Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Poor Punchy was sick with a cold today, and he felt like a “total blob.” 😛

So I bought some medicine for him, and he started to feel better. He rewarded me with a light-up flower crown.

Louie, Midge, and Ankha were grilling some vegetables in the plaza. The food smelled delicious, but they didn’t offer me any. 🙁

I caught an ocean sunfish, and that will probably be the last one I get before they go out of season this weekend. If you don’t have one to keep in storage, you only have a few days left!

Pippy the bunny was camping at the campsite. She’s nice, but I did not attempt to adopt her.

Ketchup was talking about the moonlight tonight, and I’m not sure if this dialogue was about the full moon coming up soon or not. But she was afraid of “werefish” and vampires coming out at night. 😛

When I saw this patchwork low table at Nook’s Cranny, I knew I just had to buy it for Bob. It’s colorful (and blocky), so it reminded me of the kiddie furniture that Bob loves throughout the series.

Bob appreciated the gift, and he gave me a checkered sweater vest in return. One of these days, he’s going to give me his photo. Just not today.

Yesterday was Ankha’s birthday, and I attended her party; Midge was also there. But when I gave Ankha a gift, things got awkward in a hurry.

That’s because I gave her some golden dishes. And apparently, she already had some. Oops.

She said it was the thought that counts, and she tried to be nice about it, but I could tell she was disappointed. Oh well, I’m sure it wasn’t the first time she’s been disappointed in the past 3,000 years. 😛

Flick was in town, and I sold him 16 bugs for 105,750 bells. It would’ve been more, but I accidentally scared off a goliath beetle.

Today, I spoke with Agent S with a vaulting pole in my hands, and she had a whole bit of dialogue about a vaulting pole she owned before. It was called StickThing, and she sang me the whole jingle. 😆

I headed over to Jesse’s town of Farmington tonight. I was the first guest to arrive, but we were soon joined by Nicky and Jac. But Jac spent a long time on “brb,” since he was eating. So he ended up eating dirt, and some fire too. 😛

Jesse had a pumpkin patch in his town, and it reminded me that I should decorate at least a small part of my town for Halloween as well.

After a while, Matthew also arrived in Farmington. Jesse had lots of food, and we all stuffed ourselves.

But I must have choked on something I ate, because I turned blue!

After that, I died (or at least disconnected). When I rejoined everyone, we got some coffee at the Roost, and then we went over to the sumo ring. We started off with a 5-player match, and Nicky won. Congrats, Nicky!

After that, we had a few one-on-one battles, tournament style. Matt beat me, Jesse defeated Nicky, and then Jesse beat Matt for the championship. (Jac sat out because he was afk again.)

After some of us visited a few villagers, we went up to Jesse’s house. We played 1-2-Switch…by switching Switches on and off. Such a great game. 😉

We hung out in Jesse’s basement casino for a while. But when we tried to leave his house, we got stuck on black loading screens for several minutes. After that, I returned home for the night. But thanks for hosting, Jesse! And thanks to everyone who came, it was fun! I need to host my own party at some point…maybe in October if I ever finish my obstacle course. 😛

On Monday, Ketchup gave me a D.I.Y. recipe for a shell music box. It was one that I didn’t have yet, believe it or not!

Midge asked me to visit her house, and I don’t normally bother with these requests. But this time, I was nice and I accepted the offer.

We played a game of High Card, Low Card, and I won a plain paperboy cap from her. I stayed a couple minutes, and then as I was leaving, she gave me her photo!

Even though I’ve earned Midge’s photo before, that was the previous Midge (that lived in Forest from 2020-2021). This was the first time that this Midge gave me her photo. 😛

Out on Lottie’s Island, there were lots of yellow-and-white flower petals falling from the sky! I’m not sure what this was all about, but I don’t remember seeing it before.

I had another good camper yesterday: Ribbot the robotic frog! It was tempting, but I ultimately chose not to kick anyone out. I wouldn’t mind having Ribbot in the future, though!

Tonight, I went diving and caught a scallop. Pascal popped up and started talking about bones and fossils.

Here are a few other quick notes about the last few days:

• Celeste gave me a large star fragment on Sunday night.
• Wisp gave me a checkout counter.
• Bob was sick with a cold on Monday, so I gave him some medicine. In return, he gave me a rumba costume.
• I helped out Gullivarrr, and he sent me another pirate outfit yesterday.