Christmas Lights

As of yesterday, Christmas lights will now be found on some cedar trees. Christmas is definitely coming soon!

Christmas lights on cedar trees near Guest's house.I made a late-night walk around town tonight. On the way, I saw Octavian across the river, so I waved to him.

Waving to Octavian from across the river.I crossed the bridge to talk to him, and he asked if it was funny for him to be carrying a net around. Uhh… you’re an octopus. Of course it is! But he insisted that he used to be a dung beetle-catching champion. I guess that’s just how he rolls.

Octavian: ...What? Is there something funny about a guy like me walking around with a net?Later on, I saw Lily and Elmer acting suspicious. I snuck up on them and quickly spoke to Lily…

Lily: Whoa! Hi, my liege.I haven’t seen a frog look that surprised since Slippy Toad accidentally sat on a space mine.

Fishing Tournament Failure

Today was the day of the fishing tournament, where you had to catch the biggest fish and give it to Chip. I got a very late start, but I started looking for sea bass in the ocean. I caught a couple of them, but they were smaller than Miranda’s 43-incher that had already been submitted. Unfortunately, I was really having trouble finding more sea bass. I did catch a lobster, which appears huge, and I thought that might do the trick.

Chip: Ah, a lobster! Now, let's just measure this tasty fellow, shall we?But when I gave it to Chip, he said it was even smaller than the sea bass I had earlier. I didn’t have enough time to keep looking. I officially lost to Miranda. How embarrassing.

Chip: Miranda from here in Forest! Fine fishing! A little finer than you, kiddo. Awful sorry!Once night fell, I noticed the northern lights up in the sky. What a sight to behold.

The northern lights in the sky, with the moon in the middle of my orange constellation.It was raining in the city, so I didn’t need to water my flowers. But I found two new black roses on my daily walk. After 8:00, I went into the museum to hear K.K. perform at The Roost. I asked for a random song and he played K.K. Reggae.

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: K.K. Reggae.

Winter Begins

As of yesterday, snow now covers the ground; winter is here. Over by my waterfall today, Lily gave me a cabana wardrobe for free. Out of nowhere. Lily is really growing on me lately. For whatever reason, I wasn’t super thrilled with her when she first moved in. But now she’s one of the animals I want to keep around for a long time.

Lily: It's nothing special. Just a cabana wardrobe that I dug out of the recycling bin, down under.I decided it was time to ditch the orange Halloween path, so I switched back to my blue ice brick path for the winter.

My blue brick path for winter.I went in Cookie’s house to say hello, and she said there was something about me that makes her excited! It’s my clothes, isn’t it?

Cookie: There's something about you, Jeff, that just makes me all excited!Actually, she said it was because I was filthy rich! So she basically admitted to being a gold digger.

While making my rounds, I saw a shadow moving across my brick path. A balloon present flew overhead, but I didn’t bother shooting it down.

A balloon present soars over the head of Jeff the mummy.Back behind Elmer’s house, Rowan got my attention and asked if I wanted to buy a shower? Uh, no thanks dude.

Rowan: Pssst. My liege. Wanna buy a shower?Speaking of Elmer, I just remembered where he lived the first time he was in town. He lived just west of my southern bridge, which just happened to block the view of my sumo ring at the time! I was quite annoyed with his house being there, which is why I wanted him gone even though I liked him as a character. It’s even in one of my Wi-Fi Moments videos when I was attacking his house with an axe and my axe broke. Ness was there helping out too.

Anyway, I was going to build a snowman tonight. But I could only find one snowball despite two full trips around town. What good is a snowman with no head? So I tossed his useless torso into the river, where no one will ever find the evidence.

Pushing a large snowball into the river.