Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Jolly Redd sent me the ancient statue in the mail today, and I rushed it over to the museum. Blathers confirmed what I thought: It was real. He put it on display, and I went to check it out.

While I was there, I saw Midge admiring the dynamic painting, so I waved hello.

I ran into Rizzo near the fountain, and he gave me an some old round shades.

But I also had a gift for him! I gave him a skull doorplate for him to put on his door. It’s not for Halloween, I just want the skull to serve as a warning to anyone entering his house. Or I could pretend it’s the symbol for poison…rat poison, to be specific.

At Able Sisters, I ran into Apple. She said she was studying fashion…or at least that’s what she’s claiming to be doing. For tax purposes. I think she must have attended the Yoshi School of Tax Evasion.

Saharah was in town today, and I cleaned her out for a change. I bought all three of her rugs, used the tickets for a mysterious wallpaper, and bought the mysterious flooring. The flooring and wallpaper were the imperial tile (which I put in my bedroom) and the sea view wall (which I put in storage).

I found a scallop (and Pascal) pretty quickly tonight, but the otter just gave me a pearl.

I did some dreaming last night, and I might do some more either late tonight or tomorrow. I’ve decided not to include that in the blog, though. Look for a new dreaming video by the weekend. At that time, I’ll also have a new page where you can submit and share your dream addresses. So stay tuned for that. 🙂

Jolly Redd was in town today, so of course I checked out the art that he had for sale. While I don’t look at art guides to find the answers, I do consult my own screenshots I’ve taken of the art I’ve previously encountered. The famous painting that Redd had today looked the same as a fake I previously bought. Two other paintings he had, I wasn’t sure about. However, I felt good about this ancient statue.

I’ve seen a different ancient statue before, and it had glowing eyes. I’m fairly sure that’s a fake. This one didn’t have glowing eyes, so I think it’s probably real. Please note that I’m not looking for any external help on these, I’m just explaining my own process.

As I was walking along my cliffs tonight, a ghost came out from around a corner. I was not expecting to see Wisp, and it actually scared me for a second! 😛

I collected his spirits for him, and in return, he gave me a lawn chair. Just one minute later, Keaton noticed my lawn chair and wanted to buy it. I sold it for 247 bells. So all that work searching all over town for Wisp’s spirits resulted in me scoring fewer bells than shaking one native fruit tree.

While I was near Sudden Valley, I decided to add a new attraction. It’s loosely based on a gag in Arrested Development. Technically, it should be a “severed” prosthetic hand, but Animal Crossing doesn’t exactly have one of those. So I put a skeleton in jail bars, along with a sign that says “he stole.”

The skeleton was previously in my house, but I didn’t need it after I remodeled. So I found a good use for him. 😛

While fishing in the river, I caught my first soft-shelled turtle. And of course, I donated it to the museum.

It also earned me 2,000 Nook Miles for being my 60th “fish.”

I then jumped off of Eagle Mountain and went diving for sea creatures. Unlike yesterday, I had no trouble finding Pascal today. I found a scallop on just my 4th dive of the day. Pascal was talking about asking trees what their five-year plans are.

He gave me a D.I.Y. recipe for a mermaid table. I also earned 1,000 Nook Miles for giving him a scallop for the 20th time.

Hornsby asked about moving out today, but I told him to stay.

I know I haven’t done much dreaming yet (only one town that first night to try it out), but I plan on doing more very soon! See you all next time.

Midge was talking about her yard today, saying she likes to keep it nice. I’ve actually helped her out by adding more pink cosmos along the paths near her house in the past week or so.

While I was out banging rocks today, I came across a gold nugget. When I picked it up, I learned a new D.I.Y. recipe for a King Tut mask.

It requires five gold nuggets, so I got them out of storage and made the mask right away. I ran with it, and fell after just a few steps. I kept running past Apple and Louie, falling multiple times. I couldn’t run more than a few feet in this thing! I know the mask has always been cursed, but the fall rate seems to be much higher in New Horizons compared to previous games.

When I spoke to Apple a moment later, she gave me some free moccasin boots. The interesting part is that she called herself my fashion godmother!

Keaton had a treasure hunt for me, but he warned me that it would be tougher than usual. That was true, because he only gave me three minutes to find the buried item, instead of the usual six.

After I fell (because of the King Tut mask), I knew I had to remove it. With my time already being limited, I couldn’t afford to keep falling on the ground. But still, it only took me about a minute and 20 seconds to find it! It was buried next to Rizzo’s house, on the path leading to the stairs by Rainbow Road.

I took it back to Keaton, and he opened it up for me. There was a garden tank inside.

I spent some time diving, filling up my pockets with sea creatures three times. But I didn’t find a single scallop in all that time. So no Pascal today.

I posted my fireworks festival highlights video this morning, as Wi-Fi Moments #9. If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. 🙂

Have a great day, and I’ll see you all next time!