Jeff's New Leaf Blog

Last Sunday, the sky looked pretty around sunset. So I snapped a photo.

Diana the deer was camping at the campsite. I don’t have room for her in Forest, but I stopped in to say hello.

That same day, I accidentally fell into my own pitfall trap. I knew it was there too, but I was focused on my black roses and I took a bad step. 😛

But yeah, the zen bell area isn’t the only place I have a bunch of black roses growing.

Mira asked me to visit her house, and I agreed to set up a time. When the time came, she asked if I’d like to buy anything she had. The problem is that I had just deposited my money into the ABD, so I only had a few hundred bells on me!

That wasn’t enough money to buy anything in her house, so I was unable to advance the conversation beyond that point! How annoying. I stayed for ten minutes, but I eventually had no choice but to just leave.

Today, I had another camper: Ozzie the koala.

Having campers on two Sundays in a row brings back a memory. In the early days of New Leaf, there was a rumor that campers couldn’t appear on Sundays. I have no idea how it started, but at least one popular guide stated it as fact for some reason. 🤷

This morning, I just happened to be walking by the modern clock when it lit up at the top of the hour. It’s always a cool sight to behold. 🙂

I found a lost item (a book), and I started asking around. I was hoping it belonged to one of the villagers whose photo I still need, because a lost item counts as a “free” favor. But unfortunately, the book belonged to Boots. He thanked me for returning it by giving me a durian.

Inkwell asked me for a new item to replace his blue bed, so I bought him an office desk from T&T Emporium. It might not be the best item ever, but it’s nothing to sneeze at!

He rewarded me with a retro stereo.

I hope you’re all enjoying your summer! I’ll be back with another entry later this month.

On Sunday, Lolly asked me to deliver a package to Jeremiah…when Jeremiah was practically standing right next to us. 😆 That was an easy favor to complete.

Over by my zen bell, I noticed a lot of new black roses have popped up lately! Eventually, I’d like to turn them all into gold roses. But that would involve removing the beautiful town ordinance, and I’m not in a rush to do that. I’d have to keep everything watered every day! (Well, not the gold roses, but everything else.)

It’s been raining a lot lately (in all of the Animal Crossing games, really) due to it being the rainy season. Rolf was so annoyed that he wants to punch the rain in the knee! I doubt that would help, but I still agree with the sentiment. 👊😆

Inkwell asked to visit my house, and I agreed to let him come over. He actually said it smelled cool in my house. That’s quite a contrast to what my villagers have been saying about my houses in some of the other games lately.

I showed him around until he decided to leave. But he did not send me his photo.

Yesterday, I found a four-leaf clover in town. The interesting thing about that is that I found one in City Folk yesterday too!

Today, I found Bob hanging out in the art gallery at the museum. He was surprised to see me…briefly. 😆

Back at my house, I did something I haven’t done in a long time: I played some Animal Crossing Puzzle League!

Unfortunately, the screenshot feature doesn’t work when you’re playing the game (unlike in Desert Island Escape). But I had some fun playing the game, even though I was quite rusty! That hard mode is crazy fast!

July is almost here, and with it, the peak bug hunting season! I know it’s less of a big deal in New Leaf (since you can visit the island anytime), but it’s still a fun time of year. Good luck with your bug hunts this summer, and I’ll see you again in July! 🦋

On June 9th, Mira asked me to catch a rainbow stag for her. I thought my chances would be better out on the island, so I took Kapp’n’s boat ride across the sea. While I was there, I remembered I could do something I can’t normally do in New Horizons: Fish from the north shore.

In New Horizons, you need to use fish bait to make fish spawn up there on your island.

Anyway, it took me longer than I expected, but I caught a rainbow stag for Mira. When I took it back to her, she rewarded me with a Tower of Pisa.

On Saturday (June 15th), I was visiting Cube when he told me not to look in his mush dresser. So of course, I did look in his mush dresser. There was a robo-closet inside of it (somehow), and Cube let me keep it.

The Bug-Off competition was underway, so I grabbed a goliath beetle from my dock box. Nat gave it a nice, round 100-point score.

That took over the top spot, and Nat gave me a snail clock as my reward. I later put it in my house. After the competition ended, I returned to Nat’s tent for the winners’ ceremony. I won 1st place, while Lolly finished in 2nd place, and Aurora was 3rd. 🙂 Here we are holding our trophies:

Yesterday, Jeremiah said he could smell my Tower of Pisa. I didn’t know it had a scent, unless it was really a tower of pizza? Now that, I’d like to smell. But Jeremiah wanted me to trade it for his makeup case.

I agreed to the trade, just to be nice. 😛

I found three dig spots right next to each other, and they were all fossils! Usually when this happens, one of them is a gyroid or pitfall, but all three were fossils this time.

Mira asked to visit my house (yes, again), and I agreed to it (again). Up in my swampy room with all the frogs, Mira said my house smells just like me! Somehow, I don’t think that’s a compliment. 😆

I showed her every room, and she left once we got to the last room (the basement). Today, she sent me a letter thanking me for having her over. She included a kiddie bed, which she encouraged me to use in my house.

It was raining pretty heavily today, and Aurora (for one) seemed to be enjoying it.

The sky was dark…really dark. Believe it or not, this picture was taken at 10:30 a.m.!

I still haven’t made progress on getting any of the other villager pics I’ve been trying for lately. But I’m not giving up! One of these days I’ll have something to report. I hope. 😆

One last note for today: I’ve had several campers over the past week or so. That included Ed last Monday, Marcie on Tuesday, and Broccolo yesterday.