Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Tonight, I was surprised to find Labelle at the event plaza. Oh, excuse me, she calls herself Label now.

She seems to have taken over Gracie’s role in New Horizons (but why are all the old NPCs being replaced?). She will mention a fashion theme, and we have to dress to fit the theme and let Label judge our outfit.

Today’s theme was comfy clothing, so she gave me an example of what she’s looking for: a printed sleeve sweater. She wouldn’t judge what I was already wearing… so I changed out of my printed sleeve sweater into the printed sleeve sweater she gave me. I then spoke to her again, and she was satisfied with my outfit. 😛

She said she would mail me a tailors ticket, which I can take to Able Sisters and exchange for an item that costs 3,000 bells or less. She also gave me a Labelle knit shirt.

I again found Tia in my flower garden, watering all my flowers! Almost every time I went by my house, she was in there! I guess she has become my full-time gardener! Well, at least she works for peanuts. 😉

I decided to put in another new house plot, and I put it next door to Rizzo. I feel bad for whoever moves in, but I didn’t want Rizzo to be the only “attraction” on my small, northern piece of land.

I planted some flowers in a few places around town, and I set up a few things for Friday night. After that, I bought a Nook Miles Ticket and traveled to a mystery island. The island had a tiny island of its own, in a lake. There were rocks there, but the water was too wide for my vaulting pole to cross!

Fortunately, I was able to solve a simple puzzle to find a way across. 😉 Each rock there was a money rock, so I was able to rack up some bells. 💰💰💰

The villager visiting the island was Norma the cow. I had no interest in her mooving to Forest. But still, it was nice to have a fresh face to pitfall. She looked udderly shocked when she walked right into it. However, she didn’t get mad about it. 🐄

When I returned to town, I ran into Tia again. She was finally done gardening, but maybe that made her sad… because she taught me the sadness reaction. 😛

I planted some flowers I swiped from the mystery island. Forest is slowly, but surely, coming together. It’s still just a two-star island, but things are starting to look up. 🙂

It was raining in town today, for perhaps the first time (if I’m not mistaken).

Keaton told me he heard about Project K, and he wanted to help out. It just wasn’t quite what he was thinking.

Still, he gave me a menu chalkboard to help out.

My first ramp was complete, so I attended the completion ceremony. Yay!

I took advantage of the rain by looking for a coelacanth, and it didn’t take me long to find one! Yes!

Agent S taught me a new reaction, curiosity. It’s the question mark (“?”), and it’s a very useful one to have. It’s an easy way to say “what the heck are you doing?” 😛 I added it to my reaction wheel by replacing the “encouraging” reaction.

In Shari’s house, I enjoyed watching the droplets of water roll down the windows. But I also took a close-up picture of Shari’s cork board.

Saharah was in town, and I bought a “ruins wall” from her for 3,000 bells.

When I ran into Louie later tonight, he had a thought bubble over his head. He was thinking about moving out of town! He’s the first villager to bring that up, but I told him to stick around.

Isabelle told me Forest is still a two-star island, and this time, she mentioned that I could use more flowers. So I bought a few flower seeds at Nook’s Cranny and planted them near my sumo ring. It wasn’t enough to make a difference, but it’s a start. I guess I should be buying and planting flowers every day.

After I planted those flowers, Louie had another thought bubble over his head! I was wondering if he wanted to move out again. 😂 But he just wanted a new catchphrase; I told him to say “oh, banana!” 🍌

I did some more fishing, hoping to catch another coelacanth. I never did find another one, but I did catch another oarfish and a bunch of red snappers.

Just as a reminder, I will be having Friday Night Forest this week. It will be at 10 p.m. Eastern time (7 p.m. Pacific) and anyone already on my roster is welcome.

Here is my latest video, showing highlights from Days 12 and 13.

See you next time!

The Happy Home Academy sent me two letters today, one with a punching bag to commemorate my new room, and the other with a bronze HHA plaque for topping 20,000 points. Agent S also sent me an exercise bike for my new room. I wasn’t planning on making my new addition an exercise room, but it’s already looking that way. 💪

Today is Bunny Day (Easter Sunday), so Zipper T. Bunny was standing at the event plaza. 🐰

Zipper gave me a bunny day arch recipe. The arch is really cool, and it’s easily my favorite item of the Bunny Day items. I made one and returned to Zipper. He told me I had now crafted every piece of the Bunny Day recipes except for one. One that looks like him. Yikes.

The only problem (well, aside from the prospect of seeing Zipper’s freaky face on a wobbling toy) is that I didn’t have enough water eggs. I had plenty of everything else though. (I had at least 25 of every other kind, but only one water egg). So I had to go fishing for more…or is that egging for more? 🥚

Once I had enough, I crafted the toy and returned to Zipper. My reward was yet another recipe. This one was for a Bunny Day wand. The wand requires the wobbling Zipper toy and three star fragments. I only had two star fragments in storage, so I was unable to make the wand today.

Zipper also had something else for me. After giving him one egg of each type, he gave me a Bunny Day basket. He also had a trading service available, where I could trade three of one type of egg for one egg that I needed. For example, I could trade three sky eggs for one water egg.

By the way, all of the outdoor villagers were wearing Bunny Day eggshell outfits. Some of them, including Tia, looked really cute this way.

But Marcel didn’t fare as well. The egg shell made him look like a dunce. 😛

Rizzo spent the day indoors reading. He looks even weirder with glasses on. 😛

I put in a springy ride-on (toy), but unfortunately I can’t even sit on it. I was very disappointed by that. I’m hoping at least villagers can ride it? That would make for some very cute pictures. 🙂

At town hall, Tom Nook informed me that he can now customize my house. I could change my roof color or my mailbox, but I didn’t want to change anything right now.

With no further use of my eggs required, I started crafting some things. I made five arches, which I placed leading a path to my sumo ring. I’m sure I won’t keep it like this forever, but I like it for now. Maybe I could replace it with some other type of arches in the future.

After that, I started crafting like crazy just to use up my remaining eggs. When I sold everything (except for the five arches and the toy I’m keeping for the wand), I racked up a total of about 120,000 bells. That’s actually less than I was hoping for, considering how much work and annoyance these eggs have been over the past 12 days. I can always sell the arches at some point in the future too, and they’re the most valuable of all.

I’m glad it’s all over now, and I now have about 15 free spaces in my inventory. Whew.

My last task of the day was to commission a natural ramp, between Midge’s house and Marcel’s house. It will be my first ramp when it opens up tomorrow.

I hope you all had a good Bunny Day and a Happy Easter! I’ll see you next time! 🙂