Oh, I've still studied twenty plus languages, but these are the top tier and I keep at them on Duolingo... not including Latvian and Lithuanian, which are not on 'the green owl'.. but I'd love it if they were added. I had made a phone profile to force myself to do more Spanish learning (and Catalan, in Spanish) when I was not at home, so I haven't had that for the full 9 years, more like 3? I often play the 'all languages' version on Ba Ba Dum. It throws curveballs at me in Albanian and Greek and Turkish and Chinese etc- which I don't have as much practice in beyond basics, as well as the languages I am studying more - and it shows that my Romanian and Spanish vocabularies are very lacking, my Japanese needs work, my Czech is better than expected, and my Lithuanian and French are the best there. It is one of the two places I can practice the Lithuanian, and the other place is BaltoSlav, which has the Latvian to practice.
It's Christmas Eve, it is 70 degrees out nearly (I am happy about that) and I'm cooking pears in butter and ginger vanilla sauce. I'll make a cake tomorrow for it maybe. Mark has another roast to put in the oven with beef broth and rice for tomorrow. We will bring Grandma down for an early dinner, as she likes to eat early.
1 qt jar of water, mixed with white sugar, vanilla, a few tablespoons of butter and good powdered ginger. Brown sugar put over the peeled and halved pears with seeds scooped out. Heat up the quart jar mixture in microwave, pour over the pan of brown sugared pears, then put in oven at 275 (because Mark had a roast in there already) for a few hours, turning every ten to fifteen minutes. Save all the liquid - it is excellent syrup!
I even had to go get some more pears - because they are good. The greenish ones I've put in the freezer for making something else, after washing and cutting them up into chunks. I bought some gouda cheese to go with it, and more mozzarella which we usually have.
The Christmas Tree is ready, with a few things for everyone under it.
I caught up on the Greek and Japanese today, after doing Catalan and Romanian for much of the week. Now to do some laundry and cleaning. Mark said the chickens were checking their wristwatches this morning as I had slept in, but I said no they were checking their 'roost watches'.
I had asked for some spices this year - and this one was one I didn't put under the tree. Someone had brought it to work for a cookout months ago and I've been looking to see what store around here carried it ever since. It is excellent with avocado, just as a topping!
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