flea market

 We went out to our local flea market today and sold plants and some of Mark's 3D printed items.  Then I came home and made some French banana cake - and it turned out really good.

 French banana cake / bread with almonds

 3 overripe bananas, yellow with brown spots showing, but not mushy yet

---mash into bowl

1 tbsp vanilla

1 stick (1/2 cup) softened butter

1 cup white sugar

--blend into bananas in bowl

4 fresh eggs, room temperature, beaten

--blend into bowl contents

1 3/4 cup flour plus 1 tsp baking soda, plus (bit < 1 tsp) salt

1/4 cup sliced almonds and pieces

--combine with fork

oven 375, place in large ceramic dish, depth was about 1 to 1.5 inches in dish

baked for 45 minutes until knife came out clean and top was well browned

 

serve with fresh strawberries and more butter

Languages:

continuing to work on languages, reviewing some possessive and tense terms in Welsh, continuing with a smidge of Italian and Turkish but a LOT of Romanian and Czech, bits of Ukrainian, German, the Hindi alphabet I started last week...  

 I felt like I was doing good to remember how Turkish worked at all, and that I was making stupid word-order mistakes with German because I don't use it often and it has been so long since I actively studied it I just sort of get by on the seat of my pants reading it without having to produce it very much.  

 I took the Welsh placement test on my phone and ended up in the end of the second section - when I've almost finished the course on the full profile.  But, it did identify several things that I don't have as good of a handle on, so that is good.

progress, not including phone app 

French : level 25      XP 49800
Welsh : level 24         XP 28316
Spanish : L 23          XP 24570
Japanese : L 19          XP 14335
Czech : L 19             XP 13581
Romanian : L 17         XP 11129
Portuguese : L 16      XP 9632
Italian : L 15             XP 7570
Greek : L 14             XP 6927
German : L 14          XP 6012
Finnish : L 13           XP 5515
Catalan : L 12         XP 3953
Swedish : L 11          XP 3689
Norwegian : L 11      XP 3097
Spanish (fr) : L 11     XP 3025
Hungarian : L 10     XP 2438
Ukrainian : L 10     XP 2278
Irish : L 9                 XP 2174
Turkish : L 9              XP 2044
Polish : L 9                 XP 1798
Chinese : L 8             XP 1446
Russian : L 7              XP 1023
Dutch : L 7                 XP 998
Hindi : L 7                  XP 887
Zulu : L 7                     XP 789
Guarani (es) : L 6         XP 611
Haitian Creole : L 6      XP 535