Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Thursday

Yesterday, I was happy to see that Nook’s Cranny had a football for sale. That’s an American football, for those of you outside the U.S. Previous games did not have one of these (though they had football helmets), so this will make a nice addition if I make a football-themed room at some point.

My 7th bridge is now finished, and I attended the completion ceremony for it.

I visited Tia, and Agent S was also visiting her. The interesting part is that Tia started a sentence with my nickname (cupcake), but did not capitalize it.

I fished at a pond on the cliff, and I caught my first frog…as I was wearing my frog shirt!

Here are a few other quick notes about Thursday:

• Gulliver was in town, so I collected his communicator parts for him.
• I returned a lost item to Hornsby, and he gave me a raincoat.
• Louie taught me the flourish reaction.

I also returned to the site of my newest bridge, to put in a park! I re-routed the path, moved some trees, added some shrubs, dug out a pond, planted some flowers, and set up a swinging bench. I’m probably going to make more changes to it soon, but this is how it looks for the moment.

Friday

Keaton pinged me, even though we were on different levels of town! I didn’t realize they would/could do that. But he ended up teaching me the smirking reaction. The text accompanying it said “You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet,” which I thought was funny because Keaton’s head was blocking my view of my face, so I truly didn’t see anything yet. 😛

Just summary of what else happened in my first session of the day:

• Gulliver sent me a samurai wig in the mail today.
• A scorpion was threatening me from a lower level. I swung my net at it (from above), and he disappeared into the cliff below me.
• Saharah was in town; I bought a rock-climbing wall and crop-circles flooring. I sold the former and kept the latter.

Friday Night

Shortly after 10 p.m., I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Yusef, Ryan, Timo, Patrick, Jesse, Alex, and Logan came over. I took everyone on a quick tour of my newly-designed areas, including my new park (now with another streetlight).

Timo again started releasing multiple coelacanths and oarfish into my rivers! She must not need bells to keep throwing such valuable fish away every week. 😂

After that, we headed to the new (temporary) area I set up just for tonight…so that we could fall in holes. I dug the holes, and then had to dig them again after a false start. But we eventually fell in as planned.

I then realized I forgot to show everyone Apple Lane, so we visited the lane and the Apple. 😛 After that, everyone ended up on the beach somehow, and I suggested some musical chairs.

Several people didn’t seem interested, but played anyway…but some ran the wrong way or stood in the way of others, and I also got some rude comments about part of my town being downgraded? So there was certainly a negative vibe going on tonight, and it wasn’t a lot of fun.

Logan won the musical chairs tourney, so congrats, Logan!

After that, we all witnessed Timo catch another oarfish. The big fish must be drawn to her! 😀

I suggested a fishing competition, and one person objected. That’s fine, but that same person later used a net to scare away a fish I was about to catch (during the competition). I’ve said this in the blog before, but I’ll say it again: You don’t have to participate in every event in my town. But it’s not acceptable to interfere with others who do want to play. I let things like that slide the first time, but no more.

Most of my visitors were fine, but a couple people seemed to be bringing down the mood or seemingly sabotaging the things I had planned. So I plan on making some changes, and there likely won’t be a Friday Night Forest next week.

Anyway, Alex and Ryan won the competition, tied with 8 fish each in five minutes. We took a couple of group photos, we tried to vandalize my house, and then we hung out inside for a bit. I then ended the session around 11:20, which was the earliest I’ve ended so far in New Horizons.

I’m sorry tonight’s blog entry (and tonight’s play session) was a bit of a downer. But hopefully things will be better next time. I just don’t know when next time will be. 😛 But have a good night, everyone. Better days are coming. 🙂

Late last night, I asked Isabelle about my town rating, and she told me Forest now has a 4-star rating! ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I ordered a frog shirt from Nook Shopping, and it arrived today. Ribbit!

I saw this mounted black bass at Nook’s Cranny today, and it reminded me of a Filet-O-Fish commercial. And now that song is stuck in my head. 😛

Tia asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “oh banana,” which she learned from Louie. So I poured my heart out to her, and told her to say “in a cup” instead.

My latest bridge was finished, so I attended the completion ceremony for it.

I didn’t waste any time in commissioning the next bridge. It connects the Claudia/Rizzo wasteland with the main section of the island, just a bit northeast of town hall. It’s roughly in the center of the island.

This will be my 7th bridge, which is apparently just one fewer than the maximum allowed. But this is the last one I have planned, as I feel it connects the island pretty well.

I extended some paths, including one from the campsite northeast to Able Sisters and my new bridge. A customized angled signpost points the way to the tailors’ shop. I still need to add flowers on the other side of the path, but I really like the look of this new area. This part of town was so unremarkable before, and I feel like this change brings this part of town to life.

Hornsby commented on all the roads I built yesterday, and he asked if there’s someplace I need to go.

Wisp was in town, and I collected his five spirits for him. I asked him for a “new” reward, and he gave me a low screen.

Louie is settling into his new house location. But I have not moved my house over yet. I may wait on that a bit, at least until after Friday Night Forest. And yes, I plan on having FNF again this week. I even spent some time setting up a new area for us to fall into holes on Friday. 😀

There may not be an entry on Thursday, so check back late Friday night for the next entry. Have a great day! 🙂

Thanks to a tip from Hypernukeleosis Kirby on Youtube, I checked out my fountain at the top of the hour. While the hourly chimes are ringing, the fountain shoots water higher in the air. That’s a pretty cool feature! ⛲

The respawned money rock that I destroyed yesterday popped up right on my path. So I had to destroy it once again. But of course, this time was on purpose.

Today’s glowing spot also appeared on a path, near my sumo ring.

Flick was in town, so I ended up selling him all the bugs I caught tonight. That included at least five wasps I caught (all without getting stung, for a change). 😉

Rizzo taught me the sheepishness reaction, and I was so thrilled about it. 😛

The island designing bug has really bitten me lately. Shari’s house has been moved to the new street I made, and I took it a step further today. I made a new design, put it on a plain wooden shop sign, moved some trees around, and gave the street a name.

Apple Lane is a residential street lined with apple trees. Of course, Apple is one of the residents on Apple Lane. 🍎

I also forced Louie to move his house, so he will live to the left of Apple, starting tomorrow. I’ll still have to make sure some of the trees on the other side of the street are apple trees, and make changes if necessary. But I really like this new area. 🙂

Over by Able Sisters, I made some minor changes to the river layout and then decided to put in a new bridge. It will connect the Able Sisters area to the north-central area where Rizzo and Claudia live.

That’s all I have for today, but thank you very much for stopping by the blog! I hope you’re all enjoying New Horizons as much as I am! Have a great day, and I’ll see you again soon! 🙂