Jeff's New Horizons Blog

I found Gullivarrr washed up on the beach today. I went diving for his communicator, and I found it on my first attempt. He will be sending me a gift in the mail tomorrow.

Tybalt was hanging out in a weird place today. He was sitting under an apple tree, but right up against his house (and facing his house). It just looked really awkward.

In other news, Keaton asked about moving away. I told him to stick around a while longer. I don’t want anyone to leave before Rizzo right now. Once Rizzo is gone, I may consider letting some of the others leave…including Keaton, and maybe Midge as well (after I get her photo, of course).

Over the last few days, I’ve been working on some changes to Peach Park. I’ve actually been planning on these changes for months, but this seemed like a good time to do it since I had to remove my old Halloween decorations anyway.

On a new piece of land that juts out into the river, I added a cliff and some small waterfalls. I also changed the direction of the path, added more benches, replaced the pond, added more peach trees, and so on. Oh, and the park is larger now. Here are two pictures of Peach Park 2.0.

Note that it still isn’t 100% complete, because I want to add more flowers. But even besides that, it feels like it still needs something else. I’m just not sure what.

Working outdoors has resulted in me getting more balloon presents than usual, and I’ve finally started to get a few more of the seasonal recipes. That included the mushroom wand, maple-leaf umbrella, mush partition, and maple-leaf pochette. I believe tomorrow is the last day for maple leaves (and maple leaf recipes), but we have until the end of the month for the mushroom stuff.

By the way, I posted Wi-Fi Moments #15 today, including some aerobics in the plaza. I hope you’ll check it out!

See you all next time! 🙂

Yesterday, K.K. Slider was in town and he performed K.K. Blues for me. Later on, I completely removed my Halloween race. I have no immediate plans for this area, but I will certainly make another game or race at some point in the future.

I found yet another lost item from a jock–the same book with “xtreme xercises” written on it. I returned it to Tybalt, and he gave me a pilot’s uniform.

Today, I had a camper…Rocket the gorilla. There’s no way this thing is moving into my town!

This afternoon (well, early evening), I had Sandra and Jac over for some aerobics and yoga. 🧘

It was nice having them over for a bit, and I recorded something that I’ll use in the next Wi-Fi Moments video.

I received my weekly letter from the Happy Home Academy, and I earned 137,066 points this time. That’s a bit higher than last week, but not significantly. But that’s about what I expected, since I didn’t really change my house much since then. 😛

Turkey Day is coming up on Thursday, and many of my villagers have been talking about it. Apparently, Franklin is considered a celebrity chef…and Agent S thinks that food cooked by celebrities is just better.

Later on, I found Wisp over near Rainbow Road. Although I still haven’t added the rainbow back to Rainbow Road (it’s still Halloween-colored), I plan to do that soon.

I collected Wisp’s spirits and returned them to him. In return, he gave me a brown-brick wall.

Bones sent me this cute letter in the mail today. His math may be off by a bit, but I enjoyed his letter about letters.

I ran into Rizzo at Nook’s Cranny, and he was looking at the broom and dustpan for sale. He said he used to have one, but it was ages ago!

Doesn’t he clean his house? Won’t his house become infested with rats? Oh, wait…

Label was in town, and she again wanted to see me in vacation clothing. She gave me a peasant blouse; I put it on, along with some basketball shorts. But she still was not happy with the outfit. I don’t keep many pairs of pants/shorts in storage, and apparently none of the ones I have qualify as vacation-y. 😛

A bit before 10:00, I opened my gate using Dodo Codes for Friday Night Forest. Jac, Nicky, Logan, Ethan, Alex from Pawnee, Jet, and Sam came over to visit. After everyone checked out the free recipe pile, we headed over to the Halloween race course. Unfortunately, Jet got disconnected (I guess he had to jet) while I was still explaining the rules.

Clayton came over and took the free spot, and we went back to the Halloween course. As a bit of a surprise, I added a couple of pitfalls to the course for today. Each side of the race has two skeletons that racers must pick up. I put a pitfall in front of the skeleton on each side that was “easier” to reach. So today, taking the out-of-the-way skeleton would actually be an advantage…when normally, it would be a slight disadvantage.

Jac, Nicky, Alex, and Logan were the first contestants. Jac and Nicky, who both started on the left side of the course, had a bit of a traffic jam at the far water hole.

Nicky was returning while Jac was just arriving there. Nicky backed up to let Jac through, but that delay cost them both. Alex won the race, and Logan finished in 2nd place…so both of them advanced to the finals.

In the other semifinals, it was Clayton, Ethan, Sam…and instead of racing myself, I gave Nicky another chance. Clayton made it back to the start first, but Nicky actually beat him by dropping the skeleton first. But the two of them advanced to the finals.

For the final round, I added even more pitfalls and announced the grand prize: 50k bells and 30 gold nuggets. It was Alex, Logan, Clayton, and Nicky. Ultimately, Logan won the final race and claimed the prizes. Congrats, Logan! And good games, everyone!

After that, we took some group photos at Frog Pond. By the way, I don’t plan on keeping the pond this way (looking like a face, I mean).

We went to the sumo ring, but Hornsby was walking across the pits! As in previous games, animals are immune to pitfalls when playing online.

We had a full tournament, and some spectators chose to sit up in the bleachers to watch the battles. 🙂

In the finals, it was King Logan defeating Cowboy Alex to win the tournament. Congrats again, Logan! We finished off with an 8-player sumo battle and Ethan won that. Congrats, Ethan!

After that, we hung out at my house for a bit, until Alex got disconnected. Jesse then came over; it’s his birthday today, so Happy Birthday Jesse!

Before long, Jac also disconnected…and then returned. Just after midnight, I decided to end the session for the night. Goodnight, everyone! There may not be an entry tomorrow unless something major happens. See you all next time!