Kicks and Ticks

Greetings from Alleria.

When I'm not posing in my 1700's get-up, complete with powdered wig, things do actually happen around town!
Rhonda made her final decision and packed up and left.

Even though I was okay with her leaving, her farewell note stuffed into my mailbox left me feeling a little regretful.

Why must these letters always make me feel guilty?
"A friend who means so much to me"?
Argh!
But Rhondas demolition of her home brought a little happiness on my part.

That blue pansy was hiding behind her house and I had no idea it was there! Good thing she moved! But then again, it makes me wonder if I lost any flowers back there....hmm.

There were a couple days that got a little dull in town because of all the rain.
I was invited to the first game of hide-and-seek in a relatively long time.

That's a rag tag group of residents, don'tcha think?
I won, of course, but Merry was nice enough to send me my prize the next day because my pockets were too full of goodies already.

Not likely, Merry.
Things were so bad, nobody had open gates and nobody came to visit, that I ended up wasting time harassing Tom Nook and "sticking it to the Raccoon".

Yes, that's me, kicking the merchandise.
Nook didn't take too kindly to me causing shit in his store. As usual, he followed me around as I ran around. It didn't take long before he had enough and kicked me out when I tried kicking him.

Is it just me or does Nook look a little pudgier?
Thankfully, Static was kind enough to let me lay low in his pad until things quieted down and all was forgotten.

Literally laying low.

The best thing to happen since the last update was the Flea Market! Yes, the one time a month I make a decent amount of money.

Welcome to Sarahs' House 'o Deals!
Thanks to my two dorados, two or three gars, hammerhead and regular sharks, and ocean sunfish, I managed my best Market yet: just about 300,000 bells. Static, Avery and Antonio - my three Original Villagers - were very generous, paying at or 200 bells away from 3 times the Nook selling price. I also made a personal record selling price for one fish: 44,800 bells! Merry helped out as well but seeing Buck come in as my last customer was a bit of disappointment. Being the newest villager, our relationship just isn't as strong as the others so his buying prices were dramatically lower than others. Strategically, all my high-price fish were already sold so all that were left were rare bugs. He also only made two purchases.
But that 300,000 bells was a godsend. I was able to deposit 200,000 of it in full for the Alleria Town Fund. The rest went into the bank account, saving up for the next donation. That's right, now that my house is payed off I can start my Town Fund donations! Woohoo! We're finally moving up in the world!
Oh and because I forgot to mention this in my last update, Buck leaked some top secret information to me. Apparently, all is not peaceful in the land.


That's right Krategan. Watch yo' backs. Buck is coming for you.

That's all for now. Until next time....

Practicing my dance moves for City Folk: The Musical.

Better late than never

Uggh. I haven't had time to post so I need to catch up.
Obviously, the first Bug-Off of the summer was on Saturday.

I was up early (shock!) and got out the front door just in time for the beginning of it. I'd never met Nat before and he turned out to be quite the character.

And (no shock here), he was hungry.


Who lets these creeps in? Posing as "tourney" officials, all they want to do is eat your catches. We need better security, I think.
The day started with Marcel in the lead with his tiger butterflies. Yes, I say butterfliES because he toppled my record TWICE with his stupid tiger butterflies. Even though there seemed to be an influx of flying creatures in town, for some reason I couldn't get past the 'lil bugger. (Yeeessss, pun intended)

Of course there aren't any bugs with all these nets around.
As is usual in Alleria, the competition heated up as the day wore on. We traded records back and forth and tempers started to flare.

Personally, I keep a cool head. I knew I would end up winning so I decided to help out others. I took the time to teach Avery how to properly catch a bug.

Even with my helpful ways, I just couldn't help the eternally helpless.

What I really like about these tournaments is that it gives me an excuse to play for an extended amount of time. That means I can hunt for those few elusive bugs and fish I haven't yet caught.

Because I dislike having stumps in town (Save the trees!), I sacrificed one tree (which I plan on re-planting now that I have the beetle) so I could catch that violin beetle. It took forever but I finally found the little guy hanging out on the top of the stump. I also caught quite a few birdwing and agrias butterflies. I swore I had donated them already but they became new additions to the museum and I saved a birdwing for the upcoming Flea Market.
Pretty much the only thing I have left for this month is the tarantula and the goliath beetle. I can't find those two for the life of me! I have plenty of palm trees, I don't know what is keeping them from attracting the beetles. I've seen only one and I scared him away before I realized he was there. Darn!

After a long day of bug-hunting and grass-trampling, I pulled out the win.

Luckily I didn't have to use birdwings. Not worth it when I can sell them!

