Night Fishin

Chipmunk:

Josh and fish head:



Fish in Bucket:


Chopping block and specimens:

Chopping block:



Casey and his fish:


Steve and his fish:


Mitch and his fish:



Also, on a sad note, the first perch we caught is now dead. We now have a larger one though. RIP brain dead perch.

U-238

ok, we're changing pace and format here. from now on we're going to just post pictures and small captions, and you get to put the rest together. here it goes.


Certificate of Authenticity:


Finished Box:


Marbles: (can see a small portion of the uranium on the left)


A comic from Steve's mom to Steve:

my cat is on a diet

so i found out that my parents are putting the cat on a diet cuz the vet said she needs it. oh well i guess no world record. anyway today was pretty sweet, case case and steph went to the beach and casey had to drive so that musta been fun. me and ryan went to wooster street for all you can eat pizza and wings with some other guys then we all met up at mitch mcarthy's house with lots of other people for go out on cedar lake in his pontoon boat. but before we did that we made a campfire and set off fire works, we threw a couple into the fire and steph almost died. anyway after we ran outa fireworks we went for a cruise around the lake int he pontoon boat, then we revived the fire and cooked hotdogs and ham and drank soda. it was a good time. probably do it again tomorrow and the day after and the day after that....

Reconstruction

Today me and steve went to home depot to pick up some supplies that we needed. but along the way, we noticed there was a large amount of activity at the boulevard. there were army vehicles everywhere, including helicopters. so Ben, if you see this in time, we're under attack and you need to come back right now to help the fight! well we got to home depot and picked up some hinges for our nuclear box, and some hydraulic cement to just dump into the bottom of the 40 gallon fish tank to hopefully stop all the leaks there. on the way there though, we saw both my mom and casey driving back from somewhere. we were able to snap a picture of casey seen below. after that we made some more strawberry banana smoothies, and this time the power didnt go out luckily. we tried to eat chips and salsa with them, but that didnt work to well. and somehow we made 1 extra smoothie, but there was no one else to give it to, so we just had to give it to jasmine. you missed out ben. so the fish tank cement is drying, the fish are currently in the 10 gallon tanks, and all is well. hopefully we can take another step forward in repairing the 40 galloner tomorrow. also up for tomorrow : wooster street

OH NO STEVE, BUILD AN ARK

Ya know those movies in the submarines and the sub gets hit and they start going down. They try frantically but can't seal the leak and the water level slowly rises. The crew all knows they're gonna die and eventually the water level overtakes them and they drown. Well the exact same thing but in reverse almost happened last night to the fish. So last night at about 2 AM I come home and I hear the vacuum on downstairs which was very strange. Anyways I go down there and there's Ryan standing in a huge puddle of water vacuuming frantically with the shop vac. Apparently he had gone down there to check on the fish and heard a huge gushing sound and there was water all over the place and very little water left in the tank. The fish would have died had he been a half hour later. So the basement was flooded and we lugged the huge carpet up the stairs and outside so it would dry and we went to bed.

So today played baseball again. It was a big game like last time, 10 vs. 10. Pretty fun game. All the usual suspects were there, AJ, Mellons, Beaucar, Brian, and many many others. Went tag saleing this morning too; found some solid sports paraphernalia .

Then we came back and did a lot of work on the tanks to get them back up and running. I think we're going to abandon the 40 gallon tank as a means of holding fish. We're prolly gonna turn it into a reptile tank and start a zoo to go with the aquarium. In the mean time we're now looking for free reptiles and tanks.

Now we're prolly gonna play some N64 with some people and eat cookie-cupcakes ( a new hybrid). Peace out.

-Casey

BROWN OUTS

with success came trouble. we fixed the 40 galloner today, ended up using a piece of the junk tank to just put a huge glass patch over the cracks int he bottom and it's holding. while that was drying we decided we needed to make strawberry banana smoothies cuz it was freakin hot out. so we started making those then the power went out, and stayed out. sitting around for a long time with no power casey started going crazy, at one point he gave jasmine a water bottle to chew on (made a mess on the sofa). we made ryan call C,L, and P and the lady said the power wasnt expected back for another couple hours so we realized we needed to find a way to make the smoothies. after toiling over the idea of getting an inverter or UPS which the rogans have niether and the lavoies have many we ended up driving to my house to make the milk shakes. after that we went back to rogans we were sat around a bunch before going to friendly's with steph and marissa. after friendlies we performed the long tedious trecherous tranfer from the two aquariums into the one large aquarium. it went pretty smoothly and it appears we need more fish.

