Winter’s Colorful Goodbye

Mott told me that he wanted to move out of town, and I didn’t try to stop him. He didn’t know what day he’d be moving, but it’ll be soon.

Mott: I've talked it over with myself, and I decided to move out of town.I overhead a conversation between Static and Chow this evening. Chow was talking about how much he loved coffee cake, and he said he just had some at a restaurant with his niece. Static apparently saw them at the time, but he didn’t know the girl was his niece. He figured Chow must have been blackmailing the girl to have lunch with him! Ha!

Static: That was your niece?! I figured you must be blackmailing that poor girl to have lunch with you!I visited Benedict, and he told me that he recently had a cold, but that he didn’t take any medicine for it. Uh, what? I definitely gave him medicine last time. But he didn’t seem to remember that at all, so he didn’t thank me or give me a gift. Maybe he needed more than one dose, I suppose. But still, there have been times I’ve given animals medicine just once and they still thanked me for it. Hmm.

One of my villagers gave me a hint that the skies would be colorful later on tonight. And sure enough, after 11 p.m., I spotted an aurora up in the sky–along with a nearly full moon.

Northern lights in the sky.
If you look closely, you can spot Benedict peeking into Chow’s door.

Since Benedict was there, I had a chat with him. He seemed to know this was the last time we’d be seeing the northern lights for a while.

Benedict: I don't know when I'll get to see something like this again, so I have to burn it into my brain.The snow will be all gone by tomorrow morning. Bring on spring! I’ll be back with another entry later this week, so I’ll see you then!