Month: June 2020

As of Monday morning, my house has been remodeled with a new exterior. I like it! I’m just starting to get tired of all the rain lately! 😛

When I visited Hornsby, he gave me some pixel shades for free. He said they would match my skull tee. Not bad.

I put some red hyacinths around my diner neon sign, and I like how it looks. I know I probably overuse the red hyacinths around town, but I can’t help it. 😛

Kicks was in town selling shoes, socks, and bags, and I bought a random item just to be nice. Some of my villagers also mentioned Kicks, with Keaton saying that shoes don’t go with his look. Those would need to be some big, wide, ugly shoes to cover his big bird feet!

About My Upcoming Race

My race is just about finished…except for a few items I’m waiting to arrive via Nook Shopping. This could still change, but I’m tentatively planning on having the race at some point on Thursday in the late afternoon (Eastern U.S. time), unless it’s raining in my town. I may end up changing it to Friday, but Thursday is the goal right now…

People who are already on my friend roster will have the first chance to join in. I will post on Twitter, and ask which of my friends are interested and available at the time, and then I’ll DM the Dodo Code.

If anyone does not have Twitter, but is a regular visitor to my Friday Night Forests (or visited me regularly in CF or NL), please let me know where you would like to be contacted with a Dodo code (if I don’t get enough responses from Twitter alone). If I still am unable to get a full town, I will post the Dodo code publicly on Twitter.

We may run the race twice (and perhaps pose for a group photo at the end). After that, there will be some time for shopping or visiting. But doing the race first will be my priority, so don’t go wandering off until it’s completed. If you are not willing to be a good sport and participate with the race, please do not come. If all goes well, I will be posting a video of the race, perhaps later that same day.

The race will be themed, and I will ask that you wear a certain outfit. The outfit will be provided, but I ask that you return it after the race. The race itself is simple and short, but it should be entertaining. 🙂

Have a great day, and I hope to see you all again soon! 🙂

Label was in town today, and she wanted to see me in a goth outfit.

She gave me a skull tee, and I put it on. I didn’t really have anything else to go with it, so I just spoke to her again. She said she liked my outfit (but she clearly wasn’t overly impressed), and she said she’ll be sending me a gift in the mail. That will be another tailors ticket.

When I visited Hornsby, he told me that “the bugs” heard me walking towards his house. So he apparently has bugs that spy on me for him? 👀 And this isn’t the first time he’s made a weird comment about his bug friends. Hornsby seems a bit weirder in New Horizons than he did in New Leaf or on GameCube…

Agent S was thinking about moving out of town, but I convinced her to stay. She’s my favorite villager in town, after all!

It was raining again in Forest today, thanks to it being the rainy season. I took advantage of the weather and caught a coelacanth. It, along with a couple of sharks I also caught, helped me make enough money to reach my goal: Paying off my final loan to Tom Nook! That’s right, I’m finally free and no longer in debt!

As for my reward for fully paying off debt? (Spoiler alert: Skip the rest of this paragraph if you don’t want to know what the reward is). Tom Nook doesn’t give us a statue like on GameCube, or a flagpole on our house like in City Folk. But he does offer free exterior renovations for life! That’s nice to have, even if it’s not something tangible.

I decided to finally remodel my house, and this is the look I went with.

I’ve been working on my race course and it’s coming along. But at this point, I’m mainly waiting on some items to arrive. It’s going to be a few more days until I have everything I need, because Nook Shopping has a five-item daily limit.

And just to let you know, I’m not sure if there will be a Friday Night Forest this week. I’m leaning towards not having it, but I’ll try to update later in the week.

Today is the day that Keaton professed his love for me!

Well actually, he was just teaching me the showmanship reaction. But close enough. 😛

In older games, the challenge with flowers was keeping them watered so they didn’t die on days without rain. Fortunately, that doesn’t happen in New Horizons. But there is a different problem that has arisen: Removing the many unwanted flowers that pop up after a rain! I had a ton of them today, mostly on my paths.

And unlike in previous games, you can’t use your shovel to kill flowers! So it’s kind of a pain having to clean them all up. (But don’t get me wrong… this is still a much better “problem” to have than having to water hundreds of flowers every day!)

Despite the summer solstice and Father’s Day occurring this weekend, neither one was mentioned in the game. In earlier games, you would receive a letter and a gift from Dad on Father’s Day. And the summer equinox had its own event in New Leaf. But they are just two of many conspicuous absences in New Horizons.

After I was done with my daily tasks, I started working on my new attraction. I think I’ll just call it a race. Even though it may have a few simple obstacle course elements, it’s different. For one thing, it’s not a one-on-one thing; it’s something everyone can compete on at once. I won’t reveal what it is until it’s done and I’ve had my first race on it. Hopefully that will be later this week, but I still need to order (and make) some more items. 🙂

In case anyone was wondering, my daily glowing spot appeared near the sumo ring today. It was another “clear” spot with nothing else around.

Note to whoever left a 10k bag of bells in town on Friday: Please don’t. I may use this as the prize for my first run of my upcoming race. But in the future, please don’t litter in Forest, even if it’s bags of money. 😛 I’m a stickler about wanting to earn my progress in the game on my own. If you really insist on giving me a gift, feel free to leave me pitfall seeds or party poppers. Those are fun things that don’t impact progress in the game, so I don’t mind them at all.

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Have a great day, and I’ll see you all soon! 🙂