Haven't logged in for a while - doubt anyone noticed anyway, lmao. Hope everyone is doing well.

@tyote
I've noticed! How are you? How is your garden doing?

@Krysdammit It's more of a small collection of plants this year than a garden, ha. It's doing. Did a lot less than I planned on, sadly. Have you been well?

@tyote
I'm fine, thank you. No balcony gardening for me this year. New ownership of my building is upgrading <waves hands in air frantically> everything. Had to take everything off of my balcony because they are cladding the exterior + my balcony itself is in terrible shape. It needs work.
Gardening indoors instead. 😂
The noise, mess, & dust is yucky.
Still having my weekly 1 hour session with my Ukrainian student.
Feeling guilty about the good weather in my area.🤷‍♀️

@Krysdammit

Shame to hear that, hopefully you can double up next year for what you couldn't grow this year. And at least you'll have a fixed balcony? I hope the dust isn't causing you too much trouble - if it is, HEPA air purifiers aren't so expensive now.

I'm not sure I remember you talking about your Ukranian student - if you did and I forgot, I'm sorry. What are you teaching?

Weather has been pretty good where I'm at, whenever it's not thunderstorming for two or three days in a row...

@tyote
The weather here has been perfect for balcony gardening. I`ve only run the ac 3 times so far.
It`s been in the 70s during the day, low 60s at night. I don`t even get the wildfire smoke very often. My sis who lives 1 hour away has bad smoke haze.
It rains every few days. Perfect weather and I feel guilty af.

@Krysdammit Wow, talk about resiliency. It's horrible all that happened, but amazing that she's still holding it together and also managing to learn a new language.

Sadly I can't say the same about my A/C, it's either muggy and stormy or it's in the high 80's to 90's. Just after 5:30am here and it's already nearing 70, haha. No nearby fires, thankfully. And hey, it's not like it's your fault the weather has been good - might as well enjoy it!

@tyote
She's learning English (took it in school and has a funky Ukrainian/British accent when she speaks English. Her teacher was from England.
Her brother in law works all over the EU and visits his wife and daughter twice a month on weekends.
There is no way that I'm going to assign someone in her circumstance homework. I find lists of things on line and send them to her, and she chooses what we do during our meetings.
She's learning grammar in class, she wants to speak in a natural way.

@Krysdammit She sounds like a trooper, and it's great she has someone as incredibly kind as you to work with her in whatever way best accommodates her current situation. I'm sure with your help, she'll be speaking naturally in no time at all.