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

[ThermionicScott]

VRC with a little red Virginia ribbon to stretch it out.

 

[tschiraldi]

PS Luxury Twist Flake in a Comoy’s Sandblast.

 

[Manawydan]

Just finished a delightful bowl of Mac Baren Dark Twist Roll Cake in my Peterson PotY '24 rusticated bent Rhodesian. This was a special smoke for me because today is the one-year anniversary of taking up the pipe.



It also marked the 455th bowl of pipe tobacco I've enjoyed in a year full of experimentation, learning, and camaraderie. The highlight for me has been sharing my journey with this community. I've made a couple friends, swapped tobacco and tales, and even participated in my first (of hopefully many) Som Besths.

Here's to another year of great smokes!

 

[dino]

While visiting with the Usual Suspects of our Saturday ZOOM meeting, I smoked my Meerschaum Market bent billiard with a brindled stem, filled with 22-year-old McClelland 2000 Fragrant Matured Cake. The tobacco had a bit of a bite, so I switched it out with McClelland 5100. Much better!
My beverage was a tall mug of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey Coffee.

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Director’s Cut in an Ashton XXX Pebble Grain Stack and Ginger Tea on the side.

 

[tmc]

Back to back bowls of Study in Scarlet in a Wessex billiard while working in the yard.

 

[Bbailey324]

C&D Kajun Kake in a Peterson Derry 69.

 

[cshubhra]

Another cigar: Rocky Patel Number 6

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

Artisan’s Blend in a Balandis XL Anse in the car.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and green beans dinner with a couple of blueberry muffins and small bowl of French vanilla ice cream for dessert. I've passed the half way mark of this bowl of year 2021 Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation Evening Flake in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson Ebony POTY 4AB No. 422/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Been scraping cement carbon out of an old Barling. Tomato the Brave is by my side. Harry the Hairy is with m'lady. Speaking of the Hairmeister, right before dinner, I went outside, and saw a big, dead mouse on the doormat. Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave were inside all evening. An hour before that, we let Abner the Eager out. When Abner leaves he leaves the yard, so it had to be Harry who killed and brought us the mouse. That makes me think he brought us that bird a couple of nights ago.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

HU Dark Moor in my black ice spigot.

 

[ashdigger]

American Dark Cherry in a Peterson POY 2023, The Sandblasted One

 

[BenMN]

Embarcadero in a new Peterson

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

Working backwards after getting home, I had some of my leftover Motley Brew in a BriarWorks cutty.

 

[infectedpsyche]

Had some friends from church over for guys night by the fire. I started with some of a mix I've been working on, 1/2 DFK & 1/2 Orlik Golden Sliced in my Moretti Devil Anse.

Moved from that to some Plum Pudding in the Ropp Stout Pot.

Finishing the evening now with some Plumcake in my Pete Sportsman 69.

Guys are headed home and I'm just relaxing by a dying fire with my son while we wait on the girls to get home.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

I had some German English blend by way of France, Peter Heinrich's from 2022 in an EA Carey Magic Inch Super Bowl slightly bent pot.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

And I had some Jack Knife ready rubbed in a black sandblast bent pot with saddle stem from BriarWorks.

 

[Questionable Source]

Folklore in a Pot, on the deck, under the old Oak tree.

 

[BlueRidge]

Dark Plug in an 80s after a full day of work in the apple trees. So far behind I missed turkey opener. Hopefully get after them next weekend

 

[Servant King]

Grazed the horse on the grass shoots sprouting around the property early in the evening. The neighborhood quiet I was lucky enough to be bestowed with during yesterday's bowl was sadly not present this time around; you win some, you lose some. Nevertheless, a bowl of Savinelli 140th Anniversary in a Foyard beechwood Rhodesian was enjoyed. 8/10

Bird report: White-crowned sparrow, Dark-eyed junco, California towhee, American crow, House finch, Mountain chickadee, California quail, California scrub-jay, Northern flicker, Steller's jay, Band-tailed pigeon, Western bluebird, Hairy woodpecker, White-breasted nuthatch, Oak titmouse, Spotted towhee, and American robin.

Passover seder awaiteth...