Investment

The moon over Cape Garner Island was the third-quarter moon which hung over the local diner. It lit up the night sky with a pale white glow and offered a bit of a spooky counterpoint to all the paranormal activity going on at both graveyards.

The next morning was sunny and well, none of what went on before sunrise yesterday night was even apparent as the sun warmed the island. Haruo went over to the greenhouse and started working on the plants.

In the meantime, Colin decided that he was going to get familiar with the basketball hoop and practiced his free-throws.

One of Alanna's kids was spending some time in downtown Cape Garner.

Haruo again decided that he needed to get some passive income going so he started using up some of those millions of simoleons that he and River had painstakingly earned and started to invest in Cape Garner's businesses, with the understanding that Haruo could potentially cash in and buy out the entire business at any point in time. After all, if his capital was going to keep the businesses afloat, he might as well get hands-on with the businesses.

Evidently, Sandi and Kaneoshi were enjoying themselves having a water-balloon fight in front of the Day Spa. It was rather odd that Kaneoshi was not working, though he was in work-garb. Of course, Haruo always worried about family as Kaneoshi was a family member and when he had married Sandi, he'd brought her into the family fold. Who knew what was going on there.

He also saw Blair Wainright-Steel...who had passed into elderhood sitting on the sidewalk working on something diligently on her laptop. Since the late Susan Wainright had married his father and become his step-mother, Blair was also family, he often worried about Blair and Michael too. It certainly made for an interesting extended family.

And of course, he still had other things that he had to do in the course of making sure that he had a stake in every business on Cape Garner Island. After all, investing meant dividend payouts and well, if the business was doing well, then he made money. If it didn't; then he would have to take over instead of being a hands-off boss.

...and not having to get his hands dirty in the day-to-day efforts to run a profitable business was the way he liked it.