Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Yesterday morning, the Nooklings were paying 172 bells for turnips. I sold all of mine for a total of 400,760 bells. I’m now 28% of the way to earning the final Nook Miles turnip achievement. So this is still going to take years, most likely. 😛

Here’s a few quick notes about yesterday:

• Gulliver sent me a sombrero in the mail.
• I broke four tools. 😮 It’s rare for me to break more than three in a day.
• I sold C.J. a nice selection of fish for 367,500 bells.

After I was done with all that, I redeemed some Nook Miles for some Nook Miles Tickets. So I started visiting some mystery islands to look for a new villager. Tipper the cow was on the first one, and she did nothing to tip the scales in her favor. I simply was not interested.

Of course I tried to earn some of my Nook Miles back while on the islands, cutting trees and catching bugs. While going for a diving one, I caught a sea pineapple…while I was wearing a pineapple cap I bought at Able Sisters. 🍍

The second island I visited was even worse than the first. It had Rodeo; what a bunch of bull!

He couldn’t last eight seconds on my island. I left this island rather quickly. 😛

I was already getting pessimistic, and I was mentally preparing myself for a random move-in. That is, until I saw who was on the third island: IT WAS BOB!!!

Bob is one of my favorite villagers in the entire series, so I couldn’t possibly say no to him! I asked him to move to Forest, and he agreed. 🙂

He moved in this morning, and I couldn’t wait to greet him. Welcome to Forest, Bob! 🙂

I believe has now become just the 2nd villager that I’ve had in all five main Animal Crossing games. (Bones was the first one, and that happened last year.) I’m glad to have Bob around in New Horizons now (if you couldn’t tell). 🙂

Charlise was camping over at the campsite, but even she couldn’t bring me down today. 😆

Later, I put some money into the bank, and my account balance reached 62 million bells. That’s approximately half of my New Leaf total. Eventually it will overtake my New Leaf total, but that will probably be a few years still.

See you next time! By the way, I’ll be posting a new Wi-Fi Moments video by the weekend. 🙂

Sunday (July 9th) was Static’s birthday. So I crafted him a traditional balancing toy, which is made out of acorns. (If he doesn’t like balancing it, he can always eat it.)

I headed over to his party, and Marina was also there. I gave Static the gift, and he acted like it was a generous gift. 😆 But at least he liked it, and now he has an excuse to cut loose. 😛

Daisy Mae was in town, and she was selling turnips for a good price (91 bells apiece). I bought 2,300 of them. Later that night, K.K. Slider performed K.K. Mariachi for me.

Yesterday, Marina pinged me and told me she wanted to move away. It wasn’t easy, but I decided to let her go. She has lived in town for nearly two years, so she’s had a good run. I am trying not to let my island become too stagnant, so that means saying goodbye to villagers I like. But I’m sure I’ll see her again someday.

Just to be clear, this had nothing to do with Midge’s return. Midge didn’t talk me into this or anything. 😛

Gulliver was in town today, so I grabbed my shovel and started digging up his communicator pieces. I was having unusually good luck, because they were all in the same area. In fact, it only took me 55 seconds to dig up all five, and that’s with stopping to talk to Ankha too! I returned them, and Gulliver will send me a reward tomorrow.

And of course, I headed over to Marina’s house to say goodbye before she swims away. Good luck to you, Marina!

Outside, Punchy was telling me that he plays so hard, he sometimes forgets to go home when the sun goes down. Then he tried to convince me that the moon is a light bulb? I wonder what gave him that bright idea?

I’ll probably spend a few Nook Miles tickets tomorrow to search for a new villager. If that doesn’t work out, I’ll just see who I get randomly. I’ll be back with another entry when the next Forest resident moves in!

On Thursday, Bones told me that nothing is more fun than staring at his lunch-service apron. Bones is great, but he is a bit odd sometimes. 😛

The summer fishing tournament was held today, and I competed in two rounds. Both times, I caught five fish and scored seven points. My lone highlight, if you can even call it that, is catching this dorado. Everything else I caught was just a common fish.

Bones, Rio, and Ankha were all seemingly fishing together just north of Resident Services. Or at least they were fishing in the same area, just a few feet apart. 😛

I had enough points to get a prize, and C.J. gave me a fresh cooler. It’s actually a clothes closet, and I figured I could use one of those outdoors anyway. So I put it near my dock.

Later on, well after the tournament ended, I found C.J. enjoying a Cuppa Joe up at the Roost.

There was no K.K. Slider concert tonight, due to the tournament. Here are a few other quick notes about the past few days:

• My savings balance reached 61 million bells on Thursday.
• I sold a bunch of bugs to Flick yesterday for 59k.
• I caught four sharks yesterday, two hammerheads and two great whites.

See you all next time! 🙂