Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I started up the game this past Saturday, and I had several Valentine’s Day greetings in the mail. That included this somewhat creepy valentine from Emerald. Maybe this isn’t the best stationery to be using on Valentine’s Day…

But most of the girls in town sent me a valentine and a gift. This is what they all gave me:

• Baabara: round cactus
• Belle: cabana table
• Emerald: cabin armchair
• Maple: hammock
• Sydney: rock guitar
• Ursala: picnic table

Only Baabara would send a cactus with a valentine. At least she didn’t use the creepy stationery that Emerald used; that would have made it doubly threatening!

I also received Petunia’s goodbye letter in the mail. So I went over to acre B-2 to meet her replacement, Eloise the elephant. She seemed nice at first…

But it didn’t take long for her snooty nature to shine through. She said a slouch like me could never do justice to Gracie’s designs. Oh well, at least we had a good ten seconds until she got on my bad list. 😛

Note: Eloise also lived in Forest back in 2012…until she was replaced by Yuka. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen again.

Today, Maple said she was looking for a new start. She asked me to take her to another town, but that’s not going to happen. 😛

Candi told me that Scott from Ohio passed through town the other day, although that wasn’t true. It was over ten years ago, but she still talks about it as if it was yesterday. 😛 But she wondered why he just passed through town, unless he was selling turnips or something.

I got lucky with today’s glowing spot: It gave me 10,000 bells instead of the usual 1,000. Luck struck again a few minutes later, when I spotted a large fish shadow in the river. I fished out a stringfish! I rarely do any fishing outside of early September, so this was a nice surprise!

After pulling all the weeds I saw, I verified at the wishing well that the town status is still perfect. 👍

This is the last day of snow on the ground, and I’m ready to see green grass return. Goodbye, winter! And Never Stop Crossing! 🙂

Yesterday, I received Pecan’s goodbye letter in the mail. She didn’t stick around long, but that is nut a problem at all.

At Nookington’s, I bought up ten items…just for the raffle tickets. 😛

In Acre B-5 (just one acre below Nookington’s), I met Pecan’s replacement, Petunia the purple cow.

So that means both of my temporary villagers are now cows (Patty is the other one). And that makes three cows in total, when you include Belle.

By the way, when Petunia says she’s almost positive we haven’t met before, she’s wrong. She actually lived in Forest in 2014.

When I visited Maple in her house, she didn’t recognize me! She said she’s not a fan of strangers in her home at night! 😮

However, she did remember me after a few seconds. She said I “did some work for her.” 🙄

Today is the last day of the month, so that means it’s Raffle Day! And I actually had some raffle tickets for a change! Ten raffle tickets gave me two entries, and the first entry was a loser. But on my 2nd attempt, I got a blue ball. That meant I won the third prize, which was a black queen. Yay!

I’m not sure it was worth the cost of the ten items I bought yesterday, but still, it’s fun to do something different sometimes.

I spoke with Petunia again today, and she said she’s going to stop obsessing over decisions on what to have for dinner every day. But then she worried she might lose her girlish figure. 😛

Today’s snowballs were just two acres apart, so I decided to roll them up and make a snowman.

Maple was hanging out in an igloo, and I played some of her games to sell her some items. Since I couldn’t sell anything at the shop today (because of Raffle Day), this actually helped me out! I got some really good prices: she paid me 5,600 bells for a sproid, and a whopping 8,900 bells for a country guitar!

On the down side, I did lose a T-rex torso for just 110 bells. But I still came out ahead overall. I even got myself another DUMMY. 😉

In a span of just two and a half minutes, two of my villagers (Tom and Ursala) both painted my roof. Tom painted it black, and then Ursala painted it green. Since my house is covered in snow and I can’t see the roof anyway, I didn’t even care. 😛

At the post office, there was already a letter waiting to be mailed–it was my gift from the snowman. So when I sent four letters (with fossils, to the Farway Museum), that forced the mail. Phyllis had to wake up Pete to mail everything.

So when I returned home, my mail was already there. The snowman sent me a snowman TV, which is my favorite snowman item. It displays a picture of snow falling near a house, and it plays a soothing, wintry tune that is so relaxing. 🤍

I know my house is way overdue for a makeover. Maybe I should take all those asteroids over to Maple’s igloo…

See you all next time!

Despite the recent arrival of winter, Friga the penguin has already waddled out of town. I received her goodbye letter in the mail today.

Jingle also sent me a letter, wishing me happy holidays. He gave me a Balloon Fight NES game, as he does every year.

Candi, who was halfway hiding behind a house, was already looking ahead to New Year’s Day. She said that she always goes to the wishing well to make wishes, in her ears.

From the top of the cliff (where I found today’s money rock), I spotted Static down below. He arched his neck to look up at me, and it just made me think how much taller the cliffs seemed in the GameCube game…especially compared to New Horizons.

Puck commented that he hadn’t seen me in a while, so he assumed I just hopped in Gracie’s car and took off!

I’m not sure if he’s suggesting I ran away with Gracie, or if I just stole her car. 😀

Baabara was talking about the snow, and how it’s nice to curl up indoors with some hot chocolate. And then she just randomly said that drinking hot chocolate every day will make you fat.

I visited Ursala (for some reason), and she got mad that I hadn’t seen her in four weeks. She doesn’t think anything should be more important to me than visiting her, and yet she acts rude when she does see me.

But on the bright side, she did give me 2,490 bells for my righty desk (which Belle gave me for free).

In acre B-1 (just south of the post office), I found a new house. Pecan the squirrel has moved in, and she is another snooty. Oh joy.

Have a happy and safe New Year’s Eve, everyone! 🎆🎆🎆