Howdy!
Around a year ago, my fiancé was offered a job as a rocket scientist in Iowa. Yep, that really happens to some people! My fiancé, J, is a physicist and I research weather and climate in Africa, so both very cool jobs that in reality involve lots of swearing at computer screens.
At the time we were based in Milton Keynes in the UK, a town famous for concrete cows, roundabouts and 60s architecture, so the idea of emigrating to start a dream job was exciting and scary in equal measure. We know nothing of the mid-west, apart from the vague idea that it would be flat!
After a lot of packing and a new job for me, we said our goodbyes and jumped on a plane to Iowa… only to find that it wasn’t so flat after all. We spent a few panicked weeks house-hunting and watching spring start to arrive and ended up in a beautiful old brick house on a cobbled street, surrounded by pine trees.
This blog is mostly about that house, and how we are making it our own. In October, we are also returning home to the beautiful Welsh boarders to get married, so there might be a little about that too. I’ll try and write a blog post every week, but if I go quiet occasionally then bear with me!
And finally it’s about settling into life in Iowa, the strangeness and the fun. And if you’re really interested, the rocket science ;)
Concrete cows in Milton Keynes
Our lovely new house
Complete with pine trees
Old Pine House 