A place to chat about how your summer has gone, and what you’ve been up to.
Mine’s been great. 3 vacations this summer, mostly just visiting family and making up for lost time for when I worked way, way, more, and everything was on hold all the time. Gone from just surviving to thriving the past two years.
Got to make a couple sets of good friends down the street, as our young neighbourhood starts to connect, and form a community. It’s pretty exciting.
Hope things are going well for the rest of you.
TS
First time in my life I actually did some gardening. Its on a balcony so its really limited space, but that made it more accessible for me because it wasn’t that much to do. I had really luck with the beans, but was really unlucky with growing chives. Besides that my region / country is close to some decriminalization of weed, so that will be fun next year on my balcony, I already started preparing a raised bed lol
I did hitchhiking for the first time, that was really exciting. I never thought how easy it would be, but that probably also reflects some of my privileges. In general I would do it again, but who knows when I will have the chance again because its really time intensive and does not work that well with a steady job.
What I noticed this summer, was how much work+university(3+1 days a week) restricted the way I could do stuff like vacation / going to political camps / visit friends.
How did that happen to you? In my area most folks prefer to stay really anonymous in their neighborhoods, we only say hello or accept deliveries for each other.
Mostly street hockey. That got the kids playing together and the parents mingling. All the kids on the street are about the same age so it’s really great. My kids come home and don’t even want to eat so they can play with the crew