Year: Two Season: Spring
Day: One
Today’s the big day! Celia and I am getting married today but first, I have some other business to attend to. Today marks the one year anniversary of me starting my life here at Hyde Farm. It’s been an amazing journey, I’ve learned a lot and have found that I can survive anything (even a typhoon) if I put my mind to it. Hiei and Miel are both celebrating their first birthday here on the farm. Even on special occasions like today, the farm never lets you take a day off so I hurriedly finished watering the crops, feeding the animals, and making sure everything was in order before I headed towards Vesta’s farm to meet Celia. Before our small ceremony, Vesta had some words for me and took me aside to speak with me. After a good tongue lashing about what would happen if I didn’t take care of Celia, she and I walked back towards the ceremony only to overhear Marlin begging Celia to try and change her mind. His plea seemed to fall on deaf ears and he dashed away towards the beach, not before giving me a glaring look. Vesta gave us some encouraging words, saying that Marlin has always been the moody type. Hopefully, after he cools off, we can still remain friends.
At the reception, everyone from town came to congratulate us and I mean everyone. Tim and Ruby came up and hugged us, expressing how happy they were for our happiness. Griffin brought drinks from the Blue Bar to help us celebrate and Muffy told Celia how lucky she was. Even Romana, Sebastian, and Lumina were there. Romana only had kind words and good advice for us. Sebastian offered to help us if we ever needed it and I thanked him for his generous offer. Lumina seemed to get very upset and ended up running away . . . that’s the second person to do that, I wonder what’s going on. Even Cody, the metal artist, and Daryl, the town’s resident crazy scientist, were there to congratulate us in their own ways. It was great to see all of Forget-Me-Not Valley giving us so much support. After talking with everyone and saying our goodbyes, Celia and I headed back to the farm to get settled in. Takakura met us at the Barn with congratulations of his own. He had attended the ceremony but didn’t attend the reception due to all the work on the farm. He handed us a letter that had been delivered to the farm and we found that it was Van expressing his apologies for not being able to attend and happy wishes for our future. And a happy future is all I can wish for in this coming year.
Time seemed to have moved forward by leaps and bounds. We have a new add-on to the house, making the bedroom big enough for three people because now Celia and I have a daughter named Yuko. She looks so much like Celia with the same color of brown for her hair and eyes. Yuko’s a toddler now and very active, enjoying walking around the farm and exploring the area. Hiei’s seemed to take a very strong liking to her and always keeps a watchful eye on her. A lot of other things have changed in Forget-Me-Not Valley. Nina passed away leaving Galen all alone. It is too sad; she was such a lovely lady. Galen ended up moving down to the open field across from Vesta’s Farm. A bunch of the men from town helped to build him a small house next to Nina’s grave that lay next to the large oak tree there.
A bunch of new people have moved into town as well. Dr. Hardy from the city, who used to come to visit every month, moved into Galen and Nina’s old house. He said that the city’s bustling pace was just too much more him now. A new house was built right next to Chris and Wally’s house and a new family has moved in. I was only able to meet Samantha, her husband and daughter were down by the beach exploring the rest of the town. You could definitely Samantha was from the city, stylishly dressed with her red hair wrapped up in a bun. I gave her a Toy Flower to welcome her to town and she accepted it with a wide smile. I ran into Hugh, Chris and Wally’s son, on my way back towards the farm and my, has he grown. He has gotten quite tall and can now outrun Wally in a race. Before starting the work for the day, I visited Nik, Nak, and Flak up by the North Pond and wish them a happy new year and to thank them for everything. Once I got back to the farm, it was already late in the morning and I had a lot of work to do. Because of the poor financial state of the farm, I had a lot of extra work to do. I quickly planted the Watermelon Seeds I had bought a few days and made sure to water them well.
I let Takakura have the day off; he deserved it after caring for the farm all on his own during the wedding reception. I took Yuko to help me feed the animals; she likes the Chickens but was scared of Miel and the others. I think she just needs to get used to their large size. After everyone was fed and taken care of, I headed up to wish Carter and Flora a happy new year. Once inside the Dig Site, I found that they had cleared a lot of space and it was almost double the size as last year. They had me promise to help them again this year with their excavation. I promised and told them that I would be back once I had the time to help them out. I stopped by Vesta’s as well to visit everyone there. Vesta asked how Celia was doing and I said that she was happy and enjoying life on the farm. I bought some Fertilizer and asked Vesta how Marlin was. She told me that he was still upset and that I probably should avoid him for a little while until he cools off. I took her advice, thanked her for the Fertilizer, and headed back towards the farm. After spreading the Fertilizer over the grass, I took some time to play with Yuko in the kitchen as Celia made dinner. I ended up staying up much later than usual which only means I’m going to have more work to do tomorrow with less time to do them in. Life on the farm never slows down, does it? But with a bright new year ahead of us, I’m glad that it doesn’t.
