Animal City

Nook’s Cranny had a rattan wardrobe for sale today, and I bought it. I’ve already come across several pieces of the rattan set, which strongly resembles the cabana furniture from previous games. Not only that, but it seems to be one of the few furniture series that are actually in New Horizons. I think I’ll use it in one of my rooms.

The shop also had a kettle for sale, and I bought it as well. I would place it outside of Tia’s house as an identification object, if I didn’t already have an elephant slide there. 😂

Some of my orange windflowers have bloomed (not the ones by Tia’s house, but some that I planted elsewhere earlier). I’m not sure why, but I don’t like them as much as I thought I would.

I’ll wait for the ones by Tia’s house to bloom before deciding if I want to keep them there or not.

When I visited Apple, I saw that Claudia was also there. Apple was talking about her wooden simple bed, and she made references to Fauna Magazine and Ms. Nintendique. Those are two magazines that have been mentioned in previous Animal Crossing games, and I thought that was a nice touch.

Two years ago (almost to the day), I made a mock-up of a Fauna Magazine cover on my GameCube blog. 😛

After I exited Apple’s house, I was thinking that a nice, white fence would look good on Apple Lane. It turns out there currently aren’t white fences, though. But I kept the fence idea in my mind as I carried on with my day…

K.K. Slider was set up at the plaza, and I decided to stop and enjoy a song. I requested the song Animal City. It’s one of K.K.’s “secret” songs, and it’s actually the city theme from Animal Crossing: City Folk. Midge was the only other villager in attendance at the time.

I enjoyed the nostalgic throwback to perhaps my most-played game of all-time. Afterwards, a balloon present was floating by, over the fountain. I got my slingshot out and shot it down, only for it to disappear between the fountain and some flowers! I thought it would bounce over the flowers onto the plaza, but it didn’t!

Anyway, I put the Animal City aircheck in my music player and took a close look at the cover. It shows the city from ACCF, of course, along with the fountain, Kicks, K.K. himself, and several villagers. Of course, K.K. played at the Roost in City Folk, not in the city. But I appreciated the references. 🙂

After that, I took 450 stones out of storage and built five stone arches. I used them to replace the Bunny Day arches that lead to my sumo ring. I know the Bunny Day arches are more colorful and appealing, but I don’t want to keep Easter-themed items out all year. If there are some other arches in the game, perhaps I’ll change them again in the future.

Up on the cliff, I was shaking trees to look for furniture items. One had a wasp, and I caught it…but then my net broke. I continued shaking trees and I got stung twice…and then I passed out and reawakened outside my house. That was disappointing, but at least I earned an achievement (and Nook Miles) for it. 😛

After taking some medicine, I went back to shaking trees. I actually found two furniture items in trees, a table lamp and a throwback gothic mirror.

After studying my map, I decided to add a short, diagonal path between my two ramps (the one that leads up to the cliff and the one that leads down to Sudden Valley).

But I also decided to do something with a big, empty area just north of Apple Lane. I circled it here on my map:

While I’m not going to reveal my plans just yet, I will say that it’s not a unique idea. But I will put my own spin on it. I ordered several items for the new area, and I also moved a few other items from my house, storage, or elsewhere in town.

I used some fencing near Apple Lane after all, the separate the back yards of the residents there from the new area. I’ll have to experiment with possible layouts of the new area tomorrow, when my ordered items arrive.

See you next time! 🙂