Jeff's ACCF Blog

I started up the game tonight and immediately noticed a problem. Flowers were missing. Others were wilted. But it rained in the city yesterday, and I returned by bus, so what was the problem??

Yesterday, when I got to the city it wasn’t raining. But almost immediately, the clock struck the top of the hour and it started raining. So I thought great, that’s all I need, and went back to town. I’m thinking maybe it has to be raining when you enter the city from somewhere (either when you get off the bus or when you come out of a building in the city). So anyone who uses the city rain to water your flowers, take note. If it’s not raining when you get to the city, then starts raining, enter and exit a store there to make sure you get credit for the rain. (Of course, then you have to take the bus back to town as well).

The good news is that I didn’t lose any black or blue roses, since I water them every day. That means they were watered Wednesday, so even without yesterday’s rain, they would be wilted at worst. I did lose 10-20 red roses and several purple roses though, and probably some other flowers as well. So it’s still a setback, but it wasn’t disastrous.

Anyway, I opened my gate at 10:00. ToonZelda came in, bringing Katie, which triggered the mother/daughter cat reunion scene.

As soon as that was over, Mike also showed up. Out of the blue, he released a birdwing. It turns out, he was trying to show it off, but clicked “release” by mistake. 😀

I watered my flowers as I worked my way around town. When I got to my house, I got my mail. Bob sent me a letter, thanking me for making the delivery yesterday. He sent me 500 bells. Oh joy.

Anyway, the three of us just hung out and did some fishing. Nobody else joined in, so my town didn’t fill up tonight. I think that’s the first time in over a month that it didn’t reach maximum capacity.

By 11:15 or so, everyone had left. I kept my gate open in case any of the late night crew (such as Jorge or Georgie–aka the orgs) came over, but no such luck. ToonZelda did invite me to her town tomorrow night, so I’ll try to remember to do that.

I’ll end today’s entry with a few pictures I took tonight. Until next time.

It was raining in the city tonight, so I didn’t have to water my flowers tonight. (Yay!) Also, that means all the flowers will look nice and non-wilted for having visitors over tomorrow for Friday Night Forest.

While making my rounds, Chief asked me to play hide and seek. I almost declined, but then decided to do it anyway. Nana and Ruby were the other two players.

Chief only gave me 10 minutes to find them, and it wasn’t enough. I found Nana and Ruby fairly quickly (both hiding behind trees), but I never found Chief. Oh well.

I ran into Bob, and he asked for a new catchphrase. I gladly obliged by teaching him “daddy.” It reminds me of The Simpsons when Ralph Wiggum calls his teacher “Mommy.” Funny stuff, so I talked to him again to see what else he would say. Turns out he wanted me to deliver an item (a green bed, I believe) to Ruby. I agreed.

Even though hide-and-seek had ended several minutes before, I found Ruby still hiding behind the same tree. Speaking to her triggered the “you lose” scenario with Chief, Ruby, Nana, and I all back at town hall. I talked to Ruby again to give her the item. For whatever reason, she loved it and told me to thank Bob for it. I went back to my long-lost son Bob to tell him, but my pockets were full. He told me he’d send my thanks in the mail.

I finished up placing my path patterns down, so my town is looking nice. =) I tried out the fire hydrant that Mint gave me the other day. It doesn’t do anything (no fair, I wanted gushing water)! But it does seem to fit in nicely with the two gyroids I have on my first floor. I wonder if they’re related…

As I watered my flowers in Forest, I continued to place down my path patterns. I’d estimate I’m about 70% done now.

I have a new neighbor in town, Rosie. I stopped by her house to say hello.

Also, when talking to Mint, she gave me a free fire hydrant.

Anyway, I was almost done watering my flowers when I saw a shadow moving very fast across the ground. WHAT?! The UFO?! Kaitlin was in town, so I was sure I wouldn’t be seeing the UFO this week. And because of that, I had my slingshot put away, attached to a letter. I tried to run ahead of the UFO and then go into my letter screen to pull out my slingshot, but it was too late. I went back to the center of town in case it did a second fly-by, but no luck.

The UFO guide on Animal Crossing Community (ACC) was wrong. And I missed out. Ugh. Well, if nothing else, now I know that the UFO can still come when one of the mother/daughter cat pair is in town. And next time, I will be ready. I will get that Metroid one day. Mark my words.