Jeff's ACWW Blog

Now that April is here, the regular (non-fruit) trees are now pink. It’s cherry blossom season, so enjoy the colorful trees while they last. 🙂

The flower fest is now underway. Before I got over to Tortimer for the full explanation, Big Top was telling me that flowers bloom brighter when they hear good jokes. He warned me against telling any “groaners.”

Static let me know that Sunday is the last day of the flower fest. He told me to keep it in mind while I’m losing.

I then made my way over to town hall, where Tortimer explained the event to me. He said that this week, Forest residents will transform the area around their homes into the garden of their dreams. On Sunday, he will judge the gardens and give the winner the title of Green Thumb.

He then gave me a white pansy bag, to thank me for letting his heart’s garden bloom…with arteriosclerosis.

The latest message of the week on the bulletin board said that there’s no “i” in team, but there is one in “traitor.”

After finding today’s money rock and picking up my bells, I heard someone fall into a pitfall. It was Static! I didn’t even put that one there, it was just the day’s random pitfall.

Chevre had all of her furniture packed up in boxes, and she was ready to move out of town! But I got her to reconsider on my first attempt.

When I visited Kiki, I saw that she finally over her cold. About time!

At the museum, Blathers had something bothering him again. He was upset because someone (clearly Crazy Redd) tried to sell Brewster some fake art. Blathers basically called Brewster simple and gullible. Blathers said he saved the day by scaring off Crazy Redd before Brewster bought anything from him.

I only found one fossil today, an iguanadon skull. But it was one that I needed for the museum, and in fact, it completed the iguanadon.

When I returned home, I saw that my yard wasn’t really fit for a garden. The stone pavement in front of my house doesn’t leave room for me to plant many flowers! But honestly, I’m trying to win the flower fest anyway. I planted the white pansies that Tortimer gave me, but that’s all I’m doing. 😛 Good luck to the animals in town!

I found a note in a bottle on the beach tonight.

Inside, I found a letter from the Animal Crossing team! It suggested playing Animal Crossing for an hour a day to avoid boredom. 😛

Crazy Redd had a tent set up outside of town hall, so I went inside to see what he had. I took a chance on this solemn painting for 3,920 bells.

A note on the bulletin board informed me that the flower festival would be starting up on Monday! It said to buy a watering can and some flower seeds.

At the museum, I got some bad news about that painting I bought from Crazy Redd. It’s a fake! Too bad Animal Crossing doesn’t have a flamethrower tool, so I could burn down Redd’s tent.

I got better news from Blathers when I handed him a fossil to identify. It turned out to be a dimetrodon tail, and that completed the dimetrodon.

After that, I made a 25,000 bell mortgage payment at town hall, and then headed to Kiki’s house. She was still sick (!), so I gave her some medicine for the 5th time.

She’s lucky I like her so much. I wouldn’t buy medicine five times for just any villager. 😛

On my way to Baabara’s birthday party today, I ran into Dr. Shrunk for just the second time. This time around, he let me choose an emotion that I wanted to work on. I had four choices to pick from: realization, sadness, scheming, and agreement.

“Scheming” sounded different from others I was familiar with, so I chose it. I had to tap Shrunk as he used the emotion. But when he used it, I saw that scheming is really just the emotion I knew as mischief.

Once I got the timing of the tap correct, I learned the emotion for myself. He was pleased with my progress, and he said that feelings are like toes.

He said if they can’t breathe free, they’re going to stink pretty bad.

With that unexpected therapy session behind me, I continued on to Baabara’s birthday party. But I made sure not to forget the “scheming” theme. 😉

Big Top was there to help Baabara celebrate. But sadly, there was no cake and no balloons. It was just Big Top hanging out at Baabara’s house.

I then had the opportunity to give her a present. Remember earlier this month, when I used a tin can (garbage that I fished out of the river) to catch a fly? I didn’t throw that can away, instead I re-used it…as Baabara’s birthday present. Enjoy! 😉

She called it an “interesting choice,” but she didn’t seem upset. In return, she gave me an anatomical model as a party favor. Big Top seemed to notice the lack of food at the party, since he asked if I brought some snacks. 😛

Back outside, I found a new message of the week on the bulletin board. It said that balls and windows don’t mix.

There was also a new “Talking to Myself” post. It says “When I see my sister talking to Pete, it makes me feel kinda strange…” This could be the best evidence I’ve seen yet that it’s really Phyllis writing these things.

When I visited Rod, I saw that he was all packed up and ready to move out of town. And yet, he still was talking about what was in his drawers.

After telling him to stay in town twice, he agreed to reconsider. So he should be around for a while still.

Puddles asked me for some new clothing, so I bought a big dot shirt for her at Able Sisters. She loved it, and she gave me an HMD (head-mounted display, I presume). I put it on right away.

Kiki was still sick, so I bought her some medicine for the 4th time. She really appreciated it.