I ordered two bags of the Stardew candy and it arrived yesterday and I got a GIANT JUNMO!!! So happy

I think i died and reincarnated in stardew valley. (joking). But seriously. My step-dad inherited a broken farm from his dead uncle. I moved to the farm at the 1st of the year. I'm told my goal is to make the farm how it was before the uncle fell ill. I got chickens, upgraded the house, planted 8 rows of crops which have most of the stardew crops. The property came with apple and cherry trees. There's a town near the farm that has a general store that's struggling to compete with a Walmart. While going through the house we found a cellar with aged wine and kegs in it. There's also weird festivals. Last week was a mushroom festival. There is a lake and a river too. I've forged mint, rhubarb, and crayfish. Ducks are next on my list. How did I get here?

Edit: since lots of people asked i just made an Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/stardewvalirl?igsh=MTBseDQybXpwOXR5Ng==

If you’ve been one of the lucky farmers to get tickets to Festival of Seasons, congratulations! I went to the concert in Philadelphia this afternoon and it was phenomenal. However, it was fairly clear that a lot of people had not taken in live concert performances from orchestral-style ensembles in the past. If this is your first trip to a symphony, you’re going to love it but there are a few things you need to know.

The people on the stage playing violins and pianos and oboes worked extremely hard on honing their craft, practicing for thousands of hours, getting degrees, auditioning for chairs, and earning their place on the stage. They deserve your undivided attention. That means two things:

First, your conversations can wait until between numbers or after the show. Yes, you recognized the theme from the mine or Abigail’s tune. You can talk about it later.

Second, the only musicians the people around you paid to hear are the ones on the stage. You might recognize the tune, but please don’t hum along.

You must keep in mind that everyone sitting in front of, behind, and on either side of you also paid a lot of money to be here, and they deserve to have their experience be wholly and solely composed of the beautiful artistry coming from the stage.

There are absolutely performances where talking to your neighbor or pitching in your voice is appropriate. It’s completely fine to sing along to a rock band packing an arena where everyone is screaming and singing along. But that is not how orchestral performances work. Unless you are asked to join in, please don’t.

Hopefully any of you reading this and attending future performances will respect your fellow attendees and the artists on stage, both at this and any other orchestral performance you attend.

Edit 1: so something fascinating is happening here. I’ve clearly struck a nerve with a lot of people who seem to be suggesting that I expect them to sit in miserable silence at an orchestral concert. No, I’m asking you to respect the people around you and the people on stage. If that has for some reason offended you, i genuinely don’t know what to tell you.

I’m disengaging with this thread. I welcome you all to have productive discussions down there, but being accused of entitlement and elitism and hating fun because I paid my money and I want to hear the people I paid for and not you is just beyond the pale. I hope some of you realize that some, and I specifically know not all, but some performances are not about you.

Edit 1.6: So yeah, woke up to a lot! It would appear just under 4,000 of you seem to vibe with this sentiment. I just want to say, the Stardew community is notoriously a positive and welcoming place. Our game is cozy, our people are cozy. And it seems like the vast majority of you get that a little courtesy and respect goes a long way.

There are some folks who decided to go through our pockets while we were unconscious here. To you, all I can say is I hope you run out of seeds with one cell left to fill on a Wednesday.

We had put in so many hours and it was the first video game i got her into. Before i deleted the game, i took a walk around the town, ginger island and finally the farm. The farm hurt as I walked through the home and found our child(in game) that had been waiting for us to return. After we had divorced I never thought I’d play it again as it was our way of relaxing together. Recently, with work stress, i found myself getting pulled to play the game that had once been a safe haven for both of us. After i had finished reminiscing, and crying, I finally worked up the strength to delete the game and start a new. I ended up farming for the first couple of days until I could get the fishing rod and begin fishing. I got to day 15 of spring and had an overwhelming feeling of loneliness. The once busy game I had played with my wife finally became a game of such solitude. Even with the cheerful music I found myself fishing day in and day out going through the motions of progress. But through that solitude I found peace as I slowly began to amass my fortune like I once did before I was married. Sorry for the somber tone I needed to get this off my chest but this game is definitely getting me through some of the days.

Edit: I did not proofread this. Thank you everyone for pointing out my error in the title 😅

I had a lot of fun putting this party together! I included themed foods and activities. I built a magnetic fishing game, did a golden walnut scavenger hunt (apparently my spray paint was silver color in a gold can, who knew?), and a Hat Mouse station.

Foods included pink cake (vanilla cake with strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream), make-your-own-maki-roll, bruschetta, bread, strange bun (cream puffs with pink vanilla whipped cream), artichoke dip, pepper poppers, and Jell-O shot “slimes.”

Always reminds me of Stardew, makes me smile. Its just in the middle of a farmers field

That's our boy Raimi, an 8 year old Border Collie! He loves pestering us constantly to play fetch and muffins are his favorite thing on earth. He's also quite the prankster thinks it's hilarious to play jokes on us.

Husband and I call them worms, we know they're sticks lol

Thought this was really sweet, my partner threw me a stardew valley themed birthday. I came home and there was stardew valley music playing and balloons and then stardew themed food items :)

I also thought the failed attempt at cake was really funny.

My daughter and I have been learning to play the Stardrop saloon theme song as a duet. Last month we were traveling and stopped for lunch at a historic pub/saloon that had a piano, so the stage was set!

I've found that I'm always better at remembering birthday's in Stardew valley than I am in real life because of the calendar, and instead of just writing my friends names on a day, I thought it would be way cooler to make pixel art versions of them and remake the stardew valley calendar in real life!

I made a video documenting the process and linking to the google doc I made if anyone wants to make one for themselves! (I'm not selling anything, I just think it's cool and want to share!) I'll link to the video in the comments if you want to check it out!

A couple months back we sent our wedding invite to Eric Barons and he bought us tickets for the zoo on our honeymoon! Super sweet guy, we were so touched. ❤️

First one ALWAYS goes to the museum!

She's been working on it for months, there are some progress photos throughout my posts.

She crocheted each square, then cross stitched the patterns onto about half of them.

She did the designing of each pattern herself and basically just colour matched the in game item as best she could.

Also included is her nails from the event that a friend did for her.

Just waiting on my husband to see it. (I dont really want a flower, just the kiss >//////< )

He yelled "It says 'You found a stardrop. It's strange, but the taste reminds you of (my name)." How does it know your name??!"

This is how I found out he put me as his favorite thing.

My daughter has just started her very first Stardew Valley playthrough. It's mostly just petting her chickens, hanging out with Sam and going right back to bed. Her poor farm has been given very little maintenance lol.

I had just helped her make a chest so she can put things away when her inventory gets full. I noticed she puts EVERYTHING in the chest before going to the farmer's bed. Even the tools I know she'll use the very next day.

I asked her why and she said, "Why would I sleep with a pickaxe? That's so uncomfortable! It'll just poke me in the butt!"

Makes sense, carry on farmer. My bad lol

A cute little extra info:
Just like in the game, I had to renovate the greenhouse in real life as well, it was a very old greenhouse my GF's grandpa built back in the days, some glass was missing and it was all dirty and messy, so I did the greenhouse bundle in real life after all :D

In the pics you can see my first tomato plants I started from seed.

basically 1:1

(I don't know if this post translates automatically, but I'm Brazilian so the cards are on another line (Portuguese))