Yesterday, I received my monthly bank statement in the mail from the postal division at town hall. I earned 73,900 bells in interest this month.
When I spoke with Curt, he told me that Tortimer has been wanting a massage machine lately!
Even though this may seem like an odd bit of dialogue, I knew what it was referring to. It’s a hint that relates to the golden axe trading sequence. After you give a red turnip to Wendell, he may give you a turban. When you give that to Saharah, she may give you a massage chair. That needs to be given to Tortimer, and that’s what this hint was all about. But these hints seem to be so rare that it’s hard to imagine anyone completing the trading sequence without any outside/advance knowledge of it.
There was a new “Talking to Myself” post on the message board about…talking to yourself! 
Today, Curt said I was hyper like a dog wanting to take his morning walk! How rude!
Maybe I should’ve ranked him as my least-favorite villager in town. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I recently ranked my villagers in all eight of my Animal Crossing towns (across five games). Here is the video if you’re interested:
Whitney has been sick with a cold, so I gave her some medicine yesterday and then again today. Get well soon, wolf girl!
Drift wanted to compete to see who could catch a common butterfly first. Since this bug was actually in-season (unlike the dung beetle he wanted last week), I accepted the challenge. However, the butterfly didn’t prove to be very common after all. It took me 15 minutes to find one!
I made my way back over to Drift, and he pinged me. I was just hoping he wasn’t going to ask me for the butterfly (which wouldn’t even count towards the competition). But he did something much better: He gave me his photo!
Drift has lived in Forest since September, so it’s taken me nearly six months to earn his picture. Even with all the bugs I’ve caught for him. One other bit of trivia: The last photo I got was from Filbert, back in August! So it’s been a while since I’ve got a new photo!
Anyway, I spoke to Drift again to give him the butterfly. He thanked me for it, and he rewarded me with some wood paneling.
I then went home to take a look at Drift’s picture. My house is still a mess, but you can see it on the left side of the floor in this screenshot:
His favorite quote is on the back, “Always go for the gold!” That was actually pretty fitting, considering I was standing next to all my gold trophies at the time. 
Have a great weekend, and I’ll be back with more next week. Never Stop Crossing!