Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

The 4th of July fireworks festival was held tonight (Independence Day in the U.S.), so I headed over to the lake to enjoy the show.

Tortimer was nearby, reminding me not to play with matches. I guess he doesn’t want me to blow off my fingers. Oh wait, I don’t have fingers anyway.

When I got around to the other side of the lake, I found T-Bone, Kody, Maple, and Hank enjoying the fireworks.

I tried burying a pitfall near Kody, since he was the only one walking around. But just like I found with Emerald at the Cherry Blossom Festival, animals participating in events are immune to pitfalls.

I bought some balloons from Crazy Redd’s stand. When I spoke to Maple again, she referred to it as a food stand. Unless she secretly eats balloons, I think she’s full of hot air.

Baabara said she found a bug zapper, and she asked if it was mine. I said yes, and she handed it over. But what she did next really surprised me: She took half of the money in my pockets as a reward for finding it! She walked off with nearly 15,000 bells!!

She then said I have no morals and called me depressing! Wow.

With that, she fully earned her time in pitfall prison. And now I have a renewed hatred for the fluffy demon.

Sydney was talking about feng shui, and how I should never sit a doll so that it’s facing the wall.

Ursala mentioned Wendell, who will be visiting town soon, and she seemed to get annoyed by “picky vagrants” such as him.

It seems like everyone who wasn’t at the fireworks festival was in a rotten mood. Even Emerald!

I found a couple pads of paper in the dump, and they came in handy. I was close to running out.

When I circled back around to my home acre, I saw the bulletin board message about the fireworks festival. Officially, the town is celebrating the anniversary of the opening of the train station. Interesting.

After a quick trip back to Nookington’s to sell a few things in my pockets, I returned home and ended my game for the night. Happy 4th of July!

Bob the cat has strayed away from Forest in search of snacks. I got his goodbye letter in the mail today.

Genji was wondering where I’ve been for the past four weeks.

I met Bob’s replacement, T-Bone the bull. Even though I don’t have a beef with him or anything, I just don’t particularly like him. But then again, it’s hard for any animal to replace Bob. I should have T-Bone for dinner. I mean, have him over for dinner.

Up on the cliff, Candi was getting excited about the fireworks festival coming up on Thursday night.

Ursala had an item that she couldn’t bear to throw away. It was a leaning stone, and she gave it to me for free! It’s not very often that Ursala does something nice like this.

I thought lightning was going to strike twice when Baabara told me she was feeling “VERY generous” near the wishing well.

But her idea of being generous is selling me a sprinkler for 1,000 bells. I bought it just to be nice.

Belle was also hanging out at the wishing well, and she just wanted to know if I figured out how to use all my “stuff” in a tutu. 😮

In the spot where Chico originally lived (in the old days), I found a tent. It’s the first summer camper of the year!

Rhoda the colorful chicken was inside, and she was not having a good time all cooped up in the tent.

I made her day even worse by playing a game with her, and winning. She had to give me a green golf bag for free.

After that, I made a stop at the post office, finished pulling weeds around town, and then headed for home.

By the way, if you haven’t seen the Kotaku article about me and my GameCube town, check it out! I’ll be back with another entry in July. 🙂

I played the game briefly in late April, and I learned that Huck had moved out of town. His replacement was Dizzy, but Dizzy was passed out (well, sleeping) when I went to his house. I didn’t do much else, because I was really only playing to see which villager moved in. I was hoping for Woolio (for a video I’ll include later in this entry), but I later got him in another town (Aja Blu).

Fast forward to today, when I got Dizzy’s goodbye letter in the mail (even though I didn’t actually get to meet him). I also got a couple of fossils back in the mail. As I closed the mail menu, Pete flew overhead and dropped by!

He landed, looked around, and then immediately took off again before I went over to talk to him. I didn’t even plan on witnessing this today, I just happened to be playing right at 5:00 p.m. As he flew away, I tried to follow him until he flew too high (above the “camera”).

I was quite surprised when I found Dizzy’s replacement: Bob!

For those who aren’t aware, Bob is one of my favorite villagers in the series. I think he has lived in Forest once or twice before, but not in the past eight years, at least (this blog started in 2011). He did live in my second town of Ohio not too long ago, though.

He asked if I had been in his house trying to move his furniture around. This was the first time I had seen him, so obviously it wasn’t me. But then again, nobody could actually move his furniture anyway.

At Nook’s shop, I bought myself a snowcone shirt for summer. Of course, I forgot to put it on until I was almost done for the day, but here’s a pic of it when I tried it on.

I spotted a blue balloon present, and I followed it until it got stuck in a tree. I found a tumbleweed inside! Who would wrap up a tumbleweed like a present?

I ran into Bob again, and he gave me an apple (a foreign fruit) for free! What a guy!

After speaking with all of my villagers, I stopped by the post office, checked out the dump (nothing good today), and returned home.

Since my last blog entry, I’ve posted two new Animal Crossing GameCube videos. The first one shows 43 villagers that still haven’t returned. It took me nine months of resetting and making temporary towns to find all of these villagers! Woolio in particular seemed to take me forever. Please check out the video; I’ve included a silly rhyme for each villager.

And I’ve also posted a new episode of GameCube Moments (#13). It includes a lot of clips of interesting things that happened in some of the temporary towns I made while making the video above (as well as some things from Forest and Ohio as well). I hope you enjoy!