Another Garage Sale Rooster

I honestly thought when I found Frooster the Fruit Rooster at a garage sale it was a once in a lifetime kind of thing.  It was such a standout experience, I even wrote a post about it:  Frooster the Fruit Rooster.  Frooster's one sexy chicken and he's not afraid to flaunt it:

There's a new sheriff in town now, though.  Meet Banty Beau:

If there are any chicken experts out there reading my posts, I'll apologize now if my use of "banty" is technically incorrect, but this little guy seems full of attitude.  He's sporting some pretty sweet boots:

And an awesome feather tail:

I saw him and had to have him.  You just don't find treasures like this all the time, you know.  You have to go to a lot of garage sales to find stuff this good.

I tried to get him to sit down and jaw a bit (old western roosters don't visit, they jaw if you can get them talking), but he wasn't in the mood.  I'm going to have to introduce him to Frooster.  Maybe that would loosen him up a bit.

Besides the fact that I bought another chicken at a garage sale (one that's wearing glittery cowboy boots), you know what's really funny?  When I wrote the Frooster post, I added a label for "garage sale chickens".  Seriously, in-the-past me?  We were anticipating a string of garage sale chicken purchases?  Sometimes I even worry myself.  

Carry on.

Frooster the Fruit Rooster

One of my favorite things to do on a Saturday morning is to go treasure hunting at garage sales with my cousin, Amy.  You just never know what you're going to find, and nothing demonstrates that better than a fruit rooster.  Yes, my friends, I found this little gem hidden amid some mismatched glassware and a Hello Kitty lunchbox.  My daughter just rolled her eyes and called me a child when I showed it to her, but seriously, how can you not be fascinated with this thing?  Think about it - how to you suppose the conversation went when someone was thinking it up:

CEO:  What pieces do you think we should add to the ceramic figurine line this season?  I'm thinking the smiling strawberries and the dancing mouse in a lace cap did pretty well last year.

IDEA DUDE:  How about a chicken with a body made out of fruit.  We'll do a bunch of grapes for the main body piece, dangling strawberries for the legs and a bunch of bananas all fanned out for the tail.  Oh, oh, oh - I know!  We'll add a couple ears of corn at the bottom and tuck in a few random feathers.  Maybe bright blue feathers!  Then we'll stick on a realistic chicken head and feet and it'll be great!

CEO:  You know bananas don't actually grow that way, right?  They grow in nice neat bunches, not all willy nilly like that.

IDEA DUDE:  Really?  I'm building a fruit rooster here and you're worried about realistic banana growth patterns?

I got really bored later and decided to do a little photo shoot with Frooster (what?  What else would you name a fruit rooster?).  Doggie was pretty curious:

 But Frooster's engaging personality won her over:

We broke for lunch, but Frooster was disturbed by my husband's choice:

So we moved on to some glamour shots.

 My family plays the White Elephant gift game (maybe you call it Dirty Santa?) at Christmas.  We usually set the limit at five bucks and then have a pretty good time stealing gifts and fighting over things like giant jars of pickles or a bottle opener key chain.  I'm thinking this is going to be the best gift ever!  I can picture it now - Frooster returning to our game year after year and everybody picking the smallest gifts first because they know those couldn't be him.  Yes, my new pal, Frooster, and I are going to have a lot of fun together.