Jeff's New Horizons Blog

I was surprised to see red rose seeds for sale at Nook’s Cranny today. That was the first time I’ve seen them in my shop! I bought a pack, because I’ve been lining Apple Lane with red roses. It’s been a slow process breeding them all (after buying some initially in another town months ago), but I now have all that I need.

Hornsby was sitting under a tree when I went up to talk to him. He asked if I could guess what he was doing. He then informed me that he was sitting. That’s New Horizons dialogue for you. 🤦

Saharah was in town, so I bought some mysterious wallpaper and flooring from her. They turned out to be the ringside seating and white-chocolates flooring. I ended up keeping the ringside seating, and I put it in my basement. I also brought in my judge’s bell, which I previously had by my sumo ring. The ringside seating is already animated, but hitting the judge’s bell makes the photographers in the audience start taking pictures (with visible flashes).

I set up some jail bars and pushed Rizzo in. Finally, I’ve imprisoned the rat!

Near town hall, Shari taught me the “confident” reaction.

About 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Logan, Timo, Alex, and Ryan came over to visit. Even though Rizzo had been in jail when I opened my gate, he somehow escaped as everyone arrived!

We posed with our sharks, tried to catch the duck in my plastic pool, and then my visitors placed bets on who would win a game of ping pong, with the hula doll playing against the garden gnome.

Even though I didn’t bury any pitfall seeds prior to opening my gate, I did bury a few just outside of doors as people were inside visiting villagers. 😀 Even though you can’t bury them as close to doors as you could in City Folk, I sometimes got an assist from an accomplice, who stood in a spot to block the view of the pitfall. Or in one case, some sharks did the trick. 🦈

We jumped around on pillars, hung out in my house for a while, played on the obstacle course, checked out the amusement park, beat up Rizzo, ran through arches, played a few rounds of museum tag, and then had a quick sumo tourney. Ryan was plotting to push me into a pitfall after the sumo matches, but it didn’t work. 😛

When I revealed that there was an arched tile path under my sumo ring, everyone seemed shocked. 😛 But putting that under the patterns makes sure that the sumo ring shows up on the map.

Shortly before 12:30 a.m., I ended the session for the night. Even though town didn’t fill up, I had a good time. Thanks for coming, everyone!

Gulliver sent me a hula doll in the mail, and I put it in the sumo ring for now. She’s preparing to battle against a garden gnome. It’s too bad items can’t be placed diagonally (at least small, single-spaced items like these).

I had a man-faced stink bug placed on the ground outside of Nook’s Cranny (leftover from last night, when I had full pockets). And Tia was examining it today, while consulting a bug book! It was cute!

Because of all the summer recipes that require seashells, I’ve started saving all my seashells in storage for now. I still need quite a few more shells, but I have made a couple of things so far. That includes this shell wreath I made today.

I again encountered the door glitch I mentioned yesterday. But today, it only affected one villager’s house: Agent S. So I was unable to enter her house.

But unlike yesterday, I was able to enter other villagers’ houses. That included Shari’s house, where Shari told me about a weird dream she had.

A few other quick notes about today:

• Leif was in town, but he didn’t have anything I needed.
• I again helped Reese & Cyrus on Harv’s island.
• Midge asked to leave town, but I told her to stay.

There may or may not be an entry tomorrow, but there will be one on Friday. Hope to see you then, if not before. Never Stop Crossing!

Gulliver made a visit to Forest Island today; I found him washed up on the shore. But it seems like he rarely visits any more! I wish he’d show up more often.

I collected his five communicator pieces for him, and he promised to send me a reward in the mail.

As I tried to enter Agent S’s house, I encountered a glitch: I was unable to go inside. I could not interact with the door at all. But I soon learned it wasn’t limited to Agent S’s house, it applied to the houses of Shari and Keaton too…any villager that was home.

As for villagers that weren’t home, everything worked normally: I got the “I’m not home” message if I tried to enter. I tried going into town hall and coming back out to see if that would solve the problem, but it didn’t. So I used “save and end” to go back to the title screen, and then started up again. That didn’t work either, and that’s when I started getting worried.

So I tried exiting out of the game completely…and fortunately, that worked. I was quite relieved!

I shot down a balloon present, and there was a meme shirt inside. I had to see what it looked like, so I tried it on…and I was not disappointed. It shows a cat shooting lasers out of its eyes.

Even my villagers seemed to enjoy it! Tia said it was breezy and fun. 😛

I caught a flea that was on Apple, and she…denied that she had fleas. She didn’t even thank me!

In other news, Hornsby taught me the shyness reaction. I now have 36 of the 44 reactions, so there’s just a few more to go!