Flower Fest 2024

The Flower Fest is underway this week, and Drift warned me not to run on his flowers yesterday.

Drift: Quit runnin' all over my flowers, hon!

He said he needs to win the competition, and he actually admitted to sabotaging other people’s flowers. 😛

Drift: I'm doing that to everyone else's flowers! I NEED THAT TROPHY, rrrrribbit!

When I spoke with Tortimer, he just complained about how he was tired and his feet ache. I guess he must not give his normal Flower Fest spiel after a certain time of day.

While villagers will have flowers around their homes, I was surprised that Caroline actually had a purple rose! Maybe having a hybrid flower will help her win the competition?

A purple rose outside of Caroline's house.

I played again today. It was a bit earlier in the day, but still just as rainy. Octavian let me know his Flower Fest strategy, which is to scream insults at the flowers until they bloom. Yeah, I’m sure that will work.

Octavian: I'm gonna scream insults at these flowers until they bloom!

When I visited Peanut, she panicked because she didn’t have any makeup on.

Peanut: GALLOPING GUMDROPS! Hold it right there! I don't have any makeup on!

But then she tried to play it off like she doesn’t wear makeup. Then why the panic? 😛

Peanut: Um... What I meant to say was I don't wear makeup. My cuteness is all natural!

Tortimer told me about the Flower Fest today; he will decide a winner on Sunday. I don’t get a vote.

Tortimer: today, Forest will explode in greenery! Why? 'Cause it's the Flower Fest!

In the meantime, he gave me a white tulip bag. As if a single white tulip would help. 😛 But I don’t plan on fixing up flowers outside of my house this year anyway.

Good luck with your flowers, if you’re participating! See you next week. 🌼

Rump Burners

On Thursday, I got my monthly bank statement from the postal division at town hall. I earned 54,800 bells of interest this month.

I listened in on a villager conversation, and Drift and Peanut were discussing their exercise routines. Peanut said that she does sit-ups every morning, but isn’t getting results. So Drift suggested some rump-burners and ab-squeezers.

Drift: It's all about doing rump-burners and ab-squeezers!

Peanut wasn’t familiar with those exercises, so she asked Drift how they’re done. He explained the process…

Drift: Well, you pretty much have to raise your rump off the ground, and...

But Peanut didn’t like the sound of doing those things in public.

Peanut: EWWWWW! I'm not doing that in public! And neither should you!

To be fair though, Drift never said they had to be done in public. But Peanut was too hung up on the mental image of Drift’s raised rump.

Peanut: OMIGOSH, I just imagined you doing those sit-ups, and I can't stop seeing it!

They both stormed off mad, and I somehow walked into another wild conversation immediately. Eloise was telling Octavian that some guy gave her a ring (meaning an engagement ring), but it didn’t fit on her finger! Octavian said he didn’t want to hear about sappy love talk, and Eloise got really mad. 😛

Eloise: Yep, I can see the fear of marriage in your eyes, weasel boy!
I never thought I’d see a sentence like this in Animal Crossing. 😆

Of course, Octavian wasn’t happy about being called a “weasel boy.”

Octavian: You little jerk! I don't look anything like a weasel!

What a wild couple of conversations I witnessed!

At town hall, my savings account balance reached 11 million bells.

Pelly: The current bell balance is 11,000,000.

Yesterday, Octavian wanted to have a competition to see who could catch a dab first. I wasn’t interested, especially after he called me a wimp. 😛

Octavian: I doubt that you're up to the task, being such a wimp and all...

Today, I got this cute letter from Mom in the mail. I miss these seasonal letters from Mom (and occasionally Dad); they added so much charm to the older games! Edit: Yes, the newer games have letters from Mom too, but they seem like they only exist to distribute the “Mom” items. They don’t feel as heartfelt or genuine, in my opinion at least.

Dear Jeff, A tiger butterfly has decided to pay me a visit, and now I can't shut the window. It's been an hour. -Mom

Dotty was stuck in a crossword puzzle she was working on, and she asked for my help. I told her the word was “crumble,” and that was apparently correct.

Dotty: Oh yeah, that's totally it! Duh! I KNEW that! Yeah! In your face, puzzle!

To thank me, she gave me a bunny shirt. I decided to put it on right away.

Moments later, I spotted a balloon present! That’s a rarity for me, since they don’t come later in the day when I usually play. But unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get my slingshot out quick enough to shoot it down before it flew out of town.

The flea market was held today, and I decided to be nice and support my villagers for a change. So I bought an outdoor bath from Tank for 2,140 bells, and a lawn chair from Caroline for 300 bells.

Caroline: Really? I never liked that lawn chair, to be honest, hulaaaa.

I was going to buy a bug from Eloise, but she wasn’t selling any of her three insects. Bones was also home, but he was trying to move out. I quickly made him reconsider.

If you haven’t seen my latest video episode that covers all of my March highlights, here it is:

Octavian’s Chimichangas

On Wednesday, I received my latest evaluation letter from the Happy Room Academy. While my score hasn’t changed since last time, the wording of the letter was different.

Jeff, your room gets 280,900 points! Your mementos collection has really altered the room's feel. -Happy Room Academy

It mentioned my mementos collection, apparently referring to my room of villager pictures. I don’t think I’ve seen this letter before.

Yesterday, Katrina was in town. I paid her to tell my fortune, and she started talking about a camel (Saharah) who had a hole in her canteen.

Katrina: A camel arrives at an oasis to fill a canteen with sweet water...

But Katrina’s fortune was just another neutral one, so it didn’t seem to affect me either way.

Bones asked me for some new clothes, so I gave him a vegetarian shirt that I got from the lost and found. He liked the shirt, and he rewarded me with a li’l bro’s hat. I put it on immediately.

Bones: Uh, OK. I've got your li'l bro's hat right here, yip yip!

Octavian has been sick with a cold, so I gave him some medicine Wednesday, yesterday, and again today. Hopefully it will let him keep his chimichangas down. 😆

Octavian: Orggggggghh. I feel nasty. I think I'm gonna toss my chimichangas!

Dotty asked me my blood type tonight, and I don’t know what it is. But I know that if you say “no clue,” they tell you that you should’ve just made something up. So I did, and I said it was type A. So…she called me so uptight that I can’t even handle one weed.

Dotty: So, that means... You're so uptight that you can't even handle one weed?
Excuse me?

When I spoke with Eloise, she said that the rain is just about the prettiest thing…other than her. 😛

Eloise: Isn't rain, like, the prettiest thing ever? I mean, besides me?

I ran into Dotty again, and she was telling me that someone had a full dino skeleton in their house.

Dotty: I can't remember who, but someone had this whole dino skeleton in their house!

She said that my house is so big that I could do that too, if I wanted. But I don’t.

Have a great holiday weekend, everyone! 🐰