Butte-iful

At the rest stop between Glendive and Billings, MT.

Hello friends and family!

We are finally settling into Montana. Here is just a snippet of things we are doing and what we have accomplished:

View of Butte, MT.

It's a long road from North Carolina to Montana, not only literally, but also figuratively. We have been feeling like foreigners in a foreign land. Not because the good citizens of Montana haven't been exceptionally kind and nice, but because words are different and so many ways are different. We are slowly understanding new words like "pop" for soda, jo jos for potatoes (huh?), youse for you.

We arrived two weeks ago (August 11th) after a long, long journey with two cars and a dog. All of our belongings somewhere in a tractor trailer between Billings and Butte rested on the hot side of some road somewhere. By the 13th of August, we had put an offer on a house "in the flats," meaning not "on the hill," meaning on the south side of Butte, rather than the hill on the north side by MTech. We closed on the 21st and moved in the same day.

Our new house! Pink trim and all. 1966 Kitchen! Awesome. Blue (and messy) Bath.

Our living room with our Stuff! Isn't it nice to be home again?

Few notes to add: Amazingly (to me anyway), cornmeal is hard to come by in these parts. Of course, grits don't even make the shelf at the grocery.

Keith dropped a fridge magnet as we were unloading things, when he picked it up the soil was so metallic that it stuck to the backside of the magnet. (Remember the little boards that had faces you could add hair and beards to with the magnetic stick, the soil looked just like those hairs.) There's copper in these hills.