Is it settling down?

Hello loyal readers! I won't apologize for not writing in so long, it has piqued your curiosity I hope. Matt and i are living in Fayetteville, Arkansas now. It has been about a month so far, so I will catch you up on the end of our travels.

Minneapolis was a great visit, and after leaving the cities we headed east towards Wisconsin where we visited for a few days with friends. These friends are living on a farm growing veggies and hogs, and the growing season was just starting to hop when we were there, in June. The highlight of that visit was a square dance held in our honor! (A convenient excuse for a party!) It was held at a lovely little home with a spring fed watering system for the garden and simply beautiful setting. I highly recommend southwest Wisconsin for a scenic drive, and if you are lucky enough to know anyone there, a more lengthy stay. A cool part about these particular friends is that 3 of them went to my same college, which is a tiny little school in North Carolina. One guy I had not seen since graduation, and it was good to catch up. All of us are musicians so we played a tune or two, and also went to see music out on the town (a town on 4,000).

Of course we headed back to the center of our traveling orbit, St. Louis, next. This is where we decided to move to Arkansas (insert Arkansas joke here). Why you ask? Well, it is beautiful, a change of pace, and I am enrolling in a year long community college program for an accounting certificate. After that we shall see...

The two of us jetted down to our new town, to do some house sitting, then Matt immediately found work, doing remodeling work on a friend's rental house. Amazing! I then went to another house sitting gig, a fun one because it involved caring for pigs, sheep, dogs, and a kitty. Then up again to St. Louis to get some of our junk to fill out our lovely apartment! After I returned, about 3 weeks ago, we have just been settling in, I doing a bit of work at the same house Matt is on--mostly electrical and painting--and looking for other work. Happily I have found a temp job at the University (the biggest employer in the region and literally next to our apartment) working as a bookstore host during the beginning of the school year. Hey, it's a start!