Frosty Friday Night Forest

Late last night, Tabby suggested a new public works project: an illuminated clock.

Tabby: Don't you think Forest would be five million times better with an illuminated clock?I hate to say it, but Tabby’s actually been pretty useful when it comes to suggesting new PWPs. Rolf and her seem to suggest the bulk of my projects. Anyway, the illuminated clock may look great at night, but it sure looks ugly when it’s not lit up. But I play at night a lot, so I will consider installing it in my town.

Illuminated clock: 146,000 bells.I was by the edge of the cliff when a balloon present smacked me in the head. OW!

A balloon present appears to hit me in the head.Jessica needed signatures for a petition, so she asked me to open my gate. I did, but she was unable to connect despite numerous attempts. So she invited me over to her town instead, and oddly enough, that worked just fine. Jessica had a perfect snowmam in her town, which means it only required three snowflakes for a piece of ice furniture instead of five.

Snowmam: So you'll give me 3 snowflakes?So I took advantage of the snowmam by catching snowflakes and paying reduced prices for her services. There was one part of Jessica’s town that really impressed me: The area around her town tree was surrounded by a circle of trees. This picture doesn’t quite do it justice, but it’s really cool.

Jessica's event plaza surrounded by a circle of trees.It was getting late, so I returned home for the night.

But then today, a notice posted on the bulletin board reminded me that tomorrow is the winter solstice. During the summer solstice, it stayed bright and sunny all day and night. So the winter solstice should be the opposite, staying dark even during the daytime hours.

~ Notice ~ Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year in Forest!Gulliver was down on the beach today, and he’s headed off to Mexico. He will send me a gift from there tomorrow.

Gulliver: ...Mexico! That's it! That's the place! I was headed to Mexico!When I made a snowman today, it turned into another snowmam. It wasn’t even a perfect one, so it didn’t help me out very much. Well, I guess it gives me one day longer to collect the full ice set, but that’s not a big deal.

When I checked my sole surviving bingo snowman, he rolled a number 9 for me. I needed it, and now I’m one away from a bingo in three different ways.

Snowman: This is incredible! You're one away from bingo in three different ways!He told me this situation was even more rare than a completed bingo!

Snowman: This is even rarer than an actual bingo!I’ve punched 15 different numbers, and I still don’t have a bingo. This is my failure of a bingo card:

My non-winning bingo card.I spotted Phineas, so I went up to him and asked him for a badge. He gave me the Village Gardener silver badge for planting lots of flowers.

I got the Village Gardener badge! I've planted flowers and greenery all around town!Skye was on the metal bench, and she invited me up to sit with her so we could warm each other up.

Skye: Would you like to join me, skippy? If we sit close together, we'll be nice and toasty!So I joined her for a quick snuggle. I think Big Top was getting jealous.

Snuggling up to Skye on the bench as Big Top looks on.A bit later, Big Top asked me for some furniture that could sit on a table. I wasn’t sure what to give him, so I just caught a fish (a bitterling) for him. He said he would take care of it and raise it as if it were me! That’s kind of an odd thing to say.

Big Top: I'll treat the bitterling as if it were you, J-dog, and raise it well!Out of curiosity, I decided to see how much ice furniture sells for. Reese will pay 8,888 bells for each piece. Of course, the reason for that price is because the number 8 resembles a snowman.

Reese: Ooh, an ice table! I can take that item off your hands for 8,888 bells, if that's OK?At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Patty, Squishy, and Nick from Ylisstol came over to visit. Both Squishy and Nick have had trouble connecting to my town in the past, but they were able to visit tonight without problems. Squishy gave me some perfect oranges, so thank you Squishy! I told them to explore, but after a while we ended up in my house.

Squishy, Nick, and me hanging out in my house.While Patty was sitting on my bench and Squishy was by my illuminated tree, I surprised Squishy with a party popper to the head.

I fire a party popper at Squishy's head near the illuminated tree.She must not have appreciated it, because she got her hammer out. Now this is a face that wants revenge:

Squishy looks angry as she pulls out her toy hammer.After a while, Patty left and the rest of us went out to the island. I chose the giant dragonfly tour and we got an easy 20 medals, not counting our bonuses.

Tortimer: Jeff gets 10 medals, Nick gets 5 medals, and Squishy gets 1 medal!We also did a hammer tour (which Nick won) and an ore mining tour (which I won). We then did a little fishing and bug-catching.

Jeff tries to catch Nick in his net and says "what a big bug!"And then we headed back to Forest. Kapp’n called Squishy a queen and said that Nick and I were her servants!

Har har har! Feels like Squishy is a queen and you boys are her servants!Around 11:30, Squishy left (it was 4:30 a.m. for her!). I started catching some snowflakes for my ice furniture collection, and Nick left a bit after that. So I closed the gate around midnight. I now have eight pieces of ice furniture, plus the wall and floor. So I believe I only need three more pieces and I’ll have the whole set! Good deal.

