#waterfall from hot tub to pool

[katnapsh]

Charleston Pool Mid-sized trendy backyard stone and custom-shaped hot tub photo

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Completely fenced in blue estate in Alvin, TX. 2023 new construction has 7bds, 10ba, 10,400 sq ft, $3.9m. Well, it isn't all white inside, either.

It was just built last year and already on the market. It looks like there's a marble inset of da Vinci's Vitruvian Man in the floor. Interesting.

The color of the walls and royal blue moldings cheapen it, but I kind of like the blue marble floors and the fireplace.

They have the pictures too high up, they should always be eye level. Maybe they're tall people, what do I know?

They went with shiny gray laminate cabinetry and big modern fans mounted to fancy baroque ceiling medallions.

I like the backsplash, too.

The primary bedroom has a nice fireplace and doors to the terrace.

Here's a factoid- the big fans, if you get them from this company, actually say "Big Ass Fans," b/c that's the real name of the company. I don't know if these are, though.

Huge ensuite has a round marble shower with round windows. Too bad that they picked such bright blue paint. I really think that softer blues would've looked so much better.

They have this kind of elevator and it's black marble. Creepy.

Each secondary bedroom has its own ensuite.

The 2nd floor landing.

They've got a game room up here.

And, there's a guest room w/ensuite off the game room.

More stairs and another level up.

This must be the uppermost level.

This floor is a giant game room, and it also has 2 beds, so what goes on up here?

Nice bath, too.

Roof top terrace with Astro Turf. I hate that stuff, it deteriorates and clogs landfills.

Looking down from the top floor.

Covered patio with a grill and stuff, plus a pool with a rock waterfall.

Look at how the pool water appears to come up onto the patio.

Here's a hot tub.

The neighbor's property looks like it fits into theirs like a puzzle piece. 1.70 acre lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1259-County-Road-147-Alvin-TX-77511/26491303_zpid/?

[simmervlogs]

Villa Amandri

Hello Simmers, come and relax at your private villa in the deep Jungles of Selvadorada. This build is inspired by overgrown brutalism and focuses on bringing the outdoor nature indoor.

Spread across two levels, the property includes a raised swimming pool that extends out and across the jungle greenery, as well as huge windows and outdoor terraces that make the most of the villa’s elevated position. Concrete walls have been left purposefully rough and unpolished, contrasted by wooden furniture and brightly patterned tiles.

The architecture relies on the natural rocks as foundations. The kitchen includes a bar and a built in wine cellar attached to a rock formation. The bathroom includes a open outdoor bath overlooking the gorgeous views of the jungle. This property also accommodates for children as it includes a wilderness inspired bedroom for a child and infant. In the main suite, the light shines down upon the concrete floor through the skylight. Comfortable linen is provided for the bed facing the views of the open terrace with a hot tub and private pool.

The holiday home, offers rainforest surroundings as well as views of the nearby waterfall , caves and many more adventurous locations to explore.

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[linkspooky]

wip wednesday

Updated WIP for my Azulaang fic.

The worst part was that Aang had found her beautiful. Aang was suddenly forced to bear witness to a naked truth. Azula was a girl. Not only was she a girl, she was a beautiful girl.  Until now, he’d believed Azula hard and made of steel like a machine of war with a fire burning inside her. Now he saw her soft flesh.What he'd thought was a blazing inferno that burned everything that touched her was a gentle warmth that permeated her skin. The girl that had always been hiding underneath the fire nation black and red armor. A beautiful girl. 

It was tradition in this household to cleanse one’s body before being let into the spiritual archives. Aang respected tradition, even if spiritualism in the fire nation was different from the air nomads. 

(He also needed a bath, running away from conflict worked up quite a sweat). Step by step, he followed the little footpath of smooth, colorful pebbles under the luxuriant canopy of flowering wisteria blossoms until he found the entrance to the bath. Inside the changing room a low shelf carved from the bluestone had been placed to hold the bather’s clothes. In his eagerness to get into the water on a cold winter day (by fire nation standards) he failed to notice two other tubs packed with clothing sitting on the shelf. Aang took off his clothing, it was easy to get undressed with the simple way airbenders dressed. Imagine how many layers Zuko had to take off to bathe, especially with those huge shoulde roads.  He left his clothes in a wooden washtub, and after lifting the thin hemp curtain with one hand strode inside. 

Stream drifted through the air, it gently unfurled out from the pool, drifting slowly, filling every corner and crevice blurring his vision.  With that and the dim moonlight it was difficult to see more than a few shuka in front of you. It gave the baths a spiritual aura, like he’d stepped in the river that separated this world from the far shore.Flowers bloomed along the borders of the pool, their shed petals floated on the surface, and there was a small waterfall at the end of the pond for rinsing. 

It was pleasantly warm. Aang couldn't help the soft sigh of content that escaped him. He felt like a kid again bathing in the air temple hot springs with the other children. He let loose for a moment, extending his slender limbs and swimming all the way to the waterfall with a splash. 

Just as he rose from the water and wiped his face, he noticed someone was already showering in the surging waterfall with their back turned.

Lio. Aang should have known better to watch Lio from someplace unseen like a total stalker creep weirdo, but he stopped to watch their back as if possessed by some kind of spell. 

Their back was held tall and straight, the contours sharp and defined. But with the stars illuminating the steam Aang could make out countless scars, burn scars, and what looked to be whip marks on the center of their back. A body full of wounds. A body full of scars. So many it was impossible to find a piece of untouched flesh. 

There was no need to mention how much those wounds should hurt. 

Water fell down from above almost as if to cool off those burns, cascading over their body, rivulets gathering into a stream down the wide expanse of their back, down the valleys and peaks of their intricately carved muscles and finally into the divet between their buttocks. The water seemed infatuated with their body, clinging to them in a light stream that was loath to part. 

Lio’s head turned halfway to meet Aang’s gaze, just as Aang jerked his head up to preserve some of Lio’s dignity, “Hey, Aangie have you come to do some naked male bonding?”

“My best features are my back and my butt? What do you think, Aangie?”

Lio said , strode out from under the waterfall and pressed his hands on the rock wall blocking everything behind his massive back from view. 

That back took up Aang’s entire view. Their hair had grown out and fell in black, wild tangles just past their shoulder. Those shoulder blades slid down the small of their back. Aang’s esys followed the downward curve of their spine, their full and firm buttocks, and eyes ficxed on those fair plump curves for a moment because his head jerked up again. . “I think you are uh, very attractive, and you are connvingly using your attractiveness to try to distract me from asking about how you got that scar on your back.”

“Oh, I was a naughty boy and I was whipped before I was banished. It’s nothing… compared to the trouble I caused Li and my family back then it was absolutely nothing.” .” 

“Your pain isn’t nothing.” “Haha, what pretty words. Did the airbenders teach you to talk that way, or are you just that cheesy naturally?” Lio noticed Aang’s wince at the mention of the airbenders, “I’m sorry, Aangie, baby. I’m a bad, rude man. I just don’t like you looking at me like I’m some poor dying animal you found on the side of the road.” 

Lio’ s shoulder’s rose and fell, as they heaved a sigh. They weren’t some broken thing, it was easy to see the lean strength in those lines. Those shoulder blades were strong and massive, moving beneath the scarred skin. 

At that moment all Aang could think of was how adult Lio looked, even though they were only two years older. It wasn’t just the enormous height, it was the comfort they displayed wearing their own body, it was enough to make Aang feel like a fucking child in comparison. 

Graceful Lio suddenly gracelessly lost their balance and fell a step back from the wall. Lio quickly turned around, still hiding something behind their back, “I’m sorry Aangie, can we continue this conversation later? I thought we could bond in our nakedness, but human relationships aren’t so simple.”