In other news, I finally (FINALLY) paid off my mortgage.

I am ridiculously slow when it comes to making money so this has been a long process for me. Up next I'll start on the Alleria Town Fund. I hear a lot of rumbles for a new bridge...I wonder what ridiculous spot we will place it in?
Tom Nook didn't seem all that upset that he wouldn't be regularly getting large chunks of money from me. After all, he knows I'll stop by Nook 'n Go everyday!

What a weird thing to laugh about, Tom Nook.
Psh, I'm so cheap I don't even buy paper to write letters from him. I always nab it from the lost and found or use the annoying Redd Invitation he so graciously hands out. Unfortunately, Static was too smart and realized I used the Redd paper:

Good to know.

Yesterday, that worthless lump of camel stopped by.

Go away.
My neighbors were very gracious in their carpet-giving this time around. I think I ended up with 7 carpets or so.

EXTREEEEEME!!!
Needless to say, I ended up with ZERO Saharah-exclusives.


Bam. Random cool photo.

The only other thing of note that happened is Antonio and I shot our album cover for our future C.D. No, we aren't in a band or anything but if we ever are, we have the perfect pictures to use. Check it out.


summer rain
a red umbrella opens
between them

I found that haiku randomly on Google. Awesome.

I Heart Fireflys

Saturday night, Static and I met at the Roost. The approaching summer season has us both excited. What's in store for Alleria?


I tried to get him to join me in watching K.K.'s stirring performance of Imperial K.K. but he's as stubborn as always. He seems to prefer to stare at the wall.

On Sunday I decided to at least do something worthwhile and I moved my Jacob's Ladders to a better spot. They looked great in front of my house for awhile but slowly the numbers outgrew the space I had. It started to look really messy.

Couldn't even capture all of them.
I decided the best place for them was to line them down the path from the gate. I think it looks a lot better.


Blaire spent the weekend being sick. I dutifully brought her medicine until she was feeling better. She was so happy, she literally jumped for joy.

Flying squirrel?

Also on Sunday, as I was doing my routine watering, I found something moving on a flower:

It's hard to see but it's the orchid mantis.

I was lucky to see it since I've only been able to catch one. So I decided to keep it for the storage room. I'll look it up and see if it has a good selling price. If it does, I'll keep it for the Flea Market.

I was super excited to find out that Nook's spotlight item was the lucky gold cat. It was the only one missing from my collection.

One day, they will be in a much better looking room!

As per usual, I've been listening in on neighbors' conversations. Rhonda's long time dislike of Marcel seems to be continuing as he gets on her nerves more and more.

Rhonda stomped off angrily. I thought it was pretty cute that Marcel was complimenting Rhonda on smelling good but I think he went about it the wrong way. When I thought about it later, it did seem odd. Rhonda doesn't have any visible hair.

Marcel took it pretty hard. He thinks it has to do with his own hygiene.

Monday brought about the start of a new month. Yay! I always look forward to the arrival of new bugs and fish. But it also brought the arrival of a new resident, Merry.

Sheesh.
Not only is this human-looking cat snobby but she made a big no-no right from the get-go.
She moved onto our pristine, once un-inhabited island. Luckily, her house didn't get in the way of paths or destroy much but it is an eye sore. Why couldn't she have moved into Deena's old spot? We would have been better off with good old boring Deena.

The insect catching has been slow. I caught a darner dragonfly pretty quickly. Later as I was fishing, I saw a tiny little bug floating around. Not thinking much of it, I continued luring fishies. But the damn thing interrupted and stung me!

Argh! Taking revenge on its kind, I caught one yesterday and donated it into life long slavery at the Alleria museum. Ha, take that mosquito! Enjoy your sterile boring life in a museum!
I also saw this guy scuttling around.

EEEEEEK!
As soon as I gained my composure, I went searching for it again, prepared to sneak up and whip out my net. It was all to no avail, though, as I wasn't able to locate him again. I will definitely step up my efforts to catch a tarantula. I'm fully prepared to be attacked.
I also saw a giant moth that flew off a tree. It actually made me jump when it flapped away.

And my ultimate favorite bug of the century has to be the firefly. The first time I saw it, I gasped at how cool it looked.

It is pretty amazing how much they light up the area. As soon as I put him in my pocket, the path went back to being dark. These things are cool and I spent a good half hour walking around town taking in their eerie glow.


So pretty.

Cool! Two! These guys are everywhere!

Three? Really?

He's so bright, I need sunglasses to look at him at night.
Oh fireflys, how I love thee. I could make an entire scrapbook with pictures of you.