The Mississippi River is about 13 feet above normal right now (or at least what I consider to be normal levels) near Saint Charles and I decided to take a little drive tonight to survey some of the flooding. I attempted to drive up to a couple of the marinas (Yacht Club, Lake Center, and…
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Baconfest, yes Baconfest, it’s a celebration of all things bacon and yes, it exists. Held in downtown St. Louis this event featured a “World Record” 50 foot long, 500 pound “Hog Log” being prepared in a custom built smoker which was the star of the show. Every time the chefs opened one of the many…
The TV meteorologists were in “Storm Mode” for 3 days on this one. A late February snow in Saint Louis isn’t too uncommon, but this was going to be a big one, a Snowpocalypse if you will. They had everyone worked up and running to the store for the winter storm staples of bread, milk and…
Time lapse photography is something I have always enjoyed watching but I have not spent nearly enough time shooting my own time lapse videos. This was the first real time lapse video I shot last year when I figured out how to connect my camera to my laptop and have the laptop control the firing…
I received a few requests to bring back my DIY Aquarium Canopy page with my aquarium canopy build pictures, so it is now back online for all you DIY aquarium enthusiasts. I am no longer involved in the hobby, but I keep these pictures online just because they draw visitors. Enjoy my photos and if…
Here is a simple, but colorful image I shot last night while playing with a glass pan of water and some olive oil. The colorful background comes from a candy bag which was underneath the pan. I like the bright colors in this picture so much that I made it my desktop background on my…
Some flowers that were blooming when I visited the Butterfly House in Saint Louis, MO back in December. They have recently been closed for a month due to some renovations, I am not sure if there are any new changes in the butterfly greenhouse though, I think it was all for the other educational spaces….
OK, now that we have taken care of that… Welcome to the next iteration of TimBob.com. If my memory serves me correctly this is technically the 3.0 release of this web site, and the first one that is not a fully custom-built web site. The original site was ASP, in 2011 I finally upgraded the…