Well that’s all for tonight, but I’ll be back with more tomorrow. Have a great weekend, everyone! Happy holidays!

Snowmam

Late last night, Jessica had a snowman bingo number (#50) that I needed, so she let me come over to get it. Apparently all three of her snowmen have the same name.

Jessica: Ho ho ho.And today, Skye (the wolf) asked me to collect signatures for a “Scamper to Victory” petition.

Skye: My latest mission is collecting signatures for my petition, Scamper to Victory.Benedict told me that he wants a doll for Christmas. Really??

Benedict: Anyway, between you and me, I asked Jingle for a doll this year.Maybe I’ll buy him a bus ticket to Aika Village. He can play with all the evil dolls there…unless he’s chicken.

Saharah was in town today, and she redecorated my house with a cabin wall and a sidewalk. She’s already given me both of those items before.

A cabin wall and sidewalk.I then went out into the cold to hunt for snowballs. I put two of them together and fortunately, I created a snowmam!

Snowmam: The balance between head and body is excellent! I owe you my gratitude!I think she was hitting on me!

Snowmam: Pardon me for saying, but you have quite an impressive set of sparkling snowflakes there!I gave her five snowflakes I had in my pockets and she gave me an ice wall. But the best thing is that while she’s here, new snowflakes will appear randomly…even if it’s not snowing! So I kept my eye out for more snowflakes as I made my way around town.

When I crossed the tracks to visit Main Street, Luna told me that Tim from Dimentio was my most recent dream visitor. And GracieGrace had a tuxedo for sale, which I bought. I usually wear a tuxedo on New Year’s Eve in Animal Crossing, so now I have it.

Gracie: A tuxedo, eh? This item is in pretty high demand. I wonder if you're worthy of it...Rolf asked me for some furniture, so I gave him a balloon sofa I shot down from a balloon present. I didn’t think he’d enjoy junk like that, but I was wrong. He liked it so much that he gave me his picture again! I now have duplicates of Rolf, Molly, and Benedict. Yet still none from Big Top, Kidd, Skye, or Teddy. (Well I don’t have Tammy’s either, but I don’t want hers).

Rolf: Rolf's pic! Thanks again for the help!Every now and then, I’d notice a snowflake and catch it.

Wow! A snowflake! I should be gentle with it so it doesn't melt!Later on, Tiffiny let me know she was opening her gate. So I went to her town Auctus to get my petition signatures. I also met Mikki and Jet while I was there.

I noticed that one of the human characters in her town had a mailbox that was going crazy! It wasn’t just blinking like there was new mail…the flag was wildly swinging from left to right! I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I’m not sure what it means. (Update: It means the mailbox is full).

A character's mailbox was going crazy!I tracked down six of Tiffiny’s villagers, including Bob, who was hiding in the bug room of the museum! Bob was the final signature I needed (even though I stupidly forgot to take a picture of the completed petition). But Bob didn’t remember me from ACCF, so I was heartbroken. 😛

Bob: I don't think I've seen your face before.I took the petition back to Skye and she rewarded me with an oil lamp. It made me want to set myself on fire, because I was really hoping for her picture.

Skye: It's an oil lamp.Anyway, I caught five additional snowflakes and took them to Snowmam. She gave me an ice floor this time.

My ice floor and ice wall.I’m going to keep looking for snowflakes so I can hopefully complete the set before she melts. I think I’m going to keep it all in my main room, because from what I’ve seen, the ice set is probably my favorite new furniture series in New Leaf.

Town Concierge Badge

As soon as I came out of my house, Big Top was there and he pinged me. He asked me to get a fruit for him. Fruit requests are the easiest requests to fulfill, so I gave him a perfect peach I had.

Big Top: Whoa! This peach is so much better than normal ones, ice witch!He thanked me and rewarded me by giving me this moth orchid.

A moth orchid as seen in my house.I had a letter from Katie in the mail; she thanked me for taking her to Rinto yesterday. She attached a sketchbook to the letter.

As I started my walk around town, I saw Phineas. I was not expecting to see him, so I had no clue what badge I would be getting. It turned out to be the Town Concierge badge for fulfilling villagers’ requests. It’s my third gold badge.

I got the Town Concierge badge! I'm such a softie... I'll listen to any request when I'm needed!Not much else was going on in town today, so I did a little Club Tortimer island hopping. I was doing it mainly for shopping, to see if I could find any good items for sale. I didn’t find anything I wanted to buy, but I did run into Mrs. Claus! (It was actually Caitlyn from Ladera).

Mr. and Mrs. Claus! Actually Jeff and Caitlyn.Later on, I visited a dream town. Porter told me that it was a popular town because it had been used two times by visitors. Uhh, what?

Porter: You know...this is a pretty popular town. In fact, this station has been used 2 times by visitors.And tonight, I did some bingo exchanges with friends. Skye and Taylor each came to my town to get bingo numbers, and I went to Chris’ town Ruby to get one as well. Chris has outdone me by having two illuminated trees in his town.

Two illuminated trees in Chris's town of Ruby.