Sounds like necrosis from some kind of nasty spider and the brown recluse is the most common of those that can cause it…
Sorry to hear it, Bob, hope it heals up quickly with no more surgeries needed!
Dan
***What Are You Smoking, August 2025?***
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Sorry to hear it, Bob, hope it heals up quickly with no more surgeries needed!
Dan
Sunrise Select — one of my absolute favorites— in a Savinelli Miele 510KS. 
Good morning! Finally getting up and about. It’s funny that workdays start at 3am and my day is half over my the time I get going on days off.
Anyway, the horses don’t haul their own hay so it’s a Lee three star medium saddle stem full of ‘15 Dunhill Three Year Matured Virginia to start and bunch of my Dark Sails mix for refills. The 5Bros pouch is still kicking after 10+ months as a pocket pouch! The Clay King would be proud.
Anyway, the horses don’t haul their own hay so it’s a Lee three star medium saddle stem full of ‘15 Dunhill Three Year Matured Virginia to start and bunch of my Dark Sails mix for refills. The 5Bros pouch is still kicking after 10+ months as a pocket pouch! The Clay King would be proud.
This morning some Golden Harvest in the Vauen Olaf bent egg, If sipped slowly I could taste some virginia, sweetness, hay, bread but the aftertaste from each puff is pure ashtray. I think this would 0nly be good to mix with something else. So I cleaned the Olaf and loaded up the Barontini 1/2 spigot bent (Billiard ?, Egg?, Brandy? - not sure anymore) with PS Luxury Twist Flake. 2 Flakes although it could easily hold 3-4 (20mmx52mm) and Wow ! I tasted so many flavors I haven't noticed before. It was like having a Wurthier's candy. Sweet caramel and chocolate. Then I must have hit some pure Virginia and it went to a sweet grassy flavor, then a touch of something like watermelon, then water and cholorophyl, then directly to warm French Bread. I had to put it down for awhile but plan on finishing it in a little while. Great pipe and great tobacco on a beautiful day ! This Barontini is the one I had all the problems with pinhole leaks ... I'm glad I took the time to resolve and seal them as it is now a cherished pipe.
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They are nasty bastages. I know more than a few people that have the “impressions”. One poor gal, a big girl, lost about a small pot roast from her lower leg, and I know one poor guy that got hit twice in the forehead (trimming bushes both times).
I’m praying yours turns out well.
Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Haven't done it any other way since June of 2014 when I got the pipe from Basil. Glad that I stocked up on the blend. Going to check on the ferals. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Thank you Gord. My inconvenience is nothing compared to what you have been dealing with.
Thank you! I assume Brown Recluse because we have so many around. I didn’t check the lawn chair before I sat down. I won’t forget again!
Thank you! No one cares if a beat up old man has one more hole or scar. I expect to back at soon.!
Addendum : Great and sweet to the last puff !
Rolling through Friday after with a bowl of Bobs Chocolate Flake 
in a Sav with water. 
in a Sav with water.
Did a set of walking reps, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. Harry the Hairy stood driveway guard and then got in the neighbor's yard watching Tomato the Brave gallop around me every time I came down the street. Harry had a "Tomato is a goofball" look on his face the whole time.
late evening smoke of Rattray¨s Stirling in a Frederik Trunter Pipe shop Bath
model.Pulteney 14 (Long Bullcap
model.Pulteney 14 (Long Bullcap
HU Edward G in a Merchant Service Big Billiard and Diet Coke on the side.
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Hawaiian Kona Extra Fancy Dark Roast, neat, is my drink. Going to clean a few pipes before my phone interview about my comic book history writing career in an hour.
OJK in a WDC author with a red Bakelite replacement stem.
This Ropp could be in Trouble: Also Entitled "Smokes over the Last Two Days":
It's the last Ropp I purchased, the J06. Full broken in, but it's a slightly different configuration than any of my other pipes - a wide and fairly shallow bowl. It's been my observation (and I'm the first one to admit I don't know what I'm talking about) that a bowl of this type smokes different, and I've been learning it's nuances. Actually, it seems that every bowl type has it's own nuanceable idiocycracies.
The short and dirty, two smokes in this pipe, one with Smokers' Pride Vanilla Caavendish, and subsequently Borkum Riff Dark Cavendish.
