Baby Tiger

My roommate Supe volunteers at a big cat shelter. Last week they had a baby tiger there, and they were bringing back to full health. Kyle got to take some pictures with the cute widdle tiger, and here they are:

Fishing Trip 5.13.05

Friday the 13th, was as always, a lucky day for myself. We finally caught our first keeper fish.

blake is making a weird face in the truck. this is while we were going from spot number 1 on hoover reservoir (no luck at all there) to our old standby at Alum Creek.

blake caught the smallest... and largest crappies of the day. the larger one is about 11 inches

nick caught the final keeper of the day, a nice crappie of about 10 inches. i started off the keepers with another 10 in crappie.

our nice lil' stringer of fish while still in the water

benji holding up our three fish for all to see (sorry about the poor lighting, it was that time of the day - please send tripod)

Save Toby

I know i normally only do pictures on this site, but this is utterly hilarious.
http://www.savetoby.com/

The Glorious Green Terror

I kept some of the leftover minnows from last weeks fishing trip, intending them to be little more than punching bags for our three central and south american cichlids (Green Terror, Jack Dempsey, and Convict). I never expected that our cichlids would possibly be able to eat these fish. I was proven very wrong. The 6 minnows i put in didnt even last 2 hours. The Green Terror alone ate three of them (he is the largest fish we have at ~4 in.) The Jack Dempsey also delighted in killing the minnows, and the Convict (not nearly big enough to eat minnows yet, but enjoys the guppies we get him sometimes - cichlids won't generally eat fish that will not fit entirely into their mouths) helped to pick up the scraps. These are pictures of the Green Terror with a minnow in his mouth.

Makin' bacon

About a month ago now, we finally culminated our goal of curing and smoking our own bacon. You can Find out more about how we did it by visiting Alton Brown's (Host of "Good Eats" on Food Network) instructions at the Good Eats Fanpage. Again here are some pictures:

The outside of the cold colloid applicator that we made (cardboard smoker box)

inside of the same box

The finished product

We made ~14 lbs of bacon total, in 4 different flavors (Scrap Iron Chef's Bacon - molasses and black pepper, Spicy Red Pepper, Honey Soy, and Honey Mustard) which you can find the recipies for at the Good Eats Fanpage, or Food.com.

Fishing

So me and benji have been fishing the Alum Creek resevoir just north of Columbus the past few weeks. The area is really nice, so i thought i would post a few pictures from it.

w0w! Sweet Parking

Some dude managed to pull off this sweet parking job along 8th in front of our apartment one night. we thought for sure he was gonna hit one of the other cars he was parking inbetween. It was so impressive i had to run down and take a picture of it, and measure the distance between bumpers (~1 in.)

the license plate you can see is from the car on the left... its sooooo close.