Hard winter for rooster

It was an especially rough winter here in Northern Indiana.  Lots and lots of snow,wind and cold weather.  While it wasn’t just us that thought the winter was brutal, the metal rooster on our front porch also had a difficult time riding out the winter of 2010-11.  After one of our storms we noticed that the comb that once sat atop his metal head was gone, probably under a snow drift somewhere, so there the poor chap stood for all the world to see  - bald.  During another fateful night it blew so hard that the  hardware attaching him to the porch  snapped right  off and he  took a nose dive.  There he sat for the remainder of the snowy weather, if it was too awful out to take down the Christmas decorations it was surely to snowy to reset the rooster! Now that the snow has melted and grass is in sight, Brian took it upon himself to fix the old bird (I think he was just missing Lowes – but anyway..) after a trip to the store to purchase more mounting materials the rooster was once again put vertical.  I would like to able to say that he is standing proud, but tis not the case. Not only is he bald, but when Brian lifted him up – horror of horrors – his tail feathers fell off!  Here we sit with a rather embarrassed rooster watching over the porch, we will have to wait until it gets warmer to perform reconstructive surgery.

Tagged as: winter, yard rooster