Festive Trees, Rich Cub

I received Apollo’s goodbye letter in the mail tonight. It’s sad to see him go, but at least Forest is down to just seven cranky villagers now. For the moment, at least.

Jeff, Well, I'm finally moving out of Forest tomorrow. If it makes you feel any better, you're the only reason I stayed as long as I did. Thanks, pal. -Apollo

Not only does snow now cover the ground, but festive lights are now on some cedar trees around town. Near Grizzly’s house, I found a spot where I could see four of them at once (three in the foreground, and one in the background on the left).

Festive lights on trees.

I played too late to catch K.K. Slider at the Roost, but I did run into Vladimir there. He repeated this memorable line while enjoying some coffee:

Vladimir: The coffee here is rich and mysterious, much like myself.

I’ve taken this picture with so many (cranky) villagers before, including Wolfgang, Tom, and Octavian.

I decided to roll up two snowballs and make my first snowman of the season. He ended up being “gorgeous” (his words), so he should be sending me a reward in the mail next time.

Snowman: But I never dreamed that I'd wind up this gorgeous! You, sir, are an artist! I can't thank you enough!

If all goes as planned, I may be playing the Christmas Eve/Toy Day event in City Folk this year. 🙂 Since I played all four version of the event last year (and decided ACCF has my favorite version), I’m going to try to focus more on City Folk this year. (I’ll probably play New Horizons too, but just briefly.)

See you next week! 🙂

Eagle Flies Away

Tonight, I saw the back of Tom’s head just below the similarly-shaped cat head constellation in the sky. 😉 I just had to snap a photo of the kitties.

Tom stands below the cat constellation in the sky.

When I visited Apollo, I saw that he was all packed up and ready to move out of town.

Apollo: I mean, it's not like I was trying to give you the slip! Seriously! I'm just bad at, you know, good-byes.

I’m a bit disappointed to see him go, but at least this will decrease the number of cranky villagers in town. Of course, the crankiness level of Forest will still be sky-high, even without this eagle.

Despite Apollo’s exit, I was still in a good mood tonight. So I told K.K. Slider I was feeling good, and he played K.K. Salsa for me.

K.K.: Here's a peppy number that'll make you flip. This one's called K.K. Salsa.

I later caught up with Chip outside of town hall. He told me that a fishing tournament was held today, and Tom was the winner with a 41-inch sea bass. Good job, Tom! He’ll be a star someday.

This Isn’t Blue

Vladimir came down with a cold today. As tempting as it may be to let the cranky bears start dying off, it unfortunately doesn’t work that way. 😉 So I gave him some medicine…but it didn’t seem to help just yet.

Vladimir: What? It's not...like the medicine's going to...work right...this minute or anything, sparkles...

Down at the Roost, I asked K.K. Slider for a random song. He performed K.K. Sonata for me.

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: K.K. Sonata.

I later visited Queenie, and I was snooping through her bureau. I think she saw me. 😉

It's surprisingly clean and tidy in here.

Curt asked me for some blue furniture, but Nook ‘n’ Go didn’t have anything that was clearly blue. But they did have a wave breaker, which looked like a slightly bluish shade of gray. It was only 1,408 bells, so I bought it. However, Curt bluntly told me it was not blue. Well it was the best I could do!

Curt: Hey, kiddo, you know this isn't blue, right?
Lay off me, I’m colorblind!