Jeff's New Horizons Blog

On Saturday night, K.K. Slider performed K.K. Dixie for me, Hornsby, Punchy, and Static. And over at the campsite, Bella the vampire mouse was camping out.

Marina was sick with a cold, so I got some medicine out of storage for her. After taking the medicine, she rewarded me with a broom and dustpan.

That made me wonder if she was just sweeping up some dust; maybe she just has allergies, not a cold! 🧹

Yesterday, I visited Marina again…and I wasn’t the only one. Hornsby was also there, “relaxing” on Marina’s toilet. I think he even wanted to take a nap right there. 😆

Today, C.J. was in town, and he wanted me to catch three big-time fish in a row for a seasports challenge. So I caught a yellow perch, red snapper, and a black bass. C.J. gave me 5,550 bells for the three of them. But I wasn’t done with him; I went home and got 30 fish out of storage (mostly sturgeon, football fish, and pike). He gave me over 300k for them all.

I found a lost item on the ground, and it turned out to be a shopping bag that belonged to Bones. He rewarded me with a knit hat for returning the bag.

See you all next time! 🙂

Yesterday, Gulliver sent me a candy-skull mask as my latest reward.

Tonight, I opened my gate at 10:00 for Friday Night Forest. Beth, Logan, Sam, Nami, Jac, Wiicked, and Bran came over–that’s a full house! I guess that’s what happens when I actually remind people about FNF on Twitter. 😛 The elves headed over to my new holiday area, where they could vault “into” a waiting sleigh. 😉

Meanwhile, Logan and Nami were horrified by my “puppy pod” that I mentioned last time. Nami even set up my execution! Do I really deserve to be executed when the puppy itself is still alive??

After a bit, we took a group photo with Santa.

We then headed to the other side of town for a bunch of vaulting races.

There was some confusion because some people thought you had to sit down at the end before raising the flag, but you don’t.

After we were done, we visited my newest neighbor, Punchy. He was surprised to have so many people in his house, but we were surprised to see he was dressed as an elf, just like most of us!

Jolly Redd was in town, and somehow we ended up near his ship. We almost formed the shape of a Christmas tree, although I don’t think it was intentional.

We later glitched into tubs, put green warts on an ocean sunfish, and worshiped at a pitfall shrine. 😛 Around 11:30, Jac and Wiicked left.

The rest of us had a ten-minute diving competition. I caught an abalone that somehow split into two! After bringing it up, the shadow was still underwater…and I caught it again! I’ve seen two people catch the same sea creature before, but I never caught the same thing twice like this. 😛

I ended up with 20 catches, which was good for 2nd place. Nami won the competition with a whopping 23 catches! Congrats, Nami!

After that, MaryAnn (aka Yann) came over to visit! Wiicked also returned, so we were back at full capacity again. I showed Yann my holiday area, and I took some photos.

Logan (who had been dressed as Santa for much of the night) dug holes underneath us. Fortunately, Nami came to our rescue. 😛

Yann also got to test out the vaulting pole course, which she enjoyed. Around 12:20, Nami and Logan left. Most of us remaining changed into Mario outfits. We visited Static, and I showed Yann the tub glitching. She was glad to see glitching still works; we always enjoyed glitching in the older games. 🙂

Around 12:35, I ended the session for the night. Thanks to all who came, it was fun! 🙂

I do want to give a shout-out to Xavier, who tried to join in tonight, but couldn’t get in. Sorry it didn’t work out this time! 🙁

On Sunday, Boyd the gorilla was camping at the campsite. There’s approximately a 0% chance that I’d ever willingly let him move into town. 😛

On Monday, I bought a puppy plushie to put in my science pod. Don’t worry, the puppy won’t drown. 😉 Just think of it as an inverted dogwood tree: The bark is on the inside. 😉

Yesterday, I bought an RC helicopter at Nook’s Cranny with the same idea in mind. I thought it would be funny if the helicopter could fly up through the top of the pod! But unfortunately, it wouldn’t even let me put the helicopter inside the pod.

I’ve been having snow flurries in Forest lately, which is certainly pretty and festive…

But sadly, the moisture creates dozens of new flower buds that I’m having to clean up every day…and that’s really annoying.

Today, I found a lost item (a book) on the ground, and I returned it to Punchy. He rewarded me with a ninja costume.

Gulliver was in town, and I dug up the five pieces of his communicator for him. He will be sending me a reward in the mail.

I went diving in the ocean later, and I found a scallop. Of course, Pascal popped up to ask for it, and I handed it over. He gave me a pearl, and also a funny comment about “Tuesday cake,” which he’d like to enjoy once (or twice!) a week. 😆

Even though I won’t be decorating my entire town for the holidays, I am working on decorating at least one small area. It’s just south of the castle, where my Wordle lights were.

Just to confirm, I do indeed plan on having Friday Night Forest this week (Friday at 10 p.m. Eastern time for people on my roster). If you plan on coming, please consider having my Elf outfit (and hat) available with you. The design codes are MO-5T5N-X2CX-LDPQ and MO-2TK6-2X69-44CH. You don’t have to wear it the entire time, but I would like to take some photos as elves at some point. 🙂

I posted a new video today, compiling some of my best and most memorable moments with sports balls (on GameCube) and snowballs (throughout the series). Even though most of the clips are from GameCube and City Folk, there are a few New Horizons clips as well. Check it out if you’re interested.