Aang caught sight of it then, a smaller, curvier figure trying to slip away into the steam just then. Oh. Li mentioned Lio wanted to get married. Aang walked in on both of them in the bath. Mix gender bathing was normal in the fire nation, he told himself. Completely normal.

He caught sight of a feminine figure through the steam turning to leave. He didn’t initially recognize her - because under normal circumstances, that girl would never do something as ungraceful as stumbling and falling face first into the pool, sending a spray of water into the air. 

“Lazuli, watch your step.” One hand around Azula’s arm, Lio supported her from behind. The difference in their heights was such that their breath puffed against Azula’s ear as they lowered their head to speak, “If you’re not careful you might just fall for me.” 

“Cough, cough.” Azula inadvertently swallowed a mouthful of water in her panic. Swallowing bathwater she became indignant and disgusted discarding all appearance of calm composure, scrambling and flailing as she tried to find her footing.

Aang saw Azula, it was the closest he’d ever seen her, she looked quite different than when she had appeared on the opposite side of a battlefield. Aang saw Azula, but his brain refused to process the image. He wanted to ask what she was doing here, but it got stuck in his throat. He suddenly felt pathetic and spineless. Silence only continued to fan the flames of the situation. 

Aula naked and exposed. When people shed their clothes and exposed themselves they usually exposed their inner ugliness, but Azula was different.

He couldn’t look away. Even though his brain registered she was naked. When people shed their clothes and exposed themselves they usually exposed their inner ugliness, but Azula was different. The horrfiyng part, of this situation wasn’t that he’d humiliated Azula completely by accident. No, the true horror had been something that should not have even been possible. Something that would make a clown like Lio laugh.  The unsettling horror of it all was that Aang had found her beautiful.

Aang was suddenly forced to bear witness to a naked truth. Azula was a girl. Not only was she a girl, she was a beautiful girl. 

Until now, he’d believed Azula hard and made of steel like a machine of war with a fire burning inside her. Now he saw her soft flesh. The girl that had always been hiding underneath the fire nation army. 

A beautiful girl. It wasn’t something as perverted as being attracted to her naked body, it was just seeing the naked truth finally in front of his eyes, that Azula was a girl not yet fully mature barely older than him. Though it was sacreligious to compare her to Katara, it was like the first time he woke up to Katara’s face. It was different from Katara though, because she was lacking many of the qualities one would typically ascribe to ‘beauty’. 

When she was fourteen years old she was certainly eye catching in a dangerous way. Now she’d lost a lot of her ‘beauty’ from when she was fourteen. He wouldn’t call her skin pale in a way that evoked purity, or compare it to porcelain, she looked almost physically ill. She wasn’t thin, or lithe, but emaciated. There were dark rings that eclipsed her sun-colored eyes. She was like a plucked flower withering away within a bell jar, and yet, there was something about her. Something so… 

“Why are you staring, avatar? Have you not gone any farther than hand holding with your little water tribe girlfriend?” Something so…“...Beautiful.” 

He should not have said it. He should not have acknowledged that feeling. These were feelings he wasn’t supposed to have because Azula was… well, Azula. 

“What is it…? Speak clearly, don’t mumble, and look into the eyes of the person you’re talking to.” “Err… beautiful…” “Is your mouth broken? Oh no, I believe I broke the avatar. Again.” He confessed again. “I’m staring because you’re beautiful.” “You’re right, I am beautiful. I guess your eyes aren’t broken.” She was… She was definitely still Azula. Whatever had happened in the three months since he last saw her hadn’t changed her fundamental “Azula-Ness.” Then his sight of Azula was cut off as Lio pulled Azula close to them, stepping in front of her to obscure most of Aang’s view. 

Aang had several questions, but the first one that jumped to mind when he saw the two of them acting so close was, “Why are you bathing with Lio?”

“Mixed bathing is normal, and besides I’d never stare at a girl to make her uncomfortable. I’m a beautiful girl myself, and you don’t know how many creeps have stared at me, ” Lio said. 

That’s right, mixed bathing was normal in fire nation culture Aang reminded himself for the thousandth time. 

Bathing under the stars. Girls and boys together. No tension there whatsoever. Nope, not at all. 

Azula looked at Aang, “There’s nothing untoward about bathing with my betrothed.” “...Your betrothed.” “Yes.” “You’re getting married?” “Yes.” “To who?” “To Lio.” “You’re getting married to Lio.” “Can you not hear me? I thought those big ears of yours would at least be good for listening.” 

“Are my ears too big? Why didn’t anyone tell me? Were they just trying to be nice?” He was suddenly, very self conscious about the size of his ears but that was besides the point. “Why are you getting married to Lio?” “I fail to see how it’s any business of yours.” That’s right it wasn’t any business of his. 

So, why did he care? 

[the-fiction-witch]

Magic

Media TMR AU

Character Newt

Couple Newt X Reader

Rating Flirty

Concept Cute

I sat in my little chair snipping stems and arranging the sweet blue and purple flowers. When I heard the bell on the door.

"How's my favorite florist?" Minho laughed as he hurried in leaning on the counter

"Afternoon Minho. How was work?" I asked 

"Fine, busy but you know." He shrugs "how's things around here?" 

"Fine. Better if I wasn't so busy acting as your personal dumping service" I told him continuing with my cutting 

"Oh on that note" he smirked putting five bucks on the counter 

I rolled my eyes and took it grabbing my pad "go on"

"Your cheapest size with daffodils and some yellow junk flowers on the card. ‘I had an amazing time on Thursday night and would love to see you again but we're just too many worlds apart.’ Signed me" he explained

"Done I'll send them out tomorrow"

"Perfect" he smirked 

"That's all you wanted?" I asked

"No I need another one"

"Exactly the same copy paste the card like always?" I rolled my eyes 

"No. I need a good one second most expensive make sure there's lavender and some nice scented flowers in there" he explained 

"Oh who are these for?" I asked

"My therapist"

"You’re sending flowers to your therapist?" I asked “what did you do, destroy her marriage too?” 

"My massage therapist. She's celebrating her little spa shop being open three years, I've been going since she opened” He explained "I wanna send her flowers to celebrate"

"Oh… That's actually really sweet Minho" I laughed  "Where too?"

"Relax and revitalize on the high street"

"Ohh, never been in there" I shrug

"Really? Never?"

"No."

"You should go she's doing a sale to celebrate the three years believe me that girl is a magic" 

"I'm fine" I told him getting up to grab my ribbons for the bouquet I was working on "oww" I sighed 

"What?"

"Hum? Oh nothing, a bit of back ache" I complained returning to my chair and he glared at me "fine. What's her name?'

"Y/n" 

I closed up early today shutting up and locking the door of my little flower shop, heading down the street past the other little shops in town I had to admit I was a little nervous as I headed down to the small blue building and pushed open the door seeing a small empty waiting area and a counter with serval bouquets of flowers there was a girl at the desk chewing gum and flipping through a magazine so I went to the counter sheepishly

"Can I help you sir?"

"Yes I have an appointment with y/n" I nervously answered 

"Name?"

"Newt"

"Okay, go through the door and get changed have a shower and you can entree the main spa she'll call you when it's your turn" she explained pointing to a door 

"Ah thank you" I nodded, heading in. I grabbed a locker, put my stuff away, stripped off and had a warm shower wrapping myself up in a towel and robe from the locker, before heading back into another larger room, It was impressive the whole back area was tiled with sweet blue ties, two large pools one large swimming pool and one large hot tub pool, Two doors down the side a Sauna and another with frosted glass impossible to see. 

But I wasn’t alone, Two guys sat in the hot tub and immediately I knew them.

“Hi” I jumped

“Hi newt” Zart waves from the tub

“Hi” Gally waves

“What are you guys doing here?”

“I come here every week” Gally shrugged

“Really?”

