Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Yesterday, I received Aurora’s goodbye letter in the mail. It’s disappointing to see her go, but that’s how things go in this town. And at least I still have her in New Leaf.

But Aurora’s replacement was another cute, normal villager that I like a lot: It’s Lily the frog! Welcome to Forest, Lily!

She has lived in Forest before, back in 2015…but only for a month. Another interesting bit of trivia is that both of my “temporary” villagers are frogs (Lily and Wart Jr.). Add in the permanent Emerald, and Forest is currently 20% frogs!

When I ran into Tom, he tried to sell me some lacy paper 2,910 bells! Stationery is one of the cheapest items in the game, and asking nearly 3k for it is crazy! No way, Tom!

I (accidentally) asked Genji for a job, and he asked me to get his glasses case back from Tom. I agreed to help out.

But when I asked Tom about the glasses case, he said he gave it to Static…because Static was literally begging for it. Somehow I doubt Genji’s glasses case is really such a popular item around town.

Once I eventually tracked down Static over by the waterfall, he told me he gave it to Candi! And he doesn’t care enough to bother getting it back! How rude!

Fortunately, Candi still had the glasses case by the time I got to her house. She handed it back to me.

I went back to Genji and gave him the case. He was stoked to have it back, and he rewarded with a tulip table.

Tom gave me his paw (well, his paw shirt), and I decided to put it on.

I played again today, and I spotted a rainbow!

This is just the 3rd time I’ve seen a rainbow in this game. I also went around the lake to check the view from the other side as well:

Puck told me he found a cowhide rug, and he gave it to me for free. But only because it’s not edible. Thanks anyway, Puck!

Hank told me that he woke up this morning with every muscle in his body aching from his last workout. He was thrilled about that, so he got up and danced! 😆

But right after seeing the cheery Hank, I ran into the dreadful Baabara. She wanted me to spend all the money I had (39k) for a single carpet or wallpaper. No way, crook!

And then there was Ursala. She asked about my debt to Tom Nook, and I declined to answer. So she called me a burden on society. 🙄

Earlier today, I posted a short, 2-minute video showing my quest searching for Genji’s glasses case. Check it out if you’d like!

Last Tuesday (April 7th), I started up the game to participate in the Cherry Blossom Festival. But before I headed over to the wishing well, I checked my mail. I found a goodbye letter from Gaston. So long, my rabbity mustached friend.

Sydney asked me to pick a hand, and she gave me a free pitfall. But she told me not to bury it anywhere, because no one likes a mischief maker. Well what does she expect me to do with it, then? That’s literally a pitfall’s only purpose!

Over at the wishing well, Hank and Ursala were seated at one table. Hank was trying to count all of the petals that have fallen. Unfortunately, he lost count at 1,984.

Ursala said all the food was delicious, so she told me to eat up!

Genji and Kody were at the other table.

And Belle was the dancing fiend this year.

After I left the festival, I met Gaston’s replacement: Wart Jr. has popped into town. He may be ugly, but he’s toad-ally harmless.

On my way back home, I caught a bee…right next to my own statue!

I played again today, and Tom took notice of a cockroach I had in my pocket. He wanted it, and he offered me a peach for it! That’s a foreign fruit, so that’s a really good deal (for me). Not so great for him.

He thought the cockroach was the best! But I do have to question his use of the word “mmm.” 🤔

I found Gulliver down on the beach. He said he fell off his ship because of a pirate attack. Or sharks. Or…something. (Very convincing.)

He gave me a shogi piece for “saving his life,” which was really just waking him up.

Up at the dump, I found a perfect painting and a new spring shirt. That sounded like an appropriate shirt to wear this time of year, so I decided to put it on.

I took the painting over to Tom Nook. But surprisingly, he only paid 490 bells for it.

I posted my latest GameCube Moments video today, #29! It contains highlights from December 30th through last week (excluding the spring sports fair, since I already posted that as a separate video).

Never Stop Crossing!

On Thursday, I found a goodbye letter from Chevre in the mail. I’m sad to see her goat. I mean, go. 🙁

I also received a letter from Mom, saying she would actually pay ten bells just to be able to sleep in later! Aww, you go ahead and sleep in, Mom!

I found Chevre’s replacement, and it’s the very cute Aurora! She lived in Forest before back in 2013. Welcome to Forest, Aurora!

When I ran into Tom, he was telling me about the sports fair. Interestingly, he called the third event a bean-bag toss, when everything else I’ve seen refers to it as a ball toss.

On Friday, I participated in the spring sports fair…attending all four events! I won’t detail everything here in the blog, because I’ve posted a video of the event, which you can check out here:

But I will point out one thing that I thought was particularly amusing: Gaston was doing some trash talking, saying that his race opponent had chicken legs. And his opponent actually was a chicken…Hank! 😆

Kody was talking about groundhogs, and how he had wanted to catch one for years.

But then he seemed to realize that his idea didn’t make much sense. 😆

Today, Maple told me how much she loves this time of year.

She’s particularly looking forward to the cherry blossoms that will start falling from trees in early April. Me too, Maple. 🌸

Belle asked me to buy her violin for 2,660 bells. I declined, and she then offered a cabana lamp for 2,000 bells. I wasn’t interested in that either, so Belle got mad and wondered how she was going to carry both items all the way back to her house. Of course, we were standing right outside her house at the time.

In other news, Ursala called me a slob. Why do I put up with these animals? 😛

That’s all I have for now, but I’ll be back again in April. Never Stop Crossing!