Campers and Turnips

Last Friday, Norma the cow was camping at the campsite. She seemed nice, but I was not interested in asking her to moo move in.

Norma, at the campsite: Hi there! Do you live here? You're so lucky--I'm just visiting, hoof hoo.
I’m lucky that you’re just visiting? 😆

On Saturday evening, Ankha congratulated me on the fishing I did. But I was confused, because I hadn’t done any fishing!

Ankha: Good work doing all that fishing, touchdown. You made it look easy.

It turns out it was the day of the fishing tournament. However, it had already ended by the time I started up the game. So I don’t think Isabelle told me about it since it was already over by that point (or if she did, I just skimmed past it without it sinking in). 😆

Last week, I sold my turnips for a small profit. And this week, I bought even more. I purchased 8,300 turnips for a price of 95 bells apiece.

On Tuesday, Ketchup sent me this strawberry umbrella in the mail. And it’s such a Ketchup thing, with the little leaf and stem on top. Here’s a picture of me holding it while talking to Gulliver.

Gulliver: M-my, uh... OH MY GOSH!
Do you like it, or hate it?
Oh, he just lost his phone.

Yesterday, Axel the elephant was camping at the campsite. I like him more than I like Norma, but still not enough to inquire about kicking anyone out.

Axel, at the campsite: Do you live here? Awesome to meet you. I'm Axel.

Today, the Nooklings were paying 155 bells for turnips. I sold them all for 1,286,500 bells. I’m inching closer to the halfway point of my Nook Miles goal; currently 4.8m/10m. I need to keep buying lots of turnips like I have the past couple weeks, and maybe I’ll actually complete my goal this year. 😛

When I put my bells into my bank account, my balance topped 77 million bells (77.5 million to be more accurate).

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

  • Last Friday, Gullivarrr sent me some pirate boots.
  • K.K. Slider played K.K. Dirge for me and Midge on Sunday night.
  • Gulliver sent me a turban yesterday.

See you next time!

Billow Clouds

Last Tuesday, I spotted the northern lights up in the sky (I think for the first time this season). I went up to my favorite stargazing spot and enjoyed the view. 🙂

The northern lights as seen from my stargazing spot.

On Friday morning, the Nooklings were paying a whopping 571 bells for turnips! I sold my turnips for nearly 1.2 million bells! That helped a lot with my Nook Miles goal, although I’m still not even halfway to the 10 million bells of profit required.

At the campsite, I found Cousteau the French frog camping out. I was not interested in asking him to explore the depths of Forest.

Cousteau: Yo! How's it going? They call me Mega-Arm Cousteau.

On Sunday morning, I bought 6,840 turnips from Daisy Mae at a price of 93 bells apiece. I believe this was the most turnips I’ve ever bought at once. My empty “2024” area provides a convenient place to store them all until I sell.

My pile of turnips on the ground.

Yesterday, I found a scallop while diving. Pascal popped up to lecture me on the difference between morals and ethics. But his explanation wasn’t quite what I expected.

Pascal: People ask what's the difference between morals and ethics. Only five out of six letters, maaaan!

Today, I was surprised when I looked up at the sky. I saw some clouds I don’t think I’ve seen before! At least, not that I remember. They look like stripes in the sky (or a rib cage), but apparently they’re called billow clouds.

Billow clouds above my turnip storage area.
Me sitting in Peach Park, enjoying the billow clouds overhead.

My two most colorful villagers (Rio and Ankha) were hanging out at the plaza, both doing yoga (or at least, stretching). But after a few moments, they were distracted by a lone snowflake. They both stopped to watch it go by.

Rio and Ankha stop exercising to watch a snowflake fly by.

Here are a few other quick notes about the past week in Forest:

  • Last Wednesday, I sold 38 bugs to Flick for over 250k.
  • By Friday, my savings balance topped 76 million bells.
  • On Saturday, I told K.K. Slider I was feeling blue, and he played K.K. Condor for me.
  • Bob was sick yesterday, so I gave him some medicine. In return, he gave me a bathroom towel rack.
  • Today, Midge changed her nickname for me from “cookie” to “cupcake.” Either way, it’s pretty sweet.
  • I completed C.J.’s challenge, and then sold him 12 fish for 89,250 bells.

See you next time!

Bob’s Birthday

Last Thursday, I crafted a new shovel to replace one that broke. After I was done, I was alerted that I just received 3,000 Nook Miles. That’s right, I have now completed the DIY Tools achievement for crafting 3,000 tools!

All DIY Tools Nook Miles achievements completed.
That’s a LOT of crafting. I should probably start buying tools now.

I still have two more sections I need to complete, the letter-writing one and the turnip one. Those are going to take me a good while, yet.

Rocket the superhero gorilla was camping at the campsite on Saturday. She’s the only superhero I’m not interested in.

Rocket, at the campsite: I kinda came out here on a lark, but this place seriously rocks. I'm in love, vroom!

But there was something a bit interesting about her visit: She also camped here in November 2020, which I believe makes her my first repeat camper. At least of the campers I’ve mentioned in the blog.

Yesterday morning, I made space in my pockets to get some money out of the bank and buy some turnips from Daisy Mae. But there was a problem: I couldn’t get into Resident Services to access my account! It was closed for New Year’s Eve!

Resident Services was closed for the holiday!

But I still wanted to buy turnips, so I started crafting a bunch of stuff to sell. I also grabbed a few pearls out of storage to sell as well. Once I reached a bit over 200k, I went over to Daisy Mae and bought as many turnips as I could afford: 2,070, at a price of 99 bells apiece.

Later on, Isabelle gave me a light stick and Tom Nook gave me some party poppers. I also bought an aqua New Year’s hat from Nook. I then hung around and waited for the new year to arrive (as I also had New Leaf and GameCube on). At midnight, 2024 arrived, and the fireworks started. Happy New Year! 🎆

Fireworks spell out 2024 during the New Year's Eve celebration in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Today is the first day of 2024, of course, and my villagers wished me a Happy New Year. Some, however, did it louder than others.

Louie: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
THANK YOU, LOUIE.

But January 1st isn’t just New Year’s Day, it’s also Bob’s birthday! I crafted him a rocking horse, and customized it to be colorful (since he has always liked colorful/kiddie furniture). I headed over to his party, and Agent S was also there. I gave Bob the gift, and I think he liked it! 🙂

Bob: I never dreamed I'd get something so darn neat!
I just wish I could see him actually ride it. 😛

Here are a few other quick notes about the past several days:

  • I helped out Gulliver last Friday, and he sent me another kaffiyeh.
  • My savings balance reached 75 million bells.
  • K.K. Slider performed K.K. Rally for me and Ankha on Saturday.
  • I’ve ordered way more zodiac dragon figurines than I’ll probably ever use. 😛 But they could come in handy at some point, so I wanted them anyway.

If you haven’t yet seen my video taking a look back at my 2023 in Animal Crossing (covering the full series), I hope you’ll give it a quick watch:

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope to see you all again soon! 🙂

Never Stop Crossing!