TS2 - Legacy Cove - Week 29 - 3 Bamboo Blvd

 TS2 - Legacy Cove

Week 29

3 Bamboo Blvd

     Hello and welcome back to our last Panda house.  Well, "TECHNICALLY" we still have Vamaris to visit before winter is over but she's formerly a Lind and now a Chauncellor.  As for the original Panda brood, this is our last stop.  

     Ironically though, this house is the only one to still carry on the Panda name!  Once upon a time, a big percentage of the neighborhood had the proud name of "Panda".  Time is a thief though, and as the weeks go on the surnames that launched this neighborhood have evolved through death and marriages and new babies.   

    But while we still got 'em, I'm going to tell you current tales of the last true Panda house!   Let's begin!

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Yardley Panda
Fortune - Aquarius - Nature nut
3-3-5-10-7
Retired Surgeon

Kayla (Fancey) Panda
Knowledge - Libra - Arts & Crafts
4-8-4-4-10
Owns "Fancey Panda Pottery"

Shawn Panda
Knowledge - Sagittarius - Nature nut
2-3-10-10-10
Mad Scientist 

Noelle (Garth) Panda
Family - Pisces - Arts & Crafts
4-4-10-7-10
Art Forager

Shayla Panda
Popularity - Scorpio - Sports fan
10-7-10-7-1

Sebastian Panda
Knowledge - Sagittarius - Nature nut
2-2-10-10-10

Fleur
Kanga

Karma

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MONDAY
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Well, someone's up bright and early.  The genie dropped off another lamp to add to their collection, conveniently located in their garage.  Whoohoo!  

Later, after the kids were off to school, Yardley headed out back to do some fishing.

I was worried about how he'd handle retirement.  But I think he's got the hang of it!

The kids just got into private school last week.  They seem to be doing pretty good.  Just look at Sebastian winning spelling bees now!

Noelle got a chance card, and obviously we can't use the wrong paints.  Let's go find the chemicals, girl!

SUCCESS!

I don't want to jinx anything, but Monday seems to be getting us set off on the right foot for this week!

Only two more days with Shayla though before she heads off to university.

She's been calling up all her friends that are already there to keep in touch.

As generation 3's population dwindles, I'm still trying to keep the extended Panda family in touch.

Yvonne's family were the dinner guests tonight.   Quick detour to play in the leaves first though.

Yvonne's father was Yardley's older brother.

She's here with her husband Brandon and sons Yoren (not pictured) and Yorwick.

Sebastian and Shawn aren't at the table because they were out hiking.  Apparently you get the coolest bugs on the late night hikes.  I love spiders!

We had one more visitor Monday... But I'm not happy to see this one!

And of course Fleur is making friends with it.  No!  Shoo!  SHOO!

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TUESDAY
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I work hard, but the game works harder.  This time for good, instead of evil!

All the Gen 3's retiring means they are just hanging around all day to greet each other.  Just a quick sidewalk chat here amongst cousins.

Meanwhile.. back in the house..

Sebastian and Shayla are showing to be in platinum status but after this oopsie I realized that their aspiration hasn't been moving.  And they aren't perma-plat.

Fix one thing, and the game gives me another.. sheesh

.... I guess Shawn has been using Cassie's old hiking trail with the attack bees.  

Luckily, it was just him this time and Sebastian and his dad wasn't with him.

Hopefully the bees are gone before the kids get off the bus.

If Shawn had been at his daughter's concert instead of hiking, he wouldn't be running from the bees!

It's Shayla's last day of school too.  

Her birthday is tomorrow so the school concert was apparently part of the graduation.

GOOD PARENTING, SHAWN.

Shayla has been getting prettier and prettier the older she gets.

I'm excited to see how she ages to a young adult.

But first, dinner with Vincent's family.  

Er... Wrong Vincent in the pic.  That's Little Vincent and his baby sister Valerie.  Yardley is their great-uncle. 

.. Is it a bee?  I bet its a bee.  Let's just call the professionals.

Success is ours!!!  

