Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Gulliver was in town today, and he again made a space reference to his UFO-piloting days in Wild World and City Folk.

I helped him out by recovering his five communicator pieces for him. He will send me a reward in the mail.

My frog race course is causing some problems for me. Two of my fossils today were buried in awkward places like this:

It wouldn’t let me dig them up diagonally, so I had to use the island designer app to fill in some water spots with land so that I could dig them up. I could avoid this problem by using certain types of paths (stone or wood) on those spaces, but I don’t want to do that. It wouldn’t really fit the theme of the frog race itself.

I suppose I could use an invisible pattern there… but that could cause a different problem: Kicking off the pattern during a race when trying to run. So I’ll just deal with the occasional inconvenience for now.

Nook’s Cranny had an arcade fighting game for sale, so I bought it…even though it cost an absurd 64,000 bells.

I put it in my arcade at the amusement park, replacing the dart board.

I’ve been noticing a number of blue pansies popping up, so I’ve decided to put them around Hornsby’s house. Even though he currently has pink cosmos around his house, that’s only because I mistakenly thought that was Midge’s house a while back. Oops. 😛 So Midge will now get those pink cosmos.

July is here now, so that means lots of new bugs are out! I caught and donated a horned dynastid, miyama stag, walking leaf, saw stag, cyclommatus stag, and earth-boring dung beetle. It’s weird seeing a dung beetle in the summer, even though it’s not the snowball-pushing kind.

I also caught a new fish, the Napoleonfish.

There are still more new creatures to catch, but the peak season is just beginning. It’s going to be a lucrative summer, and much museum progress will be made. 🦉

My third gold rose is budding, as are a bunch of new blue hyacinths.

That’s all for tonight, but the game update is coming tomorrow night! In less than 24 hours, I may be swimming for the first time! See you then!

It was raining yet again today, and I’m really sick of the rain at this point. Louie summed it up well, and I 100% agree with him on this.

Apple was also discussing the weather. She said she should throw a rainy-day party, where we could all dress as our favorite clouds. I think I’ll be Lakitu’s… uh… vehicle?

Hornsby wasn’t in good shape today. He had a big itchy tongue after eating fish? It sounds like he’s allergic to fish, although he was apparently just reacting to a flea being on him.

C.J. was in town, and he had a challenge for me. He asked me to catch three “big-time” fish in a row, about the size of a zebra turkeyfish.

My first fish actually was a zebra turkeyfish, and then I also caught two sea bass. I completed the challenge, but C.J. doesn’t really have a proper reward for me. However, he does offer to buy my fish at a good price. I sold him all that I had, and then I returned to him a few minutes later after I caught a great white shark. He paid 22,500 bells for it!

Yesterday, I finished fixing up the Frogger-style road part of my frog race. Now, no matter which spot you start from, you’ll need to squeeze through at least three tight spots between “cars.” That will keep everyone from breezing right through this section.

Up on the cliff, I spotted my first lily-of-the-valley (previously known as Jacob’s ladder)! That’s the sign of a perfect (5-star) island, so it’s nice to finally see one! 🙂

Lopez asked me for a new catchphrase, and I was trying to think of something new that I haven’t used before. So I (eventually) told him to say “so I lied.”

Today, Rizzo was sick with a cold. I got some medicine out of my storage for him, because I want him to get well soon. And I’m not kidding, either. I want him to be healthy and outside so I can pitfall him again! 😉 He gave me a security uniform in return. That would be fun to wear the next time I put him in jail. 😛

Saharah was in town again (why can’t Gulliver or Redd show up this often?). I bought the mysterious wallpaper and carpet from her, and they turned out to be a ramshackle wall and lobby flooring. Installing the wallpaper resulted in a notice that any items overlapping the windows were sent to storage. I wish it would have warned me ahead of time and not just done it automatically. 😕

Tia wanted to trade for my gar, but she refused to tell me what she would give me in return until I agreed to the trade! I like Tia a lot, so I went along with her offer…but it did not work out in my favor.

I spent some time grinding for Nook Miles, even though I don’t need Nook Miles. I just wanted to reach the 300k milestone. And I did. 😛

A few other quick notes about today:

• I found a new gold rose budding (my 2nd one overall, but 1st since I got my gold watering can).
• Tia wanted to move out, but I stopped her.
• I caught my first piranha and donated it to the museum.

Here is my latest New Horizons episode, covering events up through Friday.

Since I’ve now achieved five-star status and my video series is (essentially) caught up after being nearly a month behind, I think it’s time to get serious about a town tour video.

But I do want to make at least one more significant addition before recording the tour…something that I won’t show in the blog (just so that even the blog readers will have something new to see in the tour video). The only problem is that I don’t know what that addition will be! 😂 I do have one possibility in mind, but I’m not sure if I’ll go with that or something else. I’m going to think about it.

FYI, I am planning on having Friday Night Forest this week. We can all swim together!