“Yeah I have to. My body would be dust if I didn’t” 

“Ohh,”

“Yeah me too, that and sales are sales” Zart laughed 

“True” I laughed climbing into the larger pool “Ohhh that’s nice” 

I saw the door quickly open and I saw someone else I knew “Uhh Hi Alby”

“Hi newt” he says 

“You good?” Gally asks

“I’m good. I’m good. I need this place if not I’d have arrested all of you by now” he laughs heading to the sauna and behind him emerged a sweet girl 

“Newt?” she asks 

“Yeah?”

“Your turn” she smiled 

I nodded and followed her sheepishly into the small room, shutting the door behind me. There was a little waterfall water feature in the corner some variations items on a table and some relaxing spa music playing slowly she tapped the massage table in the center of the room invitingly I gulped but sat on the table as she came around with a small clipboard

"Your a newbie"

"Yeah uhh well Minho recommend you" 

"Ohh I see. He's such a good hype man" she giggled "he a friend of yours?"

"Yeah, we hang out sometimes and he often comes to my shop"

"Ohh what shop?"

"The flower shop just down the street"

"Awww I walk past that shop everyday such beautiful flowers" she smiled "now any medical history I should know?"

"AHH I did very badly injure my leg a few years back it's never really healed right" I explain

"Oh you poor thing, anything else?"

"No, but I do get a lot of like random back pain or my back gets resort of I sit on one position too long"

"I see" she says "okay no trouble. Do you have a preferred relaxing music?"

"Uhhh?"

"Whale sounds? Rain? Fire cracking? Fantasy style flute?" She suggested

"Ohh uhh I like those videos of like ambience of being in a greenhouse during a storm"

"Yeah I like those too. I have a perfect track for you" she says going and changing the music it was now a nice tapping of water on glass, wind whistling through trees and a windchime often just tinkling "nice?"

"Yeah"

"Good now oils, any particular scents you like?" 

"Well I work in a flower shop" I laughed "but I really like honey, honey is such a nice relaxing scent to me makes me think of gentle Sunday breakfasts, ohh and mint, usually for tea buying still smells nice"

"Excellent now lay yourself down and get cosy" she smiled 

I did as she asked and laid down on my stomach holding my breath at first beyond nervousness. She started slow just slavouring me with the sweet smelling oils and it was like she was a little witch. 

She did one basic rub down my back and then immediately managed to click the small of my back in a way that stopped it aching, then pushed on a bit of my shoulder that immediately made me feel better. I felt like a fucking transformer toy in this girls hands, exact she actually knew what to do with the toy to make it transform, she was magic without a word from me knowing where I hurt and what needed to be done to fix it, I admit I likely sounded like a porn star from my relaxed moans “Uuuuuuuhhh…… uuugggghhhhh…….. Ahuuuuuuhhhhh!.......... Uuuuummmmmmmmmm” I groaned  “Ughh shuck-” I groaned as she manded to crack my ankle in a way that almost felt reset I was laid there for what felt like hours and hours just in a state of utter euphoria. 

“All done” she smiled moving away “I’d recommend a dip or the sauna” 

“Right uhhh thank you” I said sitting up

“You feel good?”

“I feel bloody fantastic. When uhhh when do you have another appointment?”

“I can make space for another regular”

“Definitely” I told her. 

[cakeinke]

Inspired, so I wrote an epilogue for my previous story.

Epilogue #1, The Rogue Trader Essentia's "interrogation" of Sola in the bathhouse

Non-sexual nudity. Just two girls in a tub gossiping

Sola worried her fingers at the edge of the bath. It was her first time in Essentia’s quarters, let alone her bathhouse. The Lord Captain had invited her on multiple occasions for “girl gossip” but it has always taken place in the library, with a cup of tea. Now she was standing naked in front of the pool of a tub in the Lord Captain’s quarters. The air in the bathhouse felt like a sauna, and the scent of various oils and salts filled the air. This was far beyond Sola. How was she supposed to act in a bath with the Lord Captain? In a library with tea she always knew the etiquette - how to stir her tea as to not make noise, where the spoon should sit. It didn’t help her mind was also filled with memories of the kiss she had just shared with Briak hours prior. Which the Lord Captain wanted to discuss. Which she wasn’t sure if she was supposed to discuss. What was the etiquette there? She couldn’t lie to Essentia, she was her captain! But would Briak want her to say anything? No, surely not—whenever the Lord Captain teased him in the past, he would always have a retort, a defense. But oh, she wasn’t tough like Briak was, what would she do-

Sola’s thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Essentia entering the bathhouse. “Oh Sola dear, please enter the bath! You didn’t need to wait for me.” Essentia grabbed Sola’s arm and guided her into the hot waters of the bath. It was a little too hot at first, but after being rain chilled for so long, it felt so very good. Essentia guided her to the deepest section of the bath. “Sit sit, warm those bones my dear. I’m going to grab a comb I’ll be right back.” As Sola sat, she heard Essentia wade through the water and grab something off the edge of the tub before wading back. “I’m going to wet your hair dear.” Essentia said as Sola heard the glug of a vessel collecting water. Shortly after, warm water flowed over her hair, and Essentia began to comb. “Sooooooo… do tell me about what happened after we got separated dear.”

Sola swallowed deeply. “W-well, after we were separated, we attempted to locate the retinue once more.” Essentia hummed as she combed through Sola’s hair. Sola worried her cuticles, knowing what she was leading up to. She still didn’t know what she was supposed to divulge. “B-but the storm rolled in and it interfered with the vox. We were unable to communicate our location. We continued to search for your team, but unfortunately in our search we fell into a stream. A-an error on my part, I didn’t sense the drop underneath the foliage, a-and Briak could not see it.”

“Oh soaked to the bone from the rain and from falling into a stream! That’s why you both were soaked.” Essentia purred, dragging the comb through the ends of Sola’s hair. “Please carry on, ignore my interruptions.”

Sola nodded, running her hands through the warm water. “Once in the stream, I was able to sense a cave behind the waterfall. W-we, decided we weren’t making any progress, so the best thing to do would be to stay still, and to do so in a dry place. So, we entered the cave, made a small fire, and waited for the storm to pass.” Sola pressed her lips into a line. The Lord Captain would certainly not accept the lack of detail, but she didn’t know what to say. Essentia’s hand stilled, and Sola heard a small plop as the comb was dropped into the water. She heard Essentia sit behind her and felt her hair begin to be braided. As the Lord Captain ran her fingers through the hair at her nape, Sola couldn’t help but shiver as she remembered Briak’s hand carding through the hair there.

“Mmm… Surely it must’ve been a longer wait than that… nothing more happened?” Essentia questioned as her fingers continued down the length of Sola’s hair. Sola slouched further into the water until it was resting at her chin. “Soooooola~?” Essentia questioned in a lilting tone. “W-well... We had to undress. Um. Because it was cold.” Sola stuttered. “A-and Briak dried my hair.” Maybe that would be enough to satisfy Essentia’s pressing curiosity? Would that be the gossip she desired?

“Ooh~? How’d he do that?”

“H-he finger combed my hair. And s-squeezed out the excess water. He also braided it and hung it on a r-rock so it wouldn’t touch me and keep me cold.”

