Candy For Sale

When I started up the game this evening, I quickly went to the home of my newest neighbor: Mathilda the kangaroo. She and her baby live in acre B-1, next to Aurora.

Meeting Mathilda.I spoke with her again, and she asked if I had a use for my mammoth skull. Yeah, to protect my mammoth brain!

Mathilda: What use do you have for a mammoth skull?But she was talking about the fossil in my pocket, and I sold it to her for 2,400 bells. I then went up to Nook’s, where Tom Nook now has candy for sale. If you plan on participating in the Halloween festivities on the 31st, you’ll definitely want to start stocking up on candy now!

Tom Nook: That's candy. The price is 100 bells.When I talked to Genji, he showed me a letter and then said I should try to write a letter like that, on his bum. But I’m not going anywhere near it!

Genji: You should try to write a letter like this one, on my bum.And I don’t usually try for the money rock, but I did today. I got seven bags, good for a total of 13,300 bells.

Banging the money rock.In acre B-2, Kody was looking over the cliff like he was thinking about jumping off. I couldn’t bear to watch.

Kody looking over the edge.Kody didn’t jump though; he was just looking at a bug. In that same acre, I went to visit Emerald. She was just standing there, surrounded by three umbrellas. Was this some sort of ritual to make it rain?

Emerald's house.After that, I stopped at the post office, finished pulling weeds, and made sure my town was back to perfect town status before I ended my game for the night.

I’ve made a video showing off Genji’s catchphrase “on my bum” from last week. When I first taught it to him, he used it in several funny ways. You can see them here:

Catchphrase Fun, On My Bum

I got a letter in the mail that said Velma is gone! Quick, call Scooby-Doo!

Velma's goodbye letter.Interestingly enough, nobody moved in to take Velma’s place. So Forest only has 14 villagers at the moment.

I was a bit tired of wearing the BB shirt, so I bought this jade check print at Nookington’s.

Timmy: It's quite a bargain!It was raining in town tonight, and Puck was talking about how umbrellas aren’t entirely effective. Even with one, you can’t avoid every last rain drop.

Puck: either we get a little wet or we stay indoors all day.Genji asked me for a new catchphrase, and I told him to say “on my bum.” It worked out quite well.

Genji: Oh... Look at all the mud, on my bum.In fact, I kept talking to him to see how else he would use his catchphrase. He said some funny things.

Genji: Gracie smells like flowers, on my bum.Genji: I don't need any high-brow duds, on my bum.When I was done talking to him, I pulled a bunch of weeds around town, stopped in the post office, and returned home.

Seven years ago today, I joined Youtube and uploaded my first Animal Crossing video. It was this house tour:

Tug-O-War

The fall sports fair was held today, to celebrate the beginning of autumn. The sports fair consists of four events: aerobics, foot race, ball toss, and tug-o-war. But because I didn’t play early enough in the day, I missed the first three events; only the tug-o-war event was still underway. But before I left for the fair, I had some mail to read first. One of the letters was a goodbye note from Robin, who has moved out of town.

Robin's goodbye letter.Usually the animal that moves out is my newest animal, but not this time. Robin has been in my town since May 20, 2012.

Anyway, I headed over to the wishing well. Belle and Baabara were up against Team Pink (Velma and Candi).

Tug-O-War at the sports fair.Velma felt like her arms were going to fall off. (Zoinks!) Sadly, they never did.

Velma: My arms are going to fall off if we don't win soon!Puck was the judge, and he was really getting into it. Actually he only seemed concerned with waving the flag as vigorously as possible. But he was doing it well.

Puck: Yeah! Awesome! I'm the judge!Did you notice that migratory locust in the background of that picture? I sure did, and I went to catch it. A bit later on, Maple offered to buy it from me for 1,710 bells. Deal!

Maple: Would you sell it to me for 1,710 bells?And of course, I had to go check and see who Robin’s replacement was. Turns out it was Aurora the penguin. She lives in my New Leaf town too.

Aurora: Would you like to be friends with me?Even though I didn’t see all of the sports fair events this year, I have seen them all in previous years. If you’d like to see what they look like, here’s a video that shows them all:

UPDATE: Here’s a recent Animal Crossing GameCube video I’ve made, consisting of clips that I’ve taken since last December. If you read this blog regularly, you may remember most of these happenings: