In my video of Summer Wine Cake, while I am pretending to be a tad tipsy, I pick up my little rooster note holder. He is such a cute little feller, I wanted to tell you the story about how he came to me. This picture is from a still shot extracted from the video.
In September I started making You Tube videos and my third video was about a 30 year search I had been on to find my grandmother's recipe for tea cakes. I finally found the recipe in a published cookbook. The cookbook had been printed by a group of quilting ladies. My aunt was a member of that quilting group and she submitted Grandmother's Tea Cakes. She attributed the recipe to being from my grandmother, Lydia Short. I got so excited about finding my very own grandmother's recipe. I remember her making those very cookies for us. Now, I know most folks cannot understand this "strike gold moment" but a committed foodie gets it.
I called my Aunt Juanita and told her how thrilled I was to have found the recipe and she said she had some other things I just might be interested in, too. She said at her age she needed to start cleaning out some old stuff she had held onto for sentimental reasons. She said she would rather give them away now to someone who would appreciate them, because once she is gone, her children and grandchildren would probably just throw most of it away.
True to her word, she sent over a box of what anyone else in this world would call junk. Mr. Rooster was in that box. Juanita could not remember the story behind him, but I am making up my own back story. (It is my story, now, so I'll tell it like I want to. lol).
I think Mr. Rooster was a high school student's wood class project. Rooster is perched on a routered out block of wood. In the shape of a shield.
He has cut out half circles securing him to the base. A teardrop shape forms his wings, and other shapes form his comb and those hangy-downy thangies. The best feature is the clothes pin. The coiled spring section looks like an eye, and his beak will hold a note.
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Aunt Juanita did not know who made the little rooster. In my story, I am saying one of Lydia's grandchildren took woodshop or crafts class one year and created this little guy and gave them to Grandma as a present. It gives me a warm fuzzy to think that may be the truth. Now, the truth is: I love him. I love that it had been my grandmother's. I love that he is just so darned cute and that he has been passed down to me. I keep him on my kitchen counter along with Grandma's wooden recipe box and wooden butter press.
I hope you like my little rooster, too. Maybe you and your children can do a woodworking project and make a great little note and pencil holder for your grandma. This has been grannybees precious item, take it and make it your own.
My dear husband is the photographer in the family. He shoots my videos and gives me advice on where to stand for the best lighting and those technical kind of things. (Thank you, sweetheart.) The videos and the still shots are all taken from our little Canon Sure Shot Elph 115. These are our original photos.
