Jeff's New Leaf Blog

Today, Isabelle sent me a letter for Valentine’s Day. She also enclosed some chocolate cake! How sweet of her!

I also got a letter from Molly (who sent me a chocolate heart) and Mom (who sent me a comfy sweater she knitted). While trying to put the chocolate heart in my house, I noticed that it always faced the front of the house, regardless of which direction I was facing when I dropped it.

I opened my gate for Tom to visit this afternoon. He just got a New 3DS.

As he was exploring and shopping, I was giving some fish to Chip for today’s fishing tournament. I gave him a red snapper, and it took over top spot. Chip rewarded me with a marine pop floor. I then gave him a shark (from my dock box), and it shattered my own record, being a whopping 231.30 inches long.

Chip gave me a squid chair as my prize. Tom left to visit someone else’s town, and I put the game away for a while. Later on, I returned to see that my shark held on to the top spot and I won the tournament. Sprinkle won 2nd place and Dizzy finished 3rd.

Shortly before 9:00 tonight, I noticed the northern lights up in the sky. They’re surprisingly common in winter.

Madisyn had her gate open, so I visited her town Johto for a while. Her friend X was also there, and we hung out in Madisyn’s arcade. I played pinball until my flippers got sore and I lost all my balls.

A few minutes later, her friend Maxwell also showed up. I went over to Re-Tail to sell some perfect peaches, and I was surprised to find a library in there! Recycling paper is a good thing, but this is crazy!

Madisyn’s town looks really nice, but I thought it needed some beanstalks. So I started throwing beans everywhere.

I stood at the Tails face-cutout standee, while X was using a shovel to hit a lost item on the ground. The recoil was pushing him into the standee.

Around 10:00, I returned home to Forest. I made one last stop at the Roost for a sweet treat. On Valentine’s Day, Brewster serves hot chocolate instead of coffee.

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

Yesterday, I did some more diving and caught another scallop. Pascal popped up and gave me a ship deck for it. He also had some words of wisdom about plucking.

I ordered myself a hockey mask last night, so that I could wear it for Friday the 13th. Saharah was in town today, so I hired her to put in this lovely wall and common floor.

The northern lights were in the sky above Forest this evening.

At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Megan came over to visit; I hadn’t seen her in a long time! She didn’t seem to appreciate my outfit though, and she tried to burn Jason to death!

When the fountain firework didn’t work, she tried using a roman candle on me. It was quite painful, but I survived.

After a stop at Re-Tail, we went up to the Emporium so that Megan could buy her own axe and be a murderer like me. We then started threatening the Nooklings.

On the second floor, the Nooklings had their laundry hanging out–including their socks!

Megan saw that my Re-Tail was paying premium for cherries, so I helped her gather up all the cherries around town. She also went back to her town to stock up on the cherries there too. The cherry-picker made over 100,000 bells.

After she came out of Re-Tail, I told her to have a snack. I had famous mushrooms for both of us to eat. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get the timing just right. Still, this picture turned out kind of cool with all the pink stars surrounding us.

I had two more famous mushrooms over by my town tree, so we gave it another try. We got a bit closer, but it still wasn’t perfect. I like how Aurora fled the scene when she saw what was going on.

As of tomorrow, those mushrooms will be gone from my dream town. But I will replace them when new ones grow by my stump.

I shook a tree, and a computer rack fell from the branches. I guessed it must be an Apple.

While Megan was on “brb” at one point, I glitched onto the Sphinx.

We went around hunting for snowflakes for a while, and we were both able to get a few pieces of ice furniture from my nearly-melted snowmam.

Shortly after midnight, I ended the session for the night. Thanks for coming, Megan! It was good to see you again and I had a good time. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by, everyone. Have a good weekend!

As expected, I got a letter from Gulliver in the mail today. He sent me a Rooster of Barcelos from Portugal.

While shopping at Able Sisters, I noticed they had the Festivale accessory for sale today.

Festivale is coming up on Monday, so you can find Festivale related clothing for sale in Able Sisters. But unlike some other New Leaf holiday events, the outfit is completely optional. You don’t need the clothes to participate in the event. Check out the Festivale Guide for more information.

I put on my wet suit and did a little diving this evening. Surprisingly, it didn’t take me long to catch a scallop. And of course, Pascal wanted in on the action.

He “truthed” me about the seasons, telling me that fall gets no love.

I gave him my scallop and he gave me this Jolly Roger in return.

When I updated my dream town, Luna told me that Heston from the town of King Boo (nice town name!) was my most recent dream visitor.

And just as a reminder, Friday Night Forest is this week. I’ll be opening my gate (for people already on my roster) on Friday around 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (7 p.m. Pacific time).