Jeff's New Horizons Blog

On Sunday, I found Lucha the bird camping out at the campsite. But I wasn’t interested in wrestling with another villager (or throwing anyone out of the ring town).

Wisp was in town, and I returned his spirits to him. He gave me a flower tabletop mirror to thank me.

Today was Turkey Day, and I found Franklin the chef at the plaza.

He asked me to fetch some local ingredients for his food, but I stopped to speak with my villagers first. Most of them were hanging out at the plaza, just waiting for some food to arrive. Static said he prepared for the event by emptying his stomach.

Most of Franklin’s needed ingredients were things I already in storage, so making the four dishes was surprisingly easy for me. Here’s the full list of what he made:

• clam chowder (from three manila clams)
• pumpkin pie (from an orange pumpkin and a green pumpkin)
• gratin (from a flat mushroom and a potato)
• meunière (from a sea bass and a dab)

Franklin rewarded me with a Turkey Day rug, Turkey Day wall, Turkey Day flooring, and a cornucopia.

But of course, there was the option to improve the dishes by adding some secret ingredients. So I began helping out the few villagers who remained home to cook. By fulfilling their ingredient requests, we can get other ingredients in return.

They’ll also provide tips on what secret ingredients I may need. The pumpkin pie secret ingredient was easy enough: It was just the other two colors of pumpkins. But the other three secret ingredients eluded me for quite a while. I wasn’t having any luck catching them myself, but Rio eventually provided me with all three of them: a Dungeness crab, a scallop, and a barred knifejaw!

Rio is the true MVP of Turkey Day! I couldn’t have done this without her!

For tracking down all of the secret ingredients, Franklin rewarded me with some Turkey Day wheat decor, Turkey Day decorations, a Turkey Day table, and a Turkey Day hearth. And with that, my Turkey Day was complete. 🦃

I hope you all had a good Turkey Day (and/or Thanksgiving)! I’ll be back with another blog entry probably on Saturday.

On Thursday, I shot down a balloon present and found a D.I.Y. recipe for a tree’s bounty arch. Surprisingly, that’s one that I didn’t have yet!

Gullivarrr was in town, and I went diving to find his communicator. He thanked me by sending another pirate’s hat in the mail yesterday.

I found my newest neighbor Punchy enjoying some coffee at the Roost for the first time. It’s nice to see him enjoying Forest life. 🙂

Today, I found Ketchup sleeping in her house. She was dreaming about talking to a beetle on a spaceship. 🪲🛸

I attended K.K. Slider’s show tonight, and he performed Neapolitan for me. Rio, Agent S, and Sasha were also at the concert.

The harvest festival Turkey Day is coming up next Thursday, and my villagers are already looking forward to the event…and the food. 🙂

I might participate on Thursday, but I’m not 100% sure yet. Regardless, I’ll see you all again soon! 🙂

On Saturday night, I had Bran and Beth over for a few more vaulting pole races. (I needed more race footage for a video.) They raced three times, with Bran winning twice and Beth once.

Afterwards, they shopped, and then we went over to the plaza for K.K. Slider’s performance of Forest Life.

I later posted the video of some vaulting pole races. Check it out!

On Monday, I bought this curtain partition at Nook’s Cranny. It can be closed or open (slightly), as you can see here.

It’s a pretty cool item, and I can imagine hiding a skeleton or other spooky items behind it around Halloween. Or it could be funny to use it with some of the naked statues. 😆😆😆

Agent S asked me to catch a carp for her, and I agreed to help. It took me a bit longer than I hoped (mainly because I was looking in the river at first, not ponds), but I did eventually track one down. Agent S then rewarded me with another copy of her photo. 🙂

New Horizons got a new (minor) update recently, so I checked to see if they patched the glitch that lets us enter a bathtub (or an outdoor bath, which I recently installed on a cliff). Fortunately, the glitch still works. 🙂

As of today, maple leaves can now be seen floating around town. You can also catch some of them and use them for crafting.

The Nooklings were paying 201 bells for turnips tonight, so I sold what I had (only 30 of them). I also let Xavier come over and sell his turnips as well.

Punchy was wearing my “Where’s Waldo?” hat, and I’m not a fan of how it looked on him. Let him have his ears!

If you’re wondering, he was cooking some apple jelly; I didn’t need the recipe.

I later crafted my first forest flooring, I bought some coffee at the Roost, and I did some Nook Miles+ grinding before wrapping up my game for the night. 🙂

See you all next time! 🙂