Chicken Soup for the Soul???

August 6th is the 2nd Annual "Show Us Your Roosters" party hosted by Barb at BELLA VISTA. Everyone will be preening and strutting around; there'll be a hub-bub of activitity in the farmyard!
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So why don't you grab a little feed and something to drink and sit for a while: I'll tell you a story .....

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Once upon a time, in a pretty little house near a babbling brook surrounded by dancing daisies and happy hosta, there lived an extremely handsome but vain rooster named Geoffrey Glass. Geoffrey spent his days doing not much more than looking down (literally) on all the other roosters in the dining room and flirting with the beady-eyed twins, Plucky & Lucky (aptly named for their rather loose morals when it came to Geoffrey!).He often regaled them with stories of his travels, talents and bravery. "Ever hear the one about the chicken crossing the road in Hollywood, girls?" Geoffrey crowed. "That was ME! I went to see my friend, Gregory Peck!".

The girls almost laid an egg with delight! "Oh Geoffrey!" they clucked. "You truly are the Cock-of-the-Walk!"

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Geoffrey's jibes and snobbery were a constant irritant in the room, especially for the Shelf Gang led by peg-legged Captain Tall-Comb.

"Come down off yer high perch, glass boy!" said the Captain. "I can see right through you (literally)! Take a good look at him, girls! He's as blind as a bat and doesn't have a leg to stand on (literally). And his stories? Why they're nothing more than a load of chicken manure!"
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Geoffrey's tail feathers were ruffled! "I'm not going to stand here and be insulted!" said Geoffrey. "I'm NOT a chicken; and I'll prove it! Who'll come on an adventure me?"
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Leave the safety and comfort of the coop? whereupon one of the Chinese triplets fainted. "Not I!" chirped Henny Penny. "Not I!" said Clucky Lucky."Not I!" said the Czech brothers! "Not I!" said Dotty and Spot! "Not I! Not I! Not I!" A chorus was heard throughout the room..

In a huff, Geoffrey Glass jumped off the china cabinet to the floor. But before he had a chance to move on, something landed next to him with a LOUD thump! Geoffrey slowly turned ..... and looked down.

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His face took on a look of absolute horror, and he began running about the room crying "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Quicker than you could say Colonel Saunders, Geoffrey was back where he started at the top of the china cabinet, his feathers still quivering in fright!

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Not a peep was heard as the formerly high and lofty Geoffrey Glass suddenly went from being a Rhode Island Red to a Hungarian Yellow!

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The moral of the story:

In the poultry world,

talk is "Cheep!"

(literally!)