Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

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! 🎄

Last Friday, I received a goodbye letter from Piper in the mail. Yes, already! She only lived in Forest for about ten days!

I was playing after midnight, and I followed a suggestion I received from D. Val on Youtube. I purposely let bees sting my face, and then I went around town to see everyone’s reactions to my swollen face late at night. Some villagers were scared, others laughed at me, some basically called me stupid, and one tried to arrest me! You can see all of that in the video here:

I played again today, and I got to meet my newest neighbor Peanut. She recently lived in my Wild World town for three years before moving out in June, and I really like her a lot. So I’m glad to have her back!

Genji seemed to be in a really good mood, and he gave me a free pear.

Meanwhile, Hank was looking forward to the harvest festival, and the holiday season in general.

He said it’s his favorite time of year, and he can’t wait to stuff his gut. 😆

Over by the wishing well, Ursala told me that she won’t wear anything except Gracie fashions. The only problem is that Tom Nook is too cheap to stock them.

She said Tom Nook’s goods are low class. 😆

Tom Nook was also in the area, and he wanted to sell me a manhole cover for exactly 1,000 bells. I declined, and he didn’t take the refusal well.

Still, he said he wouldn’t force me to buy it. How generous of him! 🙄

Today’s glowing spot contained 30,000 bells instead of the usual 1,000. That’s always a nice surprise!

I hope you all enjoy your harvest festival and holiday season! I’ll be back with another entry in December. Never Stop Crossing!

Yesterday, I found Tutu’s goodbye letter in the mail. She left after three months in town.

My villagers are already looking forward to the fall harvest, even though it’s not even Halloween yet!

Candi was pretending to be Saharah, in a ploy to sell me some carpeting. But I wasn’t interested, so I called her bluff.

Puck asked me what his favorite nighttime event was, the meteor shower or New Year’s Eve. I guessed the latter, and he gleefully told me how wrong I was.

He said that was his favorite last year, not this year. How am I supposed to know a thing like that? 😛

Fall is coming, and Maple was telling me to be careful not to catch a cold.

At the wishing well, I was having fun chasing a bug (a migratory locust) all around. It won’t leave the acre, so it just hops from one spot to another if you keep chasing it. A couple times, it even hopped onto the wishing well and rested there!

After I made my way up to the police station, Tom noticed a bug in my pockets (not the migratory locust, but a long locust). He offered me a far-out shirt for it, and that’s a shirt I didn’t recognize by name.

So I agreed to the trade, mainly out of curiosity. (Not that I had much use for a long locust anyway.) But this is what the shirt looks like.

It’s certainly…unique. Not exactly my favorite, but I decided to keep it on for now.

After completing my full walk around town yesterday, I didn’t find Tutu’s replacement anywhere. I checked my map, and it confirmed that I only had 14 villagers!

Since I’m playing late in the month (and I played early in the month of September), it had been seven weeks since I last played. That’s longer than my usual 4-5 week span, so I had a lot of weeds to pull. But having lots of weeds can also lower your town rating, and a 15th villager won’t move in if your town isn’t rated high enough.

But after pulling all the weeds yesterday (and getting my town status back to perfect), I played again today. Sure enough, a 15th villager has moved in. It was Piper the peppy bird.

Piper has been mentioned exactly zero times in this blog before today, which means she hasn’t lived in Forest since 2011 at least. But I’ve probably had her at some point before that.

As Baabara was having a fight with Emerald, she was also wearing a scarf with a frog on it…a frog that looked an awful lot like Emerald. 😉 But Hank was nearby, and he was immune to their negativity. This is why I like Hank so much in this game (and jocks in general, even though the same doesn’t apply in later games).

Puck tried to tell me he was a kayaking phenom, but I didn’t believe him. He got bummed out because I didn’t believe his lie. 🤷

I posted two Animal Crossing GameCube videos in September (since posting my last entry), so check them out if you haven’t seen them yet. Here they are:

I’ll see you again in November! Never Stop Crossing!