It’s not the most elegant solution to the problem, but it’ll do the job. Now, what I’m going to do with Monday’s comic is anyone’s guess… at least at the time I’m writing this post, since I’ll be assembling that comic next week.

That is: Either yesterday or four days ago, from your temporal perspective.

Yes, writing these out in advance can be rather weird…

This one got a bit tricky, because I had to get the “gave to me” line in but… the ducklings aren’t that articulate and expressive yet. So I had Rei, their keeper, give the intro.

The next one, and the ones immediately following, will be more challenging because I have to work that non-balloon “Five! Golden! Wings!” in between the other lines of gifts. Well, I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, right?

Incidentally: Yes, this is the gift line that got me started on the entire “Twelve Days” idea. C’mon, when we were all wee little tykes, belting out the “Five golden rings!” part was the best thing about this song!