Autumn Moon 2023

Gulliver sent me a Rooster of Barcelos from Portugal in the mail Tuesday, and I later gave it to Hornsby when he asked me for furniture. In return, he gave me a cardboard box. Not exactly a fair trade.

Hornsby: It's a cardboard box! Thank you, boss!

Willow the yellow sheep was camping at the campsite, and I stopped in to say hellow hello.

Willow: Hey there, I'm Willow. I'm just in Forest camping for a little while.

When I visited Aurora yesterday, she told me she was about to write a poem about a jackhammer! I bet that’ll be a hard-hitting poem.

Aurora: Welcome to my home, lamb! I was just sitting down to write a poem about a jackhammer.

Rolf gave me a beatnik shirt, and he told me I was free to do anything I wanted with it. He even said I could marry it!

Rolf: Yours now, so do whatever you'd like. Store it, sell it, marry it-- it's all the same to me!
I can’t marry this shirt! I’m afraid I’d air all its dirty laundry!

Tonight is the night of the autumn moon (harvest moon), and Isabelle was at the plaza to hand out wheat bundles for the occasion.

Isabelle: To celebrate Autumn Moon tonight, I prepared wheat bundles for everyone. Would you like one?

I made sure to pose in the special face-cutout standee too. I’m a scarecrow now!

Jeff poses with the standee for the autumn moon (harvest moon).

Cube pinged me, telling me he was planning on moving out of town on October 1st! That’s only two days away! I told him to stay, but that was a close call! He can’t leave until he gives me his photo.

Cube: That's why I'm thinking of moving someplace new. My plan is to leave on the 1st of next month!

Later, I took a photo of the autumn moon as seen from my metal bench.

The autumn moon (harvest moon) as seen in Forest.

Inkwell was telling me that the full moon may bring out the wolfman. 😆

Inkwell: They say that full-moon nights like tonight are when a wolfman turns into his monstrous form...
Inkwell: I'm so jealous! I wish I had a monstrous form! In the sea!
You do have a monstrous form in the sea! You can turn into a Kraken!

I played another game of Desert Island Escape, and this time, I won! I should keep playing this on a regular basis; it’s fun!

What a great raft! Time to escape this crazy island!

According to Luna, my most recent dream visitor was Gabriela from Gucci. Thanks for stopping by!

Revisiting D.I.E.

On Sunday, I delivered an item from Jeremiah to Cube. It was a dogtooth shirt.

Cube: It's a dogtooth shirt!

He ended up giving the shirt to me. But all I could think about was that Cube looks good in black!

Boots was hanging out at Cherry’s house, and he accused me of stalking him! 😛

Boots: Ha! I know I'm cool, but you don't have to stalk me everywhere, J dog! In a swamp!

Yesterday, I used my Wii U console to play some Desert Island Escape for the first time in years, probably.

The Desert Island Escape title screen in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

I used a new team of my current villagers to play: Jeremiah, Inkwell, and Cherry.

1: Jeremiah, Swimmer.
2: Inkwell, Dexterity.
3. Cherry, Sniff 'Em Out!

My team explored the island, made a few tools, gathered food, fought bees, and went fishing.

Inkwell fishes in a mini-game within a mini-game.

But I apparently overlooked one branching path on the island, and I didn’t find the sail in time. So I lost the game. 🙁

Escape failed...

Still, I had fun playing D.I.E….and I realized I should play it more often! I never did clear all of the levels in this version of the game.

Tonight, Rocco was camping at the campsite. I would never ask him to move into town, not that I had room anyway. But at least I said hello to the villager under construction. 😛

Rocco: Hey, how ya doin'? I thought I'd set up camp here for a little while!

Gulliver was down on the beach, and I knew from his clues that he was headed to Portugal. He will send me a gift in the mail.

Gulliver: Long ago, the people of the place I was headed to set out to explore Europe and the rest of the world.

Inkwell asked me for something from the ocean, so I caught a red snapper for him. In return, he gave me a sleek bed. Still no photo from him. 😔

According to Luna, my recent dream visitors include David from Daydream and OriginM from Origin. Thanks for stopping by!