Day 19: Able Sisters

Today was the grand opening of Able Sisters! I went to check it out, and I appreciate the shop’s new layout (at last). 😉

Inside Able Sisters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

I really like the fitting room, where you can see how various items look on you. I just don’t know why my character has to do ridiculous poses every time I try something on. 😛

Jeff poses as he tries on clothing in the fitting room at Able Sisters in ACNH.

They didn’t have anything I wanted to buy today, but I’ll have to keep checking every day!

After grabbing some materials out of storage, I finally crafted a fountain for my town! I placed it a bit in front of town hall, which is also just a bit behind my house. It looks nice, but I’ll want to plant some flowers around it at some point.

The new fountain in Forest.

I also rearranged my yard a bit. I moved some trees around, made my fenced-off area a bit bigger, and arranged some of the red roses I have planted (which I bought from the shop in Merka’s town).

Jeff's yard in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

After that, I went to meet my newest neighbor, Tia. I’m glad to have her around, and she is now my 2nd favorite villager (behind Agent S).

Tia: I'm so glad we met on that island. And that I'm all moved in here now.

However, I’m starting to regret putting her house where it is. I envisioned using the west edge of my town for an obstacle course at some point, but that didn’t cross my mind at the time I chose the spot for her house. Of course, I know it can be moved. But I don’t want to move her house right away when she just moved in. 😛

Gulliver was washed up on the beach again, and he made a reference to his spaceship-piloting days in Wild World and City Folk. He said “Don’t make me go back to space!” 😀 I appreciated the reference. 🛸

Gulliver: NO! Don't make me go back to space! It's cold and dark and--huh?

Tonight, it appeared that both Louie and Marcel were holding purses near town hall! Well, I guess Louie’s might have been a tote bag or shopping bag, but Marcel’s definitely looked like a purse.

Louie and Marcel appear to hold purses in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Inside town hall, Isabelle informed me that my island rating was up to two stars. That’s still not very good, but it’s a step up from yesterday. I’ll take it! She said I need to add more appealing scenery, and she mentioned that I could use more fencing in particular.

When I ran into Louie, he taught me the “shocked” reaction! Yes! This is one of the best ones to have. I replaced “surprise” with “shocked” on my emotion wheel, since they’re similar (but “shocked” is superior).

I learned the shocked reaction! Whaaaa?!

I collected Gulliver’s communicator parts and returned them to him. He will be sending me a gift in the mail.

Rizzo was hiding in his house today, so I was unable to use any more pitfalls on him. But he hasn’t seen the last of me! 😉

Just a note: I do not plan on having a Friday Night Forest this week. It will probably return next week. Have a great day, everyone!

Update: I forgot to mention this when I first posted the entry, but I noticed that more cherry blossom petals were falling as of today. Many of them are just for decoration and can’t be caught (much like the ones in earlier games), but it does make things look prettier around town! 🌸

Day 18: Meeting C.J.

Next to the campsite today, I ran into C.J. for the first time!

C.J.: What up, fishionista! C.J. here, comin' at you live from, uh... r-right in front of you! Nyuk!

He says he’s touring islands to find fresh faces and fresh fish to show off on his livestream. He pays premium prices for fish, but he also issued me a challenge: He told me to catch three “big-time” fish in a row…so I did. I caught three sea bass in a row. 😛

That's 3 big-time fish! Which means...you just completed the challenge! Go tell C.J.!

When I returned to him, he offered to buy the fish. I gave him the three sea bass, and also a dace I had in my pockets, and he gave me 2,160 bells. Not bad. He also said if I wanted a realistic collectible model of a fish, I should bring him three of the same kind of fish. Interesting offer, but I didn’t take the bait this time.

I visited Marcel, and he told me he can’t wait for Bunny Day to get here, because he loves the candy eggs. I want it to arrive quickly, too…but for different reasons. I’m tired of the eggs everywhere, the constant balloon presents flying overhead, the seemingly endless number of Bunny Day recipes I’m supposed to craft, and the fact that this event drags on for 12 long days.

Marcel: Bunny Day is all about candy eggs, which makes it the best. Come on, April 12th! Get here faster!

The Bunny Day event was introduced in City Folk, and I liked the event back then. But each subsequent game has made it more and more tedious, and the New Horizons version of Bunny Day is the worst yet, by a wide margin.

Able Sisters is under construction, so it’s not opened yet.

After collecting bells from today’s money rock, I noticed something about bells stacking. If you have over 99,999 bells, the bell bags you collect will not stack. So you won’t have one bag of 16k, you’ll still have each individual bag in your pockets.

