Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Yesterday, Midge informed me that she bought an extra gas range. I was fully prepared to buy it off her, but it wasn’t bells that she wanted. She wanted my whale shark! I begrudgingly agreed to the trade in the hopes that this will help me earn her photo. 😛

The empty house plot on Apple Lane had a “Sold!” sign on it. Tybalt the tiger is moving in. I’m pretty neutral about Tybalt; I haven’t seen much of him before.

Wisp was in town, so I gathered his spirits for him. In return, he gave me a groovy wall.

Today, Rizzo sent me a shirt in the mail. He told me to try it on and see what I thought. So I did…it was a holiday sweater! He really sent me a holiday sweater in July, when it’s not the holiday season, and it’s the middle of summer!

Gulliver was in town (regular Gulliver, not pirate Gullivarrr), and I collected his five communicator pieces for him. He’ll be sending me a gift in the mail tomorrow. I also earned 500 Nook Miles because that was the 10th time I’ve helped out Gulliver.

Nook’s Cranny had a popcorn machine for sale, and I bought it for my amusement park. I placed it next to the cotton candy machine.

At the plaza, I listened in on a conversation between Apple and Rizzo. Rizzo was getting annoyed because he didn’t understand Apple’s slang. 😂

While fishing at the pier, I caught my first blue marlin! That’s also how I lost my eye. .(

I then went to meet my new neighbor, Tybalt the tiger. He came from the town of Laverre: That’s where Ros lives.

I set up something different for Friday Night Forest: a treasure hunt. This is how it works: I hid a treasure somewhere in town–this time it was five gold nuggets. I set up patterns on the ground in various spots in town. Each one tells people where to go for the next clue. For example, one clue tells visitors to go to the end of my pier. There, you’ll see a message that says to go to my back room.

Oh, one more thing. In true jvgsjeff fashion, I buried pitfall seeds around town. So being the front-runner in the race to each clue wasn’t always an advantage, if you happen to fall into the pitfall first. 😉

At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Timo, Ros, Alex (from Pawnee), and Logan came over. I explained the treasure hunt and then I told them the first clue was on the frog race course. As they ran west, I headed east. I knew the next clue would send them to the pier, so I set up a camera near my pitfalls. Alex was first, and he passed right by the pitfalls. Logan wasn’t as lucky.

After Alex read the clue and headed for my house, I went to the next location, the campground. I again placed a camera to see the action when someone showed up, and I moved out of sight so I’d have time to reach the next spot ahead of the leader. This time, Alex fell into a pitfall and Timo and Ros caught up with him.

I scampered to the next location, getting there just barely ahead of Alex (who had retaken the lead). He fell into another pitfall, but he saw the final clue. He knew to go behind the lighthouse!

Since this was the final leg of the race, I was able to follow him to the lighthouse to witness him claiming his prize. Congrats, Alex! I plan on posting a video of this on Sunday, but I’m not sure if it’ll be part of Wi-Fi Moments 8 or a separate video of its own. But this was fun, and I’m sure I’ll do something similar again in the future. 🙂

Ros shared some gifts for all of us: cherry hats! Thanks Ros!

After Alex disconnected and returned (which he blamed on his cat), we ran two frog races. Logan won both times! Congrats, Logan and Logan! 😛

After roasting some frogs and posing for frog photos by the waterfall, we went to welcome Tybalt to town. As we did that, Ryan and Valentine came over. But Alex disconnected and then returned. 😛 And then Maria joined in too, so we had a full house.

Ros made enough cherry hats for everyone, which was really nice of her! We went swimming and diving, as a gang of cherry…zombies? Alex again disconnected and returned, and then Ros left about 11:30.

We went fishing in the pond and at the waterfall, stopped at Rainbow Road, and visited with Tia. While we were there, I noticed that Tia had an outfit in her refrigerator! That seems like a funny place to put clothes. 😛 But actually, I didn’t even realize that you could see what villagers had in their storage like this!

I went outside and pitfall’d Alex. Shortly before midnight, Valentine and Logan left. I kept the gate open until almost 1 a.m. though. But since this blog entry is getting long (and it’s very late as I’m writing this), I’m going to try to sum up the final hour in one quick paragraph. 😀

Alex laggingly pushed me through the entire amusement park, we visited Agent S and trapped Maria in a chair, we tried pitfall-less sumo with Apple, we jumped on pillars, Timo drowned in the ocean, Ryan and Timo stole my life savings (200 bells from trees), we chased down the thieves, and Alex posted this monstrosity to my bulletin board.

On that nightmarish note, I’m off to bed. 😛 I’ll be back with another entry on Saturday, and a video on Sunday. In the meantime, check out my recent video where I rank my favorite villagers by species if you haven’t seen it already.

See you next time! And Never Stop Crossing!

With Shari gone, it was weird seeing a vacancy on Apple Lane for the first time.

So I went on four mystery island tours, searching for new potential villagers. I met Willow on a money rock island, Bruce on a bamboo island, Soleil on a waterfall island, and Broffina on a spiral island. I did not want any of them. But at least I had some fun by pitfalling Soleil. 😛

Unfortunately, my capture device glitched right as Soleil was falling into the pitfall, so I don’t have a video clip of the sun setting on Waterfall Island. 😛

When I returned to Forest, Keaton asked me to catch a horned dynastid for him.

Flick was in town, so I used his bug-buying services a number of times throughout the day. I was actually looking for him before starting my horned dynastid search, but I ended up running into the dynastid first! So that was an easier task than I expected. I took the bug over to Keaton, and he gave me his photo!! Yes!

This is my 2nd villager photo so far (Tia’s photo was the first). I hung it up on the wall in my house. Keaton’s favorite quote is “Even in a room full of fools, someone is the smartest.”

Thanks for the photo, Keaton!

If Shari’s old house plot is still unclaimed tomorrow, I may go on some more mystery island tours. See you all next time! And for people on my Switch friend roster, I am planning on having Friday Night Forest this week.

Today was Shari’s last day in town, so I went to say goodbye to her.

Midge told me she had a fight with Hornsby, and she bought a gift to make up with him. She asked me to deliver it.

I took it over to Hornsby, and it was a kung-fu tee. 😀 Hornsby loved it, and he said he and Midge would be able to make up now. He gave me a globe for helping out.

Later on, Braxton from Nettle (aka Hedgy) came over to adopt Shari. I hope you enjoy having her, Hedgy! And I’m sure Shari will enjoy her new home! 🙂

Down on the beach, I caught my first horned hercules beetle! It took out my eye! 😛

I’ve finally decided to move Tia’s house (again). I’m putting her house next to Lopez’s house, near the entrance of my “secret” path to the north beach. I didn’t originally think there was enough room here, but there was. I did trim the cliff above though, just so there was space to walk behind her house.

I never came up with a name for this street. I once toyed with the idea of calling it Rizzo Road, but I decided against that. But it will now have three residents, just like Apple Lane. These houses are closer together than the homes on Apple Lane, however.

Moving Tia’s house will give me more horizontal space on the west part of town where I make multiplayer games. Even though this won’t affect the frog race, I’ll be able to use the extra space for the next thing I have planned.

That’s all for today, but I’ll be back again with more soon. See you then! Never Stop Crossing!