When you experience a crash (which is what you described), everything you did since the game was last saved is lost, since the game can't do a proper save and shutdown during a crash. When you restart the game, it will load the last savegame, and things may very well be different. Usually, you lose less than 10 minutes of play, since the game automatically saves every 10 minutes.

All the village coming out of the sea. The second one out the sea like they are doing the conga

This is all my villagers.

Very cute!!

in my 2nd or 3rd village, (VV2) i got a kid to pick up something, to me it was a mushroom, but then it said it was something for the scientists.

but even my kids said it was a mushroom. i checked the collections tab, and nothing new. so the kids took a mushroom to the science hut, instead of the food bin. looked funny...

i've had a viller watering the crops with a basket of laundry.

Once in VV2 a villager was repairing a hut with a basket of laundry.

Clothing - the poor villager's duct tape. ^^

Rofl!! I like that! Mine was repairing with a fish!

Mine was relaxing on the beach with a bowl of berries.

This is about VV2, but still a strange thing!!

I saw a village elder PRAISING a totem!!! I've heard of a villager arguing with a totem, but this is a new one on me!