Jeff's New Horizons Blog

On Monday, I gave Midge a new catchphrase, “in the sky.” It’s one I’ve given her before, during her previous stint in Forest a couple years ago.

On Tuesday, Ketchup asked me to take her head bandages off her hands. Why weren’t the bandages on her head? 😛 I know I’ve seen this line of dialogue before from Agent S, but it still made me chuckle.

Flick was in town, and I had 26 bugs, worth a whopping 210,000 bells, to sell him.

Yesterday, I had Zoe the anteater as a camper. She’s one of the returning villagers that was around on GameCube, but wasn’t seen again until New Horizons 2.0. But I did not invite her to move in.

Gulliver was in town, and I agreed to help him out by digging up the pieces of his communicator. But that was a more difficult challenge than it was last time. That’s because four of the first things I dug up were manila clams, not phone pieces! I even dug up a 5th clam before finding all of the communicator parts. But today, Gulliver sent me a Dala horse in the mail.

Today was Ketchup’s birthday, so I made sure to attend her party. Instead of French fries, I gave her a Tomato Festival tee this year. 🍅

Fellow short peppy villager Agent S was also there to help Ketchup celebrate. She said she helped Ketchup decorate for the party, too. Aww, it’s cute to think of these two trying to hang up party decorations. 😆

Ketchup said this was her happiest day of the year. ☺️

A few other quick notes about this week:

• My savings balance reached 63 million bells on Sunday.
• K.K. Slider performed “To the Edge” for me, Bob, and Louie.
• I didn’t buy turnips this week, but I did get 50 free ones at the hospital. I sold them yesterday for a moderate profit.

See you next time!

On Wednesday night, Matthew invited me over to a party he was hosting. Nicky, Jesse, and Jac were there initially, and we were later joined by Logan, Nami, and Sam.

What Matthew didn’t tell me, but told everyone else, was that it was a Splatoon-themed birthday party! Just about everyone else had a superhero mask to look like an Inkling, or in Jesse’s case, a soft-serve hat in reference to a recent Splatfest. The best I could do was to change into my frog outfit, so at least I was semi-aquatic. 😛

Over by the beach, we spotted a couple of ocean sunfish, apparently squishing a whale shark. 😛

We hung out with some of the villagers, including Chai. She balanced a tea cup on her head for us. 😉

I turned myself into a Korok, and Nami did as well. Then she fell into one of the many pits that were buried around town. 😛

Before the party ended, we took a group photo. Thanks for the good time, everyone! And happy birthday, Matt! 🎂

Back in my town, I helped out Gullivarrr. On Thursday, he sent me another pirate bandanna in the mail.

Yesterday, Ankha gave me a new nickname, and it’s one I don’t think I’ve seen before: Gold star! Seems appropriate, given her apparent love of gold. 😛

When I visited Static, I found my two favorite purple villagers hanging out together. 🙂

C.J. was in town, and I sold him 258,000 bells worth of fish. That included three Napoleonfish, which I’ve been seeing a lot of lately. (And I still have one in storage.)

Today, Beth invited me over to compete in the Bug-Off in her town, Cassia. Maple was there, and she said she was on fire…referring to her bug-catching skills.

Beth’s town is so heavily decorated that there didn’t seem to be many bugs spawning! Or at least, that’s my excuse for losing two out of our three battles (with the other one being a tie). 😛

I also sold the rest of my turnips in Cassia for 91 bells apiece, which was much higher than my own price.

Later on, I returned the favor and invited Beth over to Forest for the Bug-Off in my town. She again won two out of three rounds, but at least I won once. 😛

At the end of the day, I checked with Flick to redeem my points. I had 66 points, and I used them to obtain a termite mound, a toy centipede, a bug wand, two spider doorplates, and an artisanal bug cage.

Due to the Bug-Off, there was no K.K. Slider concert tonight.

Over the weekend, I got to see Bob’s house now that he’s all unpacked. Of course, it wasn’t really a surprise what his house looked like. I’ve seen him in other towns, after all…not to mention every other Animal Crossing game. 😆

He was working out, perhaps trying to show off for me. 😛

I went diving and caught a scallop. Of course, that caused Pascal to pop up and ask for it. His words of wisdom were about tuna this time. 😛

I love that I’m still getting new Pascal dialogue 3+ years into the game. Even if it’s only because I haven’t done tons of diving after earning all of the diving achievements.

I found Bob sitting on the bench outside of his house on Sunday night. He told me he was feeling creeped out, or maybe gassy. 😆 I’m glad he’s already comfortable enough with me to say things like that already. 😛

He was really just scared because Wisp was in town, though. (Wisp gave me a zen low table after I helped him out.)

But then Bob said he was also smelling things that he doesn’t normally smell. Hmm, I don’t think ghosts have any odor, do they? Maybe Bob really was gassy, after all. 😆

Yesterday, Flick was in town, and I sold him 24 bugs for 164,000 bells.

The Nooklings’ price for turnips has been going up and down this week (I bought them for 95 bells apiece on Sunday.) So when they hit 133 bells today, I decided to sell 1,700 of them…enough to ensure I wouldn’t lose money this week. And I still have 730 (including 30 from the hospital) to sell if the price jumps up more.

As for my next obstacle course (where the vaulting course was), I have some ideas in mind. But I haven’t really started on it yet. So it probably won’t be done in July, to be honest. But maybe in August, in time for a Sunday Night Fireworks one week? We’ll see. 🙂