Hopefully the professionals survived the bees.  We'll never know.  

OH MY WRIGHT HOW DID WE GET BUGS?

NO, KAYLA! 

GET AWAY!

Ohhhh Something is wrong.

They sprayed.  And sprayed.  And sprayed.

And I can't click on bugs anymore.

But the little fuggers are still scurrying around everywhere!

I had someone call the exterminator and sent everyone to bed.

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WEDNESDAY
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Shayla wasted no time waking up and getting out of the house.  

The bugs were giving us the skeeby jeebies.  

Oh Benjamin, you might be my favorite NPC.

So no more bugs, just a glitch.

Good to know.

One last look at teen Shayla as she leaves for university.  

I followed Shayla off to the uni campus to get her dressed properly.

Thankfully when I returned, the bugs were GONE.

Ahh.. promptly upon returning, there's another chance card.
Start your own club, Sebastian!  Be a leader!

Whoops.

Well, he tried.  We'll get that enthusiasm back, Sebastian.  Don't you worry.

Now, please fast-forward 2 months in real life.

I wanted to make all my sports sims matching "team jackets" in each color.

FINALLY.  I've completed two.  In one age group.

Shayla is modeling the young adult females jacket for the "Bay Area Pirates" which is our yellow team.

Oooohhhhhhhhh!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

For when she's not outdoors, her clothing is almost the same as before.  Except since it's winter in the main hood, she got a hoodie instead of a tank top.

In other Wednesday news, Vamaris and her family are visiting this evening.

Sebastian is trying to maximize his logic skill so he joined Quentin at the chess table.

And while he may have failed at the hobby chance card earlier, he was successful on the the skill point!

Definitely worth him staying up late, but better get him off to bed now and send the extended family home!

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THURSDAY
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Finally, Karma is growing up to an adult!

Her momma is Kanga and her sire Yang passed away just before she was born.

She definitely got an interesting mix of coat colors.  Yang's gray face and he was mostly grey with some brown coloring.. Kanga is reddish.  But Karma is mostly brown.  With one white paw!  

Meanwhile.. across the yard...

Shawn needs to find a new place to hike.

At first I didn't even see the skunk so I thought, "Oh good, I must have banned them with the visitor controller."

Good reader, I in fact never did any such thing.

Congratulations to Noelle!

I didn't really have plans to get her promoted but I had some landscaping conflicts with her car pool and the kids' bus.  I'll take no further questions on this subject.

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FRIDAY
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It's Cousins' Day!

Shawn is an only child, so maybe I should say, "It's Second Cousins' Day!"

Or something, I get extended family relations confused.  ANYWAY!

While Little Vincent and Sebastian punched each other inside, I got a pic of Kayla and Shayla.

I definitely see where Shayla got some of her genetics!  Not just the golden eyes either!

Oh, remember when I said I got two of the sports team jackets made?

Vera is here to model the "Sim City Suns" orange team jacket.

It's not quite as good but I'm happy!

Before we move on...
You maybe thought we wouldn't see mailman Hun Pai on this update.

WRONG. And I'm not even mad at Kayla.  I'm surprised I don't dream about the dog whispering mailman myself!

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SATURDAY
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Yardley's lifebar is making me a little nervous.

But his twin Yeva also passed away this week so I'm pretty much expecting this.

Most of his cousins have been in the 80's though.  I'm not sure where I failed  Yardley (and Yeva).

Anyway.

I'd like to tell you why Shawn is in the very far back corner of the yard making a snowman, but Shawn is honestly unexplainable.  I mostly just let him do his thing.

Saturdays have been our teen hangout days but we're starting to run out of teens.  

By the time this week is over, I think I'll be left with just three!

Right now, there's Sebastian, Uncas, Valerie, and Ulva... and Quentin is here somewhere too.

Y'all just aren't happy unless someone died!

(**CLAMPS HAND OVER MY MOUTH**)

And an hour later... here we are.

And I MISSED IT!

