Another weekend, another big block of time spent thinking about things other than comics. (Actually, I did plunk down with several volumes of Negima! for this week’s column, which should go up at Comic World News sometime today.)
The highlight of the weekend was an early anniversary gift from the hubby: behold, the splendor of Birdzebo! That’s not the exact model, and we actually mounted ours on a post, partly because we can’t resist a project that requires the mixing of cement. Birdzebo isn’t quite as popular yet as the one it replaced, but the birds in our neighborhood are fairly shameless, so I’m guessing it’s just a matter of time.
Maybe it’s the insidious influence of Andy Runton’s Owly, but my gardening efforts this year seem to have shifted entirely in the direction of encouraging birds and other wildlife into the yard. (Not deer, mind you. Those hooved vermin don’t need any additional encouragement.) Part of the weekend was spent prepping the bed that’s going to host nothing but plants hummingbirds love. (I’m too lazy to maintain a hummingbird feeder, but I will spend hours dragging bags of compost across the yard. Go figure.)
Now I want to read manga about bird-watching. I don’t know if such a title exists, but one should. It would be a logical sequel to Imadoki!