Jeff's New Horizons Blog

On Thursday, Apple told me about a strange dream she had. A floating fish with a deep voice told her that she makes lousy decorating choices. 😛

The dream freaked her out, so she wanted me to come over to her house for a bit. I did, and I hung around for a little while. But when I tried to leave, she stopped me! She said a lot of folks would love to spend time with a future famous person like her. Yikes.

Honestly, this is going to make me refuse visiting offers more often in the future if they’re going to do this stuff. So I waited a couple more minutes before trying to leave again. On the way out, she gave me the song called “I Love You.” I’m starting to think she may be stalking me. 😛

C.J. was in town, and I completed his seasports challenge of catching five fish in a row. I then sold him nearly half a million bells worth of fish. (I had a lot of sturgeon saved up in storage.)

Yesterday, Tia approached me and said that she’s been thinking about moving out of town.

I like Tia a lot, but I felt like it was time to let her go. She’s been in town since the third week of the game’s release (so, over a year and a half) and I felt ready to freshen things up a bit.

I went diving and found a scallop, and Pascal popped up to ask for it. He then told me that castles are just like houses wearing armor.

I guess that makes sense, but I’d argue that they’re more like mansions wearing armor. You don’t see many house-sized castles, am I right?

Today, winter has arrived! Snow now covers the ground, and I built my first snowboy of the season. He taught me how to make a frozen mini snowperson. He didn’t give me the recipe directly, he just sent it to my NookPhone.

I then went to say goodbye to Tia. I’m sure we’ll meet again someday!

K.K. Slider was in town, and he played a song called K.K. Dub for me, Apollo, Louie, Marina, and Static.

Out on Harv’s Island, Tortimer has returned!

I’m guessing we won’t see Cornimer again until next autumn.

Happy winter, everyone! I’ll see you all next time. ❄⛄

Before I get into what happened today, here’s a quick summary of yesterday’s events:

• The beautiful statue from Redd was real, so I donated it to the museum.
• Wisp gave me a patchwork chair.
• I bought the motherly statue that I mentioned on Monday.
• I paid Tom Nook to install a brick bridge.

Today, the brick bridge was complete, and I attended the opening ceremony.

It’s Eloise’s birthday, so I made sure to attend her party. Agent S was also there. I gave Eloise a baby bear that I bought at Nook’s Cranny, and she seemed quite happy. 🙂

Nook Shopping had this truck for sale, so I ordered one. Yeah, 120,000 bells is expensive, but I have truckloads of money in this game. 😛

It makes me think of a moving truck, so it might be a good thing to place near the home of an unwanted villager. Don’t get me wrong, I like all of my current villagers…but inevitably, that won’t always be the case.

The motherly statue from Redd was authentic, so that meant I had a new work of art to donate to the museum for a second day in a row!! And surprisingly, the entrance area of the art gallery is filling in quite nicely!

I checked the rest of the art gallery, and it seems that I only need 12 more items now! Even though I’m sure it’ll still take at least several months to complete it, I feel like my goal is starting to be within reach! 🙂

In the Roost, I found Apollo enjoying some coffee. He said that Brewster has some special coffee that can be enjoyed at night without keeping you awake. It’s from a place called “Deek Aff.” 😛

Jolly Redd’s ship was parked on the island’s north shore, but he didn’t have any additional art that I needed.

Just a very early heads-up for people on my Switch friend roster: I’m tentatively planning on opening my gate for the New Year’s Eve countdown (for the Eastern time zone). It’s obviously a few weeks away, but I’ll post more details once it gets closer.

While I was in my house on Sunday, Apollo barged in. He apparently smelled my french fries. 🍟

Oddly enough, he decided to leave after just 40 seconds! But just half an hour later, I ran into Apollo again on Rainbow Road. He asked to visit my house! I wasn’t paying close attention to the dialogue, and I said yes. So he came over again…and this time, he stayed for 15 minutes! Ugh!

He even said my room is different than what he expected. I had put some pancakes on my table in between his visits, but otherwise, the room was the same. He did give me a jockey’s helmet, but I don’t care about that.

At my outdoor kitchen, I made some pumpkin soup…and perhaps the Halloween-y smell of the pumpkins brought out a ghost! Wisp came over and seemed to beg for some soup. 😛

I didn’t give him any soup, but I did gather up his spirits for him. In return, he gave me some office materials.

By the way, my storage has now been increased to hold 4,000 items. Even though there is one more upgrade (up to 5,000 items), it costs 1.2 million bells and I’m not in a hurry to purchase it.

Today (Monday), I found a lost item on the ground. Surprisingly, I was able to reunite with its owner Static in just 20 seconds or so! He rewarded me with some ski goggles, and I decided to put them on, since it was snowing in town.

I recently purchased a robot arm at Nook’s Cranny, for a whopping price of 130,000 bells. It has a surface where you can place a small item, and there’s a robotic arm that moves around. It reminds me of the “Screwbot Factory” mini-game from Rhythm Heaven Fever.

I put a gyroid up on it. I’m not sure if this robotic arm is assembling the gyroid or about to torture it, but it’s pretty unique either way. 😛

I later visited Static at his house, and he informed me that he was once a famous water skiing squirrel!

That’s pretty funny, because there actually is (or was, until recently) a famous water skiing squirrel that would appear at various boat shows. I just didn’t realize that Twiggy the water-skiing squirrel was really Static in disguise! 😉

At town hall, I paid 10,000 bells to demolish a bridge. I’d like to start replacing some of my basic log bridges with some nicer-looking bridges.

After I had some coffee at the Roost, Brewster gave me another item: a siphon.

Vendors on Harv’s Island had new inventory for the week, including Jolly Redd. I purchased a beautiful statue that I’m pretty sure is real. He also had a motherly statue that I felt good about, but I didn’t have any previous photos of one to compare it to. But I’ll probably be buying that later in the week too.