Jeff's New Horizons Blog

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but I typically deposit bells in multiples of 10,000 bells each day when I visit Resident Services. So if I have 33,000 bells, for example, I’ll put 30k into savings and just carry the 3,000. But on Monday, I only had 26 bells leftover in my pockets. So when I went into the Roost to buy some coffee for a Nook Miles+ goal, I couldn’t afford it!

So I went back outside and shook a few trees until two of them gave me the bells I needed for my coffee. ☕

On Wednesday, I found Truffles the pig at the campsite. She was staring at me pretty intently. 😆

I already have Truffles in my Wild World town, and one Truffles is more than enough. Besides, I don’t want to hog up all the Truffles…es in the world. 🐷

Yesterday, Ketchup told me she wanted to go see the world to learn how to become famous.

As much as I like Ketchup, I also don’t want my island to become stagnant. And Ketchup has had a nice long stay in Forest (3.5 years), so I decided to let her go…with the flow. (Sorry if this is a jarring revelation.)

Today, I went into her house for the last time to say goodbye. I’ll soon be all out of Ketchup.

So long, Ketchup! I’ll miss you, but maybe we’ll meet again someday! Over burgers, perhaps.

Label was in town, and I realized I’ve been ignoring her for months. So I decided to check in with her for a change. She wanted to see me in something professional, like a work outfit. She gave me a western shirt to use as an example, but I instead went with a pilot’s uniform and captain’s hat. Label loved it, and she gave me some Labelle tights.

Anyway, I’ll have to go villager hunting tomorrow. I’ll probably do my usual thing: I’ll take five (or so) Nook Miles tickets and see if I can find anyone good. If not, I may roll the dice and risk a random villager. I’ll be posting a new New Horizons Moments video soon, so maybe I’ll reveal my next villager there. Keep an eye out for that!

Here are a few other quick notes about this week:

• On Sunday, Wisp gave me a DJ’s turntable.
• Monday, I sold 16 bugs (mostly wasps) to Flick for exactly 75,000 bells.
• On Tuesday, I sold 8 fish to C.J. for 112,125 bells.
• I helped Gulliver out on Wednesday, and he sent me a turban in the mail.

Now that September is here, many valuable summer bugs and fish are out of season. That’s disappointing, but I realized I had never cooked two of the food recipes that require salmon. Now that salmon have returned this month, I was able to get those done.

I made some poke, and I also made a salmon sandwich that I gave to Ankha. She loved it.

She gave me a shop uniform shirt to thank me.

On Tuesday, Pascal popped up from under the sea to ask me for a scallop. I gave him one, and he told me some words of wisdom about music just being air that’s dancing.

He gave me a pearl for the scallop.

On Thursday, Static was telling me about his journal that he writes in. He said when he doesn’t have anything in particular to write down, he just jots down some puns! No wonder I like him so much!

Hans the abominable snowman was camping at the campsite for the 2nd time. But I still was not interested in having him chill in Forest.

Yesterday, it was raining when I started up the game. But it stopped within minutes, and a bit later, I spotted a rainbow in the sky! This was my 3rd rainbow I’ve seen in Forest.

Tonight, K.K. Slider was in town for his weekly show. I asked him for a random song, and he performed “K.K. Mambo” for me and June.

Here are a few other quick notes about this week:

• On Monday, I sold 32 bugs to Flick for 258,750 bells. That will probably be my last huge haul for him until next summer.
• Wednesday, I returned a lost item to Merengue. She rewarded me with a suspender outfit.
• I helped out Gullivarrr yesterday, and he sent me a sea captain’s coat.
• Today, Louie was sick with a cold. I gave him some medicine, and he handed over a flashy jacket in return.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and I’ll see you all next time!

On Sunday, Pascal popped up to ponder how hard it is to have an unbiased opinion of your own brain.

That is a good point, but my brain is just surprised that I keep encountering new quotes from Pascal 5+ years into playing this game daily.

Somehow, I manged to catch three banded dragonflies in one day on Sunday. The thrill of seeing, and chasing down, banded dragonflies is probably the only thing in the newer games that approaches the excitement of seeing a UFO in City Folk and Wild World.

On Monday, I ran into Pascal again while diving. He gave me another good quote that I haven’t yet posted on the blog before.

Today, I ran into Resetti at the Roost. He was declaring victory over reset buttons, since they’re basically obsolete now. (I guess he doesn’t know you can still reset, even if there isn’t a designated reset button.)

But then he got a bit more reflective, wondering if a reset button is actually a good thing! Wow, I never thought Resetti himself would say such a thing. 😛

If you haven’t seen it yet, I recently posted an hour-long gameplay video of my bug and fish hunt from last week. Here it is:

And here are a few other quick notes about the past week:

• On Monday, K.K. Slider performed “The K. Funk” for me and Louie.
• On Wednesday, I sold 26 fish to C.J. for 357,750 bells.
• I also separately sold my fish from last week’s fish hunt, and my calculation given in the video was correct.
• Tonight, K.K. Slider performed “K.K. Condor” for me and Ketchup. One of my favorites!