Warm Spring Sun

Once Bones settled in, I visited him to see what his doghouse looks like. It’s Bones’ homes! I mean, home.

Bones: Welcome, Jeff! Seriously, make yourself at home, yip yip!

On February 25th, the snow all melted and the grass turned green once again. Welcome back, spring! I also changed my path from blue bricks to green bricks.

Green grass returns in ACNL.

Bob sure seemed to enjoy the spring sun. In fact, he even enjoys it at night. 😉

Bob: The warm spring sun is like a cup of warm milk. It knocks me out cold, daddy!

I used the Amiibo Camera to take a picture of my current villagers. It’s hard to get a good picture without anyone blinking! 😛

Forest's current residents: Hornsby, Vivian, Bob, Boots, Bones, Rolf, Big Top, Agent S, Molly, and Aurora.

Boots asked me for a new greeting, so I…um…gave him one.

Boots: "Master Gator." Man, that is just perfect! It's so me!

As you probably know, balloon presents usually fly from one side of town to the other…east to west, or west to east. But as I’ve mentioned before, they will fly south to maneuver around obstacles. I saw one make a detour around my fountain before resuming its eastward path.

Animated GIF showing a balloon present re-routing aorund my fountain in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Tonight, Bones asked me for some new furniture. Re-Tail had a men’s toilet for sale, and I was tempted to buy it for him. But I thought I would be nice this time, since it was my first furniture favor for him. So I bought him a metal guitar instead. Rock on, Bones!

Bones: Nice! I had my eye on a metal guitar just like this one.
He gave me a cubbyhole in return.

In Club LOL, I attended K.K. Slider’s Saturday night show. He performed DJ K.K. for me. Velma and Daisy were also in the club, sitting on opposite sides of the room.

K.K.: What's up? I'm really feelin' the vibe tonight, so why don't you kick back for this groovy track?

My recent dream visitors have been Caleb from Explode, Helena from Crystal, Leanne from Starlite, Reese from UK, Serene from Lucky, EDO from Camelot, Chelsie from Mistwood, Aaron from Zapshire, Maisie from Venus, Kiki from Moonhill, and Elaine from Seatown. Thanks for stopping by!

By the way, if you haven’t seen my latest video, please give it a look. It’s a look back at features that were in City Folk, but not in New Leaf. Maybe some of these 11 things will return in a future Animal Crossing game?

Good Bones

I’ve had a lot of igloo campers at the campsite lately. But most of them haven’t interested me enough to invite them into town. That includes Frankengaga here.

Francine: We'll play a little game I like to call Find the Queen. What do you say?
Find the Queen? It’s sure not you.

But that changed on Sunday night. Bones the dog was camping, and he wanted my chocolate cake!

Bones: Hey hey! You wanna wager your chocolate cake on a round of What Do I Want to Eat?
Chocolate is poison to dogs! So you better just use it as a decoration.

However, I lost his game. So he didn’t agree to move in initially. But I kept talking to him, and eventually, I got him to stay. Good dog. I like the dog villagers–well, most of them at least. Marcel the clown dog is one notable exception. But it feels like Forest hasn’t had many dogs, so I was happy to adopt Bones.

On Sunday, Boots asked me for some fruit. I gave him a perfect apple I got from Breezy, and he loved it! In return, he gave me his picture! It wasn’t the first time he gave me his pic, but it’s nice to know he still cares.

Boots: Here you go! It's a very special Boots's pic!

Hornsby asked me to play a game of hide-and-seek, and I agreed to join in the fun. It had been a long time since I’ve played it in New Leaf. Hornsby gave me ten minutes to find him, Aurora, and Boots. I quickly found Aurora behind Rolf’s house, and I later found Hornsby trying to hide behind the lighthouse.

Hornsby tries to hide behind the lighthouse during a game of hide-and-seek in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Shortly after that, I found Boots behind a banana tree on the beach to win the game.

Boots hides behind a banana tree.

When I put some money into the bank, my account balance reached 106 million bells.

Yesterday, I found Bones’ house plot near my eastern ramp. It was perfectly wedged in between my paths.

Bones' house plot in ACNL.

Tonight, I noticed the northern lights up in the sky. These will be gone soon, so I took a moment to enjoy them shining above the zen bell.

The northern lights shine in the sky above a zen bell PWP in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

I went in to meet Bones, my newest neighbor! Well, I guess I already met him in the igloo, but I still welcomed him to Forest. 🙂

Bones: Since I had such a good time, and you suggested it, I decided to move here after all!
I can already tell he’s going to be a good dog. 🙂

Before wrapping up my night, I saw that Bob was sitting on the yellow bench. So I sat down to join him on a pleasant February night. He couldn’t stop smiling.

Bob and Jeff sit on the bench near the geyser.

My recent dream visitors have been Nick from Onett, Lovely from Rose, Kurika from Turkwise, Daniel from DanWoof, Amanda from Bunny, and Harrison from Town 50. Thanks for stopping by!

If you’d like, check out my latest ACCF video, What’s Inside the Snowball?

Festivale 2018

Last night, I chatted with Hornsby near the town fountain. He said it would be amazing if melted cheese came out of the fountain. Even as someone who likes cheese, I find that idea very disgusting. Sorry, Hornsby. I’m just glad that’s not an official public works project. 😛

Hornsby: Our town's fountain would be totally amazing if melted cheese came out of it.

At Able Sisters today, I recreated a design of Tortimer that was actually sent out as DLC for City Folk in 2009. It was originally called “Mayor’s flag,” but Tortimer isn’t the mayor in New Leaf. So I just called it the “Tortimer flag.” I’ve also added it to the QR Codes page here at JVGS.

QR code for a Tortimer flag.

Of course, Today is Festivale! Confetti falls from the sky, and the animals dress up in silly hats when they go outside.

Big Top: When I woke up this morning, the sky was pouring confetti!
At least it wasn’t pouring melted cheese.

Boots: Let's whoop it up and get this little town hopping!

Pavé the gyrating peacock can be found at the event plaza, shaking his tail feathers. Viva Festivale, everyone!

Pave: VIVA...FESTIVALE!

Among the confetti falling from the sky, you will also find feathers. When you find three feathers matching Pavé’s requested color, you can exchange them for a piece of Pavé furniture.

Pave: You did good for Pave. Pave thanks you and gives you this Pave lamp!

The villagers will sometimes play games with you to win or trade feathers. But I just hunted around town the catch the ones floating in the air.

Agent S was inside her house, and I was starting to fear she was going to party too hard. 😛

Agent S: It's the one day when I can dance like a complete fool and no one will blink an eye, if I die!

Since I was spending a lot of time outside, I encountered a few balloon presents. I shot this one down right behind Pavé.

Shooting down a balloon present behind Pave.

I continued catching feathers, and I played until I had acquire five pieces of the Pavé set: I got the floor, chest, closet, and two lamps.

Pave: You did good for Pave. Pave thanks you and gives you this Pave closet!

If you played during Festivale, I hope you had a good time and got all the furniture you wanted!

Aurora: Today's the celebration of dance and music called Festivale! Don't be shy! Just dance and have fun!

My recent dream visitors have been Amanda from Bunny and Mayounna from Amy Rose. Thanks for stopping by!