Northeast Gardening: Daily Musings Page 5, 1 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
Speaking of games, I have a Game Boy Advance for when I don't feel like being on the computer (which isn't very often since I joined DG). have a game called 'Harvest Moon-Friends of Mineral Town'. you play a character (ok, it's a boy) that inherits a farm and you have to buy seeds, plant crops, harvest to make money, to plant more. to get enough to get started you can fish & sell the fish, or pick mushrooms. and in the winter, there is a mine where you can go to look for gems to sell. when you have enough money you can buy animals, but you have to take care of them or they get sick, feed them every day, keep them out of the rain, milk the cows, shear the sheep. then you can collect recipes and cook. make friends. even get a girlfriend and eventually get married (I said the main character was a boy...freaks out my son when I tell him about my wife LOL). I got absolutely hooked on this game for a while. got both of my granddaughters playing it, too.

ps forgot, there are harvest elves that will help you on the farm if you are nice to them