New Park

Thursday

Yesterday, I was happy to see that Nook’s Cranny had a football for sale. That’s an American football, for those of you outside the U.S. Previous games did not have one of these (though they had football helmets), so this will make a nice addition if I make a football-themed room at some point.

Timmy: Seems like you're interested in a football.

My 7th bridge is now finished, and I attended the completion ceremony for it.

The completion ceremony for the new bridge in Forest.

I visited Tia, and Agent S was also visiting her. The interesting part is that Tia started a sentence with my nickname (cupcake), but did not capitalize it.

Tia: cupcake, come in and join Agent S, in a cup!

I fished at a pond on the cliff, and I caught my first frog…as I was wearing my frog shirt!

I caught a frog! Or it's a new neighbor...and I have some apologizing to do.

Here are a few other quick notes about Thursday:

  • Gulliver was in town, so I collected his communicator parts for him.
  • I returned a lost item to Hornsby, and he gave me a raincoat.
  • Louie taught me the flourish reaction.

I also returned to the site of my newest bridge, to put in a park! I re-routed the path, moved some trees, added some shrubs, dug out a pond, planted some flowers, and set up a swinging bench. I’m probably going to make more changes to it soon, but this is how it looks for the moment.

My new park in Forest.

Friday

Keaton pinged me, even though we were on different levels of town! I didn’t realize they would/could do that. But he ended up teaching me the smirking reaction. The text accompanying it said “You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet,” which I thought was funny because Keaton’s head was blocking my view of my face, so I truly didn’t see anything yet. ๐Ÿ˜›

I learned the Smirking Reaction! You ain't seen nuthin' yet!

Just summary of what else happened in my first session of the day:

  • Gulliver sent me a samurai wig in the mail today.
  • A scorpion was threatening me from a lower level. I swung my net at it (from above), and he disappeared into the cliff below me.
  • Saharah was in town; I bought a rock-climbing wall and crop-circles flooring. I sold the former and kept the latter.

Friday Night

Shortly after 10 p.m., I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Yusef, Ryan, Timo, Patrick, Jesse, Alex, and Logan came over. I took everyone on a quick tour of my newly-designed areas, including my new park (now with another streetlight).

Timo fires a party popper in my face in my new park.

Timo again started releasing multiple coelacanths and oarfish into my rivers! She must not need bells to keep throwing such valuable fish away every week. ๐Ÿ˜‚

After that, we headed to the new (temporary) area I set up just for tonight…so that we could fall in holes. I dug the holes, and then had to dig them again after a false start. But we eventually fell in as planned.

We fall into holes as water flows above and below us.

I then realized I forgot to show everyone Apple Lane, so we visited the lane and the Apple. ๐Ÿ˜› After that, everyone ended up on the beach somehow, and I suggested some musical chairs.

Several people didn’t seem interested, but played anyway…but some ran the wrong way or stood in the way of others, and I also got some rude comments about part of my town being downgraded? So there was certainly a negative vibe going on tonight, and it wasn’t a lot of fun.

Logan won the musical chairs tourney, so congrats, Logan!

Logan wins the game of musical chairs.

After that, we all witnessed Timo catch another oarfish. The big fish must be drawn to her! ๐Ÿ˜€

I suggested a fishing competition, and one person objected. That’s fine, but that same person later used a net to scare away a fish I was about to catch (during the competition). I’ve said this in the blog before, but I’ll say it again: You don’t have to participate in every event in my town. But it’s not acceptable to interfere with others who do want to play. I let things like that slide the first time, but no more.

Most of my visitors were fine, but a couple people seemed to be bringing down the mood or seemingly sabotaging the things I had planned. So I plan on making some changes, and there likely won’t be a Friday Night Forest next week.

Anyway, Alex and Ryan won the competition, tied with 8 fish each in five minutes. We took a couple of group photos, we tried to vandalize my house, and then we hung out inside for a bit. I then ended the session around 11:20, which was the earliest I’ve ended so far in New Horizons.

I’m sorry tonight’s blog entry (and tonight’s play session) was a bit of a downer. But hopefully things will be better next time. I just don’t know when next time will be. ๐Ÿ˜› But have a good night, everyone. Better days are coming. ๐Ÿ™‚

6 thoughts on “New Park”

  1. Why are people even coming when all they do is spread negative vibes? I really dont understand, all the activities seem really fun and I would love to join in one day. Never gonna happen though cause im from Germany and the its like in the middle of the night for me lol.
    Also, I just wanted to say thank you. Been reading your blogs and watching your videos, since I started playing city folk when I was 10 in 2009. You really got me into Animal Crossing and it became my favourite video game series and still is. For me, youre the best Animal Crossing content creator by far, keep up the great work!

    Greeting from Germany!

  2. I felt the negativity last night with the snarky comments and some people straight out ignoring the proposals you had for us to do. I hope that next time there won’t be any negativity by other players during FNF. Have a nice day Jeff!

  3. Jeff, I have a good idea for people to not disturb but itโ€™s kind of trapping them lol. You make a square in fences and leave a gap for people to get in and then dig a hole or two in the gap to keep people from getting out! I donโ€™t know if this works for sure but if you want to try it, that would be cool! Thanks again for the great entry today!

  4. Yeah Iโ€™ll agree. There definitely was some negativity that night. I personally still had fun. But Iโ€™m sorry that last night wasnโ€™t as fun as usual Jeff.

  5. I think Tia did that because when she gave you the nickname it was lowercase so they donโ€™t change the grammar even if itโ€™s incorrect. Also โ€œ Join Agent S in a Cupโ€ lol.

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