Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I got T-Bone’s goodbye letter in the mail today. He has pulled up his steaks stakes and moved away.

Seconds later, I met his replacement, Doc the bunny. His house is just a bit south of my home acre. He seems like a nice guy.

Crazy Redd is planning a visit to Forest in a couple of days, and many of my villagers warned me about him. Genji got mad just thinking about Redd; he even called Redd a filthy rodent!

Since I last played in early July, it had been seven weeks since I saw my villagers. Some of them were mad about that, and others just seemed sad that they haven’t seen me lately.

Over near the wishing well, Emerald was telling me about the storage trick. You attach furniture to a letter, and then store it at the post office. It’s a helpful trick that comes in handy, considering this game has such limited storage options. The only bad thing is that you can’t tell which item is attached to which letter once it’s in there.

I got my net out and did a little bug-hunting, even though I didn’t spot any valuable bugs out. After I caught a longhorn beetle, Kody asked me about it. He offered me a whopping 2,900 bells. I thought that was a good deal, and Sydney apparently agreed. 😛

Ursala was being rude, as usual, and her catchphrase “unlike you” fit in perfectly when she said this:

As a reminder, we’re just one week away from the start of September. So it’ll soon be the best time of year to make bells! All you have to do is fish in the ocean and get a minimum of 3,000 bells per fish, since the sea bass will be gone. I’ll be sure to participate, so check back in early September for another entry. See you then!

The 4th of July fireworks festival was held tonight (Independence Day in the U.S.), so I headed over to the lake to enjoy the show.

Tortimer was nearby, reminding me not to play with matches. I guess he doesn’t want me to blow off my fingers. Oh wait, I don’t have fingers anyway.

When I got around to the other side of the lake, I found T-Bone, Kody, Maple, and Hank enjoying the fireworks.

I tried burying a pitfall near Kody, since he was the only one walking around. But just like I found with Emerald at the Cherry Blossom Festival, animals participating in events are immune to pitfalls.

I bought some balloons from Crazy Redd’s stand. When I spoke to Maple again, she referred to it as a food stand. Unless she secretly eats balloons, I think she’s full of hot air.

Baabara said she found a bug zapper, and she asked if it was mine. I said yes, and she handed it over. But what she did next really surprised me: She took half of the money in my pockets as a reward for finding it! She walked off with nearly 15,000 bells!!

She then said I have no morals and called me depressing! Wow.

With that, she fully earned her time in pitfall prison. And now I have a renewed hatred for the fluffy demon.

Sydney was talking about feng shui, and how I should never sit a doll so that it’s facing the wall.

Ursala mentioned Wendell, who will be visiting town soon, and she seemed to get annoyed by “picky vagrants” such as him.

It seems like everyone who wasn’t at the fireworks festival was in a rotten mood. Even Emerald!

I found a couple pads of paper in the dump, and they came in handy. I was close to running out.

When I circled back around to my home acre, I saw the bulletin board message about the fireworks festival. Officially, the town is celebrating the anniversary of the opening of the train station. Interesting.

After a quick trip back to Nookington’s to sell a few things in my pockets, I returned home and ended my game for the night. Happy 4th of July!

Bob the cat has strayed away from Forest in search of snacks. I got his goodbye letter in the mail today.

Genji was wondering where I’ve been for the past four weeks.

I met Bob’s replacement, T-Bone the bull. Even though I don’t have a beef with him or anything, I just don’t particularly like him. But then again, it’s hard for any animal to replace Bob. I should have T-Bone for dinner. I mean, have him over for dinner.

Up on the cliff, Candi was getting excited about the fireworks festival coming up on Thursday night.

Ursala had an item that she couldn’t bear to throw away. It was a leaning stone, and she gave it to me for free! It’s not very often that Ursala does something nice like this.

I thought lightning was going to strike twice when Baabara told me she was feeling “VERY generous” near the wishing well.

But her idea of being generous is selling me a sprinkler for 1,000 bells. I bought it just to be nice.

Belle was also hanging out at the wishing well, and she just wanted to know if I figured out how to use all my “stuff” in a tutu. 😮

In the spot where Chico originally lived (in the old days), I found a tent. It’s the first summer camper of the year!

Rhoda the colorful chicken was inside, and she was not having a good time all cooped up in the tent.

I made her day even worse by playing a game with her, and winning. She had to give me a green golf bag for free.

After that, I made a stop at the post office, finished pulling weeds around town, and then headed for home.

By the way, if you haven’t seen the Kotaku article about me and my GameCube town, check it out! I’ll be back with another entry in July. 🙂