Awkwardness

Rowan commented on my mummy shirt, saying he recently saw a rock concert where the lead singer was wearing one! I don’t know how that’s possible, unless he went to see The Grateful Dead.

Rowan: I went to a rock concert the other night, and the lead singer was wearing one of those, rowr!When I spoke with Lily, she told me she found a book on Forest’s history propping up a leg of her table! I think she’s lying.

Lily: You'll never guess what I found propping up one leg of my table! A book on Forest's history!

Pascal was over on the bridge. I gave him a scallop and he gave me a ship compass in return.

Pascal: Once you lie, maaaan, there's no going back.Avery asked me for a new catchphrase, and I was going to have him say “awk awk.” Yet the game wouldn’t let me enter that phrase! So I put a comma in between the awks and it was okay. Awkward…

Avery: I'll be saying awk, awk until the cows come home, awk, awk!Lily asked me for a fossil, so I gave her an ammonite I had. She thanked me and gave me a planked tatami.

Lily: Dr. J, I have just the perfect thing for you. It's a planked tatami! Please accept it with my thanks!And I caught Melba snooping on Becky! She was standing at her front door, just peering through the windows!

Melba looking through the window on the door of Becky's house.

Miranda Returns

Bob’s replacement moved in today, it’s Miranda the duck. She just moved in from Tropical (Yann’s town).

Miranda: How about you come over tomorrow and gossip with me then, I tweeted?I had Miranda in my town before, back in early 2009. But there’s something odd about her return: She moved into the same exact spot where she lived before!

Miranda's HouseThe reason I remember it so well is because it’s near where my original sumo ring used to be. She would often wander into the ring, even interrupting sumo matches at times! Some of you may remember this from my ACCF Wi-Fi Moments #6 video: (Skip to 2:45 to see the scene in question).

SUMO IS FOR HUMANS!

Anyway, I continued my walk to water my flowers. It’s been a while since I’ve seen rain, and unfortunately that’s the norm for this time of year. I ran into Blaire, and she asked me for some furniture. But by the way she asked it, you’d almost think she was asking for food. Mmm, ranch.

Blaire: As long as it's something ranch, I bet it'll satisfy me, I drool!I also saw Melba, and she asked for a new greeting. I didn’t feel like giving her one.

Melba: I like ham? I wanted to talk to you real quick, my liege.

A Gift From Bob’s Garden

Bob may be gone, but his patch of purple roses (aka Bob’s garden) has helped me out already by producing a black rose. Thanks, Bob!

A black rose that sprung up near my purple-rose memorial garden for Bob.I went in Pinky’s house to say hello, and she was talking about my friend Yann. She said Yann was a fish freak.

Pinky: I got this total fish freak sort of feel from that kid...Over by Nook ‘n’ Go, Melba was getting sarcastic with me.

Melba: Oh! I'm sorry, is my net in your way?And in Able Sisters, I tried on a pigtail. It doesn’t particularly look good with my mummy outfit. Or any other outfit, for that matter.

Mabel: Oh, that looks absolutely perfect on you! Shall I wrap it up?When I went in Blaire’s house, she thanked me for taking medicine to her the other day. She rewarded me with a cabin table. I hope she didn’t drool on it.

Blaire: Thanks to you, my cold is gone! So, I want to give you this cabin table as thanks, I drool.My free flower area is really filling up with flowers! Now that I’m only opening my gate once a month, there aren’t many visitors to take them. Hopefully Yann and/or Megan will take a bunch when I open my gate next Friday.

Lots of flowers in my free flower area.Bob’s replacement has not moved in yet, so I still have nine villagers. Of course I hate Bob being gone…but at least now I don’t have to worry about anyone else leaving. I like a lot of my current villagers, and some of them I would like to keep around (particularly Ribbot and Octavian). But even if one of them left, it wouldn’t be nearly as big a deal to me as Bob was.

Bob’s situation was unique, and it wasn’t just because I liked him as a character. Part of it was that he was around so long, over 90% of Forest’s history. But it was also the people he “met” along the way…old friends of mine. Some of whom are people I may never talk to again. Even though I’ll certainly miss Bob the character, I will miss that link to the past even more.