Welcome to Apple Valley

Welcome to Apple Valley!

We are a very small but old hood and it can be a bit overwhelming for newcomers, so we created this guide to help you navigate around.

We recommend that you start by looking at the history of Apple Valley. Apple Valley was originally established as a new dimensional hood by the residents of the old dimensional hood, Greymount. Read a bit about our history that stretches to the TS1 era.

After looking at the history, you can then decide how you would like to start navigating around. There are over 1000 posts, so we personally recommend starting with simyear 2001 and working your way forward.

#1 Chronological Order
 You can navigate by chronological order:

• Before the Great Flood simyear 1980-1992
• Starting Over After the Great Flood simyear 1992-1999
• Simyears 2000-current, noted in the sidebar
• You can also browse through the archives of Apple Valley News to supplement your reading.

#2 Favorite Sim

If you find a favorite sim, you can click on that sim's name in the label section to discover more about that sim. There are over 50 sims featured here since we cover over 20 simyears of history in this consolidated blog. After simyear 2001, individual sim's stopped posting and the blog moved from a first person point of view to a third person point of view.

#3 Favorite Family
If you have a favorite family, you can click on the family's surname in the sidebar to follow more about that family's history. We also recommend taking a look at the:

• Resident database
• Family histories
• Online Family Tree that stretches to the TS1 ancestors back to before simyear 1776.

#4 Administrative Interest-aka-How does the hood work?
If you like to find out more about the administrative side of the hood, we recommend reading the:

• Hood council notes
• Hood council meetings
• Administrative office of the website
• The Behind the Scenes posts.
• The Downloads posts

After browsing around, we recommend that you spend some time looking at our hood's website. If you're wondering about the mechanics of a sim-to-sim (or FSBS) site, we recommend reading this post.

#5 By Link Within.
Link Within is located at the bottom of each posts and links to related stories from the blog archive. If you enjoyed the post you just read, then you might enjoy one of the three recommended posts as well.

Comments are welcome, even on older posts and we encourage that you check out our hood's website, you can "follow" Apple Valley to get the latest updates and if you have time then take a look at some of the other hoods that we highlighted in our sidebar.

Thank you for reading!