Essentia’s hands stilled and Sola felt the Lord Captain swish through the water to sit directly in front of her. Essentia grabbed Sola’s hands. “My dear I cannot contain myself anymore. Did you two have se-“

“NO!” Sola squealed. She felt her face flush from her ears and down her neck. “N-no.” Essentia let of go of her hands, and in her sight he saw the Lord Captain’s head drop backwards with a muffled groan. Essentia was always disappointed when there was nothing new to report on the Briak front. Essentia had deduced very early on after welcoming Sola and Briak to her crew that there was… some sort of attraction between them. Sola had convinced the Lord Captain and herself that it was completely one sided on her side. Briak had swept her off her feet with his courage in their first mission together. He hadn’t even been assigned to be her aide at that point, he was just a member of the ships guard that had also been brought on the mission. The second they had come under fire, however, he had protected her, and guided her through winding, obstacle ridden passageways at high speed without being asked. That’s just who he was, it was certainly not because he liked her. At least, not then. Now…

Sola splashed water onto her face which caused Essentia to raise her head to appraise her. “B-but…”

Essentia shot forward, grabbing Sola’s hands again. “Yes, yes?”

“W-we did… kiss.”

Essentia practically tackled her as she lunged forward to grab Sola in a hug. Unprepared, Sola plunged into the bath dragging them both under the water. Sola surfaced with a splutter. Essentia surfaced soon after with an excited squeal. “A KISS?? MY DEAR YOU SHOULD’VE STARTED WITH THAT!” She exclaimed. Sola heard the Lord Captain suddenly stand out of the water. “Come, we shall dress finely and join Otto and Briak in their drinking. I must see Briak squirm trying to guess if I know or not… and I must see how he will ogle you with the attire I have planned for you…” Essentia’s voice faded from the bathhouse along with the wet slaps of her feet. Sola slowly stood from the water, pushing her long hair from her face. A nervous smile spread across her lips as she slowly stepped from the tub to join Essentia in her expansive closet. Tonight was set to be long, but she couldn’t help but join the Lord Captain in her excitement.

[vegemightier]

I have a little fantasy I'd like to share. It’s called: Pig Pen

I dream of having a big house, where I keep my trophy hogs - husbands and partners. A harem of BHM if you will. My sweet and nerdy fatties stay home all day: some work part time from home, some chill and play games and there is always someone cooking or baking obscene ammounts of food.

In this dream I have a day job that pays for this whole pen. Every day I come home from being a boss bitch to a freshly cooked meal and a house full of piggies all trying to gain my favour by stuffing and shaking their fat rolls.

And because I care about my fatties so much there’s a nice pool with a waterfall and a hot tub next to it. I spend my days of watching my fat men floating about in the water, having a good time.

[zerotwentysims]

Modern Family Mansion VII

Contemporary luxury family mansion for your Sims. With this one, I tried to blend in a modern buid with lush tropical gardens. This build comes in 2 versions, one including CC and one without. Both have the exact same exterior (aside from a few doors), landscaping and floorplans, but are different when it comes to the interiors. The photos shown are from the CC version, the CC free version does have the same interior style.

Lower level : Guest/Butler studio (with it's own kitchen and bathroom), garage, workshop, gym/spa/pool/sauna/full bathroom, cinema, lounge area, wine room, utility room, 2 half baths and vault. It's possible to add more rooms on this level, a corridor has already been built.

Main level : Entry, main hallway, formal living room, dining room, kitchen + chef's kitchen, laundry, office and 2 half bathrooms. Access to the front balcony equipped with planters for gardening.

Upper level : family/games room, master suite (with a private bathroom, sitting area, walk-in closet and balcony), 4 bedrooms (all with a private bathroom, walk-in closet and balcony, some feature a pantry)

Garden : on mutiple levels. Comes with an outdoor kitchen, several seating areas, large pool, playground and hot tub.

Lot size : 64x64

Packs used for the exterior/gardens and basic shell : Eco Lifestyle, Island Living, Get Famous, Seasons, Get Together, Get To Work, Growing Toghether Jungle Adventures and Spa Day.

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ZeroTwentySims : Marble Walls and Floor Set and Valium Painting (the painting is included in the Misc CC Zip file) KTA : Mural 25 Part I and II, Panel 9 and Woodfloors 5 Nickname : Fireplace Stone FIW : Waterfall Short Footrprint Severinka : Alpha and Beta Harlix : Bafroom, Baysic + Bathroom add-on, Harluxe, Jardane, Livin' Rum, Orjanic and Tiny Twavellers Felixandre : Berlin, Colonial, Fayun, Chateau, London, Grove, Shop the Look Part 1 and 2, Florence, Kyoto and Paris Harrie : Brutalist, Brownstone, Kwatei, Octave, Spoons, Shop the Look, Stockholm and Heritage LittleDica : Sleek Slumber Wallpaper Peacemaker : Caine Living Pierisim : David part 1, MCM 3 and MCM Bedroom TudTuds : Beam Living + Parte 2, Wave + 2nd Wave, IND, NCTR and Vime Ravasheen : Uplifting Elevator SimFileShare : Misc CC Pack, contains items that I coulnd't link directly, including a painting creating by me :) SimFileShare : Trayfiles CC Version

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notes about how gabriel's geokinesis is connected with the eyrie:

snow & rain collection in underground wells where he can filter out more harmful stuff via moving around the dirt

turning clods for new seasons' seed plantings / purifying salted and burnt sections in case of infestation

performing minor hand movements to bring up said water through ancient sluice channel / aqueduct designs ( which he shaped to his liking )

guiding the flow through the mount as need be, as well as sectioning off anything dangerous ( too heavy rain leading to flash flooding, etc )

using gravity + stalagmites & stalactites to draw drippage into washbowls and nearby bath pools ( including his personal chamber tub )

the hot springs under the mount are heated geothermally ( by him as well )

using the flow and steam from geothermal stuff to aid in creating miniature waterfalls / showers

create stackable plant beds by shaping / hollowing the rock, can have its own greenhouse effect ( fog / wind / rain, etc )

think an underground, cavernous greenhouse, but like, several football fields / "shelves" large, adding naturally-hewn staircasing

runoff used for mountain garden ( plus, the way he plants said crops / trees, there's very little excess wasted )

anything left unused gets absorbed back into the wells

[parasite-core]

This week in Pathfinder we had the most stressful cooldown episode ever :)

@scarlet-the-girl

The party arrived back to the Clocktower after fighting Kostchtchie. It was still early in the day, so after getting some healing done and getting Greta so that Cesseer could rest, we decided to get a plan together to clear out the Water Palace where the final known Crone Queen was located. We came to the conclusion that trying to infiltrate the place like we did with the library and the winter wolves’ palace would be our best course of action.

Unfortunately, this would mean going in unarmed and unarmored, since it was a bathhouse.

We stored all of our equipment in Calio’s bag of holding to place in the Water Palace’s locker room, then we made our way to the bathhouse. The trip there was uneventful—we’d thinned out the patrols so thoroughly at this point that we easily made our way halfway across the city without being noticed. Calio took the lead entering the water palace, talking to the receptionist and playing the part of a regular customer. Greta, Nestian, and Edeya joined him, while Aenland, Nevra, and Talsune waited for Calio’s signal on a nearby rooftop, and Roscoe was safely stashed in the Bag of Holding.

The group scouting out the Water Palace entered the changing room, and everyone but Edeya stripped down with no second thoughts—Greta and Nestian being a wolf and a bear respectively in their true forms, and Calio just being Calio, Edeya was the only one who considered that being flustered was even a normal reaction to this particular situation.

Once everyone had gotten changed, they entered the bathhouse proper. There were 3 tubs, with a waterfall between each, and stairs leading up to whichever you wished to enter (the hot, lukewarm, or cold tub). In the middle of the uppermost tub was what appeared to be a magical statue made entirely of water, shaped like a dragon, with water spilling forth from its open maw. To the side of each of the other tubs were two enormous ice yai onis, which stood statue still—pretending to be inanimate.

Greta and Edeya walked around one end of the tubs, while Calio and Nestian walked around the other way. Unbeknownst to them, their disguise was almost seen through by the ‘water dragon’, but it got distracted at the last moment when Edeya swung around and accidentally went face first into Greta’s chest.

