Jeff's New Leaf Blog

Lolly told me that her plan for the new year included spending a lot of time with me. Aww, how sweet.

She then offered me her skeleton. I guess that’s one way to spend time together, with her skeleton in my pockets.

Later on, Lolly informed me that I have a new reputation: She said I’m a pro listener. I’m okay with that.

Today, I decided to finally dig up the bamboo I had in town. It’s too much of a pain to keep digging up the new bamboo shoots that spread all over.

Rolf told me he was looking to replace his green net. That confused me for a second, because he was actually holding a net…a bug net. But he was talking about a furniture item, not a bug net. 🐞

A single-space item was too small, but Harvey had some cornstalks for sale. Rolf was happy with the cornstalks, and he gave me a lawn mower in return.

After depositing some bells at the post office, my account balance reached 116 million bells.

Lolly asked me for an orange, so I checked my storage to see if I had any perfect oranges I could give her. Unfortunately, I was all out. But I saw that Merka was online, and she said she had some perfect oranges I could have. So I opened my gate, and she came over.

I gave her some perfect peaches in exchange for the oranges. I took an orange back to Lolly, and she loved it! She gave me a basketball hoop in return–definitely not what I was hoping for.

Merka hung out for a bit, and I offered her a sip of my sparkling cider that was left over from New Year’s Eve.

She said it tasted good with the leaf in her mouth. 😂

We went swimming and diving, and she caught some new creatures. As for me, I caught crabs.

After we had some coffee, she needed some lunch. So I ended the party. But it was good to see her again after all this time!

According to Luna, my recent dream visitors include Kahlium from Twinleaf, Ebony from Duggee, Aurora from Oakwood, and Nick from Kanto. Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day! Never Stop Crossing!

Last night was New Year’s Eve. Isabelle was standing next to a large countdown clock at the event plaza, and she gave me a glass of sparkling cider.

Crazy Redd was also there, and I bought a blue New Year’s hat from him.

However, I didn’t stay for the final countdown. But I picked up the game again today, and Isabelle was again standing at the event plaza. She said she’s been thinking about mice, so she got some mice decorations.

So she gave me a zodiac rat; 2020 is the year of the rat on the Chinese zodiac. This is what it looks like:

At the event plaza, the countdown clock from last night has been replaced with a face-cutout standee that shows four people celebrating the new year.

My villagers were also talking about the new year. Boots told me he would be hugely successful in 2020.

But then he stopped to say that he’s actually successful every year. 😛 Typical Boots.

Claudia told me about her new year’s resolution to sell her own workout video.

It’s called Fidget Yourself Fit.

Even a caged tiger wished me a happy 2020!

According to Luna, my recent dream visitors include Jack from Evermore and Lydia from Pearl. Lolly also mentioned Velia from Grandesa. Thanks for stopping by, and have a great 2020, everyone! 🙂

Today is Toy Day, and I made sure to pick up the rest of the Santa outfit before the shops closed. I even bought the Santa boots (unlike last year).

After that, I met up with Jingle the black-nosed reindeer. He gave me Santa’s sack of presents, and I immediately looked through the items. The three wallpapers made me nervous, so I went to the Emporium to look at them in my catalog.

Which was yellow, which was orange, and which was beige? I honestly wasn’t sure. I thought the astro wall looked orange (and the astro set is orange), so I felt pretty good about that one. And even though I thought the paw-print wall looked more yellowish, I generally associate cheese with the color yellow. So I decided to go with cheese as my yellow wall.

But Boots was the first villager I visited as Santa. He wanted some gray electronics, so the TV with VCR was an easy choice.

Lolly’s request was for a blue umbrella. So I gave her…the blue umbrella. Clues can’t be any more clear than that. 😀

When I ran into Agent S, I felt like that was the moment of truth. She wanted yellow wallpaper, and I was relieved to see she was happy with it.

So I felt pretty confident as I continued making my gift deliveries. But…not for long. I went to give Rolf his present, and he wanted a green doll. I had a hula doll and a garden gnome, and I hadn’t looked them up in the catalog. However, I associate gnomes with the color green, so I gave him the garden gnome.

Oops. I was wrong. Apparently the gnome is red, and the hula doll is green. That also meant that Aurora’s gift was wrong as well.

I actually felt bad that I messed their gifts up. I was so concerned with getting the wallpapers right that I didn’t bother to check if there were any other troublesome clues. At any rate, I got 8 of 10 correct. here is the full list of what I gave everyone:

• Agent S: yellow wallpaper – cheese wall ✔️
• Aurora: red doll – hula doll ❌
• Big Top: orange wallpaper – astro wall ✔️
• Boots: gray electronics – TV with VCR ✔️
• Claudia: beige wallpaper – paw-print wall ✔️
• Hornsby: green carpet – green rug ✔️
• Lolly: blue umbrella – blue umbrella ✔️
• Molly: colorful food – candy jar ✔️
• Rolf: green doll – garden gnome ❌
• Vivian: gray furniture – tall lantern ✔️

I returned to Jingle, and he made a snide remark saying that he would have been careful to hand the gifts out correctly.

He still gave me a festive wreath for helping him out.

Well, at least most of my villagers were happy. And Lolly in particular was so excited that she got to meet Santa himself. 😛

My recent dream visitors include Dean from Range and Sammy from Kalos. Thanks for stopping by, and have a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season! 🙂

If you happen to get New Leaf for the holidays (either for the first time or for a 2nd town), remember to use the face guide here on JVGS to start out your character with a face that you like!