sarasota chic

Well we have now been in the USA for 2 months and we are settling in nicely, we have a lovely home and am enjoying my job. My youngest daughter is taking a gap year and has bagged a job on the Air Force Base, my husband has a job working as a security officer (ex British Army). So all in all we are having a good time we miss family in the UK but FaceTime is great.😀😀

tom169

Glad to hear you're all settling in well!

WEBlue

Sounds like your family has landed on its feet! Glad to hear everything's going as well as it is.

KK85

Wonderful news! I'm so glad to hear you're settling in well. It all sounds quite lovely!

sarasota chic

Thank you.😀😀

deadshoppingmalls

How are you enjoying the Texas summer?

We moved to DFW in March....and my god, 4 years in Madrid have NOTHING on this.

sarasota chic

Yes the weather is extremely hot I'm informed that August is unbearably hot! All I can say is thank god for AC.😎😎

petitefrancaise

I think of Texas summers like the winters in Europe when your wish to go outside is hampered by the weather....

Texas spring, autumn and winters make up for it!

deadshoppingmalls

I never felt this. You can always wrap up in European winter (or at least have waterproofs on). It's actually my favorite time to go back.

After you're down to a t-shirt and shorts (society frowns on blokes wearing sundresses) there isn't really a lot more you can do except sit inside and whine about the heat.

petitefrancaise

I get out in the v early mornings and either row on the lake or walk/run with the dog. All the proper rowers/runnners are out at dawn. Back in time for breakfast and before the temp gets to 90F. Do anything that needs to be done outside (garden/pool) before 10 am. House projects can be done inside in the air con. Work from home is not a problem.

On the weekend, my hiking group is doing water stuff. Swimming/walking to relatively unknown swimming spots having a picnic lunch and then messing about in the water for an hour or so then swimming back and finishing the day off with a beer together. Next Sunday will involve inner tubes and the water released from Mansfield dam which creates enough current for us to have tube race downriver for about half a mile....

ice skating is good to do when it's hot.
going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon. Watched Dunkirk last week at 3.30pm in a reclining chair with a cold glass of wine. Heaven.
supermarket shopping gets done mid-afternoon.

cycling is also not a bad thing to do when it's hot. You get a breeze as you cycle that dries off the sweat. Watch out for dehydration, cycle at a reasonable rate and not like you are in the tour de france.