Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

On Thursday (Feb. 20th), I received a goodbye letter from Buzz in the mail. This breaks a three-month streak of the most recent villager moving out after just a month (or less).

Buzz moved in back in early September, so he lived here for five and a half months.

I also found some valentines in the mail from Baabara, Maple, Belle, and Sydney.

Kind words, scary stationery, and she even included a garbage can with the valentine. Talk about mixed messages.

Puck was talking about igloos, and he gave me some helpful advice about them: Don’t try to eat them. Thanks for that ProTip, man!

I met Buzz’s replacement, Boris the cranky pig. After insulting my fashion sense, he gave me a star shirt.

I found Gulliver down on the beach, and he told me his tale of fighting off pirates. Or sharks. Or driftwood. Whatever it was, he was lucky to survive!

He gave me a matryoshka, just like the one he gave me in December. And yet, he assured me I won’t find another like it.

I was surprised to see Tortimer hanging out near the wishing well, and I was trying to figure out if it was a holiday I wasn’t aware of. It wasn’t, but it was time for his annual vacation.

He asked me to turn the lighthouse on each night for a week, but I’m not going to do it this year. Sorry, Tortimer.

I asked Tom for a job, and he asked me to get his camera back from Bangle. I agreed to help out, but I ultimately had to get the camera from Boris…despite him just having moved in. But Tom thanked me for getting it back, and he said he was wrong for thinking I was such a big dweeb. Wow, thanks. (He also gave me a pineapple bed.)

I played again today, and I saw a notice about a treasure hunt on the bulletin board. A jukebox is buried somewhere in Acre F-3.

Baabara asked me what I thought about how she dresses, and I said “It’s OK, I guess.” She got furious at me for that, saying I should look in the mirror…where I’ll see “an idiot…wearing moldy trash!”

That was very uncalled for. She specifically asked for my opinion, and there’s also the fact that she doesn’t actually wear clothes. She wears a scarf, and that’s it. So I got out a pitfall and re-introduced her to the ground. But don’t worry, because her “clothes” didn’t get dirty!

I found Static inside an igloo today. Unlike Genji, who recently boasted about building his igloo himself, Static said that he got someone else to build his igloo. (Maybe that was Genji.)

When I spoke with Emerald, my speech options were “other things” or “I’d like to sell.” I chose the latter, because I wouldn’t mind selling something in my pockets. But she took that to mean that I thought she was Tom Nook. She “corrected” me, informing me that she’s a girl and Tom Nook is a guy.

She told me to never say anything like that to her again! Wow. All I did was say I wanted to sell something.

Before saving my game for the afternoon, I went down and picked up that treasure hunt item. The jukebox was buried right next to the lighthouse. It was so easy to find that there might as well have been a spotlight right on it.

Later on, I started up the game again and returned to the lighthouse to turn it on for the night.

However, this is the only night I plan on doing this, so Tortimer will be mad at me when he returns next month. Oh well.

I uploaded my latest video this weekend, GameCube Moments #23:

See you next time!

Today, I received a goodbye letter from Marcy in the mail. She has already bounced out of town.

Just south of my home acre, I found an igloo near my central ramp.

Genji was inside, and he told me that he just built the igloo to surprise me. But it was a lot of hard work “for one beast,” and he was really tired.

That peaceful igloo music makes me want to take a nap, too!

Over at Nookington’s, there wasn’t any buying or selling going on today. That’s because it’s the last day of the month: Raffle Day. I didn’t have any raffle tickets, but I did take a quick look at the prizes.

Maple has a new next-door neighbor, Bangle the tiger! Tigers seem to have particularly huge heads in this game. She seems nice, but she was not aware that igloos have already started appearing in town.

When I ran into Belle, she was up to her usual tricks. She wanted me to buy a mod wall for 5,150 bells. If I’m not mistaken, that’s nearly five times what Tom Nook sells it for! So naturally, I declined the offer. She wasn’t particularly rude about my refusal this time, but she did say that was the lowest she could go. Yeah, good luck ever selling it for that much.

I found Gulliver washed up on the beach, and I woke him up. He used his infamous line that mentions the year, and I never get tired of this bit.

He gave me a Lady Liberty (a model of the Statue of Liberty) for “saving his life.”

Over at the wishing well, I asked Sydney for a favor. She said she wanted a pet fish, but she insisted that she was awful at fishing.

So I went down to the ocean and caught a red snapper. And then I went to catch another fish, because I’m certainly not giving her a 3,000-bell snapper. But I did catch a nice sea bass for her! She liked it, and she rewarded me with a lovely chair.

Her catchphrase is one she learned from Kody, “okey-dokey.” But just moments later, Kody asked me for a new phrase to replace his “okey-dokey.” Maybe he didn’t like the fact that Sydney was using it too. So I gave him a phrase that I once gave to Tammy in New Leaf: game cub.

I made a stop at the post office to mail away the fossils I dug up, and then I returned home for the day. I’ll see you all next month! Never Stop Crossing!

As of last Wednesday, snow now covers the ground in Animal Crossing. Unfortunately, I received Peanut’s goodbye letter in the mail. I was hoping she’d stick around longer, but she has already split.

In addition to the snow, there are also festive lights on many non-fruit trees. (That includes cedar trees too, although none of those happen to be in this screenshot.)

When I spoke with Buzz, he told me he never sees my face these days. But as he was saying it, I actually spotted a different face watching us from behind the tree! Look closely, and you can see it here:

I later met Peanut’s replacement, Marcy the kangaroo.

She lived in Forest before, back in 2012. But I also have her in my town of Aja Blu, as you may have seen in my GameCube Moments #22 video from a couple weeks ago. If you haven’t seen it, here it is:

Anyway, I found Gulliver down on the beach. After rambling for a bit, he gave me a stone coin…as a token of his appreciation.

I played again tonight, and it was snowing in town. Candi wondered if I was scared of the snow because she didn’t see me during the day.

She then tried to sell me a checkered shirt for 2,250 bells. I know she’s a mouse, but she’s asking for a lot of cheddar! I declined the offer, and she said she’ll just toss the shirt instead. (And yet she wouldn’t give it to me for free.) That’s Candi for you.

Marcy was less concerned with ripping me off, and more focused on the snow. She even thought it was romantic.

Puck seemed glad that the snow didn’t keep me from exploring.

I’m not exactly sure what I would be exploring, though. I’ve been in this town for so long that I think I know every inch of it pretty well by now.

And the snow just made Hank want to pop some popcorn. It’s nice seeing all the villagers’ reactions to the snow.

I found Gulliver down on the beach again, and he gave me a matryoshka this time.

I’ve recently posted a video showing the best of my GameCube Moments clips from episodes 11-20. Check it out if you’d like! It’s a nice trip down memory lane, as some of these clips date back to 2018 and 2019!

Enjoy the snow in your Animal Crossing towns, and Happy Holidays!