Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Yesterday morning, I (very briefly) saw the first snowflakes of the season when I started up my Switch. But within seconds, the hourly chimes rang, and the snow stopped. I didn’t even have my capture software up and running yet, so I don’t have a screenshot. Hopefully I’ll get to properly see some snow fall in Forest soon!

Tonight, I was starstruck when I found Celeste in town! I was even happier when she taught me a D.I.Y. recipe for a lunar rover! I got some materials out of storage and made one for my space room upstairs. I like how it requires four old tires! Good thing I save all my trash in storage. 😂

In addition to the toys that Nook’s Cranny has been selling in December (such as the dollhouse today), I also noticed another holiday item for sale: a set of stockings.

I bought it for 2,000 bells and put it in my Turkey Day room. That room works well as a general holiday room, since the Turkey Day furniture isn’t really specific to Thanksgiving (or Franklin/turkeys).

I found Gullivarrr on the beach, but waaaay in the back of the eastern coast. Because he was behind the cliff, the camera shifted to an awkward, top-down angle when I spoke with him.

I went diving, and I found his communicator on my 4th dive. When I gave it back to him, he told me he’ll be sending me a gift in the mail tomorrow.

Midge asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “fly with me,” and I told her to say “with wings” instead.

My spoiled turnips finally bore fruit…well, not literally…but I used them to finally catch my first fly tonight!

I donated it to the museum, and I only need four more bugs…and one of those is the dung beetle, which will be available in just a few days!

FYI, I do plan on hosting Friday Night Forest this week for people on my friend roster. It will be the first New Horizons FNF in the snow!

Early this morning, I bought some turnips from Daisy Mae. Unfortunately, her price was a bit high his time, 105 bells per turnip. But I still bought 1,500 of them for 157,500 bells.

After putting the turnips in my house, I checked the mail. The Happy Home Academy sent me my latest evaluation, and I met my goal: 150k! Well, 153,353 points to be exact. Yay! 😀

The gold HHA trophy was attached to the letter. I wasn’t sure where to display it, since I no longer had a trophy room. But I just put it in the bathroom for now. 😛

There were no Nook Miles achievements earned, however. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I guess I thought there would be something else. 🤷

Later on, I checked out Nook’s Cranny for the latest toy. They had a kids’ tent for sale today. I bought a couple for gifts, but I also bought one for the campsite! I made the cliff a bit bigger to fit the tent on the left side, and I also added a campfire.

I may end up removing this area once I make another obstacle course or race, but I think it makes for a cute addition to the area in the meantime.

Able Sisters had a tiger jacket, and I thought it would look good on Tybalt. So I bought it for him; what do you think?

I found a lost item (a book) near my fountains. When I investigated, it just said “My Journal” on it, which wasn’t much of a hint. I asked Keaton about it (just because he was the first one I saw after finding it), and he told me it looked like Midge’s book. So I returned it to Midge, and she rewarded me with a zap suit. How shocking. ⚡

At the top of Candy Cane Lane, I found Wisp around 9:30 p.m. I had recently read somewhere (on a forum) that Wisp only appears after 10 p.m., so that clearly isn’t true.

When I went shaking trees to find furniture items, I found both items up on Eagle Mountain, not far from each other. What’s even more interesting is that the two items were a coffee cup, and a mug! I guess those two trees had a lot in common. Or maybe they were just sharing some coffee until I rudely came along and shook their cups out of their branches. ☕☕

I eventually found all of Wisp’s spirits, and he rewarded me with a pink-crown wall.

Before wrapping up my night, I wished on several shooting stars and did a little fishing. I didn’t catch anything new, though. See you all next time!

Yesterday, Gulliver sent me my latest reward in the mail, and it was a good one: A Sphinx! I put it on my beach for now, although this may not be its permanent location.

The toy on sale at Nook’s Cranny was a mini circuit (race car track). When I asked about turnip prices, Timmy told me he was buying turnips for 101 bells each. When it gets to be this late in the week, I’ll gladly sell them for a small profit rather than risk losing money. So I sold 1,200 turnips for 121,200 bells.

I didn’t realize at the time that I was neglecting to notice one stack of 100 turnips in a corner of my house! In fact, I didn’t notice until late on Saturday night (when I’m writing this blog entry) that I missed some! So in total, I only made about 3,000 bells profit instead of 13,000. But at least I didn’t lose money, I guess. And maybe I can use the soon-to-be-rotten turnips to catch myself a fly.

Anyway, I straightened up my town a bit and then updated my dream. So the dream version of Forest now includes Candy Cane Lane and the waterfalls (and other changes) at Peach Park. The dream address is 6717-1633-3682 if you’d like to visit.

Later on, I started working on my yard a bit. I took out my pumpkin plants and the fence around my garden. I also moved some flowers around, so that I had blue and black flowers in the area around my house (JVGS colors). 😛

I know roses and hyacinths may be an odd combination, but those are the blue and black flowers that I have the most of. As for the empty space where my garden was, I’d like to put in some holiday decorations there…once I find some! It’s disappointing that we don’t get Toy Day decorations at the beginning of the month, like we did for Halloween in October.

C.J. was in town, so I completed his “big-time fish” challenge by catching a dab, a sea bass, and a football fish.

I had a bunch of fish saved up, so I sold C.J. all of these fish (in three batches): 20 sturgeon, 10 pikes, 5 football fish, 2 barred knifejaws, a red snapper, a koi, and a ray. He paid me a grand total of 375,750 bells. I guess this makes up for my minimal turnip profit. 😛

Later on, Wisp was in town. It took me an unusually long time to find all of his spirits (about 13 minutes), although I was doing a little fishing in between. But when I returned them, Wisp rewarded me with an animal-stripes tee.

OK, so that was all yesterday (Friday). 😛 Today, I found Renee the rhino camping out at the campsite. I had no interest in asking her to stick around.

Nook’s Cranny had a puppy plushie today, and they’re so adorable! They run in place, wag their tails, and move their heads as they (quietly) bark. Breezy and I exchanged puppy colors: She sent me a beige one and I sent her a gray and white one. Thanks, Breezy!

Midge was finally using the bench near her house, and she asked me to join her!

But after a few seconds, she stood up and started exercising. 😛

K.K. Slider was in town, so I asked him for a random song. He played K.K. Flamenco for me, Bones, and Hornsby.

I went diving to fulfill a Nook Miles+ goal, and my 2nd catch turned out to be my 1st snow crab!

I took it over to Blathers so it can chill at the museum. Now I only need two more sea creatures! Looks like I may finish that collection before my fish or bug collections.

Tomorrow is HHA judging day. I hope that my two latest villager photos will push my score over the 150k mark. I’ll find out soon enough. See you next time!