Jeff's ACCF Blog

I had a lot of letters in my mail box today, mostly Happy New Year greetings. That included letters from Chow, Twiggy, Static, Broccolo, Savannah, and Mom. Mom even included 1,000 bells with the letter.

Over at town hall, Tortimer gave me the New Year’s shirt for 2017. I try to collect these each year.

I went in my house to take a look at it; there’s a chicken on the front! 2017 is the year of the rooster, so that’s the reasoning behind it. Here you can see me wearing the shirt, with my previous shirts (2010-2016) behind me.

The shirts have the year on the back. Here’s a look at the backs. Note: I apparently never saved the shirt from 2009, unfortunately.

When I went back outside, Tortimer told me the shirt looks better on me than anyone else in Forest. I appreciated the compliment, until he explained it a bit better. Apparently, that was only because no one else wants to wear theirs!

Of course, my villagers wished me a happy new year. Savannah hopes we have a dreamy year in 2017.

Twiggy told me she plans on being more powerful in the new year. A more powerful tweety bird? What can she do? Chug two worms at once?

Static even performed a dance for me, called the Dance of the Lonely Creamed Corn. It’s actually just him using a few different emotions in a row, but it’s a nice dance. Even if it is a bit corny.

Benedict was still sick, so I went to the store to buy some medicine for him. I felt like I had to. It is the year of the rooster, after all. Also, today marks the one-year anniversary of his arrival in Forest!

And before I wrapped up my night, I took the bus out to the city. Phineas was there, and I asked him for a bunny balloon. He gave me a blue one.

Happy new year, everyone!

Soon after starting the game up tonight, I spotted Saharah. She was looking for old wallpaper, and I remembered that I had three of them ready to go from last time. I gave them to her, and in return, she gave me a lunar horizon.

I do like the lunar horizon, but I already have one. It’s the lunar surface that I need. In fact, I’ve been waiting to get the lunar surface from Saharah for eight years now! I’ve still never got one from her in all this time. She’s driving me loony! 😉

I went around asking my villagers if they had any old wallpaper to give me. My favorite villager, Savannah, was the only one who did.

Benedict was sick with bird flu a cold, so I gave him some medicine that I already had in my pockets. This is him flapping flipping in the air; he is not part of that screen behind him, even if may look like it.

Random, useless trivia: Four of my ten current villagers have four-letter names: Coco, Opal, Chow, and Tank. Four others have eight-letter names: Broccolo, Savannah, Bluebear, and Benedict. The other two have six letters: Static and Twiggy. They all have an even number of letters in their names. How odd…

I was planning on making a snowman today. Well, until this happened.

While it’s true that I could have gone indoors and come back out to generate a replacement snowball, I wasn’t interested in searching for the new one. I was feeling a bit lazy. 😛

Some of my villagers were talking about New Year’s Eve being tomorrow.

I don’t plan on playing for the countdown tomorrow night, but I will be back on Sunday (New Year’s Day). I want to be sure to pick up my New Year’s shirt, as I do every year. So I hope to see you then, and I hope you all have a happy and safe new year!

I visited Static last night, and he made it clear that he’s not a fan of winter. He said it makes it hard to maintain his cheerful disposition. Ha! What a joke. He’s the grumpiest squirrel I know.

When I went over by Tank’s house, I had a flashback to the days when Nintendo still supported online play for ACCF. Merry’s house used to be in this spot at one point. I would often bury a pitfall seed right behind the tree in front, and then I’d ask my visitors to meet me at Merry’s house. My regular visitors soon caught on, but many newcomers fell for it. Good memory.

Over by the river, I listened in on a conversation between Chow and Broccolo. Chow was saying that he used to be a kendo star, and that he had a great body that drove the girls crazy. Broccolo found that hard to believe, and asked why the last girl Chow had over looked mad when she got on the bus back home. Chow wasn’t happy that Broccolo was seemingly spying on him.

And yet, Chow was the one spying when I had a conversation with Opal. Opal said she was thinking about moving away, but I told her to stick around.

I wanted to change my path back to blue ice bricks, but Able Sisters was closed. So I started up the game again tonight and changed them back.

I saw a big fish in the ocean, so I fished myself out a tuna.

Opal asked me to make a delivery to Chow, and I agreed to help out. Their homes are pretty close to each other, after all. The gift was plank flooring, and that apparently brought back some memories for Chow. He said Opal has a memory like an elephant!

When I returned to Opal, she rewarded me with some blue flooring.

That’s all I have for now, but I’ll be back again next week. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!