Silver HHA Trophy

The Happy Home Academy sent me my weekly score, and I topped 100,000 points for the first time! My exact score was 103,731.

About Jeff's home, 103,731 points. Rank S. Six digits! You've done it! On the occasion of earning a score above 100,000 points, please accept our congratulations and this special gift. -Happy Home Academy

My special gift was a silver HHA trophy; I put it in my trophy/exercise room that’s getting uncomfortably cluttered. 😛

My trophy room as of October 11, 2020.

Outside of town hall, I attended K.K.’s show (moved to Sunday because of the fishing tournament yesterday). He performed K.K. Fusion for me, Apple, and Lopez.

K.K. plays the guitar for Jeff, Apple, and Lopez.

I didn’t play as long today as I normally do, since it was already getting late by the time I started up the game. Able Sisters was already closed, and I only had about 15 minutes of playing before Nook’s Cranny closed too.

But even though I didn’t work on my town much today, Keaton seemed to notice the Halloween decorations around town. He’s a apparently a fan. 😉

Keaton: The whole island is starting to look like a Halloween paradise, and I am here for it, on a cliff!

I posted the latest Wi-Fi Moments video today, and I hope you’ll check it out. 🙂

See you all next time! Never Stop Crossing!

October Fishing Tourney

The October fishing tournament was held today. During my first run, I caught my first mitten crab. (Don’t worry, I remembered to take it out of the cooler and donate it to the museum.)

I caught a mitten crab! Gotta keep this up!

On my first five tourney attempts, I scored 7 points every time! Each time, it seemed like I messed up at least once…reeling in too early, or barely missing a fish at the buzzer, etc. So I was determined to get eight points, so I tried again. And this time, I did worse, only scoring 5 points!

After a little break, I decided to give it one final attempt. I had my best round of the day, scoring 9 points.

C.J.: SPLASH! That's 9 points!

I redeemed my points for some fishy rewards, and I got a fish lollipop wand, fresh cooler, fishing-rod stand, fish pochette, and a fish-print tee.

I had some new pumpkins today, so that allowed me to finish crafting the spooky arches I needed.

My five spooky arches in Forest.

I continued my island’s transformation, renaming two more parts of town to give them Halloweeny names. Apple Lane is now Candy Apple Lane, and Eagle Mountain is now Evil Mountain.

Signs for Evil Mountain and Candy Apple Lane.

I officially removed the frog race course today. The logs look a bit different without the water, don’t they?

The dry remains of the frog race course.

I’ve started working on its replacement. It will be a Halloween themed race, but part of it will be a maze, and it’ll have some obstacle course elements as well.

However, it’s only going to be for four people at a time. I would need a much wider area to make it work with eight people, and I’m not willing to sacrifice half my town to do that. 😛 But it should be fun. 🙂

I posted a new video today, ranking the random visitors in New Horizons. Please give it a watch if you haven’t seen it yet. 🙂

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

Final Frog Race?

Yesterday, I updated my dream (address 6717-1633-3682), so it will now reflect the changes I’ve previously mentioned in the blog (up through the Wrinkly Kong pattern I mentioned Wednesday).

But of course, I’m still continuing to make changes as I prepare for Halloween…so this won’t be my final Halloween update.

Saharah was in town yesterday, so I made some purchases from her. I ended up with a simple medium orange mat, a tree-lined wall, brown argyle rug, and pyramid tile.

Jeff speaks with Saharah near the graveyard in Forest.

Today, Judy was camping at the campsite. She’s one of the eight new villagers in New Horizons, and she is kinda cute, but I did not ask her to move in.

Judy: Oh, thank you for stopping by. I don't believe we've met. I'm Judy.
It’s an honor to meet you, Judge.

C.J. was also in town, and he asked me to catch three big-time fish in a row for his challenge. I caught a sea bass, a barred knifejaw, and a zebra turkeyfish to complete the challenge.

Tia was crafting today, and she taught me the recipe for the spooky arch. It requires 10 orange pumpkins, 10 pieces of hardwood, and three pieces of clay. I only had enough pumpkins and wood to make one, but I’ll make more another day.

The DIY recipe for a spooky arch in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

At 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Logan, Xavier, and William showed up…and that seemed to be it. We visited some villagers, talk about the apparent lack of creepy furniture in New Horizons, hung out at the graveyard, and went diving.

Alex from Pawnee then came over, so we had five players. That was as many as we were going to get, so we headed over to the frog course for likely one last race. I plan on taking the frog race course out soon to make something Halloween-themed. The final frog race ended just like the first frog race, with William winning. Congrats, William!

William wins the final frog race.

Xavier achieved a personal best by completing the race for the first time. 😂 As you may remember, he got stuck on the course last week. 😛

After the race, Logan left, and I took this photo by my spooky scarecrow. The white spooky stuff seems to look the creepiest, IMO.

Jeff, Alex, William, and Xavier stand near the spooky scarecrow during Friday Night Forest.

Shortly after 11:00, William left, and then Alex left as well. I was feeling tired tonight, and maybe I was boring everyone. So about 11:15, I ended the session and closed the gate for the night. Thanks to everyone who came! I’ll try to have a new activity to make things more interesting next week.

If all goes well, I’ll be posting two videos this weekend: one on Saturday and one on Sunday. You can see my latest videos here.

Have a great weekend, everyone! I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow for the fishing tournament!