Jeff's New Horizons Blog

K.K. Slider was in town last night, and I asked him for a random song. He played K.K. Samba for me, Tybalt, Rizzo, and Apple.

Today, Apple sent me a letter saying it’s important to be adventurous when it comes to fashion. As an example of such a bold fashion statement, she sent me…a paper bag.

As I began my daily chores around town (digging up fossils, catching snowflakes, etc.), I ended up breaking three tools (shovel, net, and axe) all within about a five or six minute span. Agghhh! It’s bad enough when any tool breaks, but when they break one after another, it’s really frustrating!

Today is a special occasion in Forest: It’s Rizzo’s birthday! So I attended his party, and Tia was also there for some reason.

For his present, I gave him the paper bag from Apple. 😂 Unfortunately, he did not put it over his head.

When I spoke with Tia, she said that me being there made her glad that she didn’t miss the party. Is that a subtle hint that she doesn’t like Rizzo either? 😉 I’m going to take it that way regardless. 😛

In the western part of town, I ran into Wisp for the first time in weeks. He quickly expelled his five spirits.

I began my search, and it took me about eight minutes to find all of his spirits. When I returned them to Wisp, he rewarded me with a sweetheart tank and shirt.

I shot down a balloon present and learned a DIY recipe for some iceberg flooring. I’m a bit floored that the winter recipe sets include several sets of wallpapers and carpets.

I worked on my winter/frozen race course for about an hour, and I made good progress. I have most of the obstacles planned out, although I still need to do a bit of crafting, testing, and fine-tuning in the coming days. I’m not even going to estimate what day it will be done, but don’t expect it until later in the week.

See you next time!

As soon as I started up the game today, I earned 3,000 Nook Miles for the Active Island Resident achievement: It’s for reaching my 300th day playing the game.

Jolly Redd sent me my wistful painting in the mail, and I quickly whisked it over to the museum. Blathers confirmed that it was the real deal. Even when I’m pretty sure a painting is real, I still get a bit nervous in those first few moments after handing Blathers the art. 😛

Up near the campsite, I ran into C.J. He asked me to catch three big-time fish in a row to complete his seasports challenge. I saw a big fish shadow right there behind him, so I fished it out…and it was a big-time fish, alright! Quite a big deal, in fact: It was my first stringfish!

I ran it over to the museum and made my 2nd donation of the day. Unfortunately, I still need ten more fish. I have not consulted a guide to see what I’m missing, but I have a feeling that many of them are early-day fish (since I rarely play in the morning or early afternoon). I’ll need to work on that in the coming weeks and months.

Anyway, I also caught a sturgeonfish and a dab to complete my fishing challenge. C.J. paid me 15,450 bells for them. I caught a few more fish, grabbed a few fish from storage, and returned to C.J. He informed me that fish can’t throw snowballs. Um… okay? 😕

I sold him four more sturgeon, a pond smelt, a crucian carp, and a koi for 66,840 bells.

In the western part of town, I started removing Candy Cane Lane. Midge came over to talk, and she used her new catchphrase for me.

I shot down a balloon present and learned a DIY recipe for a snowflake wall.

I’m in the early stages of planning a new race for the western part of town. I’m not hosting Friday Night Forest this week, but perhaps I’ll have my new race ready for next week.

Yesterday, Gullivarrr sent me a sea captain’s coat in the mail. I tried it on, and I like it better than the pirate outfit I was using before. So I made this my new pirate wand outfit.

When I visited Keaton, I saw that he’s been stacking fish! Not in his pockets, but in his house!

It reminded me of the early days when I had to stack my catches waiting for the museum to open up. 😛

Today, I was thrilled when Bones sent me a work of art (a solemn painting) in the mail! I was just thinking recently that he’s now my 2nd favorite villager on the island, behind Agent S.

Unfortunately, Blathers informed me that it’s a forgery. But it still helps me out, because I didn’t have a photo of the solemn painting in New Horizons yet. And now I’ll know what the fake looks like.

There was a camper at the campsite, Monique the snooty cat. Not only do I strongly dislike Monique due to our history on GameCube, but she recently moved into my ACCF town. So there’s no way I was going to invite her to move in. In fact, I’d rather be stuck with Rizzo than have Monique around!

Midge asked for a new catchphrase to replace “with wings,” so I told her to say “for lunch” instead. She didn’t use it in a funny way yet, but I’ll be sure to include a screenshot when the time comes.

Hornsby wanted to move out of town. I grabbed him by the horn and told him he wasn’t going anywhere.

Fortunately, I got a second chance at a new painting today, because Jolly Redd was in town! He had a famous painting that was fake, a wistful painting that was real, a twinkling painting I wasn’t sure about, and a wild painting right half, which I also wasn’t sure about.

As much as I’d like to have the twinkling painting (Van Gogh’s Starry Night), I went with the sure thing (the wistful painting). I’ll be receiving it in the mail tomorrow.