Two Carpenters

Crawling!

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:42:59 -0500

It might look like a wild chase between a predator and his favorite prey, but really it's just Henry, doing what he now does best.

Click here or on the image to see a mobile baby.

The Cat Herder

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:44:20 -0500

St. Francis of Assisi would be jealous of Henry's newfound animal-taming powers.

Click here or on the image to see Henry tame the mighty Remington.

Two of Us

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:03:24 -0600

Henry and Rachel enjoy winter together outside for the first time.

Click here or on the image to see the two of them.

Multitasking

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:33:26 -0600

This is the 21st Century condition in a nutshell: in the same instant, Rachel is eating lunch, writing a proposal, and snuggling with her son. Thanks a lot (?) computer technology...

Click here or on the picture for a vignette of childrearing of the future.

Hats

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:58:51 -0600

The next post should read like a facetious children's story:

"Henry has many hats. Does Henry have too many hats? Henry's mom will help him count the hats he has."

The moral of the story? There are moments in which parenting can be sublime...

Click here or on the picture for a bit of mundane transcendence.

Breaking the Rules

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:35:31 -0600

We're bad parents! We can't even live up to our own rules!

Click here or on the image to see why.

Bubbles

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:37:09 -0600

After three months of nearly complete parasitism, our pink "sack of potatoes" is finally interacting with us!

Click here or on the image to see Henry in action.

Henry's First Bath

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:18:56 -0500

No matter how sweet they seem to smell at first, there comes a time when every baby needs to be cleaned.

Click here or on the picture to see Henry's first dunking!

(If there's still an Internet in 16 years, he's going to hate this!!!)

Welcome Henry!

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:08:32 -0500

Here's the #1 reason you haven't heard from us in a while:

Henry David Carpenter
Born on October 1, 2007, at 10:28PM
8 lbs, 1oz., 23 inches

Perhaps we'll have to change the name of this video blog to ThreeCarpenters!

Click here or on the picture to see highlights from Henry's first week of life.

Climbing the Mountain

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:32:58 -0500

Here's a view from the highest point in our county--which just happens to be down the road from our house. Sure, it doesn't look so tall at first, but it was definitely a workout to get to the top. Three cheers for hiking boots!

Click here or on the image to see our ascent.

The First Flower

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:49:22 -0500

When we get snow 7 months out of the year, finding the first flower of spring can be an emotional experience.

Click here or on the image to see our first flower.

We Live Apart

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:51:34 -0600

Every marriage goes through rough times. We're no exception! See why we haven't been regularly posting movies.

Click here or on the image to see the movie.

Josh Makes a Fireball

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:57:21 -0500

When Josh Leo comes to visit, we revisit the good old days of high school science experiments.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Been Here Too Long

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:16:53 -0500

The sign next to the "snowman" reads: I MISS DA SNOW EH.

Enough said.

Click here or on the image for Nate's thoughts.

Saturday Morning, 4 A.M.

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:13:41 -0500

A few weeks ago, we woke up to what seemed like the apocalypse--our neighborhood was surrounded by clouds while heat lightning flashed between the houses. The clouds were so low that we could actually see lightning below us a few blocks down the hill.

Click here or on the picture to see some cool storm footage.

Wind Chimes

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:31:13 -0500

While vloggers like Josh Leo are out there changing the world, our little vlog here can teach you how to make a wind chime - that's right - a genuine wind chime! (Forget slow news week, it's been a slow news summer in South Range . . .)

Click here or on the picture, watch this video, and then go through your junk drawers and find things that can clang together and make your own little corner of the world a little bit more musical.

We're Not Dead, Really!

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:46:27 -0500

After the thousands, ahem, dozens of messages we received over the past two months, it seems like people were getting worried. Did the snow finally finish off Nate and Rachel? Did Joe and Remi start a neighborhood cat revolution? Did the Upper Peninsula lose its Internet privileges?

The truth is . . . we've been busy. It's a sad, pathetic truth, we know, but we've had a hard time making new posts.

But we're back now! Everything is OK!
So stop worrying, click here or on the picture, and enjoy where we last left off . . .

Music: Snow is Gone by Josh Ritter

One Month Ago . . .

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:05:46 -0500

Now for something completely different . . .

Spring is finally around the corner, but here's a tribute to Old Man Winter that makes our previous post, It Snows Here, look like a walk in the park (on snowshoes). Official records were all over the place because of all the drifting, but we heard that we got 32 inches in 24 hours.

Click here or on the picture to watch us dig out.

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Hate . . .

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:22:30 -0500

When did people forget how to talk to each other?

For example, why can't adults deal with issues of homosexuality?

Last night there was an incident at Michigan Tech--some pretty hateful messages appeared on more than 30 different places around campus.

(WARNING: Contains strong language/themes.)

Link.

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Wife-Carrying Race

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:31:47 -0500

Somehow Nate managed to talk Rachel into letting him schlep her on his back in a race during the Heikinpaiva Midwinter Festival.

The good news: we didn't come in last place.

The bad news: people here like to watch these races for the crashes.

Click here or on the picture to see the race.
(It sure beats NASCAR . . . )

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Houghton Is Ours

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:42:56 -0500

Here's our first shot at promoting widespread media literacy through vlogging! See the town of Houghton through the eyes of several college students working through the Canterbury House/Episcopal Association for College Work (a campus ministry, hangout, and safe house for students of Michigan Tech & Finlandia University).

Rachel edited this movie with Katrina Neely Farren for the Canterbury House.

Click here or on the picture to see the movie.

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Sleeping Bear Trek

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:25:03 -0500

Thanks to Vlog Week, we're trying to post all of the footage we've taken since Christmas. Rachel played around with these shots from Sleeping Bear Dunes we took when we were there with her family back in December.

Click here or on the picture to see what we saw on the dune.

Music: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo by Bela Fleck, Sliding Down by Edgar Meyer

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Abstractions

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:24:45 -0500

Making a ball of yarn + video camera + iMovie + late night getting ready for Vlog Week = psychadelic something.

Have fun with this kaleidoscope thingy Nate threw together.
Sorry it's not timed to the music as well as it should be . . .

Click here on on the picture to see the movie.

Music: 1B by Edgar Meyer

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A Cure For Cabin Fever

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:55:38 -0600

Winter here is cold. Winter here is nasty. Winter here never seems to go away. People up here in the U.P. have interesting ways of dealing with winter, like, say, cutting a hole in the ice and jumping in. This is a real Finnish-style sauna--the participants sit in a hot tub until they're too warm, and then cool off with as much drama as possible.

Nate wants to try this some day . . . if he can first gain some weight!

Click here or on the picture to see the movie.

The Fantastic Fire-Fighting Feline

noreply@blogger.com (twocarpenters) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:17:56 -0600

We just found out this weekend that Joe, one of our cats, knows how to put out fire. We think he might be secretly training to become a forester, or a ninja, or something along those lines. No matter what he's thinking, he's coming from a prestigious tradition of cats putting out lights.

Click here or on the picture to see the movie.

Speaking of talented cats, click here to see Remi, our other cat, on a kayaking expedition. Or visit www.vlogcats.blogspot.com.

Music: Light My Fire by The Doors