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Hi everyone, Here's the scoop on our mostly low-key but certainly varied March adventures :) Adventures Off Duck Island For the want of fast food, our lives became a Shakespeare play. Taylor and Kevin did some algebra together. And Lucky needed a good fart, so we took him over

Hey all, February has come and gone, along with all the usual festivities... We checked to see if we saw our shadows, we exchanged valentines, we said "whoopedy-doo" on President's Day, and we took a leap on Leap Day. It later occurred to us that we

Hi everyone, We hope 2024 is being kind to everyone so far! No real movement on the house or the property fronts, but things have been pretty great for us so far otherwise :) Here's the scoop: The Year of the Molerat We got a bit of snow for

Hello and happy new year! We hope this newsletter finds everyone doing well in the initial days of 2024. December certainly turned out to be an eventful month for us: We can't recall the last time we had seven blog posts in a single month (or if that&

Hi everyone! Anyone who watched Frasier back in the day may recall the episode when Daphne is teaching Niles to dance, and Niles laments, "This is boring, yet difficult." That's applicable to a good portion of our November as well. It was an... interesting month—albeit

Hey all, Pretty busy month for us in October—and it feels like the first time in quite a while that that's happened! Things were still very iffy on the house and property front at the beginning of the month; but, we made some great headway and it

Hi everyone! September's officially ancient history—and, to be honest, we're totally okay with that since we spent the second half of the month battling colds. But, there's nothing quite like being under the weather for a couple weeks to remind us to appreciate

Hey all, Another month has come to an end—and it was kind of a slow one, at least for us. (All this property-hunting and house-planning sure does eat up the majority of our free time.) We still had a few tiny adventures and some good times spent with family

Hi everyone, Hopefully everyone had a wonderful July! And here's the scoop on ours... A Roy of Sunshine We celebrated Kevin's Uncle Roy's 75th birthday and harvested our garlic after patiently waiting since back in October. [Read the whole story] Froth of July We

Greetings all, We hope everyone's doing awesomely :) June was both tediously busy and relatively low-key for us—but peppered, of course, with bits of excitement here and there nonetheless. (How else would we have a monthly newsletter to send out?) Kevin took care of all the blogging duties

Hey everyone, We hope you're all doing well! May was a pretty spectacular month for us, as you've probably heard by now: Athennia and Kevin got married on the 18th! :) And, of course, we had a few other adventures here and there as well... A Matinee

Hola, (That's Spanish for hello. Riley taught it to us.) It's hard to believe April's already over! We hit a few minor snags here and there—and April definitely takes the cake for "month with the most snakes and gangsters in it"

Hey everyone! We're not going to lie: March was a pretty bumpy ride with a few more ups and downs than we would've preferred. But, we made the best of it and have emerged happy, healthy, and as full of life as ever! We're

Greetings all! Another month has flown by... and, as usual, we filled a fair amount of it with eating more pizza and ice cream than we should have :) But we also did a few other things as well... .38 Special We celebrated Kevin's 38th birthday with his family,

Hey everyone! Hopefully your 2023 is going well so far. We had a pretty decent January ourselves—even if it feels in hindsight like we spent half of it shopping at Michaels :D The highlights of the month were Riley celebrating her 13th birthday, Taylor making her first ever appearance

Hey everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that your 2023 is off to an amazing start. We did a ton this past month... and we've managed to cover it all in just four posts instead of 40 ;) So, here goes: It's Beginning

Hi all! We're a day late on getting this one out, because it's been a busy last two weeks... We did a lot this month: two Thanksgiving dinners, a birthday party, a handful of local outings, and perhaps a few too many visits to Qdoba. But,

Hi everyone! Welcome to the October 2022 installment of The Kartography Newsletter... It seems like October flew by; but, we did a bunch of fun things together, made a lot of headway on laying the groundwork to join our respective households, and had some unexpected good fortune come our way!

Hi all! We hope this inaugural installment of The Kartography Newsletter finds everyone doing well :) September was an action-packed month! We're happy to report that we're all doing great: Kevin and Athennia are slowly but surely working on merging their households; Taylor and Riley are doing