Jeff's New Leaf Blog

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year (in terms of sunlight in the northern hemisphere). Animal Crossing takes this fact and exaggerates it to the extreme: The sun doesn’t rise at all in New Leaf today! It’s dark all day long.

Since it’s such a special day, Isabelle can be found at the event plaza handing out gifts. She gave me this glow wand. Wait, what am I? A Santa fairy? Santa doesn’t need a magic wand to perform his magic!

There’s also a special face-cutout standee for the occasion. Look at me, I’m ice skating!

Wouldn’t that be a cool addition for a future game, though? Imagine if some of the ponds froze over in winter (like they do in some Harvest Moon games). And then you could either walk across them to reach new areas available only in winter, or maybe you could buy some skates and go ice skating! Well, it’s nice to dream.

I seem to be losing my touch at making perfect snowmams lately. Yesterday, I ended up making a snowboy by mistake. And today, I made a snowmam…but not a perfect one. So this one wants five snowflakes for ice furniture. I’ll try again tomorrow.

While digging up a gyroid, I spotted a hidden lost item (a bag) behind a tree. If not for that gyroid, I never would have noticed it! I asked my villagers about it, and it took me a while…but I eventually goat got it back to its owner.

Velma rewarded me with a subdued-print tee. Here are a few other quick notes about things going on in Forest lately:

• I recently got my bank account balance up to 57 million bells.
• Still no sign of the Santa hat at Able Sisters.
• My recent dream visitors were Levi from Greenvil and Timber from Xing.
• Pashmina told me that she was recently sick, but nobody visited her to give her any medicine. Oops!

Thank you for visiting and I’ll see you next time. Happy holidays! 🙂

I recently StreetPassed Sqankey from Sweetlip. She had all red walls and floors in some rooms of her house. It’s a simple look, and yet quite unique. I like it.

Last night, after picking up a Santa coat at Able Sisters, I spotted the first igloo of the season. The igloos are quite beautiful in New Leaf.

Hans was inside, telling me that he’s not suspicious. Then why do you have a huge pot of chowder when you’re in here solo, Hans? That’s suspicious to me.

I sampled the chowder, and it was chewy! It almost forced me to luke puke!

Later on, I watched a balloon present float past my house and in front of the moon. I never bother shooting them down any more (no need for balloon furniture), but I do enjoy taking pictures of them flying by.

My villagers have given me a couple more hints for Toy Day lately: Daisy wants some plants and Dizzy wants some clothes.

The Able Sisters shop had the Santa beard today, so I bought it. All I need now is the hat! Ho-ho-how do I look?

My recent dream visitors have been Timber from Xing (Wednesday), Ash from Pallet (yesterday), and Chiib from Tahkitu (today). Thank you all for visiting. I hope you all have a great weekend! I’ll see you next time!

Big Top asked me for a piece of fruit today, and I handed him a perfect peach. He loved it, and he thanked me by giving me a trunk measure. I don’t need this; he’s the one that has a trunk!

I was happy to see that Christmas lights are now on some cedar trees in town. That will certainly make things look more festive around here!

I noticed that the snowmam I built yesterday has moved a bit. Apparently, I built her too close to the standee, so she (somehow) shuffled over a bit. Well, that’s better than having her disappear! Still, I should put up a security camera to see how she does it!

Molly was sitting on the town’s metal bench (probably freezing her tail off), but she seemed to be in good spirits.

She asked me to join her, and I couldn’t resist. I think Big Top felt a bit left out, though.

I decided to change up Forest’s town tune for the holidays. These are the notes for the Christmas song Jolly Old Saint Nicholas.

Feel free to use it in your town if you’d like. Or maybe you prefer Deck the Halls?

A bit later, I returned to my central park and took this picture of a cedar tree with Christmas lights next to my illuminated tree PWP. All I need now is a little snow falling…

Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Samantha from Townland was my most recent dream visitor. Thanks for stopping by!