Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

When I played last week (on June 6th), I received Astrid’s goodbye letter in the mail. She also left my City Folk town about a month ago.

Candi seemed to be in a good mood, and she told me that she’s been studying Japanese recently. Since she was being nice, I didn’t even push her this time. 😉

However, I still received my normal dose of rudeness…but from an unexpected source. Astrid’s replacement moved in, and it was no other than Olivia herself!

This is (at least) her third stint in Forest, and she was as rude as always. I decided to check my letters to see if I had a pitfall on me, and I did! So I made good use of it.

I had a close call, though. Maple walked over, and almost fell into the pit before Olivia did, so I had to play like a goalie to keep Maple safe. 😛 You can see this scene, and many other highlights from the past several months in my latest video, GameCube Moments #20:

I played again today, and Olivia gave me a little quiz about garbage collection days.

I knew that was correct, so I told her that statement was true. She confirmed that I was right, but she claimed to have lost the prize (a blue vase) she promised to give me. Suuuure. 🙄

Genji was talking about fishing (since there are fishing tournaments every Sunday this month). He asked what I thought about it, and I told him it was boring (just to see how he’d respond). He said I didn’t know a thing about fishing…

…and he said I just have to let my mind go blank to fish well. 😛

Baabara was giving me some very basic knowledge about using items, saying that chests and music players are must-haves.

On that pleasant note, I’m going to wrap up this entry. As you may know, I recently posted a new City Folk gameplay video, and I plan to do the same with GameCube soon too (probably in July). So stay tuned for that, and I’ll see you next time!

Winnie has galloped out of town, as I learned when I got her goodbye letter in the mail today. She ended her letter with “Cheery-bye!” and it really did seem cheery…due to the fact that she wrote it on polka-dot paper. Goodbye letters don’t get any more colorful than this!

Candi was telling me that she never does laundry. In fact, she doesn’t even change her clothes unless someone gives her a new outfit!

I mean, that makes sense in the context of being an NPC in a video game, but I like how the developers have fun with things like that.

At Nookington’s, I saw they had a snappy print shirt for sale. I think this is one of the shirts I used to wear (back in the day), so I bought it and put it on.

In the acre just north of Static’s house, I found a new villager: It’s Pate the duck. She’s alright, I guess. Definitely not of my favorite ducks, but I don’t hate her or anything.

Belle was wondering about the windsocks that appear in early May, asking who puts them up. But it only reminded me that I forgot to play early in the month to see them this year. Oops.

When I dug up today’s glowing spot, I found a rare 30,000-bell bag instead of the usual 1,000 bells. Guess it’s my lucky day! Ka-ching! 💰

I spoke with Ursala while I was standing on the beach, so I was on a lower surface than she was. And then she asked if I’ve grown…when it actually looked as if she was the one that had grown. 😛

Over by the wishing well, Astrid was looking forward to the next fishing tournament. She told me I should start scouting out some good fishing spots, even though it won’t matter. That’s because she was sure that she would be winning the tournament.

She was using Emerald’s catchphrase “sproing,” and yet it works for her too. It sounds like a springy sound effect that a cartoon kangaroo might make when jumping. 🦘 Yay for onomatopoeia. 😛

That’s all I have for now, but I’ll be back again in June. Never Stop Crossing!

I received this letter in the mail from Mom, who just got back from a trip to a hot spring for some alone time with Dad. She said they came back feeling like newlyweds, which is getting into “too much information” territory.

I also got a letter from Huggy, who has moved out of town since last time.

Nearby, I ran into Candi, who wished me a great morning (not a good morning). But she seemed a bit confused about where she was.

When I played last month, I must’ve missed speaking with Static somehow. Because today, he let me know that he hasn’t seen me in two months…and he wasn’t happy about it. 😆

Belle echoed a similar sentiment, even though I did speak with her last month. She’s afraid I’ll take her for granted.

Joan was in town to sell turnips, since it was a Sunday morning. I wasn’t interested in buying any, but I did stop to say hello.

Ursala told me that she wants to dress up and flit around town like a butterfly! She was being more weird than rude, for a change. 😆

Not far from the post office, I found my newest neighbor (and Huggy’s replacement). It’s Winnie the horse, who lived in Forest previously back in 2011. Welcome back, Winnie!

She has the lovely furniture set in her house. I don’t know what I was expecting to find in her house, a ranch maybe? 😆

After circling around town, I picked some apples and went to the shop to sell them. One feature that never gets talked about in this game is the “sell all” option. If you have multiples of the same fruit, you don’t have to select every single one of them. You can just select one and then choose to sell them all.

Admittedly, the usefulness is limited, since we typically will have a variety of things to sell at the shop. (And it only saves a couple seconds anyway.) But it does come in handy if you’re harvesting a lot of fruit, such as when you’re saving up to pay off your debt.

That’s all for this month, but I’ll be back again in May. Never Stop Crossing! 🙂