) :)
:) I do like those trees :) Thanks for making them.
Chapter 11
One family chose to stay and be caretakers of the boarding house on the other side of the river, but by winter the other 3 families had houses on the west side of town. The houses were built just past the gemsmith. A small storage unit and stockpile were built next to the gemsmith with another woodcutter across from it. We were always short of firewood. A school was built on the corner; the children of the new families and miners would not have as far to go to the school in town.
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The new families came from North Mining Town. They were migrating because weather had gotten colder, there was less food, and less work because of the failing mines. They knew something about gem smithing and jewelry making. There was a market down south for fine jewelry and it could be quite profitable for us. Well, it was worth a try. We began building a jewelers and took the gold ore and emeralds out of the trading post.
Despite all the building, Woodman found time to work on the wildwood garden. He carved a wood fox and he transplanted some berry bushes along the east wall. He got a few snowshoe rabbits from the hedgerow in town. They made themselves right at home in the garden. We took turns tending the garden and the children.
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By early spring of year 6 the jeweler was completed and emerald necklaces were being made from our gold bars and emeralds.
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Chapter 12
By spring of year 6, Woodman built a gatherer's hut for me just outside the garden gate. He replaced the back gate with a solid piece of wall so the children could not roam out on their own. Another gate was built into the wall closer to our house. I could leave the children to safely play in the garden on warmer days while I gathered wild foods in and around it.
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On colder days I would be in the new kitchen making soup. That big old kettle that was left in the peddler's cart finally had a purpose. I had all my old recipes for soups and stews plus some new ones I thought of trying if we got the ingredients. My father always said I was a good cook just like my mother. The miners and outside workers sure liked my soup.
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I though fresh baked bread would go good with the soup and we had oats that could be ground into flour. We began building a baker that would also mill the grain. We chose a windy spot by the river. The foundation had just been laid when Hannon came to port. We traded hide and wool coats, wool, and emerald necklaces for apples and barley. Barley would go to our baker and our oats would continue to be fed to the sheep. We were pleased with the trade value of 20 we got for the emerald necklaces.
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Hannon had cows with him that he asked if we would take off his hands. The cows were not well suited for the cold climate here in the north and he knew we built shelters for our animals. A family that was migrating asked if he would take the cows to someone who would want them. The Animal Refuge was too far south. It was cold and getting colder, it would snow again soon. Both cows were about to have calves; he needed to find someone who would take them. We took them.
Chapter 13
The baker mill was finished and baking bread before we got the cows settled. We built the animal shed for the cows back in the valley where it would be more protected from the cold north and northwest winds. The outside yard faced the morning sun. We would feed them corn and we built another corn crib across from the cow shed. Two calves were born as soon as we got the cows settled in the shed. We would have extra milk to start but when the shed got overcrowded we would have beef for our soups and stews.
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We built a dairy at the end of the road by the cow shed. We could make cheese, cream, butter, or goat cheese with or without herbs. We decided on cheese from the cow's milk. With bread from the baker and cheese from the dairy the kitchen could now make BBQ Cheese sandwiches.
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When Hannon returned to port in early spring of year 7, I asked if he could get me tomato and pepper seeds. He just happened to have a small bag of those seeds plus squash seeds. No one up here in the cold north could grow them. The seeds were mine if I wanted them. I did. We traded wool for more barley for the baker. A salsa house was built next to the soup house and soon we had tomatoes, peppers, and squash that could be cooked up together in the kitchen to make salsa. The grilled cheese sandwiches were great dipped in a bowl of salsa or with a bowl of vegetable soup.
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Chapter 14
In early summer 9 migrants with their 4 children arrived in town. They thought it unlikely they would get far enough south before the snow and cold arrived. They agreed to stay with us. Three houses were built in the valley, one on either side of the dairy and one next to the school. One of their children just missed starting school. A two-story cabin was built near the river and the caretakers were again alone in the boarding house.
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It was good to have a few more builders and laborers. There were always branches, iron, stone, herbs, and wild foods to be gathered. My Adalupe, now age 6, often came with me and help gather branches, herbs, and foods. We saw a herd of deer outside the garden one day and she couldn't wait to tell her father about them. He said she was just like her mother, she loved the forest and the wildlife, and he often saw her visiting the old donkey. The wildwood garden got a new statue that year, a buck and a doe stood among the pines.
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Chapter 15
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Woodman built himself a carver's shed right outside the garden fence through the gate closest to our house. He could keep his wood carving tools and extra pieces of wood there. He had some smaller pieces of wood left after carving the deer which he carved into a sunflower he placed right outside our front door. He also carved a small squirrel that he placed over by the baker. The townsfolk liked them so much he then carved another pair of deer he placed down in the mining section of town. Some of the children had already seen the statues in the wildwood garden when they came to play with our children. I got favorable comments from the mothers because I was teaching their children about the animals they were seeing. Thanks to the animal statues and my kitchen cooking, people seemed to have forgotten I was a dark elf.
