Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Last Wednesday (September 3rd), Belle started complimenting my eyes. First, she said they were pretty…but then she changed it to “intense.”

She said I had the eyes of a wrestler, and said they’re not the eyes of someone who does a lot of thinking! Wow, I think that’s rude.

That made me wrestle with the idea of tipping her over, but then she’d be crying over spilled milk. (Just kidding. Be nice to cows.) 😛

Early September is the best time of year for ocean fishing, since there are no sea bass (or jellyfish) in sight. Last year, I waited for a rainy day and then fished for two hours to make a million bells in one night. I didn’t want to do that this time, though. Instead, I played (and fished) a little bit each day. I’ll recap how it all went later in the entry.

Last Thursday, Static informed me that I was looking as awful as ever. (My villagers all seem to love me so much.) He gave me a misty shirt to wear instead, and I decided to put it on.

I found Gulliver down on the beach, and he gave me a gift and said I wouldn’t find anything like it anywhere.

But it was a matryoshka, so I did find something like it…right inside the first one! 😉

As I was speaking with Kody near the wishing well, Tom came up and his face passed right through Kody’s umbrella. 😛

On Sunday (September 7th), I received a goodbye letter in the mail from Mitzi. I’m sad to see her go, but I’m used to this happening. The revolving door of Animal Crossing on GameCube goes round and round.

I found a note on the message board about a buried treasure in Acre D-1. Even though I didn’t specifically seek it out, I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary when I passed through there. More on this later, though.

Tom said that Genji told him about money trees. He asked if I knew about them, and I said yes. So he wanted me to tell him about them, but all of the options were variations of “no.” I said “that’s my secret,” and he started crying!

I’m not sure what the big deal was, because he supposedly knew about them from Genji! 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, I’ve continued fishing most days lately, and the dump has been filling up with the junk I’ve caught from the ocean. Here’s how the dump looked Sunday (before the Monday pick-up).

Over by the wishing well today, Ursala said she found my blue bench for me. But she then took half the money in my pockets as her reward! That was over 17,000 bells!!

I didn’t have any pitfalls with me, so I started pushing her around and I hit her with a net. Villagers shouldn’t be allowed to just reach in and take our money. 😡

Mitzi’s replacement moved in today, and it’s Hazel the squirrel! She’s cute! 😊

While walking around the museum, I fell into a pitfall behind the museum that was completely out of sight! I checked my map, and it was in Acre D-1. This is the “buried treasure” that Puck left for me! Thanks a lot, old friend.

After some more fishing tonight, I noticed my savings balance was just 85k from a big milestone. So I went back out to fill up my pockets a couple more times. When I was done, my balance reached 25 million bells!

That meant I earned over 1.2 million bells just in the past week or so. I’d call that a productive September fishing season!

See you all next time. Never Stop Crossing!

It was storming when I played the game on Thursday afternoon. I promptly checked my mail and found a goodbye letter from Coco! I’m sad to see her go, but I can’t say I’m surprised.

However, I was certainly happy with her replacement: Mitzi the cute cat! She moved in next door to Maple, in the spot where Hank originally lived, many years ago.

Mitzi last lived in Forest back in 2014. Welcome back, Mitzi! 😊

When I spoke with Static, he called me completely bonkers for not buying Saharah’s carpets…even though I never said such a thing. 😛

Over by the wishing well, Ursala told me she doesn’t normally mind the rain unless it sticks around too long.

And then she said it’s the same situation with me. Thanks a lot, Ursala.

I really like Emerald’s umbrella; it looks like a giant flower walking around when she’s facing away from the camera. 😆

Behind Candi’s house, I spotted this huge fish shadow!

Or at least, that’s what I thought. But it turned out to just be an old tire. Oof.

