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

[Kingsley]

Bowl one for the new Ege, 2020 FVF.

 

[sparker69]

Can't remember if I posted it or not - some Plum Cake in the Blatter. Is it true that Black Frigate resembles Plum Cake?

 

[dottlejockey]

We Three Kings in an Ascorti Business KS after breakfast with coffee. Then off to wash clothes and pack my bags. Off to Tennessee, then W VA for a few days, then back down to my Florida property for a couple weeks.

 

[PaulRVA]

Yeah, I was out early with it in the back pasture and trimmed down a lot of stuff. Then I stacked it in piles so I can lift it with tractor and forks and pile up. Got an amazing amount of trimming done and as you said yesterday, it has already paid for itself.... Now eating lunch and resting my shoulders, ha. Shortly, I will go get the tractor and move what I have cut.
Man, that must have been a helluva white oak. Although I know y'all have some monsters up there. Five feet in trunk diameter is really something. No telling how much of the nations history that ole gal had witnessed. Was it diseased and starting to die??
As to the pole saw, I did not get one that extended out. It is a Stihl 56 HC and is about 10 feet and should do all I will need, although I may eat those words.

I have a photo of that tree with the neighbor lady playing under it in 1936 and it was just as big then.
Im certain General Lafayette saw it when he passed it in 1824 while in this area of the county as he stayed a 1/2 mile from here at a Tavern. Poe would’ve as well as his Step Fathers farm is the same distance away. Thomas Jefferson could’ve too as his farm is 5 miles West on what was the main trail then.
It was slowly dying off and too dangerous to climb or leave standing so I took a Cat D9 to it and worked it over once it was down or really it worked me over.

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Janneman Flake in a Savinelli Punto Oro 101 and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Bought a tool today that I have never owned before. It's a pole saw. I have been working hard over past year or so to clear out and expand pastures to the fences. I had cleared out the lower stuff with my conventional chain saw but I could not get the high stuff so that I could run tractor and bush hog without getting a face full of tree limbs. This pole saw is just the trick.

Pole saws are just the tool when you need one. I use them at work occasionally, and one is definitely in my future.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Last of this week’s work packet of my Dark Sails mix in a Donegal Rocky 701.
Cleaning up before the grandkids arrive for a couple days.

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps on this cool and sunny day, and smoked a 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.

 

[JimInks]

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 Jamaica Blue Mountain, neat, is my drink. Getting ready to clean a few pipes.

 

[Choatecav]

I have a photo of that tree with the neighbor lady playing under it in 1936 and it was just as big then.
Im certain General Lafayette saw it when he passed it in 1824 while in this area of the county as he stayed a 1/2 mile from here at a Tavern. Poe would’ve as well as his Step Fathers farm is the same distance away. Thomas Jefferson could’ve too as his farm is 5 miles West on what was the main trail then.
It was slowly dying off and too dangerous to climb or leave standing so I took a Cat D9 to it and worked it over once it was down or really it worked me over.

Paul, that kind of stuff just makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. The fact that a living thing (tree) could have been present when all of these aspects of history took place. You live (Richmond) in such a hotbed of US history that it's just amazing what all went on right there. In addition to what you said with the occurrences mentioned above, that tree wasn't too far from Patrick Henry saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" in St. John's church or Lee holding McClellan out of Richmond through several battles during the 7 Days campaign or Lee catching Grant's men in an enfilade fire of cannister during Battle of Cold Harbor, etc, etc, etc......

Gives me the shivers just thinking about it.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Having a bowl of C&D Bayou Morning Flake In a Rob Roy cob. Ive had regular BM many times and its not bad. This seems a lot better though as I mentioned in my Opening a Tin comment, these have to be some of the driest “flakes” I've seen come out of a tin. Which, isn’t a bad thing since i don't have to dry a flake out before smoking it. Anyways, cheers to Friday.

 

[JazzInAZ]

I fell behind reading WAYS threads back in June when we were packing up our Brooklyn apartment and moving. Then, I was swamped with typesetting, designing, and illustrating four Weird Tales Presents novels. I’m reading the WAYS threads I missed since that time, so if you get bombarded with alerts, it’s just me catching up with posts from the last five or so months.
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You were NOT joking about catching up on old posts, @TheIronMonkey. Good work! I had missed a bit over 1 week (only!) near the beginning of September, and I wasn't even able to catch up from that! Ha ha ha
Most impressive LOL

 

[bobpnm]

For all you doubters. Who says Florida has no fall colors? Beautiful 80 degree fall afternoon! Great ride this morning with the young bucks. I almost held pace for part of the ride . Savinelli Duca Carlo with SWRA. Iced tea.

 

[Eireprof]

Peterson Derry 05

 

[keith929]

C&D Ghosts of Christmas Past in a SPC 25th Anniversary Ropp (65/80).

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[Jwebb90]

CRFP in a Peterson.

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Janneman Flake in a Sara Eltang Apple. Diet Coke and a fire on the side while waiting for the first pitch of Game 1 World Series.

 

[xrundog]

Going to smoke through the cased pipes. 2010 OJK in a WDC Triangle Bakelite.

 

[JimInks]

Passing the last quarter of this bowl of Wilke Hearth of Galway in an undated smooth straight medium brown made in France Saillard Lord Clerit lumberman with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Been working on an art commission.

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

Currently smoking my Adana Turkey bent billiard meerschaum with some Chocolate Manhood tobacco.