Howdy, brothers. The heat and humidity and the bugs are increasing every day here in East Texas. Cramps my cigar style.

Good Tuesday Afternoon to All! It's a sunny 90° a little higher than the 88° forecast. Humidity is just 44% and the Cicadas are continuing their serenade.

Sun's been out all day...maybe temp'll top in mid 80's...summer preview

Little south, Elizabeth Seaport

Kick some azz and win some nice cigars. 😎

Hot and humid here…smoking cigars is going to be less enjoyable until late October.

Palama, you’re needed in the noob trade thread

Might go see them in Cleveland or Philly in June. Plans are in the works.

Rambo! Happy hump day, and to all you brothers ☀️

Huzza, you can be historian in training

Top o' the mornin' dudes.

Gotta get movin' before the sun is fully up. Otherwise my sweet ass is gonna melt.

I'ze just kiddin'... I'm sour as a muh fugger.

HHD Ram n dudes

Morning Ram and gang

Hehe

I was going to smoke a pork butt today. Turns out my Masterbuilt smoker is shorting and it looks like the control panel has given out.

Now I’m shopping for a new smoker.

Any suggestions?

Got rid of my Weber Smokey mountains for a Pitboss pellet smoker a few years ago and almost instantly regretted it. I have since went back to the Weber's. They make for an excellent smoker. There is a bit of a learning curve, but once dialed in they are incredible.

81 degrees and 80% humidity. Cigar smoking weather is officially dead here.

Those are rookie numbers.

Good Wednesday Afternoon to All! It's 90° and 51% humidity.

You need airflow. Electric and pellet are easy but don't provide enough airflow for the best bbq.

WSM is my vote.

You are correct, sir! This is just a teaser. It will get much worse and soon.

I've seen 3 votes for the WSM.

I will remind you that I started with a WSM and then tried the Camp Chef pellet... sold it and went back to the WSM. My buddy did the same... got a pellet grill and went right back to the WSM. He even fabricated a stick burner and sold that, too.

Traeger was good when it was made in the USA at the beginning... all their electronics are made in China now. Not good. And pellet smokers just won't give you the same BBQ that a WSM will.

If you've ever watched BBQ Pitmasters... almost every crew has a WSM along with their custom built stuff. There's a reason for that. It's just a damn good setup.

2nd choice would be the BGE. More expenive and heavy as sheit, but makes damn good BBQ with less fuel. Holds heat better and gets really hot if you need that.

Doc, DED, East Texas is terrible in the late Spring, Summer, early Autumn. We get fewer than 120 days at 100 or more, no doubt. We get a whole lot of days 95 degrees and 85-90 humidity and that’s no joke. I lived in FL for about 4 years and I loved everything but the hot and humid weather. Virginia is no joke either, I lived there for about 3 years. The dry desert heat is preferable to humid conditions for me. At 120 days of 100+ is tough though, no matter how you slice it. If only I had a few lovely young things to step and fetch for me, how wonderful life could be. Maybe I should pack up and move to Thailand where that might be possible with my low income lol.

EDIT: the 12 years or so I lived in San Diego was the best climate I could ever hope for. The weather and geography is beautiful.

Wood County between Quitman and Mineola. You near?

I’m from Red River county but I grew up and went to K-12 in Garland. Spent a lot of time with grandmothers and aunts, uncles in RR county in a place called Johntown between Bogata and Talco on 271.

Sounds better than Bay City Texas down in Matagorda County, surrounded by swaps and rice fields. Mosquitos in clouds of thousands and off the scale humidity. Only two seasons, A/C and Heater.

Gene, yes it is definitely better than living in a swampy oil field. I’m thankful for that.