Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Doc sent me a goodbye letter in the mail today. The Doc is officially out.

Near Nookington’s, I met Doc’s replacement: Prince the frog has danced into town. Unlike frogs in New Leaf, Prince here is not a fan of rain (purple or otherwise). He’s holding a leaf umbrella here, in case it’s hard to tell since it’s cutting through the sign on his house.

When I spoke with Belle, she asked if I wanted to know a way to make money with the gyroid outside my house. I wasn’t interested, so I told her no. So she called me a naive bumpkin.

Gulliver was passed out on the shore, so I woke him up and “saved his life.” After he blamed his fall from the ship on pirates and sharks, he gave me a Tokyo Tower model.

I spoke with Ursala, and she was telling me how she loves the sounds of autumn, and September in particular.

After I spoke with everyone, and pulled all the weeds I saw, I got ready for some early September fishing. There are no sea bass out, although they will start returning in a couple days. And the fact that it was raining today made it even better, because coelacanths will join red snappers and barred knifejaws as the only fish in the ocean (outside of the acre with the mouth of the river). So I emptied my pockets and my wallet and got started.

My first batch of 15 fish included 4 coelacanths, so I knew it was going to be a good fishing haul. These 15 fish sold for 103,000 bells. Not bad for seven minutes of fishing, hm?

I spoke with Ursala again later, and she was as polite as ever.

Unfortunately, my coelacanth rate slowed down a bit, and I started catching some garbage items as well. But I still did very well on the night. In one hour of fishing, I caught 13 coelacanths and I earned a half million bells…505,000, to be exact.

And it could have been better, because seven coelacanths got away from me. Oops. But still, I took my money bags to the post office and deposited it into my account. That kicked my balance over the 19 million bell mark.

That’s what I call a successful evening. This is the best time of year in the GameCube game! Have a great day, and I’ll see you next time!

I got T-Bone’s goodbye letter in the mail today. He has pulled up his steaks stakes and moved away.

Seconds later, I met his replacement, Doc the bunny. His house is just a bit south of my home acre. He seems like a nice guy.

Crazy Redd is planning a visit to Forest in a couple of days, and many of my villagers warned me about him. Genji got mad just thinking about Redd; he even called Redd a filthy rodent!

Since I last played in early July, it had been seven weeks since I saw my villagers. Some of them were mad about that, and others just seemed sad that they haven’t seen me lately.

Over near the wishing well, Emerald was telling me about the storage trick. You attach furniture to a letter, and then store it at the post office. It’s a helpful trick that comes in handy, considering this game has such limited storage options. The only bad thing is that you can’t tell which item is attached to which letter once it’s in there.

I got my net out and did a little bug-hunting, even though I didn’t spot any valuable bugs out. After I caught a longhorn beetle, Kody asked me about it. He offered me a whopping 2,900 bells. I thought that was a good deal, and Sydney apparently agreed. 😛

Ursala was being rude, as usual, and her catchphrase “unlike you” fit in perfectly when she said this:

As a reminder, we’re just one week away from the start of September. So it’ll soon be the best time of year to make bells! All you have to do is fish in the ocean and get a minimum of 3,000 bells per fish, since the sea bass will be gone. I’ll be sure to participate, so check back in early September for another entry. See you then!

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!