Syncing 2 calendars without publishing?

The misses and I need to check schedules often. We live together and both have macs. Is there a way to subscribe to her ical calendar and she mine without publishing to a server? When she comes home and turns on her macbook pro I see it right away on my computer. I pop up on her computer as well. Since the machines recognize one another, can I have my ical automatically check her ical for changes and vice versa?
If not, can I use our LaCie Ethernet mini storage disk as an ftp server on which a shared ical calender is stored that we both use. I tried subscribing to the afp//ipaddress of the storage disk but that didn't work. Thanks for any help you can provide to make this technology work to our advantage. Cheers.
NB Ive just tried publishing to the HTTP enable service on the storage device and got this message:
Published failed for Calendar "Home"
'Request for http://[email protected]/ical/Home.ics failed.
The server responded with
"HTTP/1.0 501 Not Implemented"
Message was edited by: Lars Hansen

Simply use BusySync to share and edit each others iCal calendars.

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