At 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest–as I do each month on the second Friday. As I waited to see if anyone would come, I noticed the northern lights up in the sky.
I didn’t just stand around waiting, though; I worked on my badges. I went diving in the ocean, I did some fishing, I caught a few bugs from rocks, and I bought some packs of paper and mailed away about 24 letters to Pashmina and Velma. I also caught some snowflakes here and there, enough to redeem them for two pieces of the ice set from Snowmam.
I haven’t been able to sell my ice set stuff for a while, though. Every day lately, the premium item at Re-Tail has been a random fish–it was a yellow perch today. Blah.
Once it got to be 10:40, I gave up on receiving any visitors tonight and I closed my gate. And once I did, Phineas appeared in town! He gave me the Postmaster badge (gold) for writing lots of letters.
That was the only badge he had for me today, but I’m not complaining. I’m glad that I won’t have to write any more letters! Here is an updated picture of my current badges:
My recent dream visitors were Migs from Migsland (yesterday) and Clayton from Lebanon (today). Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!
Big Top told me he was planning on moving out of town on February 14th (Valentine’s Day)! My heart couldn’t take that, so I told him he better stick around.
Pashmina told me she was getting sick of the horse mackerel she’s had in her house for a long time. So she asked me for something else to put on top of her furniture.
She gave me a dawn tank to thank me. Yeah, that’s right. A tank top. In the middle of winter. The penguin should be the one in a tank top, and I should be the one wearing the mittens!
It’s a nice town, so give it a visit if you’re interested.
Today, of course, is 
Pavé the flamboyant, gyrating peacock was shaking his tail feathers over at the event plaza.
He asked me why I wasn’t dancing like he was. Maybe I just don’t have bird mites in my pants.
He asked me to find a white feather for him (although he actually wants three of them, he leaves that detail out the first time). But I had no intention of going on his feather-hunting quests. It’s too much work for too little reward, at least considering I’ve already completed the Pavé set in the past. I ended up catching a couple of feathers, but they weren’t white ones anyway.
And even grumpy old Rolf was enjoying the night.
I also caught a glimpse of the northern lights up in the sky. Even Mother Nature was cooperating with the colorful display.
Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Jackson from Harmony was my most recent dream visitor. Daisy from Grapeton also visited recently. Thank you both!