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Jessabeans added a new renovation after the gift exchange. It involves an old sweet potato farm and farmer Jones.

Farmer Jones slips into his newly acquired farm in the dead of night. He doesn’t want to be associated with the old potato house in its current state of disrepair.

His plan is just to rip out the old plumbing and appliances, but he finds that he must first fix the broken water pipes and repair the water damage.

After ripping out the rotted old wood floor boards, he finds a perfectly good rock flooring underneath. For now, he settles for just bleaching the wall panels and hopes for the best. He does manage to get the new toilet and shower installed that day.

He moves the nasty old counters and sink into the kitchen and scrubs them clean.

He salvaged what he could of the old bathroom floor and an old vegetable cart out back. That, together with wood in the old wood pile, gave him what he needed to expand the loft upstairs, where he moved a couple of the shelves, thinking that they might be handy to hold clothes and whatnots.

As a new day breaks, the old potato house looks much better from the road. The brambles were all sold as starter wood, netting farmer Jones enough to pay for some much needed refurbishing.

He takes a day off from the farm and goes into town to city hall to register as a gardener, which will allow him to sell his produce in the farmer’s market later in the year. Then he went to library to read a cooking book, saw some nice flowers to pick and a picnic lunch to eat at the park, and ended up at the gym to work out for an hour and meet a few sims.

He had more picnic food for his supper before he headed back home exhausted. (Farmers get up early and therefore, need to go to bed much earlier than normal sims.)

Back home again, Blake, aka farmer Jones, finds that he didn’t quite get all the cobwebs cleared. He’ll take care of that tomorrow.

After clearing the cobwebs from his mind and his home, Blake sets himself the task of collecting up all the old potatoes, keeping the best, and selling the rest.

He hangs holiday lights to get more in the holiday spirit and then he begins the mammoth task of clearing out the remains of the year’s harvest.

Day after day, Blake works on clearing the old garden. He works until he’s so hungry he can’t work any longer.

Then he grabs a quick meal of bread and jam, and works on upgrading the plumbing.

He’s getting a little ahead in life; so he plays it forward, donating to a global hunger organization, because he’s been there and hopes that neither he or anyone else should be in that position every again.

Blake takes some more much deserved time off and heads to the festival where he meets a sim with a lot of bright ideas, as well as the desire to start a family. While he’s tired – when isn’t he lately? – he is very interested in her and her ideas.

He enjoys dinner with her family in the neutral festival setting, and he lets her know how much he loves her outlook on life.

Back home in his new double bed, Blake begins to wonder what it would be like with little ones of his own.

After going steady for a long time, Blake pops the question and May says, “Yes!”

It’s a private wedding for May and Blake, and a much nicer home inside that it once was.

While Blake works tirelessly at that overgrown patch of a garden out back, May looks through the paper. She’s interested in a military job, but she knows that won’t be practical as she wants to raise a family with Blake.

She tries to help Blake in the garden, but she really just gets in the way. So, she leaves him to finish up alone. Though it’s a full moon, and the zombies are out in droves; Blake has the gates locked and remains safe in his garden.

As Blake drops exhausted into bed at night thinking of his new plants, May is busy texting all her friends.

They’ve established a pattern of Blake keeping early morning farming hours while May sleeps in, needing much more rest than usual.