Welcome to the Steve and Ryan blog

Sorry for the few missed days, Casey feels like he no longer needs to update the thing he started because he's too tired. boo hoo. So from the other day, Steve and i finished up the box, added a cool radioactive logo to it, and soon to come, the uranium ore. the 40 gallon tank in a pain in the ass. you start patching one thing, fill it up and then theres another leak. also yesterday we ran out of silicone cause the tube exploded, and today when i filled it, everything was looking good until...crack..the crack on the bottom expanded to the outer edge of the tank, so now that needs to be patched. We went to mike pollacks house last night, and played some wiffle ball. me Mike and Derrick took on Casey Steve Steph and Karen. of course we won. After that we did some more firework launching which was entertaining. we then went back to my house, and made some cupcakes. only 1 box this time. Steve made some kind of ice cream cupcake thing. After a while, they were just sitting on the table in the living room, and the dog just slowly came over and ate one. she was pretty sneaky. so here's plenty of pictures to keep you busy.

Saftey box:
Fireworks day 1:

Mount Washington
Self Explanitory:Coal:

Ice cream cupcake thing:Jasmine after eating:

blank

I guess Casey doesn't post on the blog he started anymore. oh well.

Anywho today was pretty uneventful. I went and picked up a 48" 40 watt florescent blacklight bulb for when the uranium marbles come in, and I also got some fake plants for the fish tanks cause they were kind of bare. I also bought 50 crickets to feed the fish, so I just dumped all 50 in right away and 5 minutes later they were all gone. Guess the fish were hungry since Casey never feeds him. Also today my dad picked up the 40 gallon fish tank from the person in Newington after work. It had a crack down the side, which was already fixed, and a crack on the bottom which I got to fixing right away. Should hold, and should be the only tank we need for a while. Steve went to climb mount washington with some people. pictures tomorrow? Casey is starting a new job search because now an elephant stepped on his finger. I also added another coat of lead based paint to our custom made box. Tomorrow we're testing the new tank, and hopefully moving all the fish into it. Coming soon: 1000 gallon fish tank? Hopefully it doesn't have a crack cause we would need some really strong adhesive. Also painting the custom box with polyurethane tomorrow, and adding some radioactive paintings to it.

phew long day

so this was a long day, i slept till quarter to 1 then went over rogans house. first thing we did was tend to the leaking tank we emptied that guy out and brought it outside to dry and fix, we also fixed the new 10 gallon tank we picked up yesterday. while waiting for those tanks to dry me and ryan cut up some plywood and made a nifty little box to store the uranium ore. we sanded the heck outa the box then i put a beautiful coat of black lead based paint on the thing. while i was painting jasmine ran away again and ryan had to go find her on his bike cuz he cant run and casey was at work with the car. a little while after me and ryan finished up with the tanks and the box casey got home and instantly started complaining about work. apparently he was trying to do something stupid and a cow stepped on his finger. boo who. after that we killed some time before dinner and casey managed to find a 40 gallon fish tank listed for best offer, well he offered the lady 10 bux for it and she went for it, so tomorrow we'll be installing a 30 galloner. well for dinner we had steak (which was delicious) then headed out to page park to find that geocache we missed the first time. we found it in a heartbeat, got some cool minimaps outa it then left to pick up mike young and head back to rogans house for the yanks sox game. buncha guys came over (mike, mike, mike, and dave burnandino), we watched the game, and ate buffalo wings. we also took a little break from the game to set off big fireworks included 1 that we customized in the back yard. it was very fun and exciting. we had some of those little fire crackers that you just pull the string and they blow up too, we tied one to the bottom of casey's phone then called it and when casey picked up the phone he was very suprised. well we ended the night with some cards and good old southpark/sports center.

