"Not even slightly, but I'm already very, very, sure that they're real."

"Pbbbbbt."

"Yoba sent the junimos to help us. And I think they could help us with the bus problem too."

"Or, y'know, money. To pay for repairs."

"How would the money turn into repairs if nobody can get here?  Or do you just... add money to the bus."

"I imagchine... hic... we'd hire some JojaCorp workers to fix the buss."

"Do the JojaCorp workers already live in town, or is there some way you tell JojaCorp to send their own truck, which has workers, from outside?  More generally, does this entire town have outside-world logistics other than the bus?  Where do you get the electricity for the tavern's electrical lighting?"  He's skeptical the electrical utility accepts payment in G... though maybe it does, which would be its own kind of interesting.

"If you really want to get tangled up with Joja, you can go to JojaMart when it opens tomorrow, I guess."

Emily looks like she just chomped down on a lemon wedge.

"And what do you mean where do we get the electricity? We just... plug stuff in? And it works?"

"I figured."

"New set of questions.  With Grandpa's 'farm' in its current shape, how many G do you figure I can earn a day, and how?  If for some weird reason it turns out I need to eat a meal per day, or a fraction of a collection of ingredients, just to live."

"Gosh, you know, I actually have no idea how much you can make on a farm, but Marnie might have some idea."

"Hey, Marnie! New guy wants to talk to you! Wants to know how to make money farming!"

Marnie breaks away from her conversation with Elliott and joins the group at the bar.

"Hi there, I'm Marnie. You're interested in trying your hand at ranching? Animals can be very profitable. I'd be happy to get you started."

"My grandpa's farm is covered in weeds, deadwood, and large stones that appeared out of nowhere in the way that large stones usually do when nobody takes care of a field for a while.  I haven't figured out yet how many ingredients I'll need to buy just to keep myself alive, if I still need to eat, but let's say I might need to earn 50G per day.  I realize this is probably an unusual question, but would you happen to know of some weird unusual way to do some weird things and make a surprising amount of money quickly?"

"Sounds like you should probably just forage! There's always wild stuff growing around town that you can just pick and sell and you can definitely make 50G a day that way. I wouldn't just forage if I were you though. You need to make some investments in the future, like by starting a flock of egg-laying chickens or a herd of milk cows."

"Oh... also. What do you like better, dogs or cats?"

There's a twinkle in Marnie's eye for that last question.

"Haven't tasted either yet."

"Hehe! Heh!"

Marnie laughs nervously.

"Heh heh!"

"Hehe"

"Hahahaha!" Clint belly laughs.

Clint stops laughing.

"So what sort of things randomly around the town do I pick up if I want to make practically a living wage?  And how many G and how many Wood do I need in order to get chickens and a chicken coop, and then how many days is it before they start laying eggs and how many eggs do they lay per day?"

"For foraging in spring, you can find: wild horseradish, daffodils, leeks, dandelions, spring onions, morels, common mushrooms, and salmonberries. Morels fetch the best price but are the hardest to find. Leeks and common mushrooms are probably your best bet right now, but really just pick everything you see as you walk around, because why not."

"As for chickens, you'd have to ask Robin how much it costs to build a coop, but it'll definitely be less than your first house upgrade. And then a small coop can hold four chickens. Each chicken costs 800G, or once you have one chicken you can incubate the eggs to hatch more chickens. Once the chick grows into a chicken it will lay a regular egg, and if you treat your chickens right they'll eventually lay large eggs. Eggs and large eggs sell for 50G and 95G respectively."

"Do chickens need to eat anything?  Do I need to stare at the egg for an hour in order to incubate it, or does it just do that by itself?"

"Each chicken eats one grass per day, but you can cut that for free on your own farm or buy it from me. To incubate an egg, you put it in an incubator. You get an incubator for free with each big coop or deluxe coop! It takes about five days for a chicken egg to hatch, unless of course you take the Coopmaster Profession."