Katie vs. Phineas

Last night, my Re-Tail had a premium on perfect pears. I knew Tiffiny has a bunch of perfect pear trees, so I let her know and she came over to sell all that she had. I used a famous mushroom, but I mistimed my picture. That’s okay though, because it looks like I have a hula hoop.

Using a hula hoop?She earned a cool 3.5 million bells from selling her perfect pears, and she gave me a couple baskets of them too.

I later made a Dream Suite visit to Mark’s town Topiary.

Giant-sized Jeff by a money tree.It’s a really cool town with a spaceship/sci-fi room, a fancy bathroom, a 7/11, and lots of topiaries of course. For the dream address and lots more pics, see Dream Suite Adventures: Topiary.

Back in my town today, Kidd asked me for a cherry. I gave him a perfect cherry I got from Wendy, and he loved it. He rewarded me with…a jackhammer?

Kidd: For finding me that exquisite perfect cherry...take my jackhammer!The weird part is that Nan just gave me a steamroller yesterday. Are the goats in my town starting a construction company or something?

Over at my campsite, the penguin named Cube was camping out. He’s pretty cool.

Cube: Hey! Are you from this town?And Gala showed off her greeting that I gave her recently. It’s one I also used for Curly in ACCF once: “I’m made of ham.”

Gala: I'm made of ham!And at my southwest park, my rarely-used yellow bench actually had someone sitting on it: Skye! So I sat down next to her.

Sitting with Skye on the bench.Maybe my tulip topiary will make this part of town more popular.

♪ My topiary brings all the wolves to the park.
And they’re like…don’t make me bark. ♪

Speaking of my tulip topiary, I started putting some actual tulips around it.

My tulip topiary surrounded by tulips.The warm painting I bought from Crazy Redd turned out to be the real deal, although it looks much bigger in the museum than it did in Redd’s tent!

The warm painting on display in the museum.I updated my dream town at the Dream Suite, and Luna told me David from Hometown was my most recent dream visitor.

At 6:00, I dropped off the sci-fi set to the giveaway winner, Kyle from Tennakia. Congrats once again, Kyle. I hope you enjoy the set!

Delivering the prize to Kyle.After returning home, Skye told me recently saw a picture of a beautiful frog.

Skye: The other day, I saw a picture of a frog. It's the most beautiful fish in the world!I assume it wasn’t Jambette.

Jambette.I caught a frog for Skye and she thanked me by giving me a jungle-camo shirt.

Later, Molly tried to tell me she was moving out on May 11th. I quickly denied her request. I don’t plan on ever letting Molly, Rolf, Agent S, or Aurora move out of town.

In the northeast part of town, I caught a picture of the train starting to cross the bridge.

The train crossing the bridge.Copper was telling me Phineas was in town. But Copper is a lying dog. I searched my town about seven times and looked everywhere. Phineas was absolutely not in town. But Katie was. In fact, when I called for Phineas on the megaphone, Katie often answered. Katie’s presence was preventing Phineas from appearing.

So I made a deal with Hayden from Bingham. If she let me dump off Katie at her town, I’d let her sell her turnips at my town (at a price of 260 bells apiece). She agreed to the deal, and I took Katie to Bingham.

Katie: OK, I'm gonna go see what Bingham is all about! So long, friend!I then opened my gate, and Hayden came over to sell her turnips.

Hayden sells turnips at Re-Tail.Getting rid of Katie did the trick. After Hayden left, Phineas answered to his name over the megaphone and I quickly tracked him down. He gave me the Prof. of Entomology badge for catching every type of insect.

I got the Prof. of Entomology badge! Everyone agrees I'm a bug specialist!As for all those times Copper told me Phineas was in town when he wasn’t? Well, Copper’s going to need to pass a vision test if he wants to keep his badge.

Completing the Insect Collection

Gulliver sent me a Rooster of Barcelos in the mail, and I put it in my egg room (with my Easter furniture).

