Quicksilver has a cold.
It is most apparent when she first wakes up and the congestion from lower-down makes its way up.
Kids with colds make lots of strange breathing sounds. Their small breathing passages are more impacted by obstruction than an adult's larger "pipes".
One theory about how hard Covid hit different populations was that older people who got rubbed by snotty-nosed kids had a vast library of antibodies, some of which slowed down the Chinky-cold Fauci-lab-Flu.
The net result is that Quicksilver is clingy and I end up holding her on my lap and we watch videos. When I am watching videos, I am not doing things that will make it to the blog. On the PLUS side, Quicksilver is learning all about Camino de Santiago, paper-patching bullets, running a still, recipes for turnips, carrots and potatoes and snaring starlings.
Now that is a well rounded childhood.
ReplyDeleteSo a rounded education at Grandpa's knee
ReplyDeleteTurnip, carrot, potato and starling stew with a shot of corn likker to wash it down. Yum, Yum. ---ken
ReplyDelete...and don't forget a healthy dose of "Shaun the Sheep!" - soothes even the child-soul of this crusty old fart.
ReplyDelete-RB in flyover country
Amen to that! Especially the Episode when one of the sheep is snoring loudly. Prime humour.
DeleteKipper, the English kids cartoon from circa 2000 is really good too. Especially liked the flying machine episode. "Did you see, sid you see? It got airborne, right before it crashed!"
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Old Vegitales should be on your list too. Nothing better than what youare doing.
ReplyDeleteRoger
My mother, a schoolteacher, credited her long avoidance of colds and flus to the fact that she was readily exposed to them from children for 30 plus years.
ReplyDeleteTeaching reloading is good! Start them early! ;-)
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