Jeff's New Horizons Blog

When I put up the new photos of Bones and Rizzo the other night, I earned 3,000 Nook Miles for the “Hoard Reward” achievement. I’ve now topped 100 furniture items in my house. The next and final reward comes at 150 items, which seems insane! I guess I’ll need to hang up more wall items, because most of my rooms don’t have a lot of floor space available.

Today’s toy at Nook’s Cranny was a dinosaur toy. I bought a few to give to my villagers as gifts.

At Able Sisters, I bought a blue Terry-cloth nightcap. It looks like a Santa cap, so I thought it would be fitting for December.

When I visited Apple, she was dreaming of talking to a beetle while on a spaceship. Apple may be a bit weird, but she’s cute. 😉

I did some fishing, and I caught my first pond smelt. It’s new for December (at least in the northern hemisphere). I took the smelly thing over to Blathers at the museum.

I know that some of you have now finished your fish collections, so congrats! Personally, I still need 13 fish! 😮 I bet I’m missing some fish that appear earlier in the day, since I mostly play in the evening and at night.

There are some new seasonal items available for December through the Nook Stop. Don’t forget to order an aurora wall and midwinter sweater!

Flick was in town, so I sold him three wasps, an emperor butterfly, a tarantula, and a scorpion for a total of 41,250 bells.

Later on, I went diving. I caught my first lobster, spiny lobster, and red king crab…all within a three-minute span!

I only need three more sea creatures now.

I’m afraid there’s not going to be a Friday Night Forest this week. But I’m going to try to have one next week (on December 11th).

Have a great day, and I’ll see you all next time!

During Isabelle’s announcements yesterday, she said that we’ve had the first snow of the year. Except, that wasn’t true. I had the game open at various points throughout the day and night, and I never saw a single flake. In addition, no new flowers buds appeared today…so I’m pretty sure she was lying. 😛

Billy the goat was camping at the campsite yesterday, but I was not interested in inviting him to town.

Label was also in town yesterday…but I don’t want to talk about it. 😛

Today, Midge said she was thinking about moving out of town…but I quickly changed her mind for her.

Now that December is here, the island is gearing up for Toy Day. Resident Services and Nook’s Cranny have decorated for the holidays. (I bought a blue down jacket at Able Sisters to keep me warm.)

And Nook’s Cranny has started selling toys!

I bought a couple of those tin robots to give as gifts to my villagers.

Celeste was in town, and she taught me a recipe for a windflower wand. Why do we need so many wands?? I wish we could at least choose the category of recipes to get from her, because all I care about is getting those space recipes.

When I gave Bones a tin robot, he responded in an unexpected way: He gave me his photo! 😮

Bones is my newest neighbor, only having lived here for a month and a half. I’m happy to get his photo, but it is surprising to get it this soon! Especially when Agent S, Midge, and especially Louie have lived here much longer.

Rizzo asked me to catch a wharf roach for him, and I agreed to help out (just to boost my “Smile Isle” friendship requests score). Once I tracked one down, Rizzo responded by giving me his photo as well! 😮

Rizzo’s photo seemed unlikely for a different reason than Bones: It’s because I don’t particularly like the guy. I’ve given him garbage, a kitty litter box, and holey socks. I’ve tried burning his house down, and I’ve even put him in jail. 😛

But that wharf roach request actually was my 100th request fulfilled, so I earned 2,000 Nook Miles for reaching that milestone. I put my two new photos in my house, moving them from the back wall of my bedroom to the side wall.

Bones’s favorite quote is the same as it was in New Leaf: “A snack a day keeps the vacuum away.” I really like that quote a lot, but I really love how fitting Rizzo’s quote is:

“Evil lurks everywhere!” Even Nintendo knows Rizzo is evil! 😂

So after nearly two months of getting no new villager photos, I got two in one day…and they were probably the two least likely ones. As for photos of Louie, Midge, and Agent S, I’ll still be trying, hoping, and waiting…

Early this morning, I started up the game to find some fresh, glistening dew dripping out of Daisy Mae’s left nostril. She was selling turnips for just 91 bells apiece, and I decided to buy 1,300 of them for a total of 118,300 bells.

When I checked my mail later in the day, I found my weekly evaluation from the Happy Home Academy. Unfortunately, I just missed out on my goal of 150k: I scored 148,281 points. But I’m really close now! Hopefully I’ll be able to get those last 1800 points by next week.

When I visited Agent S in her house, she was using the same exact dialogue that she said at K.K.’s show last night. Is that normal? I was thinking it was specific to the show (or at least specific to the day that K.K. performs), but apparently not.

I gave Louie a diner counter chair as a gift, and in return, he gave me a kitty litter box!

Even though I felt a bit insulted by the gift, I did my best to make lemonade out of a bad lemon: I regifted it. To Rizzo, of course! 😀

I finally changed back the patterns of Rainbow Road, although it took me longer than I hoped. 😛 Don’t expect me to go all-out for Halloween every year like I did this year. It’s so much work to get everything back the way it was, haha.

At town hall, I checked my island rating. I was glad to see it was still five stars, even though the site of my previous race course is still completely bare.

After 10 p.m., I finished up my night with a treasure hunt (I got a terry-cloth nightcap from Louie), and then a ghost-hunting expedition for Wisp. After I collected five spirits, Wisp gave me an outdoor air conditioner.