While shenanigans were happening on the girls’ side of the tub, Nestian spotted something written in the pool in Skald—which he couldn’t read, but he knew Calio could. So he pointed it out to his companion, who translated it as ‘the VIP room’. They determined this must be where the secret entrance to the room the Crone Queen was hidden in was. Nestian and Calio got into the pool, catching Edeya and Greta’s eyes to get them to follow suit.

They moved away from the onis and other patrons as much as possible, and discussed what Nestian and Calio had spotted. They came up with a plan: Nestian would return to the locker room and get the Bag of Holding. Calio and Edeya would open the hidden door and stealthily slip inside, and Calio would signal to Aenland. Then when they were inside, Edeya would use her Bracelet of Friends to transport Nestian inside, and Greta would just have to burst in on her own once shit hit the ceiling.

We got into positions, giving Nestian enough time to get down to the locker room and gather our things before Edeya and Calio carefully slid open the door.

And they heard a strange unnatural sounding voice announce to the Crone Queen and the elven man with her that they had uninvited guests. The voice came from one of four enormous spiders that took up the corners of the room. And in the pool was a writhing mass of tentacles and wolf heads—a Scylla.

Edeya immediately shut the door, but it was too late as a booming noise echoed through the complex, alerting everyone within. Calio understood the noise to be speech due to Tongues—it was a foreign speech from something far far too massive, coming from somewhere deep below them.

A staff member ran into the locker room and asked Nestian—in Skald—if he knew where the intruders were. Nestian shrugged noncommittally, with no idea what she was saying or precisely what was going on, except that clearly the alarm had been raised. Despite Nestian now being in his bear form, and therefore very clearly not belonging here, the dragon-blooded sorcerer ran off to find said intruders.

Immediately the onis, the water dragon, and the various other staff members went on the offensive. The Onis moved from their pedestals, one taking a swing at Calio, and the other managing to get a swing at all three—Calio, Greta, and Edeya. Beneath the Onis, one of the monks swung around and tried to Quivering Palm Greta.

Calio tried to get revenge on the monk for his attempt to instant kill Greta, casting a Fire Storm on every inch of the bathhouse he could see—including kicking open the door to the secret room and tossing fire in to burn the Crone Queen and her spidery friends. Unfortunately the monks dodged—but everyone else in both rooms burned. The water of the baths kept most of them from being lit on fire for any extended amount of time—except for the dragon-blooded sorcerer, who ran in at just the wrong moment and got caught up in the blast. Without his components, Calio was limited in what spells he could Quicken, so he attempted to Banish one of the Onis, but it resisted his attempt, refusing to be sent home by a puny human.

After the sorcerer ran out of the room, Nestian activated his Boots of Speed and dashed out of the room himself, using his ursine strength to climb straight up the sides of each of the tubs as he reached them and then propel himself forward, until the reached the rest of the party, holding out the Bag of Holding.

The water elemental dragon breathed boiling hot steam at us, Calio took the brunt of it, with Nestian and Edeya dodging entirely and Greta resisting a good portion due to her ring. Without his Bone Armor or his belt boosting his endurance, Calio was already on his last legs.

Aenland, Nevra, and Talsune were Dimension Doored into the metaphorical belly of the beast. Aenland began having back and forth shit talk with the elven wizard, who was also named Aenland, but it was pronounced Eenlend, which infuriated Aenland worse, and he was all high and mighty that he was a proper elf wizard and only elves who can’t handle the rigorousness of magical study become lowly *archers*.

However Aenland held himself in check enough to aim for the Crone Queen instead of the mage, shooting her to death with a flurry of arrows before turning his attention back to the elven wizard, who was quite offput that Aenland had ruined a deal that was going to make him very rich.

While he did that, Talsune tore into the enormous Scylla, and rended it apart before it or its summoned Charybdis could act. However it wasn’t the only thing in those dark waters. Unnoticed by the bathing elven wizard, something big and ancient and hungry swam deep below the surface of this dark pool. And with the Scylla out of the way, it rose to the surface.

It was immense, too immense to even see the entire beast as it surfaced. What could be made out appeared to be a whale-like beast with a shell of ice down its back and frost tapering down its sides. It was like a Leviathan, but changed to better fit with the icy waters of Irrisen.

Outside, things weren’t looking too good. Calio had his equipment back, had tossed Roscoe through the doorway to help Talsune and Aenland, and he managed to patch himself up with a Harm spell. Then he Boneshakered the monk who’d tried to kill Greta, and dragged him under the water. He never resurfaced. However right after, the two Onis continued laying into everyone in the party—with Nestian helping to block what he could, but doing so was leaving him battered and bloody as well. And two more monks ran in and attempted to Quivering Palm members of the party, to no effect thankfully. But now we were well and truly surrounded.

And then Aenland got eaten.

Talsune had charged the Leviathan and gotten a respectable slash across the monstrous whale, but it didn’t even acknowledge the essentially papercut sized gash when compared to its massive girth. Instead, it propelled itself out of the water just enough to grab Aenland and then dive. Deep, deep, back into the darkest depths of the pool where no one would reach them.

Talsune immediately told Calio what happened, and Calio told the others. Nestian told him not to worry, he had an idea to save Aenland. Calio trusted in Nestian, and kept trying to deal with their own problem. Especially when the water dragon flew down, flanking with one of the Onis. Calio took advantage of its new positioning to cast Horrid Wilting, which did some massive damage to it and respectable damage to everything else around it.

Nestian pulled off the bow and arrow charm on his bracelet of friends, teleporting Aenland from the much more literal belly of the beast and back out to the middle of battle instead. Frying pans and fire and all that.

After Aenland appeared we saw that the dragon-blooded sorcerer, who we’d mostly forgotten about, had been making her way around the tub and was now here—a bit singed for her trouble. She spoke a word, and tried to kill Aenland instantly, identifying him as the most injured member of the party. Nestian threw the protection of the Black Rider around Aenland, strengthening his resistance and saving him from an instant end to his story (or at least from needing to be resurrected).

Aenland repaid the trouble by killing both the water dragon and the draconic sorcerer with a flurry of arrows.

The nearest Oni tried to reposition herself so she and the other Oni would be flanking us in place of the now-dead dragon, earning her an attack from both Aenland and Nestian, but it did not down her and she was able to get in position. Not for long as Greta tore into her, slaying her with a brutal bite.

The other Oni threw her attacks on the party, which again left us battered, but Calio stepped out of her range to cast Oracle’s Vessel and then Harm on Aenland to heal him, while Talsune finished off the last Oni—having been teleported out of the Leviathan’s chamber by Nevra before the enormous beast resurfaced to find a new target. Roscoe was left behind, taking pot shots at the spiders from the ceiling of the chamber, much as he’d been doing to Daemons during his solo week in Abbadon.

The party regrouped and entered the chamber with the dark pool. Roscoe had paralyzed the spider nearest the door, leaving it unable to take swipes at anyone entering and making it an easy target for Nevra to finish off, while Aenland took shots at the spider in the back corner. Nestian charged in at the spider in the opposite corner, despite being on his last legs with more blood in his fur than in his body. Edeya followed behind and avoided an attack of opportunity to heal him.

Then the Leviathan rose to the surface, and once again grabbed Aenland off Nevra’s back. With his Stone of Farspeech he told Calio not to let Edeya teleport him out with her other Bracelet of Friends until they’d killed this thing. Calio complied, flying in on Talsune’s back and unleashing a Slay Living empowered by his pocket watch, followed by an attempt at Boneshatter that was resisted. Before the Leviathan could dive back under the waves with their friend in tow, Nestian finished it off with a final swing of his axe. Aenland escaped its now limply open mouth, and its body fell back into the darkness of the depths below.

