Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Good news! My Switch is back from the repair shop, and all my save data (including my New Horizons island) is intact and safe! It looks like I missed Punchy’s birthday and a fishing tournament while I was without my Switch, but that’s okay. It’s just good to be back in Forest…even if it was raining today. 🙂

This is obviously my first time going two weeks without playing, so of course I had some weeds to pluck!

And my villagers all seemed to miss me. Poor June hasn’t even lived here long, and she must think this is normal for me. 😛

Bob’s reaction to seeing me again almost made me go “Awww…” 😛

After this, Bob even welcomed me home. Even though I was in his house. Awww.

In a way, this is kinda good because I’m getting to see dialogue I might not have seen for years. Like Ankha saying I seem as fine as frog’s hair?

By 6:00 p.m., the rain was gone and the sun came out. I joined Punchy and a pair of squirrels for the K.K. Slider concert.

I asked for a random song, and he performed K.K. Soul for us. That’s a decent song, but I was in the mood for something more nostalgic. So I then requested K.K. Bossa, which just screams old-school Animal Crossing nostalgia to me. Good stuff. 🙂

I spotted four different butterflies behind Resident Services, and I caught the only valuable one (a peacock).

After that, I completed a few Nook Miles+ goals and then wrapped up my game for the night. It’s good to be back, though. I hope you’ll come back again soon, because I’ll be here, Crossing away. 🙂

Sunday was Bunny Day (Easter), and I think Bob was more excited about it than I was. 😛

I decided to participate in the festivities this year, but fortunately, it was very quick and easy to do. Since I had already crafted all of Zipper’s D.I.Y. recipes in a previous year, he gave me another Bunny Day wand right off the bat.

I also had to give Zipper one egg of each type. I already had most of them in my pockets already, and I grabbed the others out of storage. So I handed them to Zipper, and he gave me a Bunny Day basket. And…that was it! Sure, you can give him more eggs for more baskets if you want, but there’s not much point. (It only sells for 1,200 bells anyway.)

So after just a few minutes, I was free to enjoy the rest of my Bunny Day elsewhere…so I did. I went and played the City Folk version of the event, which was much more fun (and profitable). 😛

The next time I played, Pascal popped up out of the ocean for a scallop, and he told me that ice was just water that’s lost its spirit of adventure.

I’m just wondering how many of Pascal’s quotes are in this game, maaan.

It looks like I’ve posted about 75 unique Pascal quotes to this blog already, and I only see duplicates occasionally. I know most of the other dialogue in this game repeats like crazy (ahem, when you’ve played thousands of hours), but Nintendo has done a great job loading up Pascal with plenty of content.

Now that April is here, many hardwood trees (including some money trees) have pink leaves for cherry blossom season. It’s always a pretty time of year. 🙂

Here are a few other quick notes about the past week or so:

• Last Thursday, Gulliver sent me a tubeteika.
• Last Saturday, K.K. performed K.K. Rockabilly for me, June, Ketchup, Ankha, and Agent S.
• On Sunday, I bought 2,200 turnips for 108 bells apiece. On Wednesday, I sold them for 172 bells each. I’m only about 233k from meeting my goal!
• On Tuesday, Wisp gave me a futuristic meal.
• C.J. was in town today, but I only had a couple of fish from storage to sell him,

Hiatus

I’ve mentioned before that my Switch has had problems with overheating, and shutting itself off if I don’t have an actual fan blowing onto it when I play. But today, even with a fan on it, it started making some intermittent buzzing sounds that were a bit concerning. I’ve decided that I finally need to get my system repaired. Unfortunately, I’ll be without it for perhaps a few weeks. So this blog will be on hiatus until then. My other Animal Crossing blogs will continue as usual.

June has lived in Forest for a week now, and I still can’t get over how adorable she is. 😆

I got to see the inside of her house last Thursday, and it’s really pretty. It has a beach theme and shell furniture. For a moment, June appeared to be looking up at her shell arch. Maybe she was afraid I’d bump into it and knock it down. 😆

I recently updated my dream, so you can all meet June if you’d like. Just go to dream address 6717-1633-3682. Enjoy your visit! 🙂

On Sunday, Zipper’s eggs started appearing all over town. They’re in the ground, in the sky, in trees, in rocks, and in the water. Villagers give them to you too! You can’t escape them, and we’re stuck with them for a whole week. But the worst part is that I had to see Zipper himself!

He basically just reminded me to save up eggs for Bunny Day next Sunday. He also told me to watch out for Bunny Day D.I.Y. recipes in the meantime, but I’ve already obtained them all before.

Today is Louie’s birthday, and I gave him a Mama panda that I bought at the shop. He seemed to really like it, I think.

June was also at Louie’s birthday party, wearing a cute dress. They both seemed to be having a good time. 🙂

Note: I’ve recently updated most of the photos on my town page, and of course I’ve added Midge’s exit and June’s arrival to the town history as well.

Yesterday, I posted my annual slideshow of my best screenshots of the past year. It’s the 4th Year in Pictures:

Here are a few other quick notes about the past week or so:

• Wisp gave me a candle chandelier last Tuesday, and a schefflera on Sunday.
• Last Wednesday, I sold my turnips at a price of 314 bells apiece (700k total). It was like a turnip pi(e) surprise, a bit late. 😉 I’m now just 400k from my turnip goal!
• Gullivarrr sent me another pirate bandanna.
• K.K. Slider performed Café K.K. for me and Ketchup on Saturday night.
• Yesterday, I grabbed seven fish from storage and sold them to C.J. for 67,500 bells.
• Today, I sold nine bugs to Flick for 44,250 bells.