DFS drawdown continues: this picture from last year shows stuff that’s all gone. Currently I have just some old collectibles and seasonal ingredients that will be heavily discounted this evening.
I have extra fields to sell – very old school ones that aren’t “cool” and should be sold for $L40 or less. I may plant them to make them more sellable.
The remaining ingredients are being “cooked down” and loaded into “lunchboxes” that hold the EP (energy points) that are also set for sale.
DFS recipes can be maddeningly complex – with secondary or tertiary recipes that have to be made first. So I’m concentrating on cooking (crafting) the highest EP items with the least aggravating/simplest recipes.
My virtual business partner Dhughan Froobert may take over some of the livestock and field hand duties, and is eyeing a nice little 512sm plot in Steelhead City to set up his little cabin and his woodworking shop – he’s gotten interested in making some new mesh walking sticks with animations for people who walk with difficulty. If he does set up a tiny farm there, it’ll get some of the duplicate items off of my plot – all good. And he won’t be responsible for anything that can “die” of neglect.
He may make a simple hoe with animation, as well.

Everything in this picture is gone. More DFS stuff selling steadily.
Meanwhile, last night I attended a beginning Blender class for making a simple bookcase. The concepts and tools used were all familiar, but the typist’s left hand being wonky, and her muscle memory of Blender shortcuts being nonexistent, made keeping up in real time impossible. So I grabbed the class notes, and tonight or tomorrow will repeat some vidtuts for setting up Blender for Second Life (probably catch up on Goon Blackcinder’s Blender School videos). For the typist, the visibility, font size, and scale of vertices will need to be adapted. All the old Blender files should be on this new gaming computer, but I’ll need to research the current best way to manage multiple versions of Blender in order to work those files. I had something on the old computer that managed multiple versions, but it didn’t make it across the upgrade, and the developer is no longer supporting it.
The bookcase creation reminded me of how a Hoosier-style kitchen cupboard might be made, and I’d like one for my little kitchen.
Speaking of kitchens, my tiny kitchen is too small for efficient batch “cooking” so as prims permit, I’m setting up my Cory Edo “Chelsea Pavilion” outdoor kitchen. I had modded it heavily to change the color of the wood to redwood, and had also managed to install a couple of non-DFS, roleplay stoves/ovens that act as backdrops for several working DFS invisible ovens and stoves. All the stovepipes emit smoke when the original Trompe l’Oeil fireplace is lit, so if you see smoke rising along the road in Tweddle, that’s me cooking or pushing prims.
It all boils down to, literally, divesting myself of Digital Farming Systems stuff except for the basic tasks that I actually enjoy doing, without the need for marketing or dragging stuff to the auctions (with boxes, display stand, and tedium in setting them up). The typist’s health demands low/no stress, and more engaging in enjoyably relaxing activities. I’ve socialized a lot recently, and creative ideas (instead of mindless, repetitive drudgery) are starting to bubble up again.
I may even look up the old Steam Hunt information and see if the current organizer is still running them.