Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I played some Animal Crossing tonight, mainly to pick up all my weeds. While walking around, I saw a large shadow in the river, so I got out my fishing rod. Turned out to be an arapaima. I always love catching the large fish in Animal Crossing–except the sea bass of course. I hate sea bass.

I found the day’s money rock and got the full amount from it (7 bags = 13,300 bells). I also found the daily glowing spot (1,000 bells) and buried a shovel in that spot. Hopefully it will become another golden tree. I went in the police station to check the lost-and-found. I took a pad of paper, since I had a fossil that needed to be mailed. I deposited some money in the bank and headed for home.

I’m actually feeling pretty stupid right now. A couple months ago, I was looking through my item checklist and saw there was one model I was missing…the weed model. I looked up when you get that model, and it’s on Founder’s Day. For some reason, I was thinking Founder’s Day was the anniversary of the day you created your town. So I found the day that I first got the game–September 29, 2002. (Yes, I keep track of things like that :P). So I made a note in a text file to play AC on September 29th to attend the Founder’s Day event.

Now September 29th is tomorrow…and the reason I wanted to pick up all my weeds tonight was so that my town would look nice if I recorded a Youtube video of Founder’s Day tomorrow. But I decided to check and make sure…and it turns out Founder’s Day isn’t on your town’s anniversary after all. In fact, it’s on August 21st. Which just passed a month ago! …While my note was still in my file, reminding me to play on 9/29. Ugh.

And if that’s not bad enough, I actually played Animal Crossing on August 21st! But apparently I either didn’t go by the wishing well acre, or perhaps I played at a time when Tortimer wasn’t there. But wow, that’s really disappointing.

The autumn sports fair was this past Friday, but unfortunately I was unable to participate. I did play some Animal Crossing today though, and got a goodbye letter from Queenie. That’s unfortunate, because I really liked her house.

I went to meet her replacement, Cupcake the (sweet) bear cub.

In case anyone is wondering, here is my current villager list: Candi, Puck, Genji, Maple, Static, Belle, Ursala, Sydney, Cupcake, Baabara, Hank, Tom, Emerald, Kody, and Tutu.

In the same acre as Cupcake’s new house, Sydney was there watching and chasing a bug. I watched her for a while, just because it was amusing to see her chase it around.

Anyway, I pulled a bunch of weeds as I made my way around town. I sold some fish and deposited some money into the post office bank. I talked to Copper, and he informed me that Wendell will be in town on Tuesday. I found a coconut palm in the dump on my way home. I’ll probably just sell it the next time I play.

I started the game up and saw that it was raining. Perfect! Just what I wanted, so I could do some great ocean fishing…until the first fish I caught was a sea bass. Ugh. They’re back. I was thinking I had more time until they returned, but they are back now.

Still, I was intent on doing some fishing, so I fished until my pockets were full. I threw back any sea bass I caught (especially since Nook’s was already closed). I ended up with 12 red snappers, two barred knifejaws, and one coelacanth. That’s 61,000 bells worth of fish.

I went to talk to a couple animals. Baabara was the only one who was interested in my fish. She offered me 1,650 bells for a red snapper. That’s far below the 3,000 bells Nook will pay, so I declined. She got mad and called me a highway robber. Clueless sheep that she is.