This Season
Backyard summer, big-trip fall.
Bees humming, chickens laying, mahjong tiles clacking on the porch. Tee times scattered through the week. Then come autumn, the road opens up.
Est. Minnesota · 45.0°N
A household,
pointed north.
The Kingstedts — a Minnesota family with a soft spot for cold lakes, long horizons, and the steady hum of curious work. This is our small corner of the internet.
The Compass
Where we are, what we're up to.
A small, honest dashboard of the season's bearings. Updated when something worth saying changes.
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Currently Reading
Whatever's on the nightstand.
A rotation of business, biography, and the occasional Stephen King for the cabin.
On the Stove
Slow Sundays, sharp knives.
Smoker out back, garden herbs in reach, kids who'll either eat it or politely decline.
The Home Crew
Kids, cats, and a shaggy dog.
A ginger and a tuxedo on the windowsills. A sheepadoodle underfoot. Kids running the show, mostly.
Background Hum
Sports, sometimes silence.
Vikings, Twins, Wolves in season. Zephyrs hockey when the rink is cold. Otherwise: wind through pines, or PowerShell scrolling by.
Charted Waters
Places we've been, places on the list.
A loose survey, not a map of home. Drag to spin — it's a globe, after all.
- CaribbeanVisited
- MexicoVisited
- BahamasVisited
- Northern CanadaAugust '26
- IcelandWishlist
- NorwayWishlist
- AlaskaWishlist
- ScotlandWishlist
The Two of Us
One home, in good hands.
He works in IT. She's a CRNA who mostly runs the home. Both of us appreciate quiet competence and a well-built thing.
A little about us →Up North
The dock at dusk.
Where the days slow down and the loons take over.