Jeff's New Horizons Blog

On Tuesday, Rio already called me her bestie. She had just moved into town the day before! Shouldn’t she wait at least a week or two before pretending I’m her bestie? That might make it slightly more believable.

At Nook’s Cranny, I sold my turnips for 169 bells apiece.

On Wednesday, I found Sasha sitting on the beach. It’s not often I see villagers sitting in the sand like this, so I thought it was pretty cool. At least until Sasha made this derpy face at me. 😛

I got to see the inside of Rio’s house now that she’s unpacked, and it’s very red. I like it…except maybe for that wallpaper.

After I caught my first salmon of the year, I also learned a new recipe: carpaccio di salmone! Even though these recipes were added last November, this is the first time salmon has been in season (in the northern hemisphere).

One salmon is the only ingredient, so it’s a good recipe to cook if you need to work on your cooking achievements this month.

Bones asked me to catch a crucian carp for him, and I agreed to help out. It took me over 20 minutes of fishing, but I finally caught one. So I took it over to his house, only to find that he had already gone to bed. And he wouldn’t accept it the next day, either. Oof.

Up on the mountain yesterday, Rio was talking about the stars and the galaxy. I love this bit of dialogue, but her standing directly under the moon just made this even better.

She even joked about being a star, but she actually is a star! Or at least, part of her face is a star. ⭐

Tonight, she was talking about space again! She said the moon is 235,000 miles away, and she wanted to walk around the Forest shoreline until she’s walked that far. That might take a while… but she told me to call her the Moon Ostrich!

With all this space talk, I’m beginning to wonder if she’s from another planet like I am.

See you all next time! Keep looking up! 🌌

I was a bit surprised to see K.K. Slider in the plaza on a Monday. But it does make sense, because the Bug-Off was on Saturday and the fireworks festival was on Sunday. I told K.K. I was feeling a little blue, and he played King K.K. for me and Beardo. It was actually pretty good.

Rio has officially moved into town and started her Forest life, so I went in to greet the island’s first ostrich villager.

Rio lives on the northwest cliff, which I have been calling Eagle Mountain since the spring of 2020 when Keaton lived up here. Perhaps I should give it a new name now that there are no eagles around. Of course, ostriches are birds, so maybe I could call it the Bird’s Nest?

I prepared an apple smoothie, and it earned me 3,000 Nook Miles. I have now prepared over 500 food items, so I’ve completed the “Mmm-Mmm-Miles” achievement.

I remembered to go to the hospital on Lottie’s Island for my usual Monday visit, and I scored myself 50 turnips.

In the eastern part of town, I’ve started to remove my space race obstacle course. I’m hoping to have a new obstacle course up at some point in September.

See you again later in the week.

The final fireworks festival of the year was held tonight, and Isabelle gave me a flower bopper for the occasion.

I scanned my Rio amiibo card, and she showed up at the campsite. She asked me to craft a log garden lounge for her, and I was happy to help. That was the third time I’ve crafted something for her, so she was willing to move into town when I asked her. 👍🏼

As you may remember, I was trying to get Rio back in April when Beardo rudely interrupted the process. But at least one wrong has now been righted. (I still need to get rid of Beardo, though.)

Around 10:45 tonight, I headed over to Sam’s town of Seattle for his Japanese-themed going-away party. Matthew, Nami, Jac, Nicky, Jesse, and Logan were also there, and we all arrived in kimonos (at Sam’s request). We had some fun with ocean sunfish (of course), and we hung out at the plaza for a bit.

Sam asked us to follow him to the sumo ring, but it wasn’t clear who was playing or not. Jesse and Nami were walking over pitfalls (using hacks? I don’t know), and we just kind of stood in the ring for a while. 😂 Eventually Sam said he wanted to sumo against me 1-on-1. We did, and I won.

We played on some musical instruments, and Nicky was 🔥 on the drums.

After a while, we headed up to the Roost for a couple cups of coffee. During the 2nd cup, I was way out of sync…and people weren’t happy with me. 😛 I don’t know what I did, though!

We also took a group photo while in the Roost.

Nicky and Logan left shortly after that, and the rest of us went outside. Except for Jac, that is. He was caught in lag land in the doorways of the museum. We just sat and waited for him.

Nami decided to help out by leaving quietly, which kicked all of us back to the airport. Nami then returned, and we played a 6-player round of sumo. Jesse was the winner; congrats!

It was almost 1 a.m. by this point, and I was about to leave. But Sam wanted to take one last group photo, so I quickly followed him to the photo spot. But along the way, he pitfall’d me. Don’t worry, that clip will be in an upcoming video. 😛 But here’s my last group photo of the night:

I had a good time in Sam’s town; good luck to you, Sam! And it was nice seeing everyone again. Thanks to everyone who was there! 🙂

I’ll be back with another blog entry very soon!