Fireworks Festival 2019

The third fireworks festival of the month was held tonight. Since I didn’t participate in the last two, I decided to play tonight. Tortimer was standing outside of town hall, encouraging villagers to kick back and watch some explosions.

Tortimer: The Fireworks Show is today, sprout! Time to kick back and watch some stuff explode!

He handed out some sparklers and roman candles. I did my annual tradition of lighting a fire under his… shell.

Jeff lights a roman candle and fires it at Tortimer's shell.

And of course, I spent a few moments looking up to enjoy the fireworks. I usually stand on a bridge somewhere, but this time, I stood on the cliff at the top of the waterfall.

Fireworks explode in the night sky over Forest.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Midge is now all packed up and ready to move out of town, so I said goodbye to her and her nest.

Midge: Yeah, I've finally made the big decision! I'm moving out, in my nest...

After that, I tried to do a little bug-catching. However, I wasn’t finding many good ones…and I was starting to get tired. So I called it a night before I earned many bells. I’ll have to make up for it next time.

Midge on the Move

Last night, Midge informed me that she was thinking about moving out of town. I did not try to stop her. I feel neutral towards Midge, and I’d rather lose a neutral villager than risk losing someone I really like. Besides, she’s had a full two years living in Forest. It’s time to move on.

Midge: I guess what I'm saying is, I'm thinking about moving...

Bones asked me for a leaf shirt, and I ordered one for him. It arrived today, and I took it to him. In return, he gave me a stone tile.

Bones: Gaaaaaasp! Lone bone! It's a leaf shirt!

Whitney asked me for some lovely furniture, but the shops didn’t have any (and I didn’t place an order for one, because I wasn’t sure when I’d be playing again).

Whitney: I wish I could move on to some other obsession. But, you know what they say... Happiness starts at home!

As I was bug-hunting, Bones told me he wanted a memento of our friendship. In particular, he wanted my cyclommatus! He wanted it for free, but there was an option to sell it to him, so I chose that. He gave me 7,215 bells for it. Good deal!

Bones: Yay! That's great news! Well, here you are, 7,215 bells.

I earned about 100,000 bells on the night (and about 50,000 last night). There are still two more weeks to go in August, and I’m roughly on pace to meet my goal of having 38.1 million bells by September 1st.

Gyroids on the Shelf

Sterling asked me to play a game of hide-and-seek tonight, and he gave me 15 minutes to find him, Bones, and…wait, who else?

Sterling: All right, everyone here? OK, here are the rules!

Just like the last time Sterling suggested the game, one of the players was hidden behind him, and I didn’t see who it was. And just like last time, Bones was the other visible player.

After about three minutes, I found Roald hiding behind a tree near Forest’s northwest bridge. Last time, Puck (another penguin) was the hidden player.

A couple minutes later, I found Bones behind a tree. And after a total of eight minutes had elapsed, I found Sterling near the beach, behind a palm tree.

Sterling peeks out from behind a palm tree during a game of hide-and-seek.

At the Roost, I caught K.K. Slider’s Saturday night performance of Comrade K.K. When the camera shifted over to Brewster, I spotted a couple of gyroids on his shelf.

Brewster's counter and shelves, with two gyroids on the shelves.

Here’s an animated GIF I decided to make of it. 😛

Animated GIF of the gyroids on Brewster's shelves. Waahh!

After checking in with my villagers, I did some bug-hunting and fishing. Once I earned about 100,000 bells, I called it a night.