Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Early this morning, I bought some turnips from Daisy Mae. Unfortunately, her price was a bit high his time, 105 bells per turnip. But I still bought 1,500 of them for 157,500 bells.

After putting the turnips in my house, I checked the mail. The Happy Home Academy sent me my latest evaluation, and I met my goal: 150k! Well, 153,353 points to be exact. Yay! 😀

The gold HHA trophy was attached to the letter. I wasn’t sure where to display it, since I no longer had a trophy room. But I just put it in the bathroom for now. 😛

There were no Nook Miles achievements earned, however. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I guess I thought there would be something else. 🤷

Later on, I checked out Nook’s Cranny for the latest toy. They had a kids’ tent for sale today. I bought a couple for gifts, but I also bought one for the campsite! I made the cliff a bit bigger to fit the tent on the left side, and I also added a campfire.

I may end up removing this area once I make another obstacle course or race, but I think it makes for a cute addition to the area in the meantime.

Able Sisters had a tiger jacket, and I thought it would look good on Tybalt. So I bought it for him; what do you think?

I found a lost item (a book) near my fountains. When I investigated, it just said “My Journal” on it, which wasn’t much of a hint. I asked Keaton about it (just because he was the first one I saw after finding it), and he told me it looked like Midge’s book. So I returned it to Midge, and she rewarded me with a zap suit. How shocking. ⚡

At the top of Candy Cane Lane, I found Wisp around 9:30 p.m. I had recently read somewhere (on a forum) that Wisp only appears after 10 p.m., so that clearly isn’t true.

When I went shaking trees to find furniture items, I found both items up on Eagle Mountain, not far from each other. What’s even more interesting is that the two items were a coffee cup, and a mug! I guess those two trees had a lot in common. Or maybe they were just sharing some coffee until I rudely came along and shook their cups out of their branches. ☕☕

I eventually found all of Wisp’s spirits, and he rewarded me with a pink-crown wall.

Before wrapping up my night, I wished on several shooting stars and did a little fishing. I didn’t catch anything new, though. See you all next time!

Yesterday, Gulliver sent me my latest reward in the mail, and it was a good one: A Sphinx! I put it on my beach for now, although this may not be its permanent location.

The toy on sale at Nook’s Cranny was a mini circuit (race car track). When I asked about turnip prices, Timmy told me he was buying turnips for 101 bells each. When it gets to be this late in the week, I’ll gladly sell them for a small profit rather than risk losing money. So I sold 1,200 turnips for 121,200 bells.

I didn’t realize at the time that I was neglecting to notice one stack of 100 turnips in a corner of my house! In fact, I didn’t notice until late on Saturday night (when I’m writing this blog entry) that I missed some! So in total, I only made about 3,000 bells profit instead of 13,000. But at least I didn’t lose money, I guess. And maybe I can use the soon-to-be-rotten turnips to catch myself a fly.

Anyway, I straightened up my town a bit and then updated my dream. So the dream version of Forest now includes Candy Cane Lane and the waterfalls (and other changes) at Peach Park. The dream address is 6717-1633-3682 if you’d like to visit.

Later on, I started working on my yard a bit. I took out my pumpkin plants and the fence around my garden. I also moved some flowers around, so that I had blue and black flowers in the area around my house (JVGS colors). 😛

I know roses and hyacinths may be an odd combination, but those are the blue and black flowers that I have the most of. As for the empty space where my garden was, I’d like to put in some holiday decorations there…once I find some! It’s disappointing that we don’t get Toy Day decorations at the beginning of the month, like we did for Halloween in October.

C.J. was in town, so I completed his “big-time fish” challenge by catching a dab, a sea bass, and a football fish.

I had a bunch of fish saved up, so I sold C.J. all of these fish (in three batches): 20 sturgeon, 10 pikes, 5 football fish, 2 barred knifejaws, a red snapper, a koi, and a ray. He paid me a grand total of 375,750 bells. I guess this makes up for my minimal turnip profit. 😛

Later on, Wisp was in town. It took me an unusually long time to find all of his spirits (about 13 minutes), although I was doing a little fishing in between. But when I returned them, Wisp rewarded me with an animal-stripes tee.

OK, so that was all yesterday (Friday). 😛 Today, I found Renee the rhino camping out at the campsite. I had no interest in asking her to stick around.

Nook’s Cranny had a puppy plushie today, and they’re so adorable! They run in place, wag their tails, and move their heads as they (quietly) bark. Breezy and I exchanged puppy colors: She sent me a beige one and I sent her a gray and white one. Thanks, Breezy!

Midge was finally using the bench near her house, and she asked me to join her!

But after a few seconds, she stood up and started exercising. 😛

K.K. Slider was in town, so I asked him for a random song. He played K.K. Flamenco for me, Bones, and Hornsby.

I went diving to fulfill a Nook Miles+ goal, and my 2nd catch turned out to be my 1st snow crab!

I took it over to Blathers so it can chill at the museum. Now I only need two more sea creatures! Looks like I may finish that collection before my fish or bug collections.

Tomorrow is HHA judging day. I hope that my two latest villager photos will push my score over the 150k mark. I’ll find out soon enough. See you next time!

Today’s toy at Nook’s Cranny was an RC helicopter. I bought two of them to give as gifts (for Midge and Agent S).

When I ran into Bones, he gave me a free standing toilet that he thought I was looking for. Thanks, Bones! I wasn’t looking for one though, because I normally just go on Rizzo’s house. 😛

Gulliver was in town today, washed up on the shore. I dug up his five communicator pieces for him, and he’ll be sending me a gift in the mail tomorrow.

I found a lost book up on the cliff, so I investigated further. It was a difficult novel that “only a voracious reader” would read.

I thought of Midge, since I often see her reading. But when I asked her about it, she told me it looked like Tia’s book. So I took it to Tia, and she rewarded me with some alpinist overalls.

I then decided to do something with the large, “tall” chunk of land that’s been sitting empty since I took out the Halloween race. I’m not ready to start a new race or obstacle course, but since we’re a few days into December now, I wanted to do something festive. So I put in a really big candy cane! I call it Candy Cane Lane.

It’s so big that you can see it from space! OK, well maybe not space, but you can certainly see it from the map. 😉

For the record, I wouldn’t be opposed to making a Christmas-themed race or obstacle course…but the problem is that we don’t have any Christmas items and decorations yet. And by the time we do get them (on Christmas Eve, most likely), the holiday season will be nearly over.

While looking at my map above, I noticed something else. The three villagers that haven’t given me their photos yet are the three that have been in town longest! Louie, Midge, and Agent S! I hope there’s not a glitch or anything that’s preventing them from giving me their photos. Probably not, but it does seem odd that I get newer villagers’ pictures first.

See you next time! 🙂