Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Both yesterday and today, Kapp’n’s mysterious island was the exact same vine/moss island. But at least I learned two different recipes: Yesterday, I got the giant vine D.I.Y., and today I got a recipe for a rope-net wall. The giant vine is pretty cool, even though we can’t actually climb it.

It was bright and sunny in Forest today, so I cleaned up about a million new, unwanted flower buds, and then I updated my dream town for the first time in months! The dream address is 6717-1633-3682 if you’re interested in seeing the current state of Forest.

Hornsby was sitting on the bench in front of Marina’s house, and he asked me to join him. So I did.

When I visited Eloise, she was talking about her after-school jacket. She said that it may be cooler than me. Thanks a lot, Eloise.

I flew out to Lottie’s island, and she suggested that I should return to Olivia’s home to take a proper picture for the design portfolio. So Niko took me there.

Niko suggested that I should include Olivia in the picture. As Olivia was swaying her head to the music, I snapped this photo.

Lottie told me it has already been uploaded to the Happy Home Network. I earned 2,000 Poki for this job, which was easy money.

Back in Forest, I found Sasha sitting on the Toy Day sleigh. Unfortunately, he was sitting the wrong way (away from the camera). 😛

C.J. was in town, and he had a seasports challenge for me: He wanted me to catch three big-time fish in a row. So I caught a sea bass, a dab, and a squid to complete the challenge. I then grabbed some fish out of storage, and sold them to C.J. for 157k.

The fishing tournament is coming up tomorrow, so I’m going to try to participate. Hope to see you then! Good luck at the tourney!

On Sunday morning, I bought some turnips from Daisy-Mae for the first time in months. She was selling them for 110 bells apiece, and I bought 1,100 of them.

On Monday, Daisy-Mae sent me a recipe for bamboo-shoot soup in the mail. I also received some more castle walls (and another castle gate) that I ordered; I used them to fully enclose my castle in the western part of town.

Chadder the mouse was camping on the island Tuesday. I said hello, but I didn’t have a taste for cheese.

Today, Jolly Redd’s ship was in town. He didn’t have any art that I needed, but he did have this lily-pad table. It’s a cool item from the older games, and it makes a nice counterpart to the froggy chair. I’m glad to see it has returned in the 2.0 update! 🙂

The mysterious island today was another vine/glowing moss island. That in itself isn’t exciting at this point, but there was a highlight: I found a D.I.Y. recipe for a cave there!

Even though you can’t actually go inside the cave, it is a really cool item! And if you turn it completely around, it looks like a large pile of rocks…like something Link could blow up with a bomb arrow.

When I spoke to Static (as he was standing behind the Apple Lane sign), he was talking about how paper towels are made out of trees. So he reasoned that cleaning up some spilled milk with a paper towel is like cleaning up a cow with a tree. 😛

Have a great day, everyone! I’ll see you next time. 🙂

Today is New Year’s Day, and my villagers all had dialogue related to the start of the new year. Eloise said that starting a new year is like pressing a restart button. I’m sure Resetti would strongly disagree with that outlook. 😉

And Louie was looking forward to some new muscle soreness in the new year. Oof.

K.K. Slider was in town, and he performed a song called K.K. Lovers for me and Apollo.

After the show, I flew out to Lottie’s island to do a little work. Claude was on the island, and he wanted a vacation home that was a “home game hideaway.” Or a home arcade, basically.

This time, I had the chance to decorate the outside of the house too. But I didn’t really do much; I added some trees and rocks, and that’s about it.

But indoors, I gave him a variety of arcade games, a gaming desk, a pinball machine, and three crane games all customized with a different theme. I used the club wall for the wallpaper, and some rubber-tile flooring.

I earned 6,000 Poki for the job, and I bought myself a small LED display for 3,800 Poki. It’s basically an animated sign board, so that’s pretty awesome. 🙂

I also unlocked the Happy Home Network app, which lets me review the houses I’ve designed so far. Except that Olivia’s house doesn’t have a screenshot associated with it, so I can only look at the one house I just made. 😂 The app is pretty useless at this point, but I’m sure that will change once I do some more work.

One last note about last night: I forgot to lead everyone to the area where I have a bunch of free recipes lying on the beach. Oops! Guess I’ll be leaving them there for a while until next time (whenever that may be).

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all have a great 2022! 🙂