Jeff's New Horizons Blog

At first glance yesterday, I briefly thought I was witnessing a glitch: I thought I saw a fish shadow…on the grass!

But it was just the shadow of my balloon. 😂 Maybe I need to get my fish-eye lens checked out. 😉

One of the Nooklings’ hot items was a forbidden altar. Since I have a lot of stones in storage that I don’t necessarily need to keep, I got a bunch of them out and crafted forbidden altars out of them. Each one takes 30 stones, so it’s a quick way to clean out unnecessary stones (and profit from them). They sold for 9,000 bells apiece.

Today, the Nooklings had a throne for sale! It was red, and I thought it would look good in my bedroom. So I got a king’s ransom out of storage and bought it!

When I took it home, it gave me a reason to finally do a little redecorating. I moved some things around, and I decided that the Leo sculpture on the wall actually looked pretty cool with my throne. I dressed up like a king, but apparently I’m just a pirate king, because I don’t have a complete king outfit. 😂

As I was working, I earned a whopping 5,000 Nook Miles for completing the Hoard Reward achievement. You get it for having 150 pieces of furniture in your house.

I moved all of my villager photos to my left room. I crafted some low marble island counters to display my special character photos (except for the ones I’m using in my Animal Crossing museum castle), and a few other miscellaneous items. At least this room finally has a purpose!

I may make some more minor changes to my house in the coming days too.

Jolly Redd’s ship was parked on the north beach, but he didn’t have any art that I needed. However, I did buy a hanger rack just to have it in my catalog.

See you next time!

I cleaned up my extra D.I.Y. recipes today, but the Nooklings had something interesting to say about one of them. They called the festive wrapping paper recipe “extremely valuable,” and they asked if I really wanted to sell it. But despite being so valuable, they still only offered 200 bells for it. 😛

K.K. Slider was in town tonight, and he performed K.K. Safari. Louie, Ketchup, and Marina were also at the show.

Here’s some cool art that Jac left on the bulletin board last night:

I went out to Lottie’s Island to work a shift at Paradise Planning. Winnie wanted to build a stable that raises fast horses. Unfortunately, the available items didn’t give me much to work with. The only horses I could add were the springy ride-on horse or the rocking horse. I just decided to make a track where the horses could race. But I couldn’t even use paths to make a dirt track, so I just made a separate area with log benches as a divider.

Indoors, I was able to use a racetrack flooring, and I also used a rice-paddy wall. I used the new “fields” soundscape, and I again added some horses to race.

Lottie paid me 15,000 Poki for my work. She then informed me that Niko has put up some scaffolding on the north beach, in preparation of the big concert finale.

See you all next time!

Yesterday was Sasha’s birthday, and I made sure to attend his birthday party. I gave him a baby panda that I bought at Nook’s Cranny, and he seemed to appreciate it.

Bones was also at the party to help Sasha celebrate, and he always looks so cute when he gets dressed up.

In the mail, I found a letter from Gulliver. He sent me a hula doll.

Today, Sasha sent me a thank-you note in the mail. He even sent me his photo along with it! That’s the 2nd one he has given me.

At 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. That’s the first FNF of 2022, believe it or not! I last opened my gate on New Year’s Eve. Bran came over, and I showed him my castle and then gave him a quick walkthrough of my space race. Since no one else joined in yet, we raced against each other. I won, but it was a close race!

We visited a few villagers and then did some diving. At one point, we were both chasing the same fast-moving sea creature. We followed it halfway across town, and I eventually caught it. It was a gigas giant clam.

Xavier and Jac joined in, and I showed them the space race. They raced against each other, and Xavier won (because Jac missed a thruster and had to go back). Xavier and Bran then raced, and Xavier won again when Bran missed the space shuttle. 😛 I kinda hate that the races seem to be determined by technicalities. I wonder if I should remove the tasks (other than grabbing and returning the moss). Any thoughts?

Around 11:15, William came over and I showed everyone my AC museum castle. The wet suit in the New Leaf section is a new addition that wasn’t in my original video.

We then headed over to the relocated sumo ring for a five-player sumo match. I surprised myself by actually winning! 😮 We played another round, and this time, Xavier won.

I have to say, I’m pretty pleased with the new location. It’s right in view of the “Welcome to Forest” sign, and the waterfall backdrop is pretty cool too.

Rodney joined in, and since we had six people now, we just had to play a round of 6-player sumo. This time, William won…even though Xavier got pushed outside of the ring without falling into a pitfall. 😂

Rodney shocked everyone by saying that he earned Nook Miles for falling into the pitfall. That meant that was his first time falling into a pitfall! How is that even possible when he’s visited my town several times before? 😛 But congrats on the miles, Rodney!

We spent the rest of the time mainly in three places: Ketchup’s house, the castle, and the beach. We talked about Animal Crossing, video games in general, arcades, and a few other topics. Bran left before 12:30, and I decided to end the session a few minutes after that. Thanks to everyone who came! I had a good time! 🙂

Enjoy your weekend, and I’ll be back with another blog entry tomorrow.