On the bulletin board, a notice says that the rainy season will start at the end of June. I’m not sure if that’s correct, because it seems like we get a lot of rainfall in June, even before the end of the month. Well, I’m not going to wait that long to switch back to the night owl town ordinance; I’ll probably do that around the beginning of June, if not late May.

~ Weather Forecast ~ Warm, early-summer-like weather should continue. If this pattern keeps up, the rainy season will start at the end of June.Crazy Redd had his tent set up at the event plaza today. I already had three of his four items, so I took a chance on this warm painting. And yes, I know there are painting guides out there, but I choose not to use them. I try to play as legit as possible. I do use my hair guide, but it only affects the look of your character and doesn’t help you progress further in the game.

Redd: Oh ho! Am I mistaken? Because I see ya lookin' pretty close at that warm painting right there!Back outside, Big Top asked me to make a delivery to Nan. So I tracked her down and gave her the item. She rewarded me with something I wasn’t expecting from a nice old goat: a steamroller!

Nan: It's a steamroller!No living room is complete without a steamroller! Er, maybe. But when Kidd asked me to find him some new furniture, I knew exactly what to give him!

Kidd: I see... So you decided to go with a steamroller, huh? That's a pretty stylish choice!He thanked me for the stylish steamroller and gave me a blue bookcase.

Over by town hall, Tia asked for a new greeting. I told her to say “read my leaves!”

Tia: Read my leaves! How can I help, ice cube?After the rain stopped, I went up to the Dream Suite to update my dream town. Luna told me Logan from Hilloi was my most recent dream visitor.

I then went hunting for a pondskater, which was the last bug I needed. Before long, I spotted one! I had to wait for it to come close enough to the edge of the river, but then I nabbed it! Yes!

I've caught every type of bug!I quickly took it up to Blathers at the museum and donated it.

Blathers: Our insect exhibit is complete! Oh, how my heart flutters just to imagine it.Blathers: Ick! Perhaps flutters is the wrong word for it! More like SHUDDERS! But, I'll manage, I suppose.So now the only section of the museum that isn’t complete is the art gallery. It looks like I still need eight paintings and three statues. This one’s going to take a while, I think.

Princess Daisy has submitted two new path patterns to the QR Codes page, so check them out if you’d like.

***GIVEAWAY RESULTS***

And now it’s time to announce the winner of the giveaway for the sci-fi furniture! I took all valid entries and put them in a spreadsheet. I then used random.org to choose a random number that corresponds to a winner. And the winner is…

nintendocrossing!

Congrats to nintendocrossing! I’ve sent a message on Tumblr, so please respond and let me know when we can work out a time to drop the prize off. The prize must be delivered by Friday night, otherwise I’ll have to select a replacement winner. But thanks to all who entered and congrats to nintendocrossing! And thanks to Mark, who made this giveaway possible.

If you didn’t win this time, don’t worry. There will be more giveaways in the future!

Rolf’s Lost Book

At the campsite today, there was some serious bull.

Rodeo: You're from this town, aren't you?And Gulliver was down on the beach. By his hints, I knew he was headed to Portugal.

Gulliver: ...Portugal! That's right! I am headed to Portugal!I found a lost item near my waterfall, so I started taking it to my villagers to ask them about it.

A lost item on the ground.I went into Aurora’s house, and I was quite surprised to see Kidd in there, too! She thought Kidd and I planned it that way.

Aurora: Oh, hello! Did you and Kidd plan to be here at the same time? That's really very sweet of you!But the lost item didn’t belong to either of them. I later found out it was Rolf’s book. He thanked me for returning it and he gave me a spade tee. I didn’t have the heart to tell him I was never going to wear it.

Rolf: I gotta thank you, so here. Take my spade tee with you as a thank-you!Agent S asked me to catch a butterfly for her, but I didn’t see any flying around. (It was already pretty late by the time I started playing). So I went out to the island and caught an emperor butterfly for her. She loved it and rewarded me with an exotic table.

Agent S: I mean, it's beyond my wildest dreams, J bear!At the Dream Suite, Luna told me Brenda from Santa C. was my most recent dream visitor. The stores on Main Street were closed, so I didn’t get to shop at all today.