{"id":13172,"date":"2024-12-24T23:09:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/accfblog\/?p=13172"},"modified":"2024-12-24T23:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:09:44","slug":"jingle-comes-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/accfblog\/2024\/12\/24\/jingle-comes-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Jingle Comes to Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As expected, I received Midge’s goodbye letter in the mail today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Dearest<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Of course, today is Christmas Eve (aka Toy Day). I grabbed a bunch of hats out of storage, and then I began my search for Jingle as I made my rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I visited Roscoe, he assumed I was out looking for whoever was out delivering presents. But he assured me it wasn’t him. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Roscoe:
Literally no one ever suspected you <\/em>of being Santa, or Jingle for that matter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A few of my villagers mentioned writing letters to the dude in red. So I mentally replied, “Mario?<\/em>” \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Punchy:<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Robin stated it quite differently, referring to a “red-bellied” guest!<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Robin:<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Santa (and Jingle) wear red, but they’re not red-bellied! You know who is <\/em>red-bellied, though? Robins! Not you<\/em>, Robin, but real robins. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I eventually found Jingle outdoors and he gave me a Jingle bed. Moments later, I found him again…on the moon!<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Jingle,<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Well, okay, I guess it was Ruby’s house. But it looked like the moon! \ud83c\udf11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The northeast part of my town has four villager houses, and it turned out that all four<\/em> of them were away from home tonight. That was helpful, because I could quickly knock out four of Jingle’s potential hiding spots in rapid succession. Of course he’s not always indoors, so I still had to do some searching when he was outside somewhere. But there were times I found him in this area up to three times in a row!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I kept changing my hats to fool Jingle, and I was wearing a dressing (the mummy bandages) when I went into the Roost. Phyllis was in there, and she mentioned seeing me there before.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Phyllis,
How do you know it wasn’t some other mummy? It’s not like you turned around to actually look closely at me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Back outside, Punchy compared the falling snow to powdered sugar on a chocolate cake. Mmm, that sounds good.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Punchy:<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Big Top asked me for a new catchphrase, and I thought I’d tell him to say something along the lines of “in a stocking,” since it’s Christmas Eve. Of course, that’s too long for a catchphrase, so I shortened it to “in a sock.” \ud83e\udde6<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Big<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Back on the moon, I ran into Jingle again while wearing my hot dog hat. I couldn’t help but wonder if he was talking about my hat when he said this. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Jingle:<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Anyway, I experimented a bit with mixing accessories. On three consecutive attempts, this is what I wore (on my head):<\/p>\n\n\n\n