Jeff's New Horizons Blog

In a letter, C.J. congratulated me for accumulating 100 fishing tournament points.

The bronze fish trophy was enclosed. I still have a looooong way to go before I earn the silver and gold trophies. But you gotta start somewhere, right? 🙂

I also received my weekly evaluation from the Happy Home Academy. The interesting thing is that they gave me a point deduction because my zodiac ox figurine is “placed facing a wall.” But it’s not facing a wall!

At Able Sisters, I bought some white football pants to go with my football jersey.

K.K. Slider was in town, since he was bumped from his usual spot yesterday because of the fishing tournament. He performed King K.K. for me, Keaton, Agent S, and Bones.

Keaton later asked me to deliver an item to Apple, and I agreed to help out. Before Apple opened the package, she asked me to guess if it contained clothing or furniture. I guessed clothing, and she opened it up: It was a raglan shirt. She then gave it directly to me.

That gave me New Leaf vibes, because that’s how many deliveries ended up on 3DS. At least she spared me the “I just ordered this item for you” lie. 😛

See you all next time!

The fishing tournament was held today, so I headed to the plaza and talked with C.J. On my first run, I caught five fish in the three-minute session, earning me 7 points. That earned me 2,000 Nook Miles for competing, and I’ve now participated in all four fishing tourneys.

I competed in eight more runs, scoring 7, 8, 7, 9, 8, 6, 7, and 7 points respectively. After my third run, C.J. informed me that I’ve hooked a total of 100 points. He will be sending me a prize in the mail tomorrow.

I caught two new fish on the day, a bluegill and a tuna. I promptly donated them both to the museum.

When I was done, I redeemed the 71 points in my pool for seven reward items from C.J.: an anchor statue, a fish rug, a fish print, a fish umbrella, a marine pop wall, a fresh cooler, and a tackle bag. I placed the anchor statue at the northern beach, and put the other items into storage.

Later on, Hornsby said that today’s tournament was very close. No it was not! I was the only one who caught any fish at all! 😛

When I visited Midge, she asked if I think about pizza with wings when I think of foods. Well, I do now that you mentioned it! 😉

I hope you all had a fun and successful fishing tourney!

Gulliver sent me my latest reward in the mail, and it was just a silk hat.

I also got a letter from the Snowboy I built yesterday; he sent me a frozen bed. And over at Candy Cane Lane, I built another perfect Snowboy. I guess I got my snojo back. 😛

C.J. was in town, and he had a seasports challenge for me. I just had to catch five fish in a row.

After completing the challenge, I grabbed a bunch of fish out of storage. C.J. bought them all for 145,800 bells. When I put the money into my bank account, my balance topped 15 million bells for the first time.

I bought a bunk bed at Nook’s Cranny, wrapped it up, and gave it to Midge. In return, she gave me her photo! Wow!

That’s two villager photos in two days! Here is a look at the picture. Midge’s favorite quote is “When the world gets cold, just fly south.” I’m wondering if this quote is reversed in the southern hemisphere, because it wouldn’t make sense there (flying south would be even colder).

I now have photos from all ten of my current villagers! (Plus Lopez’s photo as well.) And with that, that removes one of my daily goals to work towards…at least until I get a new villager. And as anyone who has been playing this game daily for the past 9.5 months could tell you, there are often days when nothing significant happens.

I’ve been posting five blog entries per week lately, but I’m now going to drop the frequency a bit. Generally there will be four entries per week now, and occasionally more, if a lot is going on.

I’m not planning on having Friday Night Forest this week, so there may not be an entry tomorrow. But there will be one on Saturday, as I participate in the fishing tournament. See you then!