Why fish make bad pets

Today started out sad. After the tragic losses from the night before, we didn't know how we could continue on like that anymore. So we went and played baseball for a few hours. Right before we left to go play though, Steve let the dumb dog out, and of course she ran away again. We didn't know this of course until right as we were going to leave, so Casey took the car, and Steve strapped on his running shoes, and they went looking. Somehow Steve ran faster then the car I think due to the fact that he found the dog first, and brought her back. We also received an email from someone that was giving away a 10 gallon fish tank for free. That was a plus. We thought we would need it because we still had a lot of fish. So after baseball we went back to our house to change cars and what not. We decided to check on the fish and see how they were doing. Our eyes hurt after seeing all the bloodshed. The fish decided to turn emo and jump out of the tanks and die on the floor. We lost 4 more bass this way, and now we only have 1 surviving bass left. From 8 to 1 in less then 24 hours. Ouch. We will be holding a funeral for these brave fish soon. Anyone is invited to pay their respects. Anyway, we still decided to pick up the fish tank and we also picked up a new air pump which is made for 20-60 gallon tanks, and has not one but TWO connectors. That just meant we didn't have to split it. Also Casey couldn't stop complaining the entire way on how he shouldn't have come. So we got back, checked the tank we fixed the previous day, all was good, set that one up and started the fish transfer. We are using the 2 10 gallon tanks now, the big fish in one tank, and the sunfish in the other. Bubbles are flowing nicely, and the big fish can breathe again. Hooray! We also decided to cover the tank with the sole surviving bass in it to prevent any more tragedies. So we have to fix up that 10 gallon tank we just picked up tomorrow as well as painting a container with lead based paint in the hopes that we can control the radiation we get pummeled with by the uranium ore. We also have the 5 gallon tank designated to crawfish only, so we need more of those now that there's only one left. So our moral is at a record low due to the stupid fish, but yes Ben, we are still having more fun then you. Hopefully everything's alive in the morning.

ps. sorry for the late post, it gets confusing whose turn it is to write this with so much fun stuff going on.

pss. to any of our loyal readers, if you have any fish equipment you would like to donate or sell for cheap, please let us know. any help would be appreciated.

Casualty Count: Sunfish- 2 Large Mouth Bass- 7 Crayfish- 7

Steve's a Mass Murderer

So after last night's post Mike Pollack decided to come over and he just had to see the fish. So of course this led to an impromptu trip at 10pm to Bantam Lake to pick up some fireworks and fish for catfish. Mike, Ryan, Steph and I all piled into Mike's car and after futilely trying to get his headlight to work by hitting it we headed off to Bantam Lake with high beams on the entire drive. We picked up the fireworks and fished a little. I got a couple of bites but only hooked one thing, a fresh water clam. I didn't hook it actually, it was latched on to my hook. Must have been a one in a million cast. We stopped and visited with Buddha on the way back.

This morning I woke up early on my supposed day off to do what else but work, no less at Barnes teaching stupid Webelos about nature. Afterwards I filled in a lake, mowed the forest, and built a fence around Hartford county. These things need to be done.

After work I headed home and Steve came over. Ryan and Steve fixed the leaking tank while I looked up the best times for fishing today on my GPS. So we left to go fishing at Indian Lake at 2pm and it eventually turned into a big affair. Steve, Ryan, Steph, Heather, Jim and I all fished there. We caught a total of 8 fish, all large mouth bass. Steve decided we needed to keep them all. So that brought our total fish population up to 14. One problem; we had 15 gallons of water to put them in. Not good. Ya see Steve didn't want to get another air pump, that's a bad Steve, you can't do that Steve. So Ryan and I have put them in emergency overpopulation holding tanks. Basically 20 gallon plastic tubs. So far three of the bigger bass have died and been filleted. A lot of the others aren't looking to good, including the sunfish. I'm thinking we should start a fish sticks company. Steve I think you should lay low for a while, PETA's been asking around about you. Hopefully we have fish in the morning. I'll check again tomorrow at 7:30 when I wake up to GO TO WORK ON A SUNDAY.
Fish Count:
Steve- 6
Ryan-6
Casey-4
Heather-1
Ben-0 <----SO JEALOUS

