The summer off sounds like a good idea with your schedule and the possible postal strike.
As for the frequency, I prefer the swaps being available every month. But you could take a quick poll, like you usually do, to gauge the interest for the next month. That seems to work pretty well.
I agree with this!
I can definitely keep doing this, I just worry when we have a long span with very few people per month, and wondered if hosting less frequently would help encourage everyone to join in at the same time. (as my mother says, the thing you can do anytime is the one youāre least likely to get around toā¦) If what weāre seeing is just people being busy & overstressed, that obviously wonāt help, tho.
Weāll see what things look like as September approaches.
If the swap were to drop down to quarterly, is the idea to have it run for the entire quarter (e.g., people could claim from January 1st through March 31st?) I would actually like that, and then it feels like you can jump in whenever you have the time. Though Iām OK with whatever.
I wanted to claim a lot more this month/do a lot more swaps this year, but life has beenā¦ complicated. The looming potential strike also is making me a little less enthusiasticā¦
I received a wonderful raven from @TruGritty! I love it, thank you! 
She sent it in this card with some cute stickers! Thanks! The card was such a surprise when I opened it and saw it had been collaged on the inside!
Youāre welcome! Glad you enjoyed it! 
Sadly, no; it would be one month per quarter. (Thereās a longstanding rule that swaps have sign-ups open for no more than one month, which in this case mostly translates to one month per swap.)
Iām pretty sure thereās a lot of the āwanted to do more but [all the things]ā going around, and maybe there isnāt a better option, but I wanted to toss out a few things to see if anything inspired other people. 
(conclusion: no, probably not, but still worth asking about.)
AND, I have a very fine card from @LindyBlues of spring flowers as a Little Good Thing:
