Mr. Sandman Badge

On Sunday, Kira from Zodell let me visit her town to check out Ursala’s RV. Ursala has been in my GameCube town for over a decade, but I don’t think I had seen her in New Leaf yet. She was one of the villagers added in the Welcome Amiibo update, via Amiibo Cards. Ursala seems to run a flower shop out of her RV!

Inside of Ursala's RV in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Kira had some free items available by her gate, and I took a Splatoon spawn point. Even though Kira didn’t ask for anything in return, I gave her a basket of perfect peaches.

Arriving in Kira's town.Rolf recently told me that he’s been feeling down lately, and not himself.

Rolf: You know, I've been feeling a little down lately. Just not really myself, you know what I mean?
I sure do.

Boots asked me to return something that Molly left at his house. I made the delivery, and Molly said that she had already bought another one. But the curious part is that the item was a peach. Why would you buy one when there are peach trees all over town??

Molly: Hey! My peach! I thought I'd lost it, so I bought a new one!She let me have the peach as my reward. Exciting. Anyway, I returned to Boots to tell him I made the delivery. He thanked me, and then he noticed the three lamp in my pockets! He offered me 750 bells for it, and I agreed. But he then gave me 900 bells. 😛 I later checked out the lamp inside his house.

A green three lamp in Boots' house in ACNL.

The next time I visited Molly’s house, she told me she was just about to write a poem about a blowtorch! Seems a bit odd, Molly, but whatever lights your fire for writing.

Molly: Welcome to my home, Mr. J! I was just sitting down to write a poem about a blowtorch.

Vivian asked me for a peach on Tuesday. Luckily for her, the first peach tree I spotted was a perfect peach tree. So I gave her a perfect peach, and she loved it! She rewarded me with a king.

Vivian: It's SO nice of you to give me a wonderful fruit, for lunch!

As I was walking near Booker’s house, I heard someone fall into a pitfall. I went over to the face-cutout standee, and there I saw Rolf in a hole behind the gravestone. R.I.P. Rolf. 😛

Rolf stuck in a pitfall behind my gravestone faceboard.
I bet now you’re *really* feeling down.

I made a dream visit to the spooky town of Hula Key. It seemed like the perfect town to visit around Halloween. It has some great patterns, lots of flowers and PWPs, some creepy rooms to visit, a surprisingly lighthearted pet shop, a great arcade, and more. There’s even a game within a game, where you try to find all five bodies scattered outside.

Finding a skeleton behind a windmill in the New Leaf dream town of Hula Key.

For more info and a bunch of pictures, see my Dream Suite Adventure.

Actually, I’ve been visiting a lot of dream towns lately…I caught up on my suggested dreams, and I visited a bunch of random ones as well. So if you’ve seen a Jeff from Forest who visited your dream recently…that was me.

If you’re wondering why I’ve suddenly picked up the pace, my reasoning may sound strange to you. It’s because Miiverse is closing in early November. As far as I know, that is the only way to take a proper screenshot of the bottom 3DS screen (without an expensive 3DS capture device), and I’ve been saving screenshots of my badge collection for a while now (for a future GIF).

So I made it a goal to visit 500 dream towns before then. And now, I’ve done it. Phineas showed up in my town today to give me the Mr. Sandman badge! 😀

Me, aftering getting a new badge from Phineas: I got the Mr. Sandman badge! Pinch me! This isn't a dream, right?

Here is the updated look at my badges.

My badge collection as of October 26, 2017.

While I’m hoping to get one or two more before Miiverse ends, it’s probably not very likely. Regardless, I’ll probably post that GIF in a blog entry shortly after we say goodbye to Miiverse.

One other note: Boots recently took the bait and bought my two lamp from me. I don’t have a picture of it inside his house yet, but I’ll try to get that for next time.

Boots: You're the proud owner of the finest two lamp I've ever seen!

My recent dream visitors have been Shomari from D.Valley, Kathryn from Roseland, Cath from Calgary, and Abriana from Berwick. Boots also mentioned Lizzy from Quetzyl and Ploum from Froumot. Thank you all for visiting!

Numbers, Sunset, Merka, & Decorating

Every time I see Boots around town, I try to talk to him over and over. I’m still trying to get his picture.

Boots: Little J! Talk to me, baby.Still no luck with that, but he did offer to trade me a ninja shirt for my five lamp.

Boots: I'll trade ninja shirt on my team. Five lamp on your team comes over to me.Once I caught him inside his house, I took a picture of his new lamp.

A five lamp in Boots' house in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.On Sunday, I found three dig spots all in one area, next to Agent S’s house. All three of them were fossils!

Three dig spots near each other in ACNL.After coming out of Re-Tail, I noticed a pretty red sky at sunset. So I took a few pictures of it from around town.