Casualty Count: Sunfish- 2 Large Mouth Bass- 3 Crayfish- Unknown but large

IMPOUNDED

jasmine thats a BAD DOG, jasmine got out last night and ran around and went through the neighbors trash finally getting herself impounded.
in other news it looks like we got a leaking tank, we'll haveta repair that thing tomorrow. today me and ryan went out and bought some minows to feed the fish. soon as we droped one in the tank a sunfish ate it right up. but that was it. the perch still wont eat. we decided it must be sick so we did some research and decided that it has some sorta inflamed liver. our information tells us we need a water heater to make it better. now instead of going out and buying a $10 heater i looked up how to make one. well it looked rather complicated so i got a little sidetracked and we found some uranium enriched pieces of glass that we could order and put in the fish tank, now this of course raised a big question: what sort of radiation levels are safe for fish? believe it or not i actually looked all over online and could not find anything close to an answer. but we know that alpha radiation is the safest and weakest form so im not too worried. after that we had to consider the free uranium ore sample that comes with the glass that we are looking to order, now where are we going to keep that? well we decided we needed a lead container, of course we had to then figure out where we would get that much lead? answer: 2 dead car batteries in the garage, that of course leads to another question: how do you safely take a part a car battery to use the lead. we'll we never really found an answer but i think we;re gonna go ahead and push forward tomorrow anyway. hopefully soon we;ll have some uranium enriched glass pieces lining the bottom of the tanks glowing under a UV light to keep the fish happy. And hopefully the tank heater will bring the perch back to good health, otherwise we looked up planes to build an x-ray machine to take x-rays of the fish with then if we can get a picture of the perchs inflamed liver we can do surgury on it to correct the problem.

Picture time finally

Today we finished up the other 10 gallon tank, and moved the fish into it. We also split up the crayfish into 2 tanks (yes they were still alive we found out) and we cleaned the water out of the original tank because it was really dirty. We also made a nice poster to go on the background of the wall. Overall it was a good improvement day. And the moment you have all been waiting for:

Panoramic of Entire setting:


Right Tank Closeup:


Left Tank Closeup:


That's all for today, look below for other pictures too!

Also, we never got around to the worm farm due to Casey feeding the fish the worms we had to build the worm farm. Tomorrow construction of a worm farm? Fishing at a new lake? Who knows, we're just having so much fun it's hard to tell.

Casey is slacking

Well I've decided to post our activities for the day because it's Casey's turn and he's not doing it. Well we woke up and then Steve came over eventually. We went to run some errands, so we headed off to walmart. We dropped Casey off at Page Park to look for crayfish while me and Steve went to pick up a larger filter. We decided to get a filter that could handle 10-30 gallon fish tanks. So then we went back to pick up Casey and do some geocaching at Page Park. Casey was unable to find any crayfish there, but he found some larva worm like things. We started looking around for the geocache but after 30 minutes of unsuccessful looking we decided it was time to go back and look at the hints because we couldn't find it anywhere. Steve also said he wanted to go to a track meet at 3. So we headed back to the Rogan residence. We installed the new filter and move some of the smaller fish into the smaller tank. Casey also threw the larva into the tank, and they were basically eaten instantly. Me and Steve decided we would also try to fix up the larger fish tank that had a big crack down the side of it, so we did some research and found out we just needed to patch it with some silicone, so we went ahead and did that. We have to let it dry for 24 hours before we can see it if worked though. Tornado warnings were out at this point too, and Steve was very scared that we might have to use his truck as a tornado tracker and let it get sucked up into the tornado like in the movie Twister. Luckily for him there weren't any tornadoes. So back to the fish, we're pretty sure the fish ate most of the crayfish in the tank because we can't see to many of them. On the agenda for tomorrow: Build a worm farm, test out fish tank/fix it more, geocache? fish? siphon out bottom of fish tank?

Casey's foot hurts...

