#sims4lighthouse

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The Lighthouse (P.2)

The garden has been well kept for generations and has always been a place of healing for those left by those they love. The garden is filled with memories of children and grandchildren playing with their imagination and laughing at the chickens’ silly antics.

Grandma and Grandpa take solace here with their family, now missing one. They sit out the back to view the boats passing, a reminder of Grandpa’s old trade and new tragedy. 

In the evening they retreat to the porch to soak up the evening sun’s warmth, sharing their love and their longing, listening to the last of birdsong. This is where they overlook their well-beaten, family fishing boat, now retired under a weathered, wooden awning. They can see the slow return back to nature the boat undergoes as the days since the tragedy pass, reminding them as they age, they will too. As did those lost at sea.

[elevensims]

The Lighthouse (P.3)

The house is almost completely the same as it was when it was first built except for a few modern conveniences and one major addition, the sun room come dining room. The midday sun was lost on this house for the most part, and when darkness invades a happy life so often, light is needed. Where better than where a family comes together to eat.

The house is dotted with antiques passed down and spaces remodeled for new uses. An old store room is the laundry. The boathouse is now a workroom for Grandpa to take his mind off the trade he can no longer face. Grandma wouldn’t even allow it - she can’t risk one more loss.

Grandma repurposed her father-in-law’s office into her happy hobby room decorated with family memories, grandchildren’s art and even her own. Knitting and cross-stitching allow her to meditate on the menial in the evening, to veer her towards simpler thoughts. But when night comes, and the warmth drops, she occasionally goes to her typewriter and writes about all those she and her family have lost over the generations. 

She aims toward simpler thoughts in the day, but when the sun has been swallowed by the sea like so many of her family, she cannot fight the burning need to keep them alive forever... Somehow.