On Friday, Belle threatened to “whale into me.” All I did was talk to her, so I have no clue what she was mad about this time. 🤷

A bit later, I had a little argument with Candi. Since it happened on a bridge, and I just happened to be holding a net, I took advantage of the glitch that lets me push her into the river. It wasn’t planned or anything, honest! But now she’s in over her head. 😉

Yesterday, Baabara asked me for a walker cicada that I had caught moments earlier. She wanted it for her niece, and she offered me a staggering 2,680 bells for it! It’s not even a rare bug! I gladly agreed to the sale.

I can’t imagine why Baabara was being so nice for a change. Maybe it was a glitch in the game too. 😉

There was a camper’s tent in town, and Sprocket the mechanical ostrich was inside. He wanted to play a game with me, but he would get all the money in my pockets if I lost. I had over 47,000 bells on me, so I was not about to risk that much!

I played again today (August 31st), and the last day of every month is raffle day. Even though I didn’t have any raffle tickets, I still like to go in and take a look at the prizes. An Arwing (the ship from Star Fox) was one of them. Pretty cool.

Rocco wanted to sell me a botanical shirt for 2,060 bells. He said it was too fancy for him, but he thought I’d like it because I’m a “trendy little wannabe.”

But I had no interest in paying 2k for a shirt! I declined the offer, and Rocco said he’d just take it over to Tom Nook’s store and sell it. Go ahead and try! Tom Nook isn’t buying anything today, and he would never pay anywhere near that amount for a shirt anyway!

Emerald showed me a weird letter she got in the mail, supposedly from a farmer who planted flowers all around Forest.

That’s pretty interesting, and I really like the farmer’s choice of stationery too. Very fitting…but I wonder why the farmer didn’t stick around and put down some roots here?

I posted my latest GameCube Moments video today, so I hope you’ll check it out!

Peak ocean fishing season is right around the corner! I may have to give it a try early this September, so it may not be long until the next entry lands. I hope to see you again soon, and good luck fishing!

When I played on Wednesday, I found a goodbye letter from Puddles in the mail (unfortunately).

On the bulletin board, I saw the notice that morning aerobics starts on July 25th, and it runs through the end of August. Moments later, Candi quizzed me on that exact fact. She asked which event starts on July 25th, so obviously I knew the answer. Candi teased a reward, but then laughingly told me there was no prize.

A few minutes later, Belle asked me the same question! Since I wanted to see how she’d react (and since I knew there wasn’t a prize anyway), I chose to answer that the fireworks festival was the event that runs every day in summer. As you might expect, my stupidity angered her.

Rocco asked if I’d rather play golf or watch golf, and I wasn’t really interested in either. But I told him I’d rather watch it, and he compared me to a lazy slug. Nice.

Down on the beach, I found Gulliver passed out. I tried to release a cockroach onto him, but it flew away instead. After I woke up the sleeping gull, he gave me a Chinese lion.

When I met up with Baabara, she was talking about Wendell. She didn’t like the fact that he begs for food, and yet he’s picky about what he’ll eat.

Sydney has a new neighbor, and I was happy to meet her: It’s Coco the coconut/gyroid rabbit!

Welcome to Forest, Coco! I hope you’ll stick around a while!

Puck complimented me on my nice clothes, and he said he was my number one fan. That was kinda funny, because I was wearing the No. 1 shirt.

I returned to talk to Coco more, and she told me a friend gave her a bus stop that she can’t use. 🚌

I thought she was going to give it to me for free, but she actually wanted 2,820 bells for it. I didn’t want it that bad, so I kept on walking.

I played again today, and Ursala told me about the lunar calendar. She said that today is “Leap Month 3rd.”

I didn’t have an option to question that, but she assumed I had a problem with it and wanted to “start something.” 🙄

Candi reminded me that if you borrow the Able Sisters’ sewing equipment (by linking a Game Boy Advance), you can design patterns for free.

It’s been a while since I’ve designed patterns in this game, so I forgot what they charged for a pattern. So I headed over there and asked Mabel. She told me it costs 350 bells.