So today started out kind of slow. Casey went off to fill in the lake while me and Steve slept. Once Casey got out of work Steve came over shortly after. We decided we wanted to ride our bikes out to the lake we were looking so hard for yesterday. So we packed up the gear and started riding. Steve's bike surely wasn't made for that kind of off roading, and neither was Casey's. So we rode on down the path for a while and eventually we were able to make it to the lake after going through mud and trailblazing. Once we got there me and Steve set up our fishing poles and got to work while Casey went and wandered around as usual. After a while I decided to travel down the path more to find out where it came out on the road, and of course we passed the trail multiple times the previous day. Fishing was slow at the lake and right when we were about to leave Steve was able to catch a perch. We put it in a tupperware container and rode home as quick as we could. Once we got there we put the perch in the fish tank, and fortunately he survived. We then decided to drive out to the path and just walk down it to the lake after that. Once again fishing was slow. Casey wanted to cast his line near some lillypads hoping to catch something, but all he managed to catch was a tree. He then told Steve to go untangle his line, but unfortunately there was a wall of prickers Steve couldn't get past. Casey then decided to take off his shoes and walk through the disgusting water to get the line. He was able to make it out there, and on the way back he stepped on something sharp. When he got back onto the rocks he was just leaving bloody footsteps everywhere. So he washed it off a little and then put his shoes back on. We sat around a little longer trying to catch anything, but there was nothing. It was starting to rain and Steve remembered he left his windows open, so we headed back. When we got back we decided we should move some of the fish into the smaller fish tank, so we filled it up and moved the big perch into there. Tomorrow we have some more shopping planned and of course more fishing or geocaching. Casey has the next 2 days off from work too so that means we can just fit even more into the day. There's pictures of much of this but I don't feel like adding them now. Casey, add the pictures.


Casey's Foot:


Casey's Blood on Rocks:


Steve with Award winning fish:

thats a bad dog jasmin BAD DOG!!!

mother wakes me up at 9 am, steve im leaving for work and dads going to nh, theres iced coffee in the fridge and cake on the table for breakfest. awww not what i wanted to hear
around 2:00 me and rogan went crawfishing at birdge, only got 4 but hell it's a start. so when casey got home we left to go cat fishing at some pond, well casey and ryan couldn't agree or figure out where the hell the dirt road to the pond was and casey sent me driving down some stupid trail which ended up being an ATV trail, pretty bumpy. well after giving up on the idea of catching cat fish for the aquarium (soon to be open to the public) we went back to rogan house to get rogan car and hit the road for more geocacheing. we met chuck and degan at nelsons and headed off into the woods. we marched through mud and skunk cabbage and i fell in a river before finally gettin a lock with my 10 year old GPS to find the box. it was basically under casey's nose he just couldnt see it. oh well i guess he had a long day with all that fence building. tomorrow he's gonna fill in the pond. after geocacheing we headed to walmart to get more stuff for the aquarium (probably gonna be expanding soon with the addition of the new 200 gallon tank).
tomorrow we have some cat fishing and geocatcheing to look forward to

Fishing, Geocaching, and getting into the Aquarium Buisiness

So to start a super cool summer today Ryan, Steve, and I borrowed a canoe from Indian Rock and went fishing on Scoville Reservoir. We found it pretty easily and paddled out to an island. We fished off the island for a while and we didn't catch anything in the first three minutes so I got bored as usual. I decided to explore the island some. There was a goose nest with two eggs in it, some beer cans, and something very strange. I found what looked like a prescription bottle with camo tape on it and tied to a tree with a green twisty tie. I opened it up and found a message inside. It said "Final Best of Both Worlds Two." It also had some GPS coordinates on it. So we copied down the coordinates and the message and continued fishing. We caught nothing but a bunch of tiny sunfish and some crayfish. So we did the natural thing, we brought them back with us and started an aquarium. One problem, fish need oxygen too. So we grabbed my GPS, Steph, and Chuck and headed out to investigate the mystery coordinates and buy an air filter and save the fishies. The coordinates took us back to Scoville Reservoir. We followed the GPS along a trail on the shore and after a few problems and some poison ivy bushwhacking we found a box covered in the same ammo tape as the prescription bottle. There was a bunch of random stuff in it along with directions for an activity called Geocaching. Basically it's a treasure hunt with a GPS. You follow the clues to find the cache and then take an item and leave an item. It's pretty cool. We took a Hot Wheels Car and left a mini periodic table of elements, a wings over menu, and a carabiner. We signed the log book as Team Beaver Fever. We then ran back to the car and zipped around Wolcott/Waterbury to buy a filter and air pump for the fishies. We had two casualties but they were put to good use (fertilizer). So all this adventure had made us hungry. Steve and Ryan decided to make a 4 layer cake about 30 inches tall. We each attempted to eat a quarter of the monstrosity. A total of 2270 calories per piece. Steve almost didn't finish. Chuck some how did. Steph and I didn't do so well; neither did Ryan. It was challenging that's for sure. More geocaching and aquarium building tomorrow. I gotta go sleep now cause I gotta build a fence in the morning. :(

-Casey