Jeff's New Leaf Blog

Skye told me she was going to move out of town on the 12th of this month, but I quickly made her change her mind.

When I spoke with her again, she showed me a letter that she received from Skye (the human):

I went to see Teddy and I saw that Kidd was also visiting him. Teddy told me he was jealous of plants because they grow like crazy. Well Teddy, you’ve grown pretty big yourself…

And for the past few days, animals have been telling me Tabby was sick. I didn’t go to visit her though, until today. I have no plans of buying medicine for her.

I rolled up today’s snowballs and purposely built a bad snowboy. Tomorrow I’ll be able to make a new snowtyke and then I’ll be 75% done with his items.

Ryan needed some signatures for a petition, so he asked me to open my gate. I’m glad to help out people on my roster when I can.

So he went around town collecting the signatures. When he was done, I let him shop up at my stores, even though he didn’t find much he wanted (other than fertilizer).

I then asked if he wanted to check out my house. While he was in there, I noticed the  zodiac horse was a bobblehead. Ryan said that was the first thing he noticed about the horse. Oops.

While we were still in that room, I noticed Rolf’s pic over by my sleek stereo. That means I actually have five of them, not four!

In my modern wood room, where I also have several items from the ski set, Ryan said the room looked like a ski lodge.

But I’m actually thinking about moving my ski set to my upstairs room. That room (with the musical instruments and totem poles) has been the same for a long time, and I think it’s overdue for a change. Of course I only have a few ski items so far, so it will be a while before I’m done with it.

Further down the road, I’m also considering changing up my basement. I may move the gold set to a museum exhibit, and I might put my emerald-enhanced modern set down there. But there’s no time frame for these changes, so don’t expect it to happen overnight.

I’m trying to get all of the snowtyke items, and some of them require that your other snowpeople are made imperfectly. So today, I built a snowman and I made sure I screwed him up badly. He was speechless at first.

But then his anger came out.

He criticized me (that’s another fault of his) and then he started lecturing me! He should feel lucky to be alive at all! Mr. Snowman needs to learn some snowmanners.

Anyway, I got my jolly painting in the mail from Crazy Redd. I took it to Blathers at the museum, but there wasn’t an option to donate it. That’s because I already had a jolly painting in the museum, I had just forgotten to mark it off my list. Oops. When I went to Re-Tail, Reese told me it was a fake anyway. Oh well.

As I left Re-Tail, I saw Big Top nearby and I spoke with him. He asked to play a game of hide-and-seek, and I agreed to give it a try. I had 15 minutes to find him, Teddy, and Molly.

Whenever I have that much time, I don’t need to rush. I watered my flowers as I walked around town. I found Big Top pretty quickly, and Molly not long after that. But I completed my walk around town and still hadn’t found Teddy, so I went down to the beach. There he was, hiding behind a banana tree.

I won the game, and Big Top rewarded me with a giraffe ruler.

I found a lost item, but it belonged to the first animal I asked about it: Molly. She gave me a vaulting horse to thank me.

I went to Tom’s town to take him the snowman matryoshka I had for him. He also let me catalog his crown, which I tried on briefly.

We went up to Club LOL and danced for a few minutes. Angus was in there, shaking his royal rump roast. As for King Tom, he looked a bit constipated…

Tom ended the party and I was about done for the day. But I made sure to check the Dream Suite, where Luna told me that Emma from Winter was my most recent dream visitor.

As expected, the snowtyke sent me another snowman matryoshka. Tom asked me for it, so I’m going to give it to him since he helps me out with bingo numbers every day.

The Northern Lights were in the skies above Forest tonight, so I took pictures from various locations around town. Here they are over my train station.

And here they are by my snow family.

Crazy Redd was in town once again today. He had a basic painting for sale, but it looked the same as the fake one I bought recently. Two of the other three paintings were ones I already had in the museum, so my buying decision was easy. I sprung for this jolly painting.

I often customize the furniture I get from animals or at the store. I end up giving them to villagers when they ask for furniture. Here is a customized polka-dot clock I picked up today.

Over by my central bridge, I stopped to snap another picture of the Northern Lights overhead.

When I went up to Main Street, Luna told me that Kyle from Delta was my most recent dream visitor. And in the Emporium, I had ACCF flashbacks when I saw Gabi and a classic buffet. Nice table.

Back in town, I was having serious trouble locating snowballs to build a snowman. Once, a dung beetle had it on the edge of a cliff and there was no way to save it. Another time, it was on the edge of the river and fell in. Another one smashed into a tree and shattered as soon as I got to it.

But mostly, I just couldn’t find them! Even though I would go indoors and come back out to reset them, there was one point where I made about five or six trips around town and still couldn’t find one of them–despite looking everywhere, behind every tree and every building. It took me over an hour before I finally rounded them both up and built a (purposely flawed) snowmam.

She wouldn’t even mention snowflakes, so I’m hoping she’s made poorly enough that the snowtyke won’t give me credit for her.

My buddy Kidd suggested a totem pole as a public works project.

I’m not sure if I would want this in my town or not. At any rate, it doesn’t seem worth the hefty price tag (538,000 bells).

That wrapped up my (late) night in Forest, but I have two other things to share with you. One is a QR code for a Star Trek Starfleet uniform submitted by Roman. If you’re interested, check it out on the QR Codes page.

The other thing I have to share is a slideshow of my New Leaf pictures taken in the month of December. Enjoy!