Maple’s Pic

Yesterday, Maple pinged me and told me I’m the best friend she has in Forest. Aww. 😊 But the best part is that she then gave me her photo!!

Maple: You're the best friend I've got here in Forest, so I want to give you this.

I took her picture home and put it on display, moving Truffles’s pic to storage. 😛

Maple's pic on display in my room of Gulliver items.

Maple’s favorite quote is on the back: “Maple + Moppina = BFF!”

Quote on Maple's pic: Maple + Moppina = BFF!
I thought I was your best friend.

Of course, Moppina is a reference to a villager conversation that I first saw in 2018. Margie said that her mop’s name is Moppina, and “she” is her best friend. (Other normal personality villagers can say the same thing.) It’s an obscure reference to include on a villager’s photo, but I appreciate details like that. 🙂

I played again tonight, and it was raining in town. Chief told me that a while back, someone threw a wallet away near where we were standing.

Chief: A while back, someone threw a wallet away around here.

He said it was dirty and there was grease caked onto it, so that’s why it was discarded.

Chief: It had dirty grease caked onto it, so that's why it got pitched, sparkles.

But he said that was no excuse for wasting the wallet. I don’t know, it probably smelled pretty bad if was caked in grease. They just shouldn’t have discarded it on the ground. At least take it to the recycle bin!

Pippy asked me to deliver a letter to Derwin, and she warned me not to read it. But Derwin clearly didn’t feel the same way, because he gladly showed it to me. 😛

Hi, Derwin! Derwin! How's it shaking with you today? A glasses case is now mine! It rocks! -Pippy

When I returned to Pippy, she rewarded me with a stool.

Whitney’s Birthday

Yesterday, I received a letter from Wishy in the mail. It was about the shooting star I wished on last week. He “granted my wish” by sending me a dracaena. I’m not sure that’s quite what I wished for, but a free gift is a free gift.

Pippy was talking about the Bug-Off that’s coming up on Sunday. She told me she has a bite-proof dress that (somehow?) keeps the bugs from biting her.

Pippy: I got this cute bite-proof dress to keep the bugs from taking revenge on me.
Tell me your secret. Mosquitos keep biting me!

Maple was finally over her cold that she’s had for the past couple weeks. She thanked me for the medicine by giving me a watermelon table.

Maple: If it weren't you for, I'd still be curled up in bed, feeling miserable!
I’m glad you’re not feeling melon-choly now!

When I visited Whitney, I found a pack of wolves inside her house. 😉 It was her birthday, and she was celebrating with Chief.

Whitney: Well, well, look who it is. Welcome to Whitney's Birthday Bash, fribbit!

For a gift, I gave her the Nintendo bench that I bought from Pippy on the last Flea Market day.

Whitney: Oh, look at this! It's just what I've always wanted! A Nintendo bench.

I played again tonight, and Derwin told me one of his darkest secrets: He likes clothes with fringes! 😆

Derwin: It's one of my darkest secrets, but...I'm actually into clothes with fringes.

Whitney wanted to have a competition to see who could catch a bell cricket first, and I actually agreed to the battle. Whitney assured me that she wouldn’t lose to a loser like me. 🙄

Whitney: Tee hee! I'll never lose to a loser like you!

So I went around looking for crickets, and there were plenty of them. Unfortunately, the vast majority were regular crickets, not bell crickets! After catching several of the wrong ones, I had to hunt by sound and listen for the different call of the bell crickets. It took me seven and a half minutes, but I finally caught one!

I caught a bell cricket! He's the littlest musician!

By that point, I was afraid Whitney would’ve already caught one. (Or at least claimed to.) But fortunately, she didn’t. I gave her the bug, and she handed over a parlor wall as my prize for winning. But she wasn’t happy about losing to me. Too bad, wolf girl.

Whitney: I lost to you?! Those opposable thumbs you have really help, huh?
Excuses, excuses.

After selling the remaining crickets and mosquitos in my pockets, I went to town hall. There, I found a cabana lamp in the recycle bin.

Enjoy your weekend, everyone! I’ll be back with another entry next week. 🙂

Whitney’s Tune

Yesterday, Angus told me that he thinks of all the people in town, Whitney and Marina are the closest friends. He then added that he never wants to fight with me. (Frankly, I think that’s a bunch of bull.) 🐂

Angus: Even though you bug me sometimes, I don't ever want to fight with you.
Your eyes seem to say you want to fight me right now. 😛

I noticed that my savings account balance reached 21 million bells, thanks to my monthly bank interest (plus one bell I deposited to make it a round number).

Phyllis: Your balance is 50 billion bells. Just kidding! It's actually 21,000,000.

Today was La-Di-Day, and Chief was the first villager to sing for me. However, I wasn’t impressed with his song.

Chief: Make sure you hear my song. It's a manly country ballad, on a pig!

Angus told me that his best song is a ballad, and he said that “hipster kids” won’t get it. 😛

Angus: My best song is a ballad. I don't think the hipster kids will get it.

But even though I spoke with him a couple times, he didn’t actually sing it for me. Oh well, you had your chance, Angus!

After I came out of Angus’s house, I heard a shooting star! I quickly wished on it. Check back next week to see what Wishy sends me!

Jeff wishes on a shooting star in Animal Crossing: Wild World (ACWW) for Nintendo DS.

Anyway, there was only one other villager that sang a La-Di-Day song for me: Whitney.

Whitney: You're about to hear a singing sensation live! Whitney, fribbit!

I liked her song; it sounded unique, with several pauses. So I hired Whitney, and her song is now the official town tune of Forest. I checked the notes over at town hall, so you all can recreate it (and use it) if you’d like.

The notes of Whitney's song, which became the new town tune of Forest on September 12, 2026.

Maple has still been sick with that cold from last week, so I gave her more medicine yesterday and today. Get well soon, Maple!

Down at the Roost, K.K. Slider performed “K.K. Condor” for me. That’s one of my favorites! It’s the o-o-o-o-o song (iykyk).

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: K.K. Condor!