Month: June 2022

Don’t Be Cranky

Saharah was in town on Tuesday, but she was hanging out on the dead end! She’s not going to find many customers way out here!

Saharah: I came from far away.

She was looking for old wallpaper again, so I started to ask my neighbors. Big Top and Tom were the only ones who helped me out.

Tom: Is this for a school recycling drive or something?

I also grabbed the remaining old wallpaper I had in storage, so I took the three back to Saharah. She took them, and gave me an office wall in exchange.

Big Top was over his cold, and he sent me a kiddie bureau in the mail to thank me for the medicine I gave him last week.

Yesterday, Queenie and Apollo had a bit of an argument at the bus stop. Apollo asked Queenie how long it had been since she cleaned her house, and Queenie got mad that he would even ask such a thing. Apollo added that Queenie should use a broom and live more responsibly. He was being a bit of a jerk, and Queenie called him a grumpy, mean, old geezer. 😂

Queenie: I don't know why I even talk to you! You're just a grumpy and MEAN old geezer! Me-YOWZA!

Maybe I shouldn’t have helped him out, but Apollo later asked me for a fossil. I gave him a dinosaur track that I dug up.

Apollo: Nice work, Jeff! Is this a dinosaur track I see before me, its handle toward my hand?
I don’t think that’s a handle.

In return, he gave me a clothes closet.

Today, Gaston mentioned he was thinking of moving out of town. But I talked him into sticking around.

Gaston: You've convinced me, J-rock. I'll stay on as Forest's crankiest resident a while longer.

And when I visited Apollo, he was really happy about the new fossil I gave him yesterday.

Apollo: Whenever I look at my new fossil, I just can't help smiling, Jeff.

I also like how his two chess knights are almost facing off against each other. ♟

I just now realized that this blog entry is mostly about crankies (Tom, Apollo, and Gaston). Well at least Queenie and Saharah made appearances. 😛

See you all next time.

Backgammon

June is here now, and it didn’t take me long to catch my first summer bug yesterday: A rainbow stag!

I caught a rainbow stag! Someone tell me, already! Where's the rainbow?!

That was a quick 10,000 bells, and I actually caught another one later on. 😎

Gwen asked me to catch a black bass for her, and I decided to be nice and help out. It took me a little while, but I eventually caught one. When I took it back to her, she gave me a birdhouse. Just what I…never needed. 😛

Gwen: Thanks, darling. Here's a birdhouse for all your hard work, pen gwen.

Tonight, I spotted something I don’t see very often any more: A new black rose!

A new black rose appears.

I moved it to a safer location near my house.

Saharah was in town, and she was looking for old wallpaper. So I started asking around. But as I did, I accidentally ran through a gold rose and killed it. So even if my new black rose lives long enough to be turned into a gold rose, I won’t do any better than breaking even. Oops.

After asking all of my villagers about wallpaper, only two Gs (Gwen and Goldie) helped me out.

Goldie: I was going to take it to Saharah myself, but if you're willing to do the legwork, woof woof!

I also grabbed one out of storage, so I had three to give Saharah. In return, she gave me a backgammon wall. Even though I don’t particularly care for it, it was one that I still needed for my catalog.

The backgammon wall in my DLC basement.

Saharah’s rare pieces are way too hard to get in this game! There are others I still need, too (namely the lunar surface).

June is the only month in which fireflies appear (well…mostly). And I saw quite a few of them by the river tonight. I always seem to appreciate them more at the start of June, and then later on, I ignore them and don’t even notice they’re gone until August or so. 😂

Four fireflies by the river in Animal Crossing: City Folk (ACCF).

Big Top has been sick with a cold, so I gave him medicine yesterday, and then again today. Get well soon, big guy!