Bon Voyage Retirement Home - Dead Lodgers

(Gloomville, Year 125) Earlier this year I started a mini series following the Bon Voyage Retirwement Home keeper, Tammy Oaksdale. More updates were planned, but then it took too long, and I decided to drop that series. I think anyone interested in ideas had got what was on offer, anyway.

Tammy Oaksdale still is the Keeper of this place, a residential lot where elders move in to rent one of four room units. She serves them food, manages the units, arranges flowers for decor purposes, does some cleaning, arranges a weekly activity - and now, as a few of the lodgers died, she also deals with contacting their relatives.

The office is in the raw kitchen. Late year 124 three lodgers died, that's a lot as only one lodger is left. Tammy gathered their urns, and looked up their relatives in the online Residents Registry. She decided to start with the late Wilma Fi. B. Crumpleton, because her daughter Charlotta actually resides right across the street.

So, point is to hand over the urn, but also any personal belongings that the diseased left behind in her unit upstairs. Tammy took notes of everything - a painting, a photo and a book could be handed over. The computer, most furniture and the rug she sold, and transferred the value to the daughter. When lodgers move in they equip their room and are charged accordingly. When they die, they get most of those values refunded. However, Tammy cheated a little by keeping some shelves and the curtains - they might be reused by the future lodger.

She then paid a visit to the Villa Crumpleton. This old house has a very long history, as it was built back in Year 63 - that's more than 160 years! The late Wilma descended from the high nobility House of Brixerwood. The late Wilma's father had no title, but her grandfather was the Baron of Gloom.

Charlotta shouted "Come on in!", but Tammy waited 30 minutes in the living room greeted by nobody but two siamese cats. It turned out Charlotta was upstairs busy at her computer. She is Gloomville's new Councillor, replacing old Bud von Kaching (next door), Baron of Gloom. Tammy informed her that the urn and a few belongings were placed downstairs, and handed her a note showing what was submitted to late Wilma's personal account. Charlotta had been waiting for this, and now she and her brother, Mayor Charloman Au. C. Dougham, could start planning both the final heritage and funeral.

Tammy then moved on to Verde in Oasis Springs, to visit the daughter of late Bertha H. and Oscar Jupiter. She inherited her parents' huge Rio Verde before her parents moved to Bon Voyage Retirement Home.

She found Razira Jupiter upstairs. Tammy gave her the two urns and some personal belongings, and the note with details regarding the bank transfer.

It got late, and Tammy would normally return to the retirement home to serve dinner to her lodgers. The only current lodger is Novelist Camilla I.. Grossing, and they had made an agreement of a very late dinner today, as the old woman was busy in her room writing all day, anyway. Sop, Tammy took a quick stop to Brindleton Bay to see a special man...

Tammy and Pivian Mox used to date as teenagers. When Tammy grew up a few years before Pivian, it felt natural to take a break, but now Pivian grew up, too, and he moved away without contacting her. Shall they pick up the relation from where they split due to age, or is it over? Tammy thought they agreed on getting together as young adults, and taking over Oaksdale Farm eventually. The farm is still run by Tammy's parents, but she is their only child. Pivian grew up next door to the farm, and several families of the Willow Field hood might expect them to get together again.

But Pivian, who is currently working as a live-in Gardener at the Sür-Blyth Farm in Brindleton Bay seemed undecided. The slightly confused Tammy had to return with no promises for the future.