Month: January 2022

In the mail today, I found a pirate-treasure crown from Gullivarrr and a (fake) basic painting from Hornsby.

When I visited Marina, I was shocked to find her dusting her cupcakes! 😮 And no, that’s not a euphemism for something, she was literally dusting her cupcakes. 😛

When I spoke with her, she gave me some outdoor shorts to wear…in a snowstorm. Yeah, I think I’ll pass on your dusty cupcakes and snowy-weather shorts.

Before long, I headed over to Apple’s house to say goodbye to her. I’ll miss you, Apple! Best of luck to you!

Over at the plaza, I joined Eloise, Hornsby, Apollo, and Sasha for a K.K. Slider concert. He performed a song called Chillwave for us all.

Later, I went out to Lottie’s island to work. My buddy Tybalt was there, and he was talking about a place for his bat collection. 🦇

I was imagining a remote bat-cave for him, and then the next screen showed the title of his request: A Slugger’s Dugout. He was talking about baseball bats. ⚾ 😛

For the first time, I actually put some effort into the yard. I added some stadium lights, fences, a cooler box, and some bottled beverages.

But there actually aren’t many baseball specific items, at least in terms of furniture. There is a baseball set (bat, ball, and glove together in one item)…and not much else. So I had to use cushions for the bases and home plate. It may not be a home run, but I am pleased with how it turned out.

Indoors, I used the stadium wall and backyard lawn to replicate the feel of a stadium. However, I wasn’t going to make another baseball diamond indoors. He can go outside to play. Indoors, I gave him a 50-inch LCD TV, a couple of throwback mitt chairs, a couple of plastic benches, a treadmill, and a few other baseball-related touches.

Niko showed up to tell me how to polish furniture, and then I wrapped up my time in Happy Home Paradise. Lottie paid me 6,000 Poki for my work. She then disappeared, and I found her by a building outside. She mentioned using some other buildings as facilities…starting with this building as a possible school.

She said we’re going to need more clients to build these facilities, so that means I have more work to do here on Lottie’s island!

Marina suggested a new nickname for me today, “lollipop.”

She’s the one covered in suckers, but I’m the lollipop? 😛 🐙🍭

Gullivarrr the pirate was washed up on the beach today, and I went diving to retrieve his communicator for him. He’ll send me my reward in the mail tomorrow.

At Nook’s Cranny, I spotted a cool new “FREE” sign! Well, it’s actually called a tabletop POP display, but it says FREE!

I bought a couple of them. This will be great to put by my recipes I’m giving away. But it can also be customized to say other things too: It can say “50% off,” “New,” “Special Offer,” “Best Choice,” or “No. 1.” Or it can be customized to display a pointing finger, a heart, or a custom design. 👍

Apple told me that she was thinking of moving away, and I told her to go for it.

I like Apple, but she’s had a nice long stay in Forest (1 year, 8 months). I’ve been ready to let her go, even since before Tia left.

I’ve decided to expand and re-theme my castle, so I started ordering some more castle walls and other items I’ll need.

In my basement, I finally cleaned up the mess of gyroids on the floor and hung them on the wall instead. Here’s my collection of 37 gyroids:

Hornsby asked me to deliver an explorer shirt to Sasha. He didn’t seem thrilled with it, but he put it on regardless. To thank me, Sasha gave me the tank he was just wearing. He even said it was still warm, which didn’t exactly make it sound that appealing. 😛

My Smile Isle achievement progress is currently at 258/300. So I still have 42 more favors to go! 😛 Have you all completed it already?

I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow. Hope to see you then!

On Sunday, Tom Nook sent me a letter telling me that he was refunding 2,500 Nook Miles that I previously spent on the Pro Decorating License. I certainly wasn’t expecting anything like this, but I’ll take it.

K.K. Slider was in town (after being bumped from his usual Saturday show by the fishing tournament), and he performed K.K. Fugue for me and Apollo.

Later on, the concert was more crowded. Sasha said that on sunny days, the sky is blue like a “blue-flavored ice plop?” 😕

Well, blue isn’t a flavor, for one thing. And it’s an ice pop, not an ice plop. 😠

Today, I found Candi camping at the campsite. I’ve had her in my GameCube town forever, and I’m not a fan. Besides, something about her looks off in this game. Her eyes look too small, they seem to be up too high, and her rosy cheeks(?) are too pronounced, making them look like giant zits that are about to burst. She looked better on GameCube.

I took a boat ride out to a mysterious island, and I was surprised by a rock there. The first two times I hit it, gold nuggets came out! I thought I discovered a gold rock island or something. 😂 Subsequent hits didn’t yield any more gold nuggets, but still, this was the first time I’ve ever got two gold nuggets from a single rock! 😀

See you all again soon! Have a great day!