Jeff's New Horizons Blog

The spring fishing tournament was held today, and many of my villagers were standing near the river, trying to fish. All while wearing their fishing hats, of course. 😛

I wasted no time, and started competing right away. I played a total of eight rounds, scoring 7, 6, 8, 8, 9, 7, 7, and 9 points. I did not use any fish bait.

After my 7th round, C.J. informed me that I had accumulated a total of over 200 points combined. He will be sending me a prize in the mail.

But more importantly, I caught three new fish that I needed for the museum! That included the neon tetra, pop-eyed goldfish, and a guppy!

Once I was done, I redeemed most of my 62 points for prizes. I scored an anchor statue, two fish umbrellas, two tackle bags, and a fish doorplate.

Later on, I went diving and found a scallop. I gave it to Pascal, who said that an octopus having eight arms means they get eight ice cream cones?

I’m not sure why they would get eight ice cream cones, though. It would still just have one mouth. I guess I’ll have to just take Pascal’s word for it. Maybe he knows more octopi than I do.

When I ran into Hornsby (while I was holding a net), he said that he’s always known bug-catching was the hobby for me. He’s seen other people who he thought shouldn’t be using a net at all. 😛

K.K. Slider was not in town tonight because of the tournament. I imagine he’ll be in town tomorrow night instead.

Update: After a couple hours of listening for balloon presents and shooting many of them down, I finally got one more cherry blossom recipe, for the cherry-blossom umbrella. 🌸

Saharah was in town today, and I decided to buy everything she had (except for the small rug). She sold me a fossil rug, red argyle rug, sky wall, and rocky-mountain flooring. I ended up keeping all of them, and I particularly liked the fossil rug.

One of my Nook Miles+ goals was to dive for three sea creatures, so I decided to do that right away. But two of my first three dives yielded pearls! Not from Pascal, but pearls right from the sea. Those are usually pretty rare. But they don’t count as sea creatures, so I had to make five dives to complete that task. 😛

JeabNS submitted a new cap pattern, in honor of Forest, for my designs page. The code is MO-0QRV-3MP4-8592 if you’re interested. Thanks, JeabNS!

I bought a throwback skull radio at Nook’s Cranny, wrapped it up, and gave it to Apollo as a gift. He liked it so much that he gave me his photo!!! What?!

He’s only been in town for about 7 weeks, so I’m quite surprised that I earned his photo already! But I will gladly accept it! 😛 I put it in my house to take a look at it, and his favorite quote is “What goes up must come down.”

That’s my 12th villager photo overall, and I put it up on my wall with the others. Thanks, Apollo!

I walked over to the beach to listen for balloon presents as I worked on my site and wrote most of this blog entry. One of the balloons I popped gave me a DIY recipe for a blossom-viewing lantern. This is just my 2nd cherry blossom recipe of the year.

Reminder: No Friday Night Forest tonight, but I will be back with another blog entry tomorrow for the fishing tournament. See you then! Have a good weekend! 🙂

Yesterday, Gullivarrr was in town. I went diving for his communicator and returned it to him. While diving, I also caught a scallop, which caused Pascal to pop up out of the ocean and ask for it. He told me that he wishes for world pizza. Sounds good to me!

Today, Gullivarrr sent me this pirate outfit in the mail. I’ve received one of these before, but this is a different color (blue). For some reason, the blue stripes seem a bit less pirate-y to me, but arrr, what do I know?

I visited Tybalt, and he was talking about his bell cricket. He’s apparently jealous of bugs, because some insects can lift a hundred times their own body weight. 😛

Celeste was hanging out up on Eagle Mountain, even though I hadn’t heard any shooting stars to that point (though I did later). She gave me a DIY recipe for a hyacinth wand.

C.J. was also in town, but I didn’t even speak to him. I guess I just wasn’t in the mood to fish.

Midge asked me to catch a stinkbug for her, and I agreed to help out. Request favors don’t show up every day, after all. But I had a hard stinkin’ time finding the bug! 😛 Fortunately, I did eventually catch one before Midge headed to bed.

She rewarded me with some farmer overalls. Kinda disappointing overall.

I shot down a few balloon presents, but I didn’t get any more cherry blossom recipes. So I’ve only received one this year, and there are only two more days to go! I guess it’s going to take me several years to get them all. 🌸

No Friday Night Forest this week.