August Bug-Off

Today was the day of the Bug-Off competition, but I didn’t have a whole lot of time after making my rounds. But I did grab some bugs from my dock box to give Nat. I started out by giving him a horned dynastid, which took over the #1 spot, but only scored me 69 points. Nat gave me a cabin wall as a prize.

Nat: 69 points!After giving him another horned dynastid that didn’t break the record, I upped the ante by giving him a goliath beetle. It scored 88 points, and Nat gave me a snail clock. After that, a cyclommatus stag scored 92 points and earned me a ladybug carpet, and a horned elephant scored 99 points and earned me a ladybug chair.

Nat: Well then, I've got a special prize for you. It's a rather smashing ladybug chair!I put my 3DS in sleep mode for a while, and returned after 6:00 for the ceremony in Nat’s tent. My 99-point score held up and I won the gold trophy. Gala got 2nd place and Sprinkle was in 3rd.

The Bug-Off winners podium.I took my items up to the museum. Here’s a look at the snail clock, ladybug chair, and ladybug carpet.

The snail clock, ladybug chair, and ladybug carpet.After 8:00, I went over to Club LOL to catch out K.K.’s weekly performance. I told him I was in a grumpy mood and he played K.K. Jongara for me.

K.K.: I've got just the tune to lighten the mood and bust through that 'tude. How about K.K. Jongara?The fireworks festival is tomorrow, so I’ll be back with more then. I plan on opening my gate around 8:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Organizing My Storage Space

This morning, Reese was offering 154 bells per turnip. I’m starting to be able to recognize some of the patterns, and this week seemed like it could be a big spike week. But it’s still kind of risky to turn down a price of 150+ this late in the week. So I compromised and sold 400 of my 1,000 turnips for a total of 61,600 bells.

In the afternoon, I saw that prices spiked up to 405 bells! Naturally, I jumped at the opportunity and sold the remainder of my turnips for an additional 243,000 bells.

Reese: Well then...I could probably part with 243,000 bells for all of it, if that sounds OK with you?Octavian asked me for a cherry today, and I gave him one of two perfect cherries I had left over from Wendy’s original town of Oakville. Octavian loved it!

Octavian: ...Yum! This is MAD tasty!In return, he gave me his outdoor bath. I wonder how he would be able to do any yardwork without an outdoor bath to re-moisten himself every once in a while. Won’t he dry out?

Octavian: So then, as thanks, please take my outdoor bath!Wendy asked to come over to shop, so I opened my gate. Tom also stopped by for a visit, dressed as a royal jester. While in the Emporium, I bought some medicine since I figured Kidd was probably still sick.

Tommy: Thank you kindly for your purchase!Over in the Able Sisters, Tom was…actually, I have no idea what he was trying to do. That’s probably not the best look for him.

Tom's odd outfit.When I returned from Main Street, I continued my walk around town to water my flowers. Tom suddenly said he messed up, although I didn’t know what he was talking about. I was afraid he accidentally killed a flower or something, but it turns out he just glitched himself somewhere where he got stuck. But he freed himself after a minute or so anyway. But for making me think he might’ve killed a flower, I still made him get into the guillotine. Off with his head!

Jeff: Stick your head in.Tom left a bit later (he was still alive), and after I finished watering flowers, Wendy and I went out to the island. The gift shop didn’t have anything good for sale, but we went on a hide-and-seek tour. Wendy quickly found the first two villagers, and then I found one. A bit later, I found Camofrog trying to hide (unsuccessfully) behind a modern clock.

Camofrog's poor attempt at hiding.I spoke with him, and that ended the tour. After that, we returned to Forest and I ended the session. I went up to Main Street again to update my dream town.  It was actually in the daylight hours for a change, so if you want to see Forest in the light of day, be sure to give my dream town a visit before Saturday evening. My dream address is 4300-2003-9889. By the way, Luna told me my most recent dream visitor was Maheen from Hyrule.

Agent S asked me for some furniture, and I gave her a fossil I had in my pockets. She thanked me and rewarded me with her picture. It wasn’t my first time getting her picture, but I still appreciate it.

Agent S: It's Agent S's pic! Thanks so much!Also, with the gate closed, I was able to go into Kidd’s house. So I gave him the medicine I purchased earlier.

Kidd takes his medicine.And down on the beach, Gulliver was talking about mermaids. That means he’ll be going to Denmark tomorrow.

Gulliver: Oooooo! The seaside, with its many lovely mermaids...When I returned to my house, I decided to do something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time: Reorganize my storage. But of course, Molly just had to come over for a visit.

Molly barges in for an unexpected visit.I didn’t even go over to talk to her. I just stood where I was until she left. She thanked me for being such a lovely host, which surely must’ve been sarcastic.

Molly: All right, I think I'll be going now. Thank you for being such a lovely host.I worked on organizing my stuff for quite a while. That included moving stuff around and selling some items that could be ordered again. This is the end result of how I currently have it organized:

A1: Masks/hats, Nintendo items
A2: Boppers, silver tools, HHA clothes
A3: Wet suits, tuxedo, some rare carpet/wallpaper
A4: Wallpaper/carpet
A5: Glow wands, New Year’s hats, misc. items
A6: FREE

B1-B3: Clothes/accessories for Gracie’s fashion checks & other hats/clothes
B4: Gifts from friends, spare blue violets
B5: Halloween masks & pumpkins
B6: StreetPass items for a future giveaway

C1: FREE
C2: Snowman set
C3: Snowman/ice set
C4: Ice set
C5: Used to store perfect peaches until I sell them. Also, 2 extra ice lamps.
C6: FREE

I previously only had one free page, which I used to store the turnips I bought each week. I now have three free pages, which will allow me to buy 3,000 turnips instead of just 1,000. This should help me to get that gold turnip badge sooner.

My storage.As a reminder, tomorrow is the Bug-Off and Sunday is the fireworks festival. I’ll be opening my gate around 8 p.m. on Sunday. See you next time!

A Sick Kidd

To my surprise, Sprinkle was actually talking about how much she enjoys roller coasters today! That would be pretty funny riding a coaster next to a penguin.

Sprinkle: Seriously? Me too! I love those! But I haven't been on one in, like, forever, yourself.Saharah was in town today, and I paid her for some new wallpaper and carpeting. She put in a pastel-dot wall and an old board floor. I don’t plan on keeping either of them.

A pastel-dot wall and an old board floor.Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me Patrick from Paradise was my most recent dream visitor.

Wendy came over to sell some pears, and we also made a quick trip out to the island to see what was at the gift shop there. They didn’t have anything I wanted…not that there’s much I want.

Jeff and Wendy standing on the dock.Wendy had some garbage to throw away, and I had a rotten peach to toss as well. But before we went into my house, I burned Wendy a little bit.

Burning Wendy with a fountain firework.After we threw out our garbage, I ended the session. I then walked over to Kidd’s house; I had some medicine to give him. He gulped it down and said it tastes like it’ll work. Let’s hope so.

Kidd: Yuck... This tastes like it'll work!For people on my 3DS roster, I will not be opening my gate tomorrow for Friday Night Forest. Instead, I plan on opening on Sunday night for fireworks again. It’ll probably be around 8 p.m. Eastern time (5 p.m. Pacific).