***What Are You Smoking, June 2025?***

[Roach1]

OJK in a Geppeto Eximia.

 

[AreBee]

Is Fermoy Friday a thing? Peterson B10 Fermoy and my first experience with C&D Pegasus. A beautiful smoke to accompany a morning coffee. Reminds me of my favorite chocolate bar, Cadbury Fruit and Nut. Cheers to the weekend all!

 

[Sigmund]

Old Fredder's in a Kai with tea on the side

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Burley morning with 5 bros, in a IMP, coffee

 

[Pipesandbourbon]

You seem to be enjoying Briar Fox, it’s one of my favorites for natural tobacco flavor.
Have you tried C&D Pegasus or Riverboat Gambler?

Briar Fox has been one of my daily smokes for a long time. It’s great new and aged. Been smoking a tin of 2009 and 2024. And I think the 2009 is slightly better.

 

[condorlover1]

Bowl of some miscellaneous Hogwarts plug that I came across in a forgotten about jar on my office shelf in this short 19th century Austrian 'Cutty' nose warmer with amber stem and silver repair work done by Northern Briars about seven years ago.

 

[Choatecav]

Hot hot hot here, so taking some rest with virginia in rusticated Ser Jacopo Delecta Pulchra…

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Very nice looking piece of workmanship. Those SJ's are always beautiful.

 

[JimInks]

Couldn't sleep, so I got up and smoked a bowl of Jim's Va/Bur #2 in a smooth brown 1980 Peterson Deluxe 20S medium bend billiard with a silver cap military mount black vulcanite fish tail saddle stem.


Currently, I've passed the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2015 D&R A.B. Rimboche in an undated slight bend, smooth flame grain Wessex Standard egg with a brown accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem. Been making the most of this time including feeding all the ferals.

 

[Hillcrest]

Not sure about up in your part of the country, but down in Tennessee, I have seen a lot of recluses and none were anywhere close to 3". Did you see the "fiddle" on it's back??

I didn't look that close. The body was less than an inch but the leg span was about three inches. Recluse and grass spiders look similar. Hobos are a bit smaller but super aggressive. Fisher spiders are same size but docile. We have them all. It could have been a plain old orb weaver too ... I'm not an entomologist. Big spider, 8 legs, 3" or so. If it was aggressive I would have killed it but as they eat bugs I tend to let them go ... outside.

 

[Roach1]

Briar Fox in a BC Big Bowl #1553.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Merchant Service Big Billiard and a @JimInks Mai Thai (aka Chilled Water & Bergs) on the side.
Charging up for a date with the weed eater & the small tractor.

 

[Choatecav]

I didn't look that close. The body was less than an inch but the leg span was about three inches. Recluse and grass spiders look similar. Hobos are a bit smaller but super aggressive. Fisher spiders are same size but docile. We have them all. It could have been a plain old orb weaver too ... I'm not an entomologist. Big spider, 8 legs, 3" or so. If it was aggressive I would have killed it but as they eat bugs I tend to let them go ... outside.

Yep, I agree on letting things be that are of benefit. You're right on the grass spiders looking similar and getting very big. Very thin legs too.

 

[FLDRD]

My ever-expanding bowl of tobacco.
HU Edward G in a Peterson 314

 

[gord]

Morning Smoke was "nothing special" - I filled my new Ropp J06 with a tobacco I haven't smoked in a long time, Captain Black Dark, right out of the package. It's a pure and simple cavendish blend that I'd used a lot for mixing. Smoked it plain, and had maybe the most innocuous, pleasant, smoke I've had in months. Like it was part of me. No analysis, no thinking, just a slice of the morning that went unnoticed until it was over. Said to myself, "Yeah, gotta do this again more often." And I most certainly will.

 

[ashdigger]

Flake in a 1935 Pete

 

[gord]

I had an inaugural bowl of my cherry version of Three Friars in a home-made cob pipe. I plastered the outside of this one which allowed me to drill out the chamber enough to use a tamper. It smokes great!
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Great stuff! I'll have to try that myself!

 

[Jwebb90]

Medium Flake (2014) in a Peterson.

 

[Carol]

Sutliffe 507-C in the Vauen Olaf 4873 bent egg ... I can't compete with killer snakes but I did just find a 3" brown recluse in the hallway that I had to catch with my trustee apricot preserve jar and relocate outside to the woods.
My gut says brown recluse but it could have been a hobo spider. It had thin legs though, so I'm pretty sure it was brown recluse. Its easier to catch them than to kill them as they are tough and get hyper aggressive if you miss.

P.S. It probably came inside on someone ... guess who ???

Y'all are giving me some serious spine chills. Just sayin

 

[alwayslit]

WCC Glass slipper in a Norm Triptow

 

[shikano53]

KBV Jim’s Special Flake in a Stanwell Hand Cut

That is truly a beautiful billiard. Wow. The grain and the finish.