146 bells for turnips

In the past couple of months, I have been interested in the "stalk market". I have purchased turnips from Joan and kept them on a table in my house until the price was right to sell to Nook. He never buys high, normally he buys for somewhere between 46-68 bells. Today, though he was buying for 146 bells. That's good news but the bad news for me was that I had no turnips to sell. I only had one red turnip in my house and no matter what, Nook buys them for 16,000 bells.

I have learned my lesson. I will continue to buy the white turnips from Joan and just keep them in my house until the next time Nook wants to buy at a high bell price.

On a side note: Acorn Festival starts next Monday...I have no idea what this is. must investigate!

Black Rose

This morning, I found my first black rose. I am pretty sure that black roses are the ones that when it's brown and dry, if you water it with a golden watering can, it turns to a gold rose. I would like to keep it as a black rose but silly me sold my regular watering can. Looks like I need to buy a new one from Nook.

P.S. Am I crazy or are the leaves on the trees a shade darker than normal? Even the grass looks different. Is it a sign of Fall/Autumn and that tanning season is over?

Money trees

*I can't find a picture but I will take one later and post it*

I never wanted to plant a money tree because it involves using a lot of your bells and I was obsessed with paying off my mortgage. Now that I have the last expansion to my house, I plan to take my time to pay that 948,000 bell mortgage.

If you have the bells to spare, chop down a tree by your house (chop down a tree = good chance of a tree growing and by your house = you can monitor it closely), and plant some bells. The secret is in the amount of bells you bury. The more you bury, let's say 99,000 bells, you'll have a 99% chance that bells will grow on a tree. If you buried 50,000 bells, you only a 50% chance. I think I tried to grow a money tree when I first started playing but only buried 2000 bells, yikes, that's a 2% chance, no wonder the tree didn't grow any bells.

Try it out and good luck!

New Month - September

• I love it when it's the first of the month. We get to fish for new fish and catch new bugs. Sadly, I never caught a tarantula over the summer. This morning when I played with Brody, she caught a salmon and king salmon! She immediately donated it to the museum.
• This Saturday is Flea Market. It's been a while so I hope my characters have some items to sell.
• Tanning season is almost over, we have until September 15th so get out there and tan on the beach when it's a bright sunny day in your town.
• Teffy taught me that you can see whose house you are visiting by looking at the little post outside their house.
• Turnips don't seem to rot after a week if you place them on a table. You can do this by placing your shovel on the floor in front of the table, stand on it and then place your turnip on the table.