Rooster Summer

Rooster Summer — page 3

Rooster Summer — page 4 — A Noisy Good Morning A cocky morning crowing and a daybreak braying A snappy tap rapping and a nose nudge tapping Grandma ups the window sash and in struts Rexster up off Seed Sack's back over his head straight across the floor fluttering onto beds He's gonna peck He's gonna peck we both shout as we spring up and out But one last rooster doodle doo and Rexster swooshes through the window past Seed Sack's swaying straw hatted and still braying head and back onto his back Our summer days of farming fun have noisily begun

Rooster Summer — page 5 — Egg Hunt Egg hunt Egg hunt Grandma grins handing us straw softened baskets for morning eggs Be quick now Quick sticks Quick sticks Rexster greets us in the hen yard on the slow swaying back of Seed Sack Then with a feathered swoop he's up off Seed Sack's head up over ours and down to the ground Gently we squiggle up onto Seed Sack baskets upended in hand Seed Sack slow steps off toward the chicken coop We hug hold tight for a few steps and down he sits We slide off in a bundle of chuckles He turns brays a big toothy smile shakes his old straw hat bits drift off like summer snow and then stands back up Again again again

Rooster Summer — page 6 — we ride and slide slide and ride till we tumble down smack front dab at the chicken coop door upturned egg baskets now hats on heads and Rexster roo da doodling at our sides

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