Àgres cau'r ça va

 Getting through the week, cooking dinners, doing laundry.  For some reason I am now studying Korean Hangul alphabet, French (at level 3 instead of 5), Italian, Japanese and Lithuanian on different profiles.  The Lithuanian is on Baba dum and it is close to Latvian, I can bring it up on my phone in spare minutes and do a couple dozen to keep in practice.  /raises eyebrows at own self.  I guess it is variety week?  

 I'm crocheting a rug and nearly done with it, started while I helped Esme do some algebra the other day (the 'help' is that I sit here and make encouraging small talk and supervise that she actually gets through it, occasionally actually looking closer when it seems to be truly frustrating - so the crochet helped to distract me enough that she didn't get too anxious I was looking over her shoulder.)  We could use another small floor rug for when those I made last year are in the wash.  

 And I am making drawings to make a puppet because we thought up some skits that would be cool.  I used to make toys and puppet like things long ago, but haven't done much lately.  Materials will be interesting if I get 'off the kitchen table and into the garage' with that idea and onto the workbench.

 Our budget seemed to be working last month even with the more expensive things, and the tightening of our belt in a few other areas.  I am still going to be extra-conservative through a little longer.  We were going to go grocery shopping tonight but we still have leftovers and it has been raining and colder. 

 Àgres cau'r ça va?  I haven't been able to find anyone who can translate that, but it is one of those pidgin things that I say between Latin, Welsh and French.  The 'agres' is actually said more like 'on-gres', similar to the word 'engraved', so maybe a contraction of On agrès, 'we get ready/prepare' Esme says she has heard me say it since she was small but she only has half a feel for it, and knows that it is usually something I say during lots of activities, stress, to-do-list etc.  Similar in feel to 'Quests for Humans'  The closest thing that I've gotten to a actual word-for-word meaning is 'We are completing difficult tasks? (we're preparing  - closing up, is it all good/ok?'  I am also slightly reminded of my mother saying something like 'batten down the hatches' at times, and the 'Angres' (agres, on agres) has always implied some sort of difficult task that we need to get ready for, like a ship for a storm, or a castle for attack etc.

ça va?  ça va.