Various bell bags in my pockets.

So right after this, I went and made a 100,000 bell payment on my house, just to make some breathing room.

Louie was crafting some jungle flooring, which seemed perfect for Donkey Kong. He shared the recipe with me, so I crafted it and gave it to him! However, he didn’t install it in his house, so I was a bit disappointed.

One of the new Bunny Day recipes I got today was for a Bunny Day wardrobe. I made it, put it in my house, and used it. That unlocked the ability to edit my wand outfits. However, since I don’t have much in the way of clothing or outfits yet, I didn’t set anything up just yet.

Since my newest resident Rizzo was outdoors, I tested out some pitfall seeds by pitfalling him twice. 😀 Even though Shari and Marcel are ugly, they haven’t really felt like true villains. But I think Rizzo falls into that role quite nicely.

Rizzo falls into a pitfall as Shari looks on.
Shari didn’t even stop singing as Rizzo fell in.

I decided to finally use my Nook Miles Ticket to fly to another mystery island. I found quite a few iron nuggets from the rocks here, but I also found something even better: Tia!

Tia: I'm glad you stopped to talk to me. One thing I love about traveling is the chance to make new friends.

I had her in my New Leaf town back in 2014, when I was lucky enough to get her from a StreetPass tag! She’s a cute teapot (and elephant) and she looks better than ever in New Horizons. She should be moving in tomorrow. 🙂

I’ll back with another entry tomorrow. And if all goes well, I’ll try to post Wi-Fi Moments #2 tomorrow as well. See you then!

Day 17: Rizzo Arrives

The Happy Home Academy sent me a letter today, informing me that my house scored 37,391 points. That’s “Rank S,” and they sent me a HHA pennant for topping 10,000 points.

Mabel was back at the plaza today, but not to sell anything. She informed me that she and her sister have decided to open a proper store here on the island!

Mabel: So...I've been talking with my sister about opening a proper store right here on this island!

She gave me the tailors construction kit, and I picked out a spot for it. I put it across the river from town hall, to the north. It’s near where I planted bamboo before.

Rizzo has officially moved into town. He mentioned that he wasn’t in Lemongrass any more. That is Marlie’s town, so he apparently hitched a ride when she came to visit for Friday Night Forest. 😛 I might want to reconsider hosting when I have an open plot in the future. 😀

Rizzo: I thought this was some kinda practical joke, but this sure as seaweed isn't Lemongrass...
Listen, pal. I’m not happy to see you either.

I found another lost item, and it belonged to the first person I asked out it: Louie. He thanked me and gave me some drinking-straw glasses

Jeff wears drinking-straw glasses as he digs up a fossil.

When I visited Midge, I saw that she was wearing glasses! Regular glasses, not the drinking-straw variety. 😛 She walked up to her chair, sat down, got out a book, and started reading! It was really cute!

Midge: Welcome! Please make yourself at home here, tweedledee.

Keaton taught me a new reaction today, resignation. Keaten said it’s for times when I can’t even. (Ugh.)

Keaton: This is for when you just... can't...EVEN.
I’m starting to have a love/hate relationship with Nintendo.

At town hall, I spoke with Isabelle and changed my town tune. I used one I’ve used in other games before, it’s Faraway Promise from Xenogears.

The town tune notes for Faraway Promise from Xenogears.

Isabelle suggested another house plot, so I bought another kit from Tom Nook. I placed it in the southwest part of town, just a bit north of the campsite.

Merka, who some of you may remember from my New Leaf Blog, came to visit me in New Horizons for the first time. She brought me a mage’s hat.

Merka and Jeff sit down as Midge walks by.

I showed her my town, and we hung out for a while.

Two mages look up at the moon.

She also invited me to check out her town, Clarity. I like her town layout, especially how the cliff extends halfway down the left side of the map.

Merka's town of Clarity.

We had a good time, and hopefully we can hang out again sometime.

One other note for today is that I finally organized my pockets. 😛 I previously wanted to straighten it up a bit, but there was no “grab” option, and the shoulder buttons didn’t grab things like they did on GameCube. But I learned that you have to hold down the A button to grab them, and then you can move them.

My pockets.

I guess that’s more intuitive if you’re playing in handheld mode, since it’s better suited to a touch screen. I still think a button press would be better (and quicker) for docked users, but at least there is a way to do it. My pockets were a jumbled mess for quite a while. 😀

Here’s my latest video, showing events from Days 8-9.

Have a great day! See you tomorrow!