The party investigated the room further, trying to discern where the portal into the Dancing Hut was hidden. Aenland gave Nestian his Goggles of Trueseeing so he could explore the magical darkness at the bottom of the pool. Nestian dove under and found a rune carved into the side of the pool, which could send them to the hut, dispel the darkness, and turn the pool into a magical bath that would empower them if they bathed in it for an hour.

Forebodingly, however, he did not find the body of the beast they’d just slain at the bottom of the pool.

The party was exhausted by this point, and decided to head back to the Clocktower.

Calio had a talk with Nestian about a conversation he’d had with Aenland. He hoped that Nestian could get through to Aenland, because Calio wasn’t good at dealing with him when he got stubborn. Calio had talked to Aenland about how *obviously* he and the others were going to help him to fight Treerazor when this was all over, it was a given. Aenland had disagreed vehemently. After some back and forth it come around to Aenland telling Calio that he didn’t want them to go because they would die if they went. Calio tried to reason with him that *he* had a better chance of survival if they all went, but he was having none of it, he didn’t want to see people he cared about killed by Treerazor a second time. So Calio was hoping that Nestian could talk some sense into Aenland, because Calio didn’t know how to get through to him when he was running on his emotions.

Nestian suggested approaching this from a different angle: instead of trying to convince Aenland that he logically should let them come along, Calio should try convincing Aenland that him going off on his own and getting himself killed would hurt them in the same way Aenland losing his family had hurt him. Calio agreed that this was a good argument—and one he never would have thought of on his own.

As Calio was making to leave to rest for the evening, Nestian mentioned that they would be going to the Dancing Hut to get Anastasia the next day. Calio was surprised this was his friend’s priority, and he said so, pointing out that Nestian’s mother and her Eidolon were still trapped in the Nonagon. It hit Nestian for the first time that his mother was likely still in danger, and he agreed that going to deal with Keisuke—one way or another—should be their first priority tomorrow.

Before Calio left, Nestian asked him why he cared so much about Keisuke. It struck him that there was more to it than just Calio feeling he owed the kitsune his life. Calio was quiet for a time before admitting to Nestian that, the way he saw it, if he’d met the party at any point other than when they did—whether he was still without his memories or the Grimm Rider in this scenario—the others would have tried to kill him on meeting him, just like they had Keisuke. They only liked him now because they knew him.

Nestian disagreed with Calio’s assessment. He agreed that Calio and Keisuke had some things in common, but they differed in a vital way: Calio couldn’t bring himself to be pointlessly cruel. Sure, he could be cruel to people who slighted him first, but he never just went around hurting innocent people. Calio pointed out that just hurting innocent people without cause was pointless and a waste of energy, it gained him nothing. Nestian said that’s the point: plenty of people they’d met and defeated DID hurt and kill innocent people just because they found it fun. Calio argued that the fact they had killed all the people who did that proved that it was an ineffective means of getting and keeping power. Nestian told Calio that he was better than he gave himself credit for—he’d never hidden the sort of person he was from Greta, and she loved him all the same, just like he loved her, and that said something about who he really was. Calio had no argument for that.

Elsewhere, Aenland had gone looking for the Night Monarch, to give her the gift meant for Desna to get the goddess of dreams’ blessing in saving Xanthadon from her demonic patron.

He and Nevra flew to the top of the opera house, in hopes that the Night Monarch might pass by one of the highest buildings in the city—or at least it would give them a good lookout spot.

While they waited they talked. Much like Calio and Nestian, they talked about Aenland’s plans for when this was over, and his desire not to have his new family join him in battle and get themselves killed. Unfortunately, he knew they were stubborn as hell and weren’t going to just take no for an answer. And if he tried to go on his own there was a good chance they were going to use everything at their disposal to try to track him down to help.

Nevra tried to bounce some ideas off him on how to either convince them to not come, but they both knew that in the end the others wouldn’t be dissuaded. Aenland bemoaned that as ‘his family’ they were incredibly frustrating, to which Nevra added that that’s what made them good friends, though.

As they talked, The Night Monarch appeared on the rooftop alongside them. She said it was pure luck that she happened to land here on this night—but luck had a deeper meaning to her and her lady than it might to others. She noted that she knew Aenland had something to give to her.

Aenland offered the acorn he’d taken from Earth—the progenitor of Vigliv’s tree, which had also taken in power from the herald of a god of another universe that had slipped between the cracks in reality into this world. He explained that he’d taken this acorn with the intention of it being his anchor back to ‘that sad planet’—he’d intended to go back to do something to help that world that Baba Yaga hailed from, where magic was dead. But now it had become something more, after absorbing whatever power the herald of that alternate Gozreh held. He believed it was something that Desna should safeguard.

The Night Monarch took the seed and examined it. Then she told him that what this told her was that he was thinking about the future. This wasn’t the offering of a man who was throwing himself into a fungal cave to die. This was the offering of a man who was looking ahead. She accepted his gift, and granted her blessing.

Aenland returned to the Clocktower, where Nestian had waited up for him with some dinner he’d saved. Aenland confirmed that he’d successfully done what he’d gone out to do, and he had the last piece of the puzzle for freeing Xanthadon. Nestian told Aenland their plan to go to the Nonagon in the morning. He and Aenland agreed that they had promised Calio not to attack Keisuke immediately—but Nestian told Aenland he believed that Calio was beginning to have his doubts about Keisuke, and the two agreed that this was probably going to come down to a fight.

The next day, the party teleported back to Artrosa, and returned to the Eon Pit. Calio asked the others to remain outside until he gave a signal. He wanted to try to talk to Keisuke first, and see if he could simply get him to release Nestian’s mother and eidolon—and he didn’t want to go in looking like he’d come with hostile intent, dragging the entire party along.

Calio went through the nine-sided door and walked down a long hallway. Up some stairs, he found himself at the same entry to the Nonagon that he usually Plane Shifted into. Keisuke had his back to the entrance, facing the final of the nine doors around the room. His ears perked up as he heard someone behind him, and he asked if it was Calio. As he was turning around, he was beginning to cast a spell—but he dropped the spell when Calio confirmed that it was him. If it l had been anyone else, apparently his first instinct on being snuck up on was to Death Clutch a bitch. As you do.

Keisuke expressed excitement that Calio had made it just in time. ‘The time and the place’, he kept telling Calio that’s all he’d needed, and now with the deal he’d struck with the King in Yellow he’d gotten it. Calio noted dryly that Keisuke could have warned him about the Demon Lord that was going to jump them in the Eon Pit, but Keisuke told him he’d honestly had no idea that was going to happen. All he’d known was that his bargain had been for him to help a Demon Lord with one task, and then he’d get the information he was seeking. And he did. And then he got right out of there, and slipped Calio the means to undo his handiwork while he was at it.

Keisuke asked Calio if he was just here to talk, or if he was here to see the end result of Keisuke’s work. Calio admitted he did want to see what Keisuke had to show, but also told him he *needed* to talk to him. Keisuke told him they could talk, but first he would show Calio the fruit of his labor—he opened the door he was standing before, revealing a chamber that was much more decorated than the plain chambers all the other simulacrums were kept in. This one looked like it was a room pulled right out of Cheliax—although Calio failed to identify the foreign nation’s style and only knew it looked more stylized than the other plain rooms. Keisuke told him that he’d been looking for a long time for the hidden cache of one of the greatest spymasters in the world, Eirtein Obeirago.

And now he had what he’d been seeking. And the means of mythic ascension were finally within his grasp.

[blackjackkent]

Caden is continuing to make plaintive tired noises but sadly I don't think there's anywhere I could take him to rest even if it was story-appropriate. As it is...

"Hm." Rasaad makes a mildly perplexed noise. "Of all the things I expected to find in a palace, this is not one of them."

