Happy Mother's Day!

Even you stubborn mothers who know your son plans to take you out to dinner... and when he arrives at your house to bring your gifts, the first thing he smells is all kinds of things cooking in the kitchen.  And then is greeted with an "oh, I forgot."

Stubborn, stubborn moms:)

Well I have to go back to my mom's now and have dinner with her.  Have a great day!

Happy Easter

Have a great day:)

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

A note from Winterhart

Hi,

I want to thank you for putting Kylie's request on your blog. I also want to thank everyone who responded.
Twallan helped me make a mod that works! I just sent it to Kylie.

Thank you all,

Winterhart

Help with a mod???

I got this email from Winterhart and thought I'd post it here to see if anyone could help out one of her readers.  If so you can email Winterhart at winterhartsims3@gmail.com. 

I got the following request on my website, Winterhart's Sims 3, from the mother of an autistic child. I don't know if it is even possible.

Rather than send Bethnell all over the place ( she's gotten enough of a run around from EA) I am asking anyone I can think of for help with this.

If you know of anyone who might be able to help with this please contact me here: winterhartsims3@gmail.com

Thank you for your time.

Jeannie Bucher aka Winterhart

About the mod

Hi there. I am asking this for my autistic daughter named Kylie. She does not like when the words "no interactions available" pop up when she clicks on an area that has no interactions. For her, just not clicking on an area isn't an option. Just the fact that there is the chance that those words may come up creates extreme anxiety to the point of tears. We have called EA and are always told to go to the forums but we haven't gotten any responses. I am not computer savvy and have no idea how to create a mod to remove these words from the game. I'm reading through MTS and it seems they have very specific guidelines and I can't find anything related to this subject. Your post seemed like the only person who is willing to try something like this if it's even possible to do. If you don't do mods like this, is there anyone that you know of that does this type of modification? Thanks for your time.

Snow D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R.!!!

Like OMG stock up on water and canned goods.  The world is crumbling because there was a snowstorm in NEW ENGLAND!  We had our first real blizzard of the season last night, continuing throughout today.  Shows have been canceled, delayed, blah, blah, blah, to keep us all updated on every last snowflake that falls.

Last snowstorm, police were assigned to local stores because people were beating the crap out of each other over bottled water...I know (running water in homes, and a convenience store on almost every corner), nothing really can be said about that mentality but anyway.

The 115 year old rosebushes and, I'm guessing pretty old trellis is still holding up with all that heavy snow piled on them, here's one.  I don't know if they are really 115 years old since I wasn't around then, but was told my great, great grandmother planted them the year the house was built in 1896... along with the four pear trees, apple tree, cherry tree and grapevines.  I didn't take a picture of the Madonna of the bathtub, but she's holding up just fine too.  I got the house last year when my grandfather died and he was not into renovating it, so the trellis could be as old as he was.

Now to the real disaster... the damn plows that keep blocking my driveway.  So, that's where I'll be for a big part of the day, clearing out mounds of snow from stupid plows, dreaming that it's legal to throw rocks at them when they come along push more mounds of snow where I just cleared.

That said... YAY snow:)

Happy New Year

I just wanted to wish everybody the best New Year ever:)  I'm happy that 2010 is just about over.  Anyway, have a great time guys and see you in a day or two.

Happy Holidays To All

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.  Have a great day, guys:)

First Snow... YAY

I'm not sure why the pictures came out like something out of Sleepy Hollow but these are pictures of the first snowfall, taken from my bedroom porch just minutes ago. 

Hi guys

It's Brandon

I just wanted you to know Joe texted me a little while ago and asked me to take over again.

He is pretty sick with that 2, 3, 4, or 5 week flu going around and had a relapse in the chest and lungs a week after getting over the first part of the flu.

He will be in the hospital for the next two to three days just to be sure the bronchitis clears and it doesn't become pneumonia.

I will be updating until he's back.

Too Much?

I'm not really sure how I feel about the "Top Posts" thing.  I kind of like the idea but having three different ones for "week", "month" and "all time" seems a bit repetitive.  Anyway, let me know what you think...it probably will grow on me.

