Days 5 & 6 are a blur

Basically all I've been doing lately is a lot of fishing. I've become somewhat obsessed with trying to upgrade my house. This is probably the only part of the game where you have some sort of immediate response to your work. You catch fish, you sell them, you deposit your bells, and your house will get bigger. As an indirect result, Nook's store grows. So the circle of commerce continues. You buy and sell more stuff, you get more useless stuff like furniture, a larger house etc. You exploit nature in order to participate in this endless cycle of commerce. Even after you finish expanding your house, one imagines that you would still be caught in this cycle because you want your house to score high on the HRA.

It rains all the time in my town. It rained saturday and sunday in my town, and there were fossils and gyroids galore. I wonder what gyroids actually are. They appear to be little wraggling penises (peni? what is the plural form of penis?) that grow out of the ground. Are they some sort of ancient penis ground living animal?

As far as nature day goes, I found an interesting post on the Animal Crossing Community about nature day it really is a boring holiday. From playing the game previously I know some holidays have mass gathering and events, or everyone gathers near the town fountain. Why not on this day? Certainly this is saying something about the value of the environment. Does it not deserve a holiday to enjoy how great nature is? The game makes small attempts to shove some environmental ethic down our throats by not letting us throw our boots that we catch just anywhere and we can't throw away letters just in any place. However, nature day just turns out to be another opportunity to get some cool junk for your house.

peace.
/sara