A red sky at sunset.
In case you’re wondering, I caught that petaltail dragonfly just after taking this picture.

Standing on the beach during a sunset.A train rides over the bridge at sunset in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

On Monday, Merka let me visit her town Muffy, which is very neat and clean. Not messy at all.

Arriving in Muffy.She let me pull her weeds…but unfortunately, she only had three of them because she has enacted the “beautiful town” ordinance. But we also had a good net fight.

Jeff and Merka have a net night in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.I spoke with several of her villagers, and we hung out for a bit. The visit wasn’t long, but it was fun. It was good to see Merka again, it had been quite a while!

Drake: Awesome! I made friends with someone from another town!

Today in Forest, Boots saw the four lamp in my pockets and wanted it. He gave me a stove for it.

Boots: So...your four lamp? Yeah, I've had my eye on that mess for a while now.

I saved and quit my game, started it back up, and repeated that process a few times until Boots was in his house. I was then able to see his four lamp. I’m trying for a complete countdown to zero; I’ll post a collage of all ten pics if/when I complete my mission. 😛

A four lamp in Boots' house in ACNL.While I don’t plan on fully decorating my town for Halloween, I did make a few changes tonight. I changed my path to orange bricks, put up my gravestone design on the face-cutout standee, and put my jack-o’-lantern face on my custom-design sign.

Orange brick path and a gravestone faceboard.My jack-o'-lantern face design on a sign board.

If you’re interested, my gravestone and jack-o’-lantern faces (among other designs) are available on the Halloween QR Codes page.

I also went in my house for some minor decorating. It’s nothing fancy, but I put out my monster masks, some pumpkin heads, and a few other scary things. I may or may not add some more things. Depends on how lazy busy I am. 😉

Some monster masks, pumpkins, and other scary items.

As I was putting things into storage, Molly came over for an unexpected visit. She wasn’t trick-or-treating, but she did have a treat for me. A lemon. Oh, yummy.

Molly: I have a treat for you. It's just a lemon, but it's supposed to be really good.

My recent dream visitors have been Diwata from MyStar, Mayounna from Amy Rose, Scott from Skyloft, Jérôme from Jédric, Cameron from Awesome, Logan from New Leaf, and Becca from Cuddle. Thanks for stopping by!

Dreaming of ACNLpics

I recently visited the dream town of ACNLpics (dream address 5D00-003F-B507). The town has tons of flowers, and looks really pretty.

Marina in the New Leaf dream town of ACNLpics.

The pretty dream town of ACNLpics.

But the main attraction that makes this town so unique is the collection of villager pictures. According to the mayor’s thread on Bell Tree Forums, it has not only villager pictures of all 333 original villagers, but also the 54 special character pics and the 50 new Welcome Amiibo villagers as well. Wow!

Villager pics of bunnies/rabbits in ACNLpics.

The houses have different themes: One has farm animals, one has pets, one has zoo animals, and one has the Welcome Amiibo animals. Each house is arranged by species. One room is solely devoted to rabbit villagers, while another has sheep and goats, and so on. Very impressive, and very cool!

Villager pics of frogs in New Leaf.Villager pictures of special characters.Villager pictures of Welcome Amiibo animals.

If you want to see any particular villager pics, or just want to be amazed at this huge collection, give this town a visit. The dream address again is 5D00-003F-B507.

For more great dream towns to visit, check out Jeff’s Dream Suite Adventures.

Back in Forest…

Anyway, Thursday was the night of the autumn moon (harvest moon). Isabelle was over at the event plaza to hand out wheat bundles.

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

Here’s a picture of the holiday standee, with the full autumn moon just over my head.

Using the face-cutout standee for the autumn moon.Up on Main Street, I spotted Hippeux the hippo. He just started showing up here, so I’ll be seeing him around.

Hippeux: I like the atmosphere of this place right now. It's sort of romantic, don't you think, natch?The other day, I got to see inside Hornsby’s house. This is what it looks like, if you’re interested.

Hornsby: Welcome to Casa de Hornsby, Jeff! Schnozzle!

Today, Isabelle was back at the event plaza for Explorer’s Day (Columbus Day). She gave me a sailboat model for the occasion.

Isabelle: It's a sailboat model! With it, you can really get into the excitement of Explorer's Day!I then boarded the standee ship. Apparently I’m Kapp’n’s navigator, and I don’t know where I’m going.

The face-cutout standee for Explorer's Day.

Boots asked me for a violin beetle tonight, so I was going to look on my tree stump. But when I got to the spot, I quickly realized that my stump was gone! Hornsby’s house wiped out my tree stump! I didn’t even realize until now.

Hornsby's house in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

My recent dream visitors have been Brittany from Oakheart, Xavier from Quigley, Timber from Xing, Gabriel from G-nation, and Cat from CatVille. Thanks for stopping by!