Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I played last Wednesday, and I found Eloise’s goodbye letter in the mail. Her replacement is Freya the snooty wolf. Like most (if not all) new villagers I get, Freya has lived in Forest before…back in 2014.

I tested out the ordering system, and I quickly discovered that the GameCube game (much like New Horizons) has a limit of five items you can order at a time. The difference is that I believe the count resets after the mail is delivered, so you can potentially order more than five items per day as long as you play before 5 p.m.

Yesterday, Maple told me that she finds it hard to sense the flow of time when she’s indoors. That could also apply to the past year or so in general. 😛

Freya had a suggestion for me: She said I could make her dinner every day! I don’t think so, but nice try.

I asked around for jobs, and I completed a couple of them. But several others ended in dead ends because Maple and Sydney were already in bed.

So I continued where I left off today. I made two deliveries to Maple, and she rewarded me with a modern wall and a rally shirt.

I then headed to Sydney’s house, where I was trying to pick up Candi’s Pokemon Pikachu. However, Sydney told me that Patty forcibly took it from her! Fortunately, Patty still had it and she handed it over to me. I returned it to Candi, and she gave me a white boom box for my trouble.

But I then made the mistake of asking Candi for another favor. She told me that Emerald borrowed her watch and never returned it. Candi was pretty steamed.

It was almost 9:00, so I rushed over to Emerald’s house as fast as I could. I got through the door, and then the hourly chime rang. So even though I got in the door, but there was a problem: Emerald wasn’t in here! When I left and checked the door, it said she was sleeping. She must be sleeping somewhere else then. 😛

I decided to ask for more favors, and Kody asked me to catch a fish for him. I caught a barbel steed, and he seemed very surprised that I was capable of catching a fish.

He rewarded me with a “dope” lawn chair. 😛

For my next job, Genji asked me to plant some flowers around his house. I bought all five packs of flower seeds at Nookington’s, and planted them near Genji’s house. When I told him the task was complete, he told me that he practically buried his sweetie in blooms!

Yikes! I never knew Genji was a murderer! Maybe I should be more careful about what jobs I accept. I could be helping cover up a crime. You never know what’s buried down the rabbit hole.

See you all next time. Never Stop Crossing! 🙂

I started up the game this past Saturday, and I had several Valentine’s Day greetings in the mail. That included this somewhat creepy valentine from Emerald. Maybe this isn’t the best stationery to be using on Valentine’s Day…

But most of the girls in town sent me a valentine and a gift. This is what they all gave me:

• Baabara: round cactus
• Belle: cabana table
• Emerald: cabin armchair
• Maple: hammock
• Sydney: rock guitar
• Ursala: picnic table

Only Baabara would send a cactus with a valentine. At least she didn’t use the creepy stationery that Emerald used; that would have made it doubly threatening!

I also received Petunia’s goodbye letter in the mail. So I went over to acre B-2 to meet her replacement, Eloise the elephant. She seemed nice at first…

But it didn’t take long for her snooty nature to shine through. She said a slouch like me could never do justice to Gracie’s designs. Oh well, at least we had a good ten seconds until she got on my bad list. 😛

Note: Eloise also lived in Forest back in 2012…until she was replaced by Yuka. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen again.

Today, Maple said she was looking for a new start. She asked me to take her to another town, but that’s not going to happen. 😛

Candi told me that Scott from Ohio passed through town the other day, although that wasn’t true. It was over ten years ago, but she still talks about it as if it was yesterday. 😛 But she wondered why he just passed through town, unless he was selling turnips or something.

I got lucky with today’s glowing spot: It gave me 10,000 bells instead of the usual 1,000. Luck struck again a few minutes later, when I spotted a large fish shadow in the river. I fished out a stringfish! I rarely do any fishing outside of early September, so this was a nice surprise!

After pulling all the weeds I saw, I verified at the wishing well that the town status is still perfect. 👍

This is the last day of snow on the ground, and I’m ready to see green grass return. Goodbye, winter! And Never Stop Crossing! 🙂

Yesterday, I received Pecan’s goodbye letter in the mail. She didn’t stick around long, but that is nut a problem at all.

At Nookington’s, I bought up ten items…just for the raffle tickets. 😛

In Acre B-5 (just one acre below Nookington’s), I met Pecan’s replacement, Petunia the purple cow.

So that means both of my temporary villagers are now cows (Patty is the other one). And that makes three cows in total, when you include Belle.

By the way, when Petunia says she’s almost positive we haven’t met before, she’s wrong. She actually lived in Forest in 2014.

When I visited Maple in her house, she didn’t recognize me! She said she’s not a fan of strangers in her home at night! 😮

However, she did remember me after a few seconds. She said I “did some work for her.” 🙄

Today is the last day of the month, so that means it’s Raffle Day! And I actually had some raffle tickets for a change! Ten raffle tickets gave me two entries, and the first entry was a loser. But on my 2nd attempt, I got a blue ball. That meant I won the third prize, which was a black queen. Yay!

I’m not sure it was worth the cost of the ten items I bought yesterday, but still, it’s fun to do something different sometimes.

I spoke with Petunia again today, and she said she’s going to stop obsessing over decisions on what to have for dinner every day. But then she worried she might lose her girlish figure. 😛

Today’s snowballs were just two acres apart, so I decided to roll them up and make a snowman.

Maple was hanging out in an igloo, and I played some of her games to sell her some items. Since I couldn’t sell anything at the shop today (because of Raffle Day), this actually helped me out! I got some really good prices: she paid me 5,600 bells for a sproid, and a whopping 8,900 bells for a country guitar!

On the down side, I did lose a T-rex torso for just 110 bells. But I still came out ahead overall. I even got myself another DUMMY. 😉

In a span of just two and a half minutes, two of my villagers (Tom and Ursala) both painted my roof. Tom painted it black, and then Ursala painted it green. Since my house is covered in snow and I can’t see the roof anyway, I didn’t even care. 😛

At the post office, there was already a letter waiting to be mailed–it was my gift from the snowman. So when I sent four letters (with fossils, to the Farway Museum), that forced the mail. Phyllis had to wake up Pete to mail everything.

So when I returned home, my mail was already there. The snowman sent me a snowman TV, which is my favorite snowman item. It displays a picture of snow falling near a house, and it plays a soothing, wintry tune that is so relaxing. 🤍

I know my house is way overdue for a makeover. Maybe I should take all those asteroids over to Maple’s igloo…

See you all next time!