Jeff's New Horizons Blog

On Sunday, Wardell sent me a Paradise Planning hammock in the mail, along with a nice letter. I guess this is my reward for completing 30 vacation homes.

I visited the hospital on Monday, and Joan gave me another 30 turnips for free. While I was there, I also donated 40,000 Poki towards the hospital expansion.

Back in town, the Nooklings were paying 144 bells for turnips. So I sold mine immediately, for a total of 4,320 bells.

I’ve found Wisp twice in the past few days; he gave me a trumpet on Sunday night and a round pillow yesterday. That’s one item that will wake me up, and one item that will help me sleep. 🎺😴

Today, Gullivarrr was in town. I went diving and retrieved his communicator for him. He’ll send me a reward tomorrow. 📱

Ketchup was sick with a cold, so I crafted some medicine for her. She started to feel better almost immediately, and she gave me a simple-dots tee for helping out.

An unlikely trio of friends were sitting together in the plaza: Sasha, Static, and Beardo were enjoying some ice cream there.

Well, if anything can make it tolerable to sit next to Beardo, I guess ice cream is it. 😂 And ice cream sure sounds good on hot summer days like this. 🍦

See you all next time!

Ken was camping at the campsite today, but I didn’t see any sign of Barbie.

K.K. Slider was in town for his usual Saturday night performance (even though the sun was still shining). 😛 I asked him for a random song, and he played K.K. Oasis for me. Sasha, Bones, Beardo, and Louie were also in attendance.

After the show, I went out to Lottie’s Island to work a shift at Paradise Planning. Monty the monkey wanted a place where he could work on solving mysteries. I picked out an island where there are old pillars he may want to investigate. But also, it looks like his house was built in a crater!

I gave him a parabolic antenna to listen to sounds from space, a flying saucer, a monster statue, and an exam table for alien autopsies. 👽

Indoors, he wanted some office furniture. I customized his document stacks to include papers from NASA and some surveillance photos of the moon. 🌑 An electronics kit will let him test any mysterious objects he finds. And I also used display stands to show off some of his previous discoveries, including a sproingoid from the depths of Saturn’s moon Titan, and a skull from New Jersey.

He enjoyed his new vacation home, and hopefully he can get to work and solve some mysteries ASAP.

Back at the office, Lottie paid me 15,000 Poki. She then informed me that was the 30th vacation home I’ve designed! So we went out to the cafe to celebrate.

Wardell was wearing a fake mustache for reasons that I don’t understand. Maybe Monty can look into that for me. 😛

Lottie told me that we’re now able to start work on the final facility. Sounds good!

See you all next time!

On Wednesday, Timmy told me that he was paying 109 bells for turnips. So I sold my measly 30 turnips from Joan for 3,270 bells.

After checking Lottie’s Island last night, I left the game in sleep mode overnight. When I resumed today, I tried to fly to Harv’s Island…but Wilbur told me I couldn’t do it!

Because a new day had started, I was forced to travel back to Forest before I could go out again.

C.J. was in town today, and he wanted me to catch three small-fry fish in a row for his seasports challenge. But after catching two small fish, I spotted a shark in the ocean! There were no other small fish around, so should I sacrifice my streak for the shark? Not to mention, there’s a chance that the “shark” could be a suckerfish. What would you do?

You're working on a seasports challenge for C.J., and you've caught two small-fry fish in a row. Then you see a shark fin in the water, with no small fish in sight. Do you abandon your streak to catch the shark? #animalcrossing #acnh

— JVGS Jeff (@jvgsjeff) June 17, 2022

I decided to catch the shark, which turned out to be a hammerhead. It’s not that hard to find three small fish again.

Beardo pinged me, wanting a new catchphrase to replace “oh banana,” which he obviously learned from Louie. When a villager is using someone else’s custom catchphrase, that’s about the only time I actually do change it. 😛 I told Beardo to say “unbearable,” because that’s what he is. But he turned it around on me like a savage.

I gave him a few hits with my net for that one. 😛

Once I caught three (more) small fish, I returned to C.J.; he gave me 15,000 bells for the six fish in my pockets (which included the hammerhead).

Not long after that, I spotted a very large fish shadow in my small circular pond (the Zelda fairy fountain). I fished out an arapaima!

With that, and several other fish I grabbed out of storage, I scored another 168,000 bells from C.J.

As if that didn’t already get me into a fishing mood, Louie asked me to catch a tilapia for him. So I continued fishing until I caught one…and of course, I caught a lot of other good fish in the process too. Louie ultimately gave me a loungewear shirt for the tilapia, but the real prize was all the other fish I was able to sell: Another 110,000+ bells worth; that’s nearly 300k in total for the day! 😮

I took my earnings over to Resident Services and deposited the money into my account. My balance has now reached 40 million bells. 😎

I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow. Hope to see you then!