Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Yesterday, Jolly Redd was in town (on his ship). He had three paintings that I see fairly often, and one that I hadn’t seen yet: the warm painting. So it was a no-brainer to buy that one. I also bought the small vase and simple chair that Redd had for sale.

For the first time, I tried group stretching with Joy-Con motion controls. For most of the stretches, the controls worked fine. But a couple of them caused some problems, and I was doing the wrong stretch. 😂

The worst exercise was the jumping part near the end. The game didn’t recognize my jumps at all and my character just stood there the whole time. 😛

Louie was sick with a cold, so I crafted some medicine for him. In return, he gave me a track jacket. That was my 275th favor I’ve done for villagers, so I just need 25 more to complete the “Smile Isle” achievement.

Today, the warm painting from Redd arrived in the mail. It was the real deal, and I promptly donated it to the museum.

I took a look around my art gallery, and I noticed something interesting. Previously, when I tried to count how many pieces of art I needed, I was overcounting. There are a couple of places where the display card for the painting isn’t directly under the piece of art, and that threw me off. But after a careful look, I believe I only need four more pieces of art!

Back outside, there was another pleasant discovery: My orange hyacinths have finally produced my first purple hyacinth! I’ll need to pluck it five times so I can craft that hyacinth lamp that looks so cool.

When I visited Admiral, he taught me how to make some cookies. You gotta love that fresh-from-the-oven scent! 🍪

K.K. Slider was in town tonight, and he performed a song called Chillwave. Marina, Louie, Bones, and Sasha joined me in the plaza to enjoy the concert.

Today, I posted New Horizons Moments #13. I hope you’ll check it out. Enjoy the rest of your weekend! 🙂

Last night, Wisp and Gulliver were in town. I helped them both out; Wisp gave me a kitchen dishwasher last night, and Gulliver sent me a tubeteika (a hat) today.

I got a cup of coffee at the Roost tonight, and I found Agent S and Celeste were also there. Agent S said that a few sips of Brewster’s coffee can calm her down, even when she’s mega stressed. She said she was at peace with three-quarters of the universe right now.

But considering how big the universe is, that remaining one-quarter is quite a big chunk to not be cool with. 😛

When I spoke with Celeste, she just wished me a good evening. Kinda funny that Celeste wasn’t the one talking about the universe. 😛

Marina asked me to play a treasure hunt game, and I accepted the challenge. Fortunately, she gave me six minutes to find the treasure…because it took me over three minutes to find it. It was on the edge of Sudden Valley.

I took it back to Marina, and she opened it up for me: It was her photo! Of course, I already have one of those, but it’s still satisfying to earn a photo regardless.

Label was in town, and she wanted to see me in a formal outfit. She gave me a short peacoat as an example of what to wear. I went home and put on a tuxedo jacket, a top hat, a curly mustache, loafers, and cropped pants. It annoys me that there aren’t any plain black pants in this game that aren’t cropped, but I digress. This is my outfit:

Before I could make it out my front door, Admiral barged in. He gave me a soccer-uniform top, he played a game with me (I lost), and he told me that he was going to have bread for dinner tomorrow. Fitting for a bird, I s’pose.

I waited five minutes for him to leave, and then I could finally get back to Label to be judged. She was pleased with my outfit, and she rewarded me with some Labelle tights.

Out on Lottie’s island, I bought myself a chainsaw. I may use it on the next villager that barges into my house. 😉

See you all next time. Look for the next New Horizons Moments video coming soon!

Eloise recently asked me for a new greeting. So I told her to say “Quick! Get in my trunk!”

Just as a heads-up, there’s a new seasonal item available: It’s a Venetian carnival mask for the Carnival of Venice. It’s available now through March 1st, for a cost of 2,400 bells.

I went out to Lottie’s island tonight, and I visited the school. I spoke with the teacher (Sprocket), and he told me I should grow my own plumeria as my “homework.” He gave me a white-plumeria start.

Vivian (one of the students in class) told me that she’d volunteer to read out loud, except that she’s afraid she would mispronounce a word. 😛

Back out on the beach, I was surprised to find Leif! He said he was giving a talk about flowers at the school, so I attended the class too. He spoke about hybrids, and he said that I can now use hybrid flowers in my clients’ yards.

After the class, I went back outside. Tucker the woolly mammoth wanted a place to study archaeology; I agreed to help out, and the rest was history.

Tucker insisted on using a forbidden altar, a spaceman ancient statue, and a stone arch. I placed them all outside in his yard. I put the statue on the altar, and made a path leading up to it. I also lined it with bushes. The right half of the yard has a cave and a dig site. I used a handcart, creepy skeleton, a couple of shovels, and several pots and vases that he supposedly dug up. I like how this turned out.

For the inside of the house, I used the dig-site wall, dig-site flooring, a camping cot, a lantern, several pieces of stone furniture, and some more treasures that I’m pretending Tucker unearthed.

Once I finished up, Lottie paid me 9,000 Poki for the job. See you all next time!