8th
Crestwd: Spring Year 3
All of my planting paid off. I was finally able to ship 100 of every crop and unlock wheat. I planted a few bundles. They have yet to sprout or do anything. Apparently they stay in the seed stage for a month. I don’t know whether to water the wheat or just poke it with a stick.
Toward the end of the season all of my strawberries died. All of them. And I had a lot of strawberry plants. I thought maybe I overwatered…or underwatered. But upon closer inspection I think maybe they just got too much sun. That’s all right. I was sick of making strawberry jam anyway.
Between the strawberries and the cucumbers I amassed a wealth of dough. I shipped about a million salads and ended up with over 100,000G tucked under my mattress. Chen I’m sure, could smell the money on me and when I walked into his store he had a great new trinket to show me: a teleport stone. I was wowed by the thought of it, to get anywhere I wanted in the blink of an eye. But I resisted. I have a farm to maintain and that flashy stone is not in my budget yet. Maybe after I’ve expanded the barn and built some indoor plumbing.
This season’s contests went much better than previous contests. Yama (my sheep) won first place at the sheep festival netting me a yellow wonderful. She even beat out a suffolk sheep. I was proud.
I didn’t think Silver was going to win her contest. She started out going really slowly. But her pace improved and even though her time wasn’t the best she still managed to win by a significant lead (if we’re talking Olympic tenths and hundredths of seconds.)
Spring Harmony Day passed me by without my even knowing. I guess the boys in town were supposed to bring me presents, but I didn’t have time to stop farming long enough to check at home. Maybe next year.
I tried to make time to stop by animal island and feed the ducks. The ducks love me. I mean really love me. They were at nine hearts at the beginning of the month, but now they’re maxed out. They brought me bazillions of big fish and not one, not two, but three bottles. And two fish fossils. And a pirate treasure. I love the ducks. But I’ve switched to feeding monkeys. In a season or two maybe I’ll have some bananas for them, but for now I’m giving them buckwheat and simultaneously feeding sparrows. They don’t love me—yet.
After animal island I like to stop by mushroom island. If Wada or Shea is outside I say hi, but I don’t go out of my way to befriend them. I was really trying to make nicey nice with Spoink, my pig. He is only up to two hearts and likes to play hide and seek in the bushes and run like hell. It gets a little old trying to steal mushrooms from his slobbery snout. But he did bring me a truffle. I’m not really sure what to do with it. Do I cook with it? Or just sell it? I don’t know, so I stuck it in the fridge.
On one of my visits Spoink was toting something in his mouth that didn’t look squishy and fungus-like. He had a sunstone! I’m so proud. That’s better than a truffle!
I didn’t have too much time to woo my suitors this season. Most of them are pretty low maintenance now anyway (thankfully). I’m still on the fence between Will and Vaughn. I was about to give up on Vaughn when I noticed that his heart was fluttering green! He does like me! Just not a ton. LOL.
I gave Will flowers when I found them, but I didn’t go out of my way to stalk him. His feelings toward me have escalated to orange. I almost don’t want to talk to him for a bit because I still want to hold out for Vaughn. Poor misunderstood Vaughn.
Oh well. I have delayed my pending marriage for at least another season. Summer starts tomorrow and I have a ton of crops to ship so I can unlock soybeans.
Ciao!