The new "Broken Links, etc" tab at the top is for just that - broken links, dead sites, etc.  You can report anything you want in there and I'll definitely see it, since the posts get buried in no time.  I deleted a bunch of posts today, but could have missed some things.

The dead sites removed

Adelyne Sims
Aarin's Spectacles
Sim National
Trinity2005
Noir-Ange

The rest of Sims Art Gallery old posts

And a few others:)

Happy Halloween

Blogger is improving a lot of things

A few people were wondering why their comments 'got eaten' and didn't display.  The comments that were not spam have been published.

Anyway, blogger has improved their comments section and added a spam filter.  It's a huge improvement and makes managing comments a lot easier.  The only thing is some comments get sent to spam that are not spam. So check it out on your blogger account. 

Little changes with the blog

No, this isn't going to become a blog about (my new) Chinese Water Dragon, but some things are going to change.  I'm probably not going to be adding as many Sims and stuff just because it's out there.  Especially Sims with no links to CC used. Brandon will no longer be doing the majority of the updates.  He will still be updating under my account, just not  adding EVERYTHING.  I'm only going to be adding things that I'd use, things I think people will actually use, and good quality content in general.  I'm sorry about this but I really need to organize this blog.  You can still add your stuff in the "your updates here" section above and I'll leave what I don't add up for a week or so.  In the process, some of the older stuff will go.  Hair, of course will still pretty much all be posted.  I know I should have had this done a while ago, but this summer has been the worst for allergies, sometimes to the point where I can barely keep my head up .  I've never had to take medication for allergies until last month.  I don't know what's going on, but for the first time in a long time I'm actually looking forward to snow storm after snow storm.

Anyway, this is Dexter or Rita, depending on what S(censored)xe he/she turns out to be.  I bought him/her three days ago and he/she's just a baby.  I was told he/she is two months old... So, if there's any CWD experts out there that want to offer advice about them, go right ahead:)

Sorry about the lack of updates today

I ran out of time before my mother came back from her vacation so everything wasn't done and I'm trying to finish that all up. Another thing I was sorting out the categories that I hoped would be done weeks ago and lastly, I'm in love with the latest design feature from blogger. I'm probably going to change that in the next week or two. None of these are exactly what I want, but I was just playing and thought I'd show. It's probably going to be a combination of the first three, the third is the closest I could get to the current and the last is just for nothing, I guess.

Anyway, be back later:)

I also check my blog for CC

I was building an older house earlier and needed a few more things, so I started searching the blog and found some things I didn't have/forgot about. Anyway, here's a few pictures that came up in the vintage search. If you use the search box at the top left, what ever you type in (as long as it's in the title or post) will come up...creator names, sites, etc. There's two pages, so be sure to click older posts. I'm sure most of you already know this, but some might not. It's just another option like the categories. BTW, the other search box with the big red X through it will be deleted as soon as I post this, since that search doesn't display pictures, and that's pretty useless. I only added it because the current template hid the Navbar.

World for Sim and Clothing Creators/Using CAS and Nothing Else

Read more and download at Fuzzy Logic Dishwasher

I just wanted to let everyone know that Joe's father died three days ago, and he has given full control of the blog and email to me for now.

Hopefully he will be back soon.

It looks like this will be the last update for a while.

I knew this day would come, and even though I tried to pretend my father wouldn't get worse, he is in a very bad way right now. None of the treatments have worked and yesterday he was hospitalized. Three months ago, he was given three months to live, so I really don't know what to say right now.

I just want to thank all of you for visiting my blog, and I want to thank all of the creators for making our games so much better.

Thank you all for your wonderful comments. I added a small list of update blogs and forums to the right:)

Bye for now

Joe

Not feeling that great today

The updates might be small today, since I've been in bed for almost 24 hours. I can't keep anything down, so it's best to just sleep this off.

Anyway, there's some updates at XM Sims in Simmer Valley Updates.

Check Mariarita's blog and Bozena's blog for more updates:)