Jeff's New Horizons Blog

On Wednesday, one of my most-hated New Leaf villagers showed up at my campsite here in New Horizons. It was Katt!

This was actually the 2nd time she has camped here; the first time was just eight months ago (last August). Needless to say, I did not invite her into town. 😛

Not far from the campsite, a tarantula jumped up into the air when he saw me. While he was airborne, I ran right past him.

I was running for my life, and I quickly scampered across a bridge. Since the tarantula was too stupid to know how bridges work, he apparently fell into the river and died. It’s not often I actually survive these things, so it was a nice feeling. 😆

Thursday, I caught my first Atlas moth of the year. This is just a preview of the summer bugs that will come out in the coming months. But catching these big tree bugs is always so satisfying to me. 🙂

Tonight, K.K. Slider was in town for his usual Saturday night show. I did something unusual by requesting a song this time. So K.K. performed Steep Hill for me and Louie.

Here are a few other quick notes about this past week:

• Flick was in town on Tuesday, and I sold him 17 bugs for 78,000 bells.
• Wednesday, I caught Wisp’s spirits for him, and he gave me an outdoor folding table.
• Rio was sick, so I gave her some medicine. She rewarded me with a dotted raincoat.
• C.J. was in town Wednesday, but I only had an oarfish to sell him (for 13,500 bells).

See you all next time!

Good news! My Switch is back from the repair shop, and all my save data (including my New Horizons island) is intact and safe! It looks like I missed Punchy’s birthday and a fishing tournament while I was without my Switch, but that’s okay. It’s just good to be back in Forest…even if it was raining today. 🙂

This is obviously my first time going two weeks without playing, so of course I had some weeds to pluck!

And my villagers all seemed to miss me. Poor June hasn’t even lived here long, and she must think this is normal for me. 😛

Bob’s reaction to seeing me again almost made me go “Awww…” 😛

After this, Bob even welcomed me home. Even though I was in his house. Awww.

In a way, this is kinda good because I’m getting to see dialogue I might not have seen for years. Like Ankha saying I seem as fine as frog’s hair?

By 6:00 p.m., the rain was gone and the sun came out. I joined Punchy and a pair of squirrels for the K.K. Slider concert.

I asked for a random song, and he performed K.K. Soul for us. That’s a decent song, but I was in the mood for something more nostalgic. So I then requested K.K. Bossa, which just screams old-school Animal Crossing nostalgia to me. Good stuff. 🙂

I spotted four different butterflies behind Resident Services, and I caught the only valuable one (a peacock).

After that, I completed a few Nook Miles+ goals and then wrapped up my game for the night. It’s good to be back, though. I hope you’ll come back again soon, because I’ll be here, Crossing away. 🙂

Sunday was Bunny Day (Easter), and I think Bob was more excited about it than I was. 😛

I decided to participate in the festivities this year, but fortunately, it was very quick and easy to do. Since I had already crafted all of Zipper’s D.I.Y. recipes in a previous year, he gave me another Bunny Day wand right off the bat.

I also had to give Zipper one egg of each type. I already had most of them in my pockets already, and I grabbed the others out of storage. So I handed them to Zipper, and he gave me a Bunny Day basket. And…that was it! Sure, you can give him more eggs for more baskets if you want, but there’s not much point. (It only sells for 1,200 bells anyway.)

So after just a few minutes, I was free to enjoy the rest of my Bunny Day elsewhere…so I did. I went and played the City Folk version of the event, which was much more fun (and profitable). 😛

The next time I played, Pascal popped up out of the ocean for a scallop, and he told me that ice was just water that’s lost its spirit of adventure.

I’m just wondering how many of Pascal’s quotes are in this game, maaan.

It looks like I’ve posted about 75 unique Pascal quotes to this blog already, and I only see duplicates occasionally. I know most of the other dialogue in this game repeats like crazy (ahem, when you’ve played thousands of hours), but Nintendo has done a great job loading up Pascal with plenty of content.

Now that April is here, many hardwood trees (including some money trees) have pink leaves for cherry blossom season. It’s always a pretty time of year. 🙂

Here are a few other quick notes about the past week or so:

• Last Thursday, Gulliver sent me a tubeteika.
• Last Saturday, K.K. performed K.K. Rockabilly for me, June, Ketchup, Ankha, and Agent S.
• On Sunday, I bought 2,200 turnips for 108 bells apiece. On Wednesday, I sold them for 172 bells each. I’m only about 233k from meeting my goal!
• On Tuesday, Wisp gave me a futuristic meal.
• C.J. was in town today, but I only had a couple of fish from storage to sell him,

Hiatus

I’ve mentioned before that my Switch has had problems with overheating, and shutting itself off if I don’t have an actual fan blowing onto it when I play. But today, even with a fan on it, it started making some intermittent buzzing sounds that were a bit concerning. I’ve decided that I finally need to get my system repaired. Unfortunately, I’ll be without it for perhaps a few weeks. So this blog will be on hiatus until then. My other Animal Crossing blogs will continue as usual.