It had been three days since the Spring Horse Race. In that time, the ripples stirred up and brewing in Mineral Town by certain events at the races had gradually settled, and most people had returned from their excitement and delight to their own busy but peaceful lives and work.
Today was Spring 21, Saturday. Uncle Gotz, that fool, was still hammering away at Annie's house. It would take many more days to finish remodeling it, so Annie was now strolling in the direction of Rose Square.
Just as the shopping program she'd seen on the TV's left channel had recommended, she planned to call Uncle Duke and Big Sister Manna's shop and ask Uncle Duke to pay for the fridge they'd recommended.
In this backward world, you couldn't just swipe around online or on your phone and buy whatever you wanted. Instead, you had to go somewhere specific to make a phone call, then wait for someone to deliver it. Annie found that a little hard to understand... After all, that meant she couldn't see the product or choose its style and color herself. She hated feeling so helpless!
But...
Annie figured she probably wouldn't be staying in this world for long anyway. At most, she'd leave once she'd eaten and played to her heart's content. In the end, she didn't dwell on it too much and just bounced along Mineral Town's yellow-brown brick and stone-paved road, with her dog Tibbers in tow.
Come to think of it, Uncle Duke's progress had been pretty fast. In only ten short days, he'd already turned her little wooden house into a long, big wooden house!
Of course, "big" was relative to the size of the houses Mineral Town's residents lived in. To Annie, what Uncle Carter called a "large house" was