The "palace" of the elves in truth merely seems to be another corner of the enormous tree, walled off from the rest of the city into its own peaceful oasis. The central entrance, dominated by the apple tree growing at its heart, opens into a wider courtyard, which is overlooked by two tall, stately waterfalls pouring slowly into a pool nestled amidst a carpet of leaves.

[long pause while I enjoy the ambience of the waterfalls]

OK, seriously, what the hell am I supposed to do here? :P There are no visible doors and examining the waterfalls just keeps giving the same message.

Perhaps this is the end and Caden has reached Elysium.

But probably not, so... [checks Sorcerer's Place yet again]

I dunno how the hell I was supposed to know this, but the answer to this puzzle is (partially) in the Stone Horn that I accidentally picked up while looking for the trinkets previously. There is also a Stone Harp that goes with it elsewhere in the city, and having both of those will apparently allow us to open the way forward.

This feels mean, because the game is giving ZERO indication that we required anything else other than to trek straight on into the palace, so without Google I'm not sure what I would have done here. :P

[pause, sound of frantic typing and clicking]

OK, got the harp, which was (unsurprisingly) in the building labeled "The Harpist's House." It was full of dead people and also had one of the indoor hot tubs that seem to be so in vogue in Suldanessellar.

Back to the palace again!

GOD DAMN IT GAME, WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?

Ah.

Victory! \o/

[hometoursandotherstuff]

They're calling it a barndominium, but you can't convince me that it wasn't originally a commercial business that houses large trucks. The 2023 pre-fab building in Bullard, TX has been converted to a 4bd, 4ba, 3,400 sq ft home and has a pending sale for $845k. It also has a theme: Industrial w/black, white, & natural woods.

It's very open concept, and they've constructed a 2nd level with decorative railings.

The living room area faces windows looking out at the deck.

Large modern corner fireplace.

There's no formal dining area, but a larger table fits in the kitchen space.

The kitchen features black Shaker cabinetry with gold handles and quartz counters.

And, this is a bar with a wine fridge.

Double doors from the garage open to a mud area/drop zone. Floors are simulated wood vinyl.

There's also a pantry back here in the hall to the primary bedroom.

Feature wall in the primary bedroom and sliding glass modern farm doors.

The ensuite matches the kitchen cabinets, except for the butcher block counter.

Closet/dressing room plus laundry room.

Guest bedroom suite has a standard 3pc. ensuite.

The mezzanine is a vast space and currently houses a family TV area in one corner.

The large bedroom suite up here includes a walk-in closet.

At the far end of the mezzanine there's a door that opens to an unfinished part of the home.

This looks like it's supposed to be a rec room.

It has a finished living room area with a garage door to the pool.

And, there's also a kitchenette.

The bath is directly accessible from the pool.

Fully equipped outdoor kitchen.

Pool with hot tub and waterfall feature.

The home is built in a clearing on a 3 acre lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3461-Fm-2493-E-Bullard-TX-75757/228308169_zpid/?

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Hilltop Hideaway

Hello Simmers, come and spend a weekend in Granite Fall's newly renovated vacation rental, Hilltop Hideaway.

The Hilltop Hideaway is the perfect home for a weekend getaway. The clients love to entertain, so the house was set up to create an open and casual atmosphere with a strong connection to the outdoors. The house is oriented toward the best view of the waterfall while maintaining good solar orientation for taking advantage of solar heat gain in the winter and keeping out the hot summer sun. The large roof over the living room serves to shade large areas of glass in the summer, while geothermal heat pumps and high levels of insulation help keep it warm and energy efficient in the winter. In such an extreme climate the house was specifically designed to withstand both extremes of the temperature spectrum. 

This property includes three bedrooms with their own bathrooms. Spacious yet moody, the property boasts high ceilings as well as uninterrupted views of the peaceful surroundings of Granite falls. The outdoor space offers a pool to lounge in during the summer heat as well as multiple hot tubs for the winter warmth. Multiple seating arrangements as well as a sunken fire pit is also available for you and your family to gather. The waterfall is immediately recognized from the kitchen. While the property may seem very open, it is equipped with security and privacy for you to relax on your holiday.

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Few of the CC files will need to be downloaded separately due to early access

Neat collection by Joyce (wardrobe)

Cypress collection by Sundays

Laundry Day required for washing machine and dryer for function, terrain from Outdoor camping pack used. 

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[officialdantechnologies]

Key Qualities to Look for in a Top-Rated Swimming Pool Manufacturer

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It’s also a good idea to ask for recommendations from friends, family, or colleagues who have experience with pool construction. Word-of-mouth recommendations can go a long way in finding a trustworthy manufacturer.

6. Excellent Customer Service and Support

The process of building a pool is a significant investment, and you want a manufacturer that offers excellent customer service throughout. From the initial consultation to the completion of your project and beyond, a good manufacturer should be easy to communicate with and responsive to your needs. They should provide clear timelines, explain every step of the process, and offer guidance when necessary.

Post-installation support is equally important. A great manufacturer will offer maintenance services, warranties, and after-sales care to ensure that your pool stays in top condition. They should be readily available to answer questions, troubleshoot issues, or offer advice on pool upkeep.

7. Compliance with Safety and Environmental Standards

Swimming pool manufacturers must adhere to local regulations, including safety standards and environmental guidelines. These regulations are in place to protect both you and the environment, ensuring the pool is safe for swimmers and energy-efficient to operate. A reliable manufacturer will make sure that the pool is built to comply with all legal requirements and environmental best practices.

A focus on safety features such as pool fencing, non-slip surfaces, and proper water circulation also shows a manufacturer’s commitment to quality and responsibility.

Conclusion

Choosing the right swimming pool manufacturer can make all the difference in the quality, longevity, and enjoyment of your pool. The best manufacturers combine experience, high-quality materials, customization options, and cutting-edge technology, all while offering outstanding customer service and support. By doing your research and carefully considering these factors, you can ensure that your pool is built to the highest standards.

FAQs about Swimming Pool Manufacturers

Q1: How do I choose the right swimming pool manufacturer for my project?Look for a manufacturer with a solid reputation, positive customer reviews, and a portfolio of completed projects. Consider their experience, range of services, customization options, and ability to meet your specific needs.

Q2: What materials are commonly used in pool construction?Swimming pools can be made from several materials, including concrete, fiberglass, and vinyl. The choice of material depends on your budget, desired pool style, and the maintenance requirements.

Q3: Are there any special features I can add to my swimming pool?Yes! Many pool manufacturers offer additional features such as built-in spas, waterfalls, fountains, lighting, and smart technology for pool management. These can enhance the aesthetic appeal and functionality of your pool.

Q4: How long does it take to build a swimming pool?The timeline for building a pool varies depending on its complexity, size, and weather conditions. On average, it can take anywhere from 6 to 12 weeks to complete the construction of a pool.

[the-fiction-witch]

Blu P5

Media TMR AU

Character Newt

Couple Newt X Reader

Rating Sweet + Spooky

Concept Spa

I woke up again after good while noticing it was literally another day, oh my god. I don't think I need a spa I think I just need to find a dragon cave and just sleep for a few million years. I got up and had a nice hot shower using some of the nice soap they supplied and a fresh fluffy towel once I got dressed I noticed some paper slipped under my door for a moment I was concerned but I picked it up noticing it was my schedule for the week breakfast, dinner and various experiences booked in at various times and a note I was welcome to any amenities outside of my booked treatments, my first wasn't till eleven today so I had time to go grab my breakfast, I headed out locking the room up and going to the restaurant it was all very much the same style wooden tables with metal legs and slate place mats large windows making it sort of look like a greenhouse or conservatory with a glass roof and a glass wall to overlook the scenery with the same blue pool outside my room just out the snowy window. 