Details in Skippable Drivel below the picture:
In figuring out the smoking nuances of a wider and shallower bowl type, I realized this pipe might have a short lifespan because:
1. I walked around the yard a bit, and found this pipe naturally clenchable. This is not good. The only other pipes I've ever clenched have been the MM Mini-Cobs, one I smoke at the typewriter, the other two reside in my travel kit. Don't know why I did this to the R06, but it seemed to come naturally. This is not good. Limited lifespan with my incisors sharpened by 65 years of biting monofilament fly leaders. This is also not good.
2. Smoking friends comment on it. I know that one of them is going to try to wrestle it from me with an offer I can't refuse. Has happened before. It's gonna hafta be a danged good offer, because I like it too! And I doubt I'd replace any pipe I release from my clutches, because I need another pipe like I need another hole in my head.
3. The R06 has a decided preference for monochromes like Borkum Riff Dark, flavoured cavendishes like Captain Black Cherry, and aro-codgers like Sir Walter Raleigh. I have a fondness for these and usually smoke one of them each day. But four or five of my favourite smoking pipes have the same penchant.
4. While it's not an expensive pipe, if it gets chewed to death by my fangs, it's not 15 bucks locally, like minicobs. And I'd replace it with another R06 and an added R08 because I've been lusting after one of those.
5. I'm not self-disciplined with respect to anything collectable. Even after extensive culling, my house is a disaster area of old vintage cameras, flyrods, airguns, cooking vessels and implements, rifles, knives, stereo and computer equipment art supplies, film and develpers, paintings of BC artists . . . . . . and now a bevy of pipes.
6. nah . . . . don't need anything else except will power.
Will probably be back tonight with this mornings' smoking report. Going to load the last dryer load of berries, have a Phillie's Blunt and grab some afternoon snores. Cheers.
It's the last Ropp I purchased, the J06. Full broken in, but it's a slightly different configuration than any of my other pipes - a wide and fairly shallow bowl. It's been my observation (and I'm the first one to admit I don't know what I'm talking about) that a bowl of this type smokes different, and I've been learning it's nuances. Actually, it seems that every bowl type has it's own nuanceable idiocycracies.
The short and dirty, two smokes in this pipe, one with Smokers' Pride Vanilla Caavendish, and subsequently Borkum Riff Dark Cavendish.
Details in Skippable Drivel below the picture:
In figuring out the smoking nuances of a wider and shallower bowl type, I realized this pipe might have a short lifespan because:
1. I walked around the yard a bit, and found this pipe naturally clenchable. This is not good. The only other pipes I've ever clenched have been the MM Mini-Cobs, one I smoke at the typewriter, the other two reside in my travel kit. Don't know why I did this to the R06, but it seemed to come naturally. This is not good. Limited lifespan with my incisors sharpened by 65 years of biting monofilament fly leaders. This is also not good.
2. Smoking friends comment on it. I know that one of them is going to try to wrestle it from me with an offer I can't refuse. Has happened before. It's gonna hafta be a danged good offer, because I like it too! And I doubt I'd replace any pipe I release from my clutches, because I need another pipe like I need another hole in my head.
3. The R06 has a decided preference for monochromes like Borkum Riff Dark, flavoured cavendishes like Captain Black Cherry, and aro-codgers like Sir Walter Raleigh. I have a fondness for these and usually smoke one of them each day. But four or five of my favourite smoking pipes have the same penchant.
4. While it's not an expensive pipe, if it gets chewed to death by my fangs, it's not 15 bucks locally, like minicobs. And I'd replace it with another R06 and an added R08 because I've been lusting after one of those.
5. I'm not self-disciplined with respect to anything collectable. Even after extensive culling, my house is a disaster area of old vintage cameras, flyrods, airguns, cooking vessels and implements, rifles, knives, stereo and computer equipment art supplies, film and develpers, paintings of BC artists . . . . . . and now a bevy of pipes.
6. nah . . . . don't need anything else except will power.
Will probably be back tonight with this mornings' smoking report. Going to load the last dryer load of berries, have a Phillie's Blunt and grab some afternoon snores. Cheers.
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Oooooo! I like this one!!
A bit like my Ropp J06 above, but with a straight and longer stem. Nice! I think you've done me a favor and convinced me not to budge on potential offers of my Ropp!
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