Friday, February 25, 2011

8 Month Old Has A Dry Cough For A Month

In arriving at the farm in the mountains


passed highway miles between long silences, the game of counting the registration numbers of cars I see the game, and destroying children's songs loudly. They reached the turn off the road and changed the landscape. Moving deeper into the mountain where the farm was the Beretta. Despite the cold, Nacho got a couple of inches of your window glass. He loved the smell of pine, thyme, a saw. They had lived the moments happy childhood he was always the place we went to unwind and to be free, the place where you went to shelter from the responsibility that was supposed to be a Beretta. He learned to hunt and fish with his father.
After a few kilometers, went on a road flanked by a small sign indicating that went into a hunting ground. Anita got out of all the glass of the window, for it was a holiday, since I was a baby was thrilled to get to the driveway to the farm. He produced a tingling sensation in the stomach which he announced how well it would happen. On the farm of the mountain, including his mother when he was relaxed.
the days before snow had fallen and mountains glowed with its white mantle. Tree next to the passers crystal raindrops fell as a result of the impact of the sun in the snow that covered them. Anita and Nacho were fascinated by the picture that surrounded them, so full of wild beauty and pure.
soon arrived at the mansion of the estate, next to the old man who was chopping wood Toribio. For several years he had spent half a century, but his appearance was that of a much younger man: his hair was completely black, always combed backwards, it was cut, glued to the ground, as he himself liked to say, robust and hard as the land they had lived all his life, wearing some old boots, green trousers and thick cloth plaid shirt rolled up despite the intense cold that was in winter. It was the third generation of his family who had cared for the estate of the Berenguer. At forty years, Nacho joked that if you do not wake up would be the last, since neither was married or had met him a girlfriend, a few months later, she married Engracia, which was the nearest town, woman go to church and hips, good for breeding. With whom he had two sons, none of whom had taken the path of his ancestors had first entered the university and the second for a year working in the factory fabric of Berenguer. Both had received help from Nacho, which made both Engracia like him, were even more attentive and helpful to the owners of the farm. Nacho
got out and approached Toribio, who extended his hand and squeezed it hard. Anita was launched back in the snow and began waving his arms and legs.
- Look Daddy! An angel!
- Ana! Toribio Have you greeted?
- Hi Tori! Look! An angel!
The guard grimaced when trying strange smile at the girl, but was not a man of smiles.
- We leave to hunt or fish?
- No, Ana and I spend the day together. And again when it starts to get dark. Is there firewood at home?
- Sure! You know we always have the house ready for when you like to visit.
- How are we hunting?
- It seems that the year is good, and I have my eye on a pair of males with some antlers to be a major trophy.
- Wonderful news! By the way, the child has become the factory to work quickly and is already one of the best workers I have. You can be proud of him.
- It is your obligation, if gets out, let me know and under to get him to heel .- Toribio responded.
- not required, good trees give the best wood. The have raised very well.
- I'll tell Engracia to go home to light the fire.
- Quiet. I like doing it myself and I teach Anita.
The house had two floors. The roof was slate and stone facade, with large walls that kept sheltered from the cold. Father and daughter approached the door, large, heavy hardwood but without any ornament. When opening and into the darkness, Nacho smelled of old wood that he loved. Opened the gates of the windows to let in the sun and walked to the fireplace followed by Anita. Next to it was some wood stacked and divided by size. Took Dried pineapples several introduced in the fireplace.
- are placed first because fire fast and help ignite middle trunks.
carefully placed several thin trunks of the pine cones and then caught two of them with his lighter and with the help of tongs from the fireplace. What at first seemed only white smoke due to moisture, it quickly became a flame that was strong and vivid colors.
- Now is the time to place large logs, which are what give us heat and kept several hours. He took two trunks
good thickness and placed so that the oxygen run and avoid drowning the fire, while I said to Anna, who was absorbed in the way the cold, dark house, with only light the fire, had now become a home.

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