Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Today is the 4th of July (Independence Day in the USA), and that means the fireworks festival is held tonight. On my way to the lake, I got bit. The game said it was a mosquito that bit me, but I’m not so sure. Snake sure looked pretty guilty.

I then stopped at the pier to get a sneak peak at the fireworks.

I worked my way around the lake, though I made a quick stop at Nookington’s to check today’s store inventory. Interestingly, there was a detour arrow and a detour sign, right next to each other. Much to Beyonce’s dismay, they were both pointing to the right, to the right.

I then walked a bit south to the lake, where the fireworks festivities were being held. Kody was whistling and fanning himself as he enjoyed the fireworks exploding overhead.

Belle, meanwhile, was acting like a beast.

I bought a yellow balloon from Crazy Redd’s stand for 480 bells.

Static was also at the lake to enjoy the show.

I bumped into Tortimer, but not where you’d expect. He wasn’t at the lake for the festival, nor was he over at the wishing well. Instead, he was over by Ursala’s house for some reason. He encouraged me to take a train trip, and said otherwise, we may lose the train station! But I knew he was bluffing…or just very, very confused.

At the dump, I found a grass model and a pad of paper. I took them both.

After making my rounds, I returned to the lake to enjoy some more fireworks. When I was done, I let my balloon go and watched it soar up into the sky. Happy 4th of July!

After that, I returned home and used a feature I almost never use: the journal.

Sadly, Otis has flown out of my life once again. I got his goodbye letter in the mail when I started up the game today.

It was storming in town, so my villagers had their umbrellas out. Some of them were in bad moods, too. Like Tom, for example.

When I spoke to Snake, he asked if I had been cutting down trees lately. I said yes (even though it wasn’t true), and Snake got upset with me. He called me a monster and threatened to tell my mom. 😛

I soon met up with Forest’s newest resident, Claude the rabbit. In Happy Home Designer, he was the DLC character that wanted his house to look like a Nintendo game shop.

Several of my villagers were talking about the fireworks festival, which is coming up next week. I’m not sure if I’ll participate or not. We’ll see.

As Ursala was chatting with Maple, I went up to Ursala to talk. But she got mad, apparently because of something Maple just did or said. But Ursala took it out on me, saying that I make her so mad. I didn’t even do anything!

So I thought this would be a good opportunity to use a pitfall I dug up last time. I buried in the ground, and just waited for the angry bear to walk right into it.

Tom asked me for an apple, and I had some planted near Nookington’s. So I grabbed one and took it back to him. But he seemed more interested in how I tracked down the apple, than in the apple itself. He did give me a mod wall for my trouble, though.

After that, I finished pulling weeds around town (I had a lot, after 7+ weeks). When I was done, I headed home.

I made a quick trip to Nookington’s today, so that I could finally sell all the junk I had in my pockets (and some items I had left on the ground, too). Then, I checked out the dump, where I found a paw shirt…and put it on.

I believe today is the last day of the windsocks that are on display around town each May, so I made sure to pose by one. Now the whole town smells like fish! 😛

I spoke to Otis, and he told me about Nook’s upcoming sale on clothing. Otis told me he wasn’t interested, so I didn’t have to worry about him buying up the clothes before I got the chance.

But when I spoke to him again, he told me his clothes were all getting small. And he said he hopes Nook has some good clothes at the sale! Wow, Otis needs to make up his mind, I s’pose.

Back outside, I approached Static…only for him to quickly go indoors. When I followed him inside, he got mad at me for coming in uninvited.

Belle wanted to sell me an item that was “amazing and rare.” She said stores will never carry it, and she had to special order it. And then, she wanted all my money for it. All 29,267 bells. No. Way.

When I bumped into Baabara, she informed me that I have an authentic alarm clock. Wow, an alarm clock. Amazing. 😛

She felt that the alarm clock was too sophisticated for me, so she offered to give me an arched window for it. I agreed to the trade. But an arched window seems a lot more sophisticated than an alarm clock to me. 😛

I was asked about the catalog in this game, so I figured I would also post this picture here. Each time you complete a section of the catalog, the item count is marked with a star.

It’s a very helpful feature that did not make it to the later games. In fact, the newer games don’t even give you the item count! (Wild World did, but not City Folk or New Leaf). So far, I’ve completed the sections for (handheld) items, stationery, gyroids, fossils, and music.