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The jeweler told Woodman that he was sure to get a good trade value for the wooden statues from the river boatman. Woodman carved a few smaller ones and had our trader pick them up to take to the trading post. When next Hannon came to port, everyone was amazed that the value of a small wood statue was 45 trade units. I thought the dwarves were in the wrong business.
Chapter 16
Our dwarves had not been so good at collecting iron and stone, we were short of both by spring of year 8. There were not many surface resources nearby anymore, only some in the valley. We sent what laborers we had to gather enough to last while a bitty mine was being dug between the gold mine and the gem mine. The nearest woodcutter began cutting lumber since the new mine, between the other 2, would need its shaft reinforced for safety.
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We had to do some adjustments to our workforce. One miner was taken from each of the other 2 mines to work in the new one. There were 2 woodcutters at each woodcutting yard. The worker was taken from the salsa house to work in the kitchen, and a neighbor was now tending the wildwood hedgerow. Woodman now had a young man who just finished school learning the art of woodcarving. Our boy, Deshauney, even though only 5 was also showing an interest. Woodman had more time now and used it to carve a new statue, a bear statue could easily be seen when entering the garden.
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Chapter 17
Our short summer had already ended, the temperature was already dropping, when Hannon returned to port. He had pigs and piglets with him and was hoping we would take them. As with the cows, they were not suited for this climate. The owners who were now migrating got the pair at a Hobbit festival and they struggled to keep them alive here in the cold north. We had never seen these boarlike animals before and had no idea how to care for them. Hannon said they would be easy to care for in an animal shed and would do well here if fed roots or potatoes. If we didn't have enough of either he could get some to bring us to trade. I was gathering some roots from in and around the garden and the gatherer by the forester was getting some too. We had some potatoes growing in the soup house and could always build another if needed. We took the pigs & piglets.
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We build an animal shed for the pigs in the sheltered spot next to the cows. Next to that we built a smokery to make bacon when the animal shed became overcrowded. The pigs were eating as many potatoes as we could feed them.
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Lovely story. I like your use of the deco. :)
Thanks :) I do like deco. :)
Chapter 18
We were all eating pretty good here in Wildwood. Not only did we have the cow shed for milk or beef and the pig shed for pork, we had the chicken shed for eggs or chicken, the goat shed for goat milk, and the sheep shed for mutton or wool. We had a corn crib and 3 greenhouses: a grain house for growing corn and oats, a soup house for carrots, cabbage, onions, and potatoes, and a salsa house for tomatoes, peppers, and squash. We had 2 gatherer's shed for collecting wild foods, and we had thatch patches to feed some of the animals. We had a kitchen, a dairy, a baker with build in mill, a smokery, and a tailor. There were matching storage sheds and houses also. Along with our hedgerow berries and rabbits and a little trade, our town of Wildwood was doing quite well indeed.
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Chapter 19
Wildwood? I don't quite know when our town got the name of Wildwood. I suppose it was after people from other towns wanted to know where the river boatman was getting the wood statues from. He would tell them Wildwood. We had been calling my garden the wildwood garden because of the wildlife wood statues Woodman made. Two more statues were added to my garden, a wolf and a moose. The town just somehow became known as Wildwood.
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As I said, the town is doing quite well after 9 years. The population is 112, 70 adults, 23 students, and 19 young children. They are all healthy and happy. We have 42 families but only 31 houses. The old boarding house is still across the river for anyone coming through the tunnel to use. Most of the houses are in the main part of town but the west valley has almost as many with more new houses being built all the time for young couples wanting a place of their own. Four house and a small park have only recently been built just past the corn crib. In that park there is a statue of a squirrel and a fox and a new one of a pair of rabbits. One last statue was being added to my wildwood garden just as the snow began to fall.
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Chapter 20
Woodman said there was only one thing missing from my wildwood garden and that was a statue of the little elf girl who kept him company and entertained with her little wildlife friends all the while he was a man of wood in the Deadwood Forest. He carved a statue of his little elf girl for my garden.
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Those years in the Deadwood Forest seem so long ago now but it really wasn't all that long ago that we came here with the peddler's cart and the old donkey. He is alive and doing well, we visit him every day even in winter. He especially likes being outside in spring just like the rest of us.
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The Wildwood Garden is even more beautiful when the spring flowers and shrubs are blooming. Woodman and I spend a lot of time in the garden with and without the children who are both in school now. We are all very happy. I am even more convinced that everything happens for a reason and what is meant to be, will be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWbZUgymkw
Happy First Day of Spring, weary traveler.
The End
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@ Abandoned ;D Thank you so much.A beautiful story, it's a pity that it's over, a great insert I like the music from the old days, a tear swirls in the eye. Regards
Thanks @Tanui Stay safe and well :)
@Abandoned.Thank you for your spiritual support .Regards
Thank you such for including Bitty Village buildings! It warmed my heart to see that! < 3
:) Hi,
@Jinxiewinxie Nice that you are still visiting the site. I use your mods often, one or more in almost every story. Especially like the chickens and the rabbits, and always think that it was your Festival Park that first gave us deco people. Good work :)