Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

After stopping at Nook’s to sell some things, I walked past Maple’s house. Maple was sleeping outside, as always. But the odd thing was that Static was creeping around outside her house. I’m not sure what he was up to.

I went to the ocean to do some fishing. I caught a number of red snappers and barred knifejaws. In total, I earned about 50,000 bells.

When I went over by the wishing well, I saw Hank and I talked to him. He said he just found a froggy chair and he asked if it was mine. I told him no, and he told me he was just testing my honesty. He then gave me the chair.

I passed by the train station and saw K.K. so I took a little break to let him perform a song for me. I told him to pick a random song and he went with K.K. Etude.

I then went into my house to try to decide how I want my main floor to look. I decided I needed more items, so I went to Nook’s to order them. I started to run back home. I suddenly saw a huge shadow in the river, but it was too late. My running had scared it away.

I started up the game around 5:15 p.m., which means I got to hear the 5 p.m. music…one of my favorites. I went to Nook’s to sell my fish from last night. I also saw they had a taiko drum on sale. It just reminded me of the Taiko Drum Master games. And it made me sad, because they keep announcing all these Taiko Drum Master games for Wii in Japan, and they never got released in America.

I talked to Puck and he asked me if I have a Game Boy Advance. I told him yes, and he talked about connecting the Game Boy Advance to the GameCube to visit the island. He said he wants to ride the boat and let his fingers dangle in the water. But Puck…you don’t have fingers.

I talked to Static, and he told me had a cherry. He then tried to sell it to me for 2,720 bells. No thanks. Even though it’s a foreign fruit, I already have cherry trees planted in Forest. If I didn’t have one already, that would be different. But since I didn’t need it, I declined his “generous” offer.

I then did some fishing in the sea bass-free ocean. I was having a better barred knifejaw-to-red snapper ratio than I did yesterday. Barred knifejaws sell for 5,000 bells, while red snappers only sell for 3,000 bells.

I then decided to clear some clutter in my house by taking some things to the island. I think this may have been my first visit to the island in over a year!

After that brief chat with Ankha, I put those items into my island house. My room there is a horribly cluttered mess of jingle items, beach/island items, igloo items, gyroids, and other miscellaneous crap.

I returned to the mainland and did some more fishing until I had over 200,000 bells to deposit into my bank account.

I opened my mailbox and unfortunately found a goodbye letter…from Octavian. I liked Octavian, and it’s too bad that he couldn’t stick around longer. Besides, he is the only octopus character in the game.

I went around town pulling weeds. As usual, Maple was outside sleeping. So I tried to catch some Z’s.

She didn’t appreciate it. But I continued on. Once I pulled enough weeds to restore perfect town status, I went fishing. In early September, there are no sea bass (or jellyfish) in the ocean. That means if you fish in the ocean, every fish you catch will be worth at least 3,000 bells! You do have to avoid the acre with the mouth of the river though, because you will still catch some river fish there. But fish in the other four ocean acres, and you will make a LOT of money. The sea bass gradually start to return around the 11th or 12th, but the fishing is still great until mid-month.

Unfortunately, Nook’s was already closed when I played tonight, so I didn’t fish as long as I wanted. But I did catch nine red snappers and two barred knifejaws, for a total of 37,000 bells.

After that, I went to visit K.K. before I ended my night. I asked him for a random song, and he performed K.K. Safari for me. My pockets were full of stinky fish, so he couldn’t give me the aircheck. But that’s okay, I didn’t need it anyway.