Sunday, November 1, 2020: Morning Mushrooms

Late last night, I was cleaning up from Halloween, like changing my face paint off with the mirror Sylvana gave me after she transformed my face. I also found a new spot for my pumpkin carriage that's more out of the way (now that I want my island to have clear roads NOT filled with haunted Mario spirits!). I decided I'd keep some of my pumpkins around town, but get rid of the spooky furniture as it's not spooky time anymore.

Funny story, I thought I was stuck in that spot (this was before I moved the cart with the yellow pumpkins there), so I called Rescue Service! (I could've just squeezed out with a bit more effort, as I found out later.) To be fair, it was a nice way to quick-travel back home to drop off all the stuff I had in my inventory, but still! Just thought I'd share.

Anyways - I played early this morning (the Switch, alongside all my devices, adjusted the clock for daylight savings time automatically). Isabelle let us know about mushroom foraging! They've been in the series since the original game, but City Folk started the trend of them appearing in November, rather than October mornings at 8am in the original.

"Mom" sent me a letter in the mail about how much she likes to bake, and she sent me a kitchen mat - I haven't tried it out yet.

The HHA sent me a silver trophy for reaching 100,000 points! I bet it was from all the Halloween furniture I placed down as I was cleaning up. I love the spooky flooring in particular, you can see a bit of underneath all my rugs. I'll have to start redecorating my house sometime... I've got some ideas!

Right after reading my letters, I picked my first mushroom in New Horizons! How... thrilling. :P I also dug up a rare mushroom - I believe in addition to my four fossils. That was a surprise!

I was debating here if I should keep this path leading to the beach (or that set I had made you can see in the video I posted to my channel last night), and decided it fit in well enough.

Here's the third and final mushroom I was able to find today. Maybe I need to plant more pine trees around the island?

Here are just a few miscellaneous things. I tried to snipe a balloon present before it flew over the ocean and failed miserably, fumbling over the controls. I'm testing planting an apple tree in this small valley by my sister's house I hid Bells in yesterday, just to see what happens. I plucked some more weeds, and I got a new D.I.Y. for a boomerang, so I can be just like Link.

As a surprise for my family when I take the Switch home around Thanksgiving, I changed the town tune to be the overworld theme from New Super Mario Bros. Wii, another game we enjoy playing together. (Sadly, I could not do a G# as the melody does, but oh well!)

I love Phil asking me about my evaluation - you see Phil... And Merengue offered a sentiment that I completely agree with! Went for a brisk walk after playing this in real life. :)