Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I found a letter from Jingle the dark-nosed reindeer in the mail today; he sent me a Balloon Fight NES game. Unfortunately, I also got a goodbye letter from Hornsby in the mail. Well, at least I still have him in my New Leaf town.

Candi was walking near the bridge by her house, so I decided to use the glitch to push her into the river. She wasn’t very happy. 😛

On the cliff near Maple’s house, I found a new house belonging to Ozzie. This spot doesn’t seem to be used very often, although seeing the house here reminded me that Hank once lived in this spot. And Hank’s house looks just like this one, so that may be why it triggered the memory.

I went inside and introduced myself to Forest’s newest koala. Or is that Forest’s newest bus stop?

I had a chat with Tom near the wishing well, and he said he hadn’t seen me in so long, he just assumed I was involved in some shady stuff.

Up near the train station, right next to my statue, I was chatting with Snake. I don’t know how this guy has stayed in town so long…14 months so far. For someone that’s not part of my “permanent 13,” that’s really quite an accomplishment. But apparently, I talked to him too many times today, because he started to get a little angry with me.

With that, I headed home and ended my day in Forest. But if you haven’t yet seen my latest GameCube Moments video that I posted on Christmas Eve, here it is. Hope you enjoy! I’ll be back with another blog entry sometime in January. Have a happy new year, everyone!

Snow flurries were falling from the sky today. But I’m guessing Genji didn’t notice the snow, because he told me that it would start snowing soon.

Static and Snake were also nearby, and they apparently had an argument. They were both mad, but Snake took his anger out on me!

I buried a pitfall in hopes that Snake would walk into it. Unfortunately, the wrong villager fell into the rabbit hole. Sorry, Genji.

Since today is Sale Day, Crazy Redd was in town with his tent full of merchandise. But I didn’t want any of his items, so I just carried on with my day.

Another feature of Sale Day is that Tom Nook will have a bunch of grab bags for sale. Each one costs 2017 bells, and contains three items.

I bought two grab bags. My haul included a racer shirt, a Maki figurine, a red pinwheel, an old brick wall, a fancy pinwheel, and a blue golf bag. I put on the racer shirt and sold everything else back to Nook.

I found a new house in town, and Hornsby was inside! Hornsby was one of my earliest villagers in Forest, and I liked him a lot…particularly his catchphrase, “schnozzle.” In fact, I recently used an Amiibo card to add him to my New Leaf town as well!

But after greeting him, the very next thing he said to me was that he wanted a new catchphrase! Nooo!

I couldn’t decline his request, and the game didn’t let me re-enter the same one. So I just added a third “Z” to the word; he now says schnozzzle.

I visited Sydney in her house, and she told me she was getting really tired. I told her to go to sleep, and she got mad…for a reason that didn’t even make sense. She was furious that I told her to sleep right here in the snow? But we were indoors!

She said she’s never going to forget this, and that it’s going to come back to haunt me someday.  I never cared for Sydney much, and now I know why. What a nut.

Over by the wishing well, Baabara told me I’ve put on weight. After I told her I haven’t, she told me not to lie. She said I put on 1.2 pounds since we last spoke.

After selling some fruit and other items, I was able to get my bank account balance up to 18 million bells for the first time!

I then returned home and ended my game for the night. I did not do the Sale Day glitch today, but if you’re interested, here is a video of the glitch I recorded back in 2009.

It had been eight weeks since I last played in Forest, so I had a ton of weeds around town. I spent a good deal of time plucking them all.

No new animals have moved in this time, so I still have 14 villagers in town at the moment.

I connected my Game Boy Advance and made a rare trip out to the island. I was enjoying Kapp’n’s song about his sailing soul, until he mentioned a stomach full of snails. That part is a bit hard to relate to.

When I spoke to my islander Ankha, she thanked me for the spooky lamp I gave her “the other day.” It wasn’t the other day, though. It was probably years ago.

She then gave it back to me, saying it doesn’t fit her room. This cat always seems to ask for things and then gives them back. How rude.

Back in town, Kody noticed my new spooky lamp.

He said he didn’t have anything to trade for it, but he asked if he could have it. I agreed to give it to him. He then gave me a lovely lamp in return; he lied about not having anything.

I spotted a balloon present flying around, and I followed it. It appeared to get stuck on the cliff (temporarily), and I tried to use my shovel to pop it. No luck. It soon freed itself and continued flying northeast. Once it got to the train station, it flew away, never to be seen again.

I ran into Tom, and he told me he just painted my roof black. I’m okay with that. Especially around Halloween.

Speaking of Halloween, I will not be participating in the festivities tomorrow. But good luck to you if you’re giving it a go! Beware of Jack’s tricks! Happy Halloween, everyone!