Counting My Chickens

Barb over at Bella Vista is hosting a Rooster Party, and I've been invited. She's expecting a huge crowd, so be sure to go by and see what's been living in everybody's barnyard. The rumor is that she'll be serving chicken fingers and deviled eggs.

At my house, pigs definitely rule the roost, but I do have a fair amount of roosters as well. In fact, I have so many pigs and roosters that my boys once counted all of them, which led LBeau to declare "no more farm animals." I just ignored him.

So without further ado, or make that cock-a-doodle-doo, here's what I've brought to the party.

1. This colorful rug sits in front of my kitchen sink. It replaced the old rooster rug that finally got so stained and faded it was shipped to the porch to use for wiping feet.

2. My sister-in-law Susie gave me this bulletin board that hangs on the end of one of my kitchen cabinets. Unfortunately, because of the shape of the bulletin board and the size of my cabinet, the poor roosters have to lie on their sides. I use it to keep track of party and wedding invitations and birth announcements. At Christmas time, it holds all of the photo cards we receive.

3. Susie also gave me this toile tablecloth. I think I saw the same tablecloth yesterday in one of the posts from Tablescape Thursday.

5. & 6. This colorful fellow is a pitcher, and sitting behind him is a deviled egg plate. No self-respecting Southern girl would be without at least one deviled egg plate. I keep these displayed in my cabinets behind glass doors. They're just too cute to hide away.

7. This ceramic tile hangs on the cabinet door. It serves as a daily reminder of where my priorities need to be.

8. Across the way and also sitting behind a glass door is this rooster. He serves no purpose other than to look handsome.

9. I have several decorative dish towels that feature roosters, and I almost always have one hanging somewhere in my kitchen.

10. The kitchen isn't the only place where roosters live. I bought this painting by Euneda Otis at the River Market in Little Rock. It hangs in my laundry room.

11. I just fell in love with this fabric when I found it. So I bought some and had these two pillows made for my family room.

12. Each Christmas I put up a French country tree. Many of the ornaments are roosters. They range from tin ornaments, like these, to ceramic roosters and roosters complete with real feathers.

By my count that makes an even dozen. Too bad these roosters aren't hens, and then maybe I could get some fresh eggs out of the deal.