Jeff's New Horizons Blog

As of yesterday (Friday, February 25th), the snow of winter has melted and spring has unofficially arrived to the Animal Crossing universe.

Marina asked me to play a treasure hunt game, although she only gave me three minutes to find the buried item. But this time, I was successful; it only took me one minute to find it.

I returned it to Marina, and she opened it up for me. There was a steampunk hat inside.

Later on, Static was feeling grouchy (well, more than usual), and he was complaining about convenience, of all things. 😛

He said he’d prefer to leave an angry letter on someone’s buggy. Wow.

The Nooklings were buying turnips for 128 bells apiece, so I sold my entire stash for a total of 230,400 bells. However, I did not make any progress towards my “Cornering the Stalk Market” achievement! My total was the same before and after selling turnips!

Contrary to what I’ve previously thought, apparently it does only count profit and not total sales. But since I recently took a big loss, apparently I had dug myself a hole and this modest profit did not fully recoup my losses. In other words, the figure shown on the achievement is not necessarily your current progress, it’s your high point. It’s like the Cast Master goal in that respect: It shows your high score, not your current score.

Today, my previous snowman gave me a large snowflake on his way out. At least he lived long enough to see springtime. 😛

K.K. Slider was in town tonight, and he performed K.K. Chorale for me and Apollo.

Today’s mysterious island was an autumn island, and I pocketed a bunch of acorns and mushrooms. I checked my crafting recipes and saw that I never made a mush lamp yet, so I went ahead and made my first one right there.

I hope you’re enjoying your weekend. Never Stop Crossing!

Yesterday, Gullivarrr was in town, washed up on the beach. I helped out the fellow pirate by diving to retrieve his communicator.

When I visited Admiral, I saw that he was wearing head bandages again! So apparently the bandages he gave me (back?) weren’t the only ones he had. Maybe he flies into windows so frequently that he keeps injuring his head.

I made a snowman, and he warned me that even though it’s his birthday, he didn’t want any candles. Well… I didn’t exactly comply with his request. 😛

I’ve earned enough NookLink points for another reward, and I chose to get Tom Nook’s photo. His favorite quote is “I’ll be there with bells on! Ho ho!” To me, it sounds like something Santa (or Jingle) would say.

This morning, I saw some mist forming just above the rivers! I don’t think I’ve noticed that before, but then again, I generally don’t play early in the morning.

Today, I participated in group stretching for the 50th time. Well, not the 50th time, but for the 50th day. That earned me 3,000 Nook Miles for completing the Stretch to Refresh achievement. But more importantly, I learned seven new reactions!

They are based on the stretches that you do during group stretching sessions. Here’s the list:

• posture warm-up
• arm circles
• side bends
• body twists
• wide arm stretch
• upper-body circles
• jump

Pretty cool! But I’m probably not going to participate in group stretches very often any more. After doing them over 50+ times in the last three and a half months, I’m a bit tired of them. And I don’t like how that once you start a session, you’re stuck in it for the full two minutes or so.

In the mail today, I received a sea captain’s coat from Gullivarrr and some ice flooring from the snowboy.

Admiral asked if he should change up his catchphrase, but I told him to stick with it…and let it linger.

That’s all for today. Have you all unlocked the stretching reactions already? I know I could have done it weeks ago, but I haven’t done the stretching every day…even though I’ve been much better about drinking the coffee at the Roost. 😛

Yesterday, I bought 1,800 turnips from Daisy Mae, at a price of 91 bells each.

I gave Sasha a (giftwrapped) tablet device, and he really seemed to love it. In return, he gave me his photo!

I took it home and displayed it in my bedroom, with my other villager photos. His favorite quote is “Timing is everything.”

Sasha has lived in Forest for over two months, so this is not one of my quickest photos earned. But it’s definitely not the slowest, either. Regardless, I’m glad to have it! 🙂

Today, I tried to repeat the feat with Admiral. I gave him a giftwrapped bathroom stall that I bought at Nook’s Cranny.

But he didn’t give me his photo; he gave me some head bandages instead. These are probably the same bandages that I gave him for his birthday. 😂 Oh well. I’ll get his photo sooner or later.

At the plaza, Static was walking around mad. Apparently, he just had an argument with Louie.

Seeing two animals stomping around mad like this is something that reminds me of the older Animal Crossing games. I don’t see it happen very much in New Horizons, but it’s good to see it’s not completely gone.

As you can see in that last screenshot, Label was in town today. She wanted to see me wearing something theatrical once again. So I dressed up as a pirate, and she rewarded me with a Labelle dress.

As I was enjoying some coffee at the Roost, Timmy came in and got some coffee to go. Isn’t he a little young to be drinking coffee? 😛

A few other quick notes about today:

• Daisy Mae sent me a recipe for kabu ankake in the mail. I just hate having to use turnips to make her recipes.
• Wisp was in town tonight, and he gave me an extinguisher.
• On the bulletin board, I saw that Festivale is coming up on February 28th. That’s one week from today!

See you all next time!