<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/42/7E9C28FB-8DD8-414F-A43A-69CA0A3DA8EC.jpeg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Calliope “Cal” Applebaum<br/><strong>Job:</strong>Handywoman<br/><strong>Age:</strong>24<br/><strong>Birthday &amp; Horoscope:</strong>August 14th, Leo<br/><strong>Gender Identity:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Biological Sex:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Rose gold hair falls to shoulders broader than classically acceptable. Working with her hands has given Cal firm and toned arms and a fit form under her softly feminine silhouette.  Often clad I denim overalls with a sledge of oil or grim on her cheek or the tip of her nose Cal is not afraid to get dirty when it comes to work.  She cleans up nicely however and loves a good spin across a sawdust strewn barn dance as much as tossing down a cold one after a hard day’s work.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Confident, Helpful, Boisterous, Nosy, Blue-Collar<br/><strong>History:</strong>Cal’s dad was a collector.  Some might say hoarder.  Her mom died when she was young, but her dad was a good man despite his junk habit.  The Applebaum family has lived in Stardew Valley her whole life and her grandparents owned the farm before her father did. For an energetic child like Cal, the farm, turned junkyard was a heaven filled with many sharp and dangerous things to tinker and play with.<br/><br/>To keep Cal busy and safe, her dad taught her to repair the old and damaged things he brought home.  Her creative mind latched onto the process of tearing things apart and putting them back together and tinkering with things to make them work, at least until Cal got to be a teenager.  Her father had little control over his whirlwind of a daughter who partied hard and made plenty of mistakes, but she always helped around the house when needed even if she wasn’t always in speaking terms with her dad.<br/><br/>Cal never went off to college.  She is a townie through and through and doesn’t see it as a bad thing.  Cal took odd jobs around the Valley to make some money and help her dad pay the bills.  His health isn’t great and it’s harder for him to do all the things he needed to do to earn enough to keep the “farm” without the help.<br/><br/>Cal has cleaned up a lot of the mess that their small piece of land had accumulated through the years which has put a strain her relationship with her dad. There is still farming equipment I various states of repair but it either belongs to someone in town and waiting on a part or it’s one Cal is trying to fix up so she can strip some of the fallow dirt off the old vegetable patch and field and maybe turn this place into a small farm again.  One that can at least help her grow some produce and keep their costs down.<br/><br/>When she isn’t driving around the Valley in her old pick up truck doing odd jobs for others Cal is working on the equipment in the barn or tinkering with some old transistor radio to keep herself busy.  Occasionally she even takes a nap on her porch in her favorite chair, feet kicked up on the rail.<br/><br/>At night she is either at the bar or a barn dance if there is one.  She still plays hard, but is a little more careful.  If something happened to her there would be no one to take care of the “farm” or her dad.  Still mistakes will be made, but hopefully they will be fun ones.<br/><br/><strong>Favorite Thing?:</strong>Afternoon naps on her porch chair after a job well done<br/><strong>Least Favorite Thing?:</strong>Peas<br/><strong>Hobbies:</strong>Tinkering, Smoking Meats, Baseball/Softball, Dancing (line), Macrame<br/><strong>Cat or Dog?:</strong>Dog<br/><br/><strong>Link to Player Ons and Offs:</strong>linked here (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=156067.0)<br/><br/><strong>Face claim:</strong>Art by CT Chrysler<br/>