Jeff's New Horizons Blog

In honor of today being International Museum Day, Blathers is holding a “Stamp Rally” in the museum. The bug, fish, and fossil galleries each have three stamp stations set up. By getting a card stamped at each station, you can get a prize for each of the three galleries.

It gives people a nice reason to browse through the museum. If you haven’t visited your museum lately, you may be surprised to see all of your donations flying, crawling, or swimming around.

The stamp station in the “extinction spot” in the fossil exhibit points out a detail that you may not have noticed before.

It only took a me few minutes to collect all of the stamps. I like the fact that there’s an event in the museum, even if it is simple. Considering how much time and effort Nintendo spent making the museum so beautiful, it makes sense to give us ample reasons to visit and enjoy it! The stamp rally lasts through May 31st, so don’t worry if you didn’t get to it today.

The prizes are a fossil plaque, bug plaque, and fish plaque. I hung mine up on the back wall of my back room.

At Able Sisters, I bought a baseball shirt. It is baseball season, after all… Well, at least it’s baseball season season. 😛 Kicks was in town, so I also bought some cleats from him.

Over by town hall, Apple had some surprising news for me: She said she lost her voice trying to be a heavy metal singer!

Hornsby later pinged me and taught me the sorrow (crying) reaction. This can be a funny reaction to have when playing online.

I found Agent S sitting on the swinging bench near Hornsby’s house and the sumo ring. She told me that she’s never worn shoes before in her life!

I’ve been working on my Sudden Valley area a bit more: I carved out a separate area to the right, and I put the banana stand and magic stand in here. I included a sign that says “Free Chicken,” which is a reference to an illusion in Arrested Development. 🆓🐔

But I also made an even bigger change nearby. I decided to bring back the pillars that we used for jumping a couple weeks ago…and not just as a one-time thing. I plan on keeping it as part of my town. It’s not exactly the same as before, though…because I also put in a waterfall and a new mini-river that will flow down, near my sumo ring down below. Oh, and did I forget to mention Godzilla? 😀

We’ll have to get someone to activate Godzilla as we’re jumping past his flames.

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

In my park, the tulips I planted around the springy ride-on have bloomed. So here’s an updated picture.

In Sudden Valley (my Arrested Development themed area), I added a second stall. This one represents GOB, the magician. I put a magic kit and a bee (wasp) on the stand.

I’m still not totally happy with this area, and I need to make some changes to it. The problem is the main attraction I have planned is going to take me a long time to complete.

When I visited Midge, she told me to make myself comfy, or fly away! Her catchphrase worked out well in this situation. 🙂

Tia was thinking about moving away, but I quickly made her change her mind.

I forgot to mention this the other day, but I noticed that the Nook Stop has a seasonal Mother’s Day item, a “Thank-you Mom mug” for sale for 600 bells. It’s available until the end of the month, so remember to pick one up if you’re interested.

The area where Louie’s house used to be was still very bare. So I finally put in that path I talked about before, that goes from “Main Street” up to Apple Lane. I asked Tom Nook about moving my house, but there was a problem. I couldn’t move my house where I wanted, because the new spot would overlap with the old spot!

So that means I would have to move my house twice to get it where I wanted, and I didn’t want to fool with that right now. It’s not that urgent, and it seems like a waste of 100,000 bells.

Anyway, I spotted Wisp up on the cliffs. I collected his five spirits for him, and then asked him for something new. He gave me a floor seat.

Afterwards, I got a notification of a new achievement. That was apparently the 10th time I’ve helped out Wisp already! Time really flies on this island.

I then wrapped up my night in Forest. However, I posted a new Wi-Fi Moments video today, showing some fun online highlights from the past couple weeks. If you haven’t seen it yet, I hope you’ll give it a watch. 🙂

It was raining in Forest today, and Tia was enjoying being home with a good book and some…tomato juice? I thought for sure she was going to say a cup of tea.

I took advantage of the rainy weather by catching a coelacanth! It was just the 2nd one I’ve caught, but it was the first one I was able to sell. But it’s always fun to catch one of these, no matter what. 🙂

K.K. Slider was in town, and I found Midge, Rizzo, and Apple already enjoying the show. I asked K.K. for a random song, and he played K.K. Sonata for the four of us. It’s a sad song, but I like it.

While still wearing the frog shirt, I caught my first tadpole up on the cliff. I then used the island designer app to remove the waterfall section I made for last night.

When I shook a tree, wasps came after me. I quickly retreated to Sudden Valley, got my net out, and caught the wasp.

Rizzo was fishing by the river, so I built a stone wall to fence him in. 😀

I then used a Nook Miles Ticket to visit a mystery island, and I landed on the bamboo island. Definitely not one of my favorites. I collected some bamboo and other materials, but I didn’t stay there long.

Soon after returning, I wrapped up my game for the night. See you all next time!