I wasn't watching the clock and trying to get Shawn to bathe his dog.  UGH

Dr. Yardley Panda - 75 days old

Yardley leaves behind his wife Kayla, his son Shawn (Noelle), and grandchildren Shayla and Sebastian.  

He's preceded in death by his parents and siblings.

Yardley was an avid outdoorsman.  He and his family donated the money to build Panda Park.

He also leaves behind his dog Fleur but joins Yang on Grim Isles. 

The snow began to fall again as the crowd drifted away from Sebastian.  

He went from sobbing to wonder in such a cinematic way that I couldn't decide if I love or hate this game.

Life does go on, and it happens unfortunately quickly in this game.

Noelle spent some time with Karma teaching her to "Come Here".

Shawn had abandoned his snowman earlier, but the penguin still came by to talk to it.

I'm still not convinced that the penguins aren't trying to take over the government.  

Annnnd... Shayla got a little chilled outside.

But I noticed too late, and it's 2am.  If I had a few more minutes I would have had someone sit on the couch and have her join so she could warm up.

It's okay.  

She'll be over for the family gathering to celebrate her grandfather tomorrow.  I'll get her fixed up then!

But....

Why do I have wolves at both the front and back door???

That's not weird or anything, right?  

Luckily the visitors already left and the household is in bed.

Yikes!

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SUNDAY
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Ah, see, all better!

And if I thought she looks a lot like her grandma, she resembles her mom even more!

Oh..

Nothing like a stoic sim weeping all alone to break a heart.

Poor Kayla.

Sebastian built a snowman out front while waiting for the rest of the family to arrive.

Fun fact;  Sebastian has 10 nice points.  Shayla only has 1.  They do not build the same snowmen!

I'm sure the family is talking about all of Yardley's plants or what flowers they'll place at his tombstone... Not just saying they like daisies.

Ahem.

Since I compared the ladies' profiles,

Here's Shawn's...

And Sebastian.

While there's some similarities, Sebastian definitely looks like Noelle and her family (Noelle is a Legacyville transplant).

Speaking of Noelle...

Congratulations!  She's maxed creativity.

Crazy it took so long, honestly.

Looking ahead to spring, we'll have more birthdays coming up.

And Sebastian will be heading to university tonight to join Shayla.

Lemme tell you, I heard the heart-fart sound and my eyes popped wide open as I scrambled to find out who was cheating on who.

Whew.  Just Shayla and Rocco falling in love.  Again.  As college students.  Whew!!

Back inside... I'm pretty sure Valerie tooted.  

I didn't hear anything.  But there are signs.  

.... What??

AGAIN?

MORE BUGS!?????

My voice rose to an unhealthy pitch as I screamed, "SEBASTIAN, GET AWAY FROM THOSE!!!!!!"

I can't send him to college with the flu!  Why does Wright keep sending these bugs into my life!???

While I'm freaking out, Big Vincent just calmly walks up and sprays the bugs.

Oh.  Oh, okay, yes.

Spray the bugs.

Kayla is easiest to quarantine if it comes to it, so I have her do the second spray.

This is because the trash can and compost bin are so far away from the house.  They are getting interrupted taking the trash out when I'm not looking.

Vera was just as calm and collected as her dad as she did the third spray.

And that's it.  The bugs are gone.

Whew.

I'm done though, y'all.

Sent everyone on back home then Sebastian off to college.

The household was in bed, so there was no one awake to wave him off.

That's okay.

Calm and quiet, just how I like it.

And with that, I'm done with winter here and closing them up until spring.

(Surprise, Shawn already changed the season on the weathernaught and spring is sprung!)

GOOD DAY!

      I don't know if you can tell, dear Reader.  But I *HATE* bugs.  And never forget the great flu of week 16 or when ever that was.  It took so long to get everyone cured and healthy. 

     Our next stop is with the Wolosenkos.  Only Zakki and Isaac are home, so hopefully they are bug free and calm.   Just lots of sports web-browsing and guitar riffs.  I hope!   

     Thanks for reading, and happy belated Mother's Day to the mamma Twinkies and any other readers that may have found their way here!

-Carissa