Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Today is the day that Keaton professed his love for me!

Well actually, he was just teaching me the showmanship reaction. But close enough. 😛

In older games, the challenge with flowers was keeping them watered so they didn’t die on days without rain. Fortunately, that doesn’t happen in New Horizons. But there is a different problem that has arisen: Removing the many unwanted flowers that pop up after a rain! I had a ton of them today, mostly on my paths.

And unlike in previous games, you can’t use your shovel to kill flowers! So it’s kind of a pain having to clean them all up. (But don’t get me wrong… this is still a much better “problem” to have than having to water hundreds of flowers every day!)

Despite the summer solstice and Father’s Day occurring this weekend, neither one was mentioned in the game. In earlier games, you would receive a letter and a gift from Dad on Father’s Day. And the summer equinox had its own event in New Leaf. But they are just two of many conspicuous absences in New Horizons.

After I was done with my daily tasks, I started working on my new attraction. I think I’ll just call it a race. Even though it may have a few simple obstacle course elements, it’s different. For one thing, it’s not a one-on-one thing; it’s something everyone can compete on at once. I won’t reveal what it is until it’s done and I’ve had my first race on it. Hopefully that will be later this week, but I still need to order (and make) some more items. 🙂

In case anyone was wondering, my daily glowing spot appeared near the sumo ring today. It was another “clear” spot with nothing else around.

Note to whoever left a 10k bag of bells in town on Friday: Please don’t. I may use this as the prize for my first run of my upcoming race. But in the future, please don’t litter in Forest, even if it’s bags of money. 😛 I’m a stickler about wanting to earn my progress in the game on my own. If you really insist on giving me a gift, feel free to leave me pitfall seeds or party poppers. Those are fun things that don’t impact progress in the game, so I don’t mind them at all.

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Have a great day, and I’ll see you all soon! 🙂

Nook’s Cranny had a diner neon sign for sale today. It’s the large neon sign that says “We’re open,” and I’ve wanted one for my amusement park since the beginning. Surprisingly, it only cost 3,900 bells, when many smaller, less interesting items often sell for 40k or more. But I’ll take it! I placed it just left of the teacups ride, though I’ll probably need to put some flowers around it as well.

The daily glowing spot’s streak of appearing in Sudden Valley has ended. I found it in front of the museum today. It must prefer places where there’s clear space all around it, since this is a rare spot in town where my path is three spaces wide.

It was raining pretty heavily today, and Apple’s enthusiasm for the rain went a bit overboard. She said it would be great if it rained so much that the island sunk! She assumed we would all turn into mermaids, but still, that’s a horrible thing to hope for! I’ve put a lot of time and effort into making this island a nice place to live, so don’t wish that it sinks, Apple! 😡

Saturday night is K.K. night, so I joined Louie, Agent S, Shari, and Midge at the plaza. K.K. performed K.K. Swing for all of us.

After the show, I attended the completion ceremony for my 4th incline. I found it interesting that there were villagers standing on all three levels for the ceremony! I don’t know if Rizzo, Lopez, and Hornsby even knew what was going on! 😉

Once I was done making my rounds, I started tearing down my obstacle course. Here’s what it looked like before…

And here’s the after pic.

I just left the water areas for the moment, because I may re-use some of them. Even though I know basically what I’m doing next, I haven’t decided on the specifics. I’ll be working on that over the next few days, most likely.

Yesterday, I had Breezy over to try my obstacle course. I also gave her a little tour. She hadn’t visited since back on Day 3, so my island has changed a bit since then. 😉 Unfortunately for her, I also managed to pitfall her. 😛

Breezy brought me an iron garden bench, which I put in Peach Park after she left. It looks nicer than the swinging bench I had there before.

Two quick notes about yesterday: C.J. was in town, and I completed his challenge. And the daily glowing spot was in Sudden Valley for the 5th day in a row.

Today (Friday), Saharah was in town. I bought the mysterious wallpaper (dojo wall) and flooring (floral rush-mat flooring) from her.

There was a scary mask at Able Sisters today, and it was staring at me! It was called a Noh mask, and it was so creepy-looking that I just had to buy it.

Lopez was hanging out at the campsite all day, but he forgot to bring a tent. He did bring a flea though, so I saved him from the itching.

The daily glowing spot was in Sudden Valley again today. That makes six days in a row now. 😛

I commissioned a new incline going up to Eagle Mountain, so Keaton will finally have a way down from his house without having to use his wings. 😛 I paid it off, and it will be completed tomorrow.

Shortly after 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Ryan (from Petal Burg), Timo, and Ros came over to visit. I showed them all my new campground area…including Lopez, who hadn’t moved from that spot all day!

We walked past the campsite, jumped over my “secret path,” and discussed the possibility of playing sumo on Spectacle Rock. 😀 About 10:30, Logan also joined in. We discussed Animal Crossing features, we trapped Shari on the dock, and we pushed Rizzo into his jail cell. I left the back of the cell open this time, so that we could push him in (and just dig holes to lock him in).

I informed everyone that the obstacle course will be gone by next week, so I let them race on it one last time. Around 11:30, Nami joined in. Before her obstacle course run, she changed into a baby outfit. That was funny, because Logan had been dressed like a baby earlier in the night. We figured they should race against each other. Baby Ga-Ga vs. Baby Goo-Goo.

We had a tournament, and Ryan was the winner. Congrats, Ryan! And thanks to all who have enjoyed the obstacle course. The next thing I have planned won’t be as complex, but I hope it will be fun too! No promises, but I might offer people a chance to be among the first to try it on Twitter at some point next week.

Around midnight, we went up to the campsite for photos.

Shortly after that, I ended the session. Thanks to everyone who came, I had a good time! 🙂 I’ll be back with another blog entry tomorrow. Bye for now!

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