Jeff's ACWW Blog

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!

It’s official: The snow has melted, and we can see green grass once again! I celebrated by taking off my helmet for the first time in months.

Of course, the lack of snow means there are no snowballs around either. But I don’t think Drift got the message, because he was still asking me to catch a dung beetle for him! That’s impossible!

Saharah was in town, and she asked me to deliver some wallpaper to Mabel over at Able Sisters.

While I was there, I bought that flame shirt. I know it’s just the start of spring, not summer, but I figured it would help warm things up a bit.

Saharah also asked me to deliver some carpeting to Blathers. When I was done, Saharah rewarded me with a shoji screen.

Yesterday, I shot down Gulliver’s UFO for the 3rd time in 2025.

When I gathered up the missing UFO parts and returned them, Gulliver rewarded me with a compass. Unfortunately, that’s the 5th time he has given me a compass. At this point, I think he needs to use the compass himself, to navigate to a better gift shop.

Tonight, Truffles asked me for a new outfit. I was standing right next to Able Sisters, so I decided to pop in and buy her something. I picked out a diamond shirt for her. (Imagine that, a pig wearing diamonds.) To my surprise, she actually liked it! She rewarded me with a doctor’s mirror. Maybe I should take a moment to reflect on both gifts.

I tried it on, but it looked kinda creepy…like my eye was missing or falling out.

I promptly took it off and sold it.

When I went into town hall, I found a blue retro shirt in the recycle bin. After that, I wrapped up my game for the night (and the month). I hope to see you all next week!

On Wednesday, I received an odd letter from Mom in the mail. She told me to “eat them, raise them, or sell them.” She then “clarified” (but not really) by saying that she’s not talking about my animal friends! So what was she talking about?

I got the answer when I saw the attached item: a peach. Okay, that makes more sense. The peach is a foreign fruit, but it’s not one that I needed.

Filbert asked me to deliver a letter to Tank, and Tank was nice enough to show me the letter. It was just as weird as you’d expect from Filbert:

When I returned to Filbert, he thanked me for delivering the letter. He also gave me a fairy-tale wall.

Yesterday, there was a new “Talking to Myself” message posted to the bulletin board. It was about having picnics by yourself.

Today, Curt started telling me a story about how he slipped on the ice and got snow up his nose! I like this story already!

But his amusing story took a sudden turn. It turns out that he was just shilling for Lyle (who was in town today) and his insurance company!

Don’t help out Lyle, man! They otter be ashamed of themselves.

Tank was talking about the brain freeze you get from a really cold drink, and he said it makes him feel like he’s getting “smarter and smarterer.”

Somehow, I don’t think that’s what’s happening.

If you haven’t seen my latest Wild World video, which I posted last weekend, here it is. It’s episode 74:

See you next time!