And I found Thomas and Minho at a table with a open seat they waved me over so I went and sat with them, 

"We were starting to think you were dead" Minho laughed having a coffee

"Yeah sorry I'm not good with travelling I just was knocked out as soon as I got in my room" 

"It's cool, I think everyone kinda was" Thomas shrugged

"Yeah, so what's the food situation?" I asked 

"You just wait" Minho shrugs 

"Wait? How do they know what we want then?"

"I don't know but they seem to be pretty good" 

At that moment a man arrived in the same uniform as the men who met us when we arrived they brought us each a plate, Minho was more coffee and a breakfast sandwich, Thomas had chocolate chip pancakes with syrup and I had french toast with a side of fresh strawberries they wondered off leaving us to it and immediately I was confused

"How did they know that's what we'd each want?"

'I don't know, maybe they're magic. Don't question it just enjoy it" Minho told me 

I guess he's right no point arguing so I had my breakfast and it was delicious and we all decided as we weren't busy till later to go for a jump in the pool so I went back to my room and changed grabbing a towel heading out to the actual spa area, again the theming had stuck giving it a very onsen kinda vibe there was so much to do saunas, pools, massages, different things to bathe in and shower under, anything relaxing you could imagine was back here, and then the main attraction. It started inside a wood lined pool of this blue water steaming as it sat there then doors out to the main area, a huge outdoor pool of the same blue, steaming in the cold snow, with various hot tub area's, small nooks to sit, a waterfall of stone in the corner, even a swim up bar all overlooking the mountains. 

I was kinda nervous looking at the strange colour of the water but Minho and Thomas basically forced me, the bottom was strange it kinda felt like wet sand but smoother, silkier, but strong not like you could sink into it, the moment my skin touched the water I felt relaxed as if a wave went over me as the water touched me flexing and relaxing each and every muscle in my body the smooth warmth cradling me like being wrapped in a soft blanket even though it was busy with people it was so quiet where everyone was so relaxed we swam out into the outside section sand for a while I just sat on a little seat watching the waterfall and the snow 

"Oop- sorry" a voice spoke up as someone bumped into me 

"Ohh it's okay" I muttered back quickly turning to see, her the girl from the room nextdoor "hi"

"Hi" she smiled in a little blue swimsuit with black cat faces all over it her hair up in a bun "y/n" she smiled taking her hand from the water

"Newt," I smiled giving it a shake immediately i saw Thomas and Minho out the corner of my eye clearly taking the piss but she was actually really cute and I do want to compliment her atleast to try and keep the conversation going "I uhh I like your ti- kitties. Kitties. The cats on your swimsuit" 

She giggled a little a little red in her cheeks I'm pretty sure I completely turned red "I like your stripes" she smiled 

"Uuhhh thank you" I smiled nervously fixing my hair and my striped shorts a little "have uhh you been here long?"

"No, got in a couple of days ago. You?"

"Yesterday"

"Aww you ever been before?'

'no, never, you?"

"A few times yeah, I'd be more then happy to show you some more secret things or help you out if you get lost"

"Thanks that'd be great" 

"You wanna swim to the bar and grab a drink?"

"Yeah sure" I nodded 

[glampingfingerlakes]

How to Book the Perfect Seneca Lake Lodging for Your Vacation?

Seneca Lake, the largest of the Finger Lakes in New York, offers breathtaking views, world-class wineries, and outdoor adventures. Choosing the perfect lodging for your vacation can make all the difference in your experience. Whether you seek a luxurious retreat, a cozy cabin, or a lakeside rental, this guide will help you book the ideal accommodation for your Seneca Lake getaway.

Why Seneca Lake is the Perfect Vacation Destination

Nestled in the heart of New York’s Finger Lakes region, Seneca Lake is a paradise for wine lovers, outdoor enthusiasts, and those seeking relaxation. With over 30 wineries along the Seneca Lake Wine Trail, picturesque hiking trails, and water activities, there is something for everyone. Choosing the right lodging will enhance your experience, allowing you to immerse yourself in the beauty of the region.

Types of Lodging Available at Seneca Lake

1. Luxury Resorts and Hotels

For travelers seeking comfort and premium amenities, Seneca Lake offers a selection of luxury resorts and hotels with lakefront views, spa services, and fine dining.

Top Choices:

Geneva On The Lake Boutique Resort

Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel

Belhurst Castle and Winery

Amenities to Look For:

Lakefront rooms with balconies

On-site fine dining and wineries

Spa and wellness services

Swimming pools and hot tubs

2. Lakeside Vacation Rentals

If you prefer privacy and flexibility, a lakeside vacation rental might be the perfect choice. These properties offer the comfort of a home while allowing you to enjoy Seneca Lake at your own pace.

Best Locations:

Watkins Glen – Close to hiking trails and downtown dining

Geneva – Ideal for wine trail lovers

Hector – Quiet and scenic with plenty of lake access

What to Consider:

Proximity to the lake

Availability of a private dock

Pet-friendly options

Fully-equipped kitchens for self-catering

3. Cozy Bed & Breakfasts

For a personalized experience, Seneca Lake is home to many charming bed and breakfasts where you can enjoy home-cooked breakfasts and local hospitality.

Recommended B&Bs:

Magnolia Place Bed & Breakfast

The Blackberry Inn

1922 Starkey House Bed & Breakfast

Why Choose a B&B?

Warm, welcoming atmosphere

Gourmet breakfasts made with local ingredients

Insightful recommendations from friendly hosts

4. Camping and Cabins

If you love the great outdoors, consider staying in a cabin or campsite near Seneca Lake. This option is perfect for those who enjoy hiking, fishing, and bonfires under the stars.

Best Camping Spots:

Sampson State Park

Watkins Glen State Park Campground

Finger Lakes National Forest

Features to Look For:

Lake access for kayaking and fishing

Fire pits and picnic areas

Hiking trails nearby

How to Choose the Best Lodging for Your Needs

1. Determine Your Budget

Seneca Lake offers accommodations for every budget. Whether you’re looking for a high-end resort or a budget-friendly cabin, setting a budget will help narrow your choices.

2. Consider the Location

If you plan to explore the Seneca Lake Wine Trail, staying in Geneva or Watkins Glen is ideal.

For a quieter retreat, Hector and Lodi offer secluded cabins and rentals.

If you love hiking and waterfalls, find a spot near Watkins Glen State Park.

3. Check Guest Reviews and Ratings

Before booking, check reviews on platforms like TripAdvisor, Airbnb, and Google Reviews to ensure a positive experience.

4. Book in Advance

Seneca Lake is a popular destination, especially during the summer and fall seasons. Booking several months in advance will secure the best accommodations at competitive rates.

5. Look for Special Deals and Packages

Many hotels, resorts, and wineries offer discounted packages that include:

Winery tours

Spa services

Outdoor excursions

Activities Near Seneca Lake Lodging

No matter where you stay, Seneca Lake offers plenty of activities to make your vacation unforgettable.

1. Explore the Seneca Lake Wine Trail

With 30+ wineries around the lake, this is a must-do for wine enthusiasts.

2. Visit Watkins Glen State Park

Hike through stunning gorges and see 19 waterfalls along the trail.

3. Enjoy Water Activities

Go kayaking, paddleboarding, fishing, or take a scenic boat tour on Seneca Lake.

4. Discover Local Breweries and Distilleries

If wine isn’t your thing, visit local craft breweries and distilleries for a different tasting experience.

5. Take a Scenic Drive

Drive around the Finger Lakes region to discover charming towns, farm markets, and stunning viewpoints.

Final Tips for Booking the Perfect Lodging

Book early, especially for summer and fall trips.

Read the fine print for cancellation policies and extra fees.

Consider travel insurance for added peace of mind.

Pack accordingly based on the season.

By following these tips, you can ensure a memorable stay at Seneca Lake and fully enjoy everything this beautiful destination has to offer.