A third of the way through this bowl of year 2019 HU Directors Cut in a smooth slight bend dark brown 1940s-1950s Comoy’s Blue Riband 228C prince with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
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Oh sorry. I’m not running for shit. I had an assignment in Tucson. I’m based in Vegas. I got up at 3am. Drove 7 hours. Worked a fire scene and drove home.
A very poignan
A friend of mine stopped off to watch a basketball game on the way to visit his mother in the nursing home, and she died while he was at the ballgame. He’s never forgiven himself. He’d tell you he should, and that much is right, but he never will.
Sorry for your loss. A very poignant and important thought.Lost a really good friend of 34 years this morning. He gave a really good run of it at almost 92
He had no vice or I’ll towards anyone. Retired Barber and Sports Announcer here in Richmond.
I will miss talking Box Scores and his recaps of local sports and Stories of his Service in Korea.
Go see an old friend folks as they may be gone tomorrow……
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C&D Exclusive in a Castello KK and the last of the Coffee️
A friend of mine stopped off to watch a basketball game on the way to visit his mother in the nursing home, and she died while he was at the ballgame. He’s never forgiven himself. He’d tell you he should, and that much is right, but he never will.
That’s a heavy weight to carry.
A thought struck me as I viewed this latest post of yours. We should start an in-thread lottery based on them including:
1. What shirt you're wearing
2. What cigar you're smoking
3. Judging by the smile or frown, what you did or failed to do on the hole
Provide me with the stats ahead of time, and I'll volunteer to publish the stats after the post, and keep track of the results.
Prizes could include a used cigar stub from the hole, a framed photo of the post, and the grand prize of the year, one of the shirts you wore so the lucky recipient of the prize so it can be used as a smoking shirt. Let me know what you think . . . .
Love these posts, btw!
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Now you've done it. You've piqued my interest in that tobacco. Might fit in with Capt. Black Cherry as a morning favourite!
Thanks, the texture has a great feel to it too.
Luxury flake, eh? Well, of course no way you’d want to smoke po’ boys flake with a pipe that nice and historic! I can only dream of getting one that dark before I die.
Gotta get caught up after two straight long days. Continued eagle claw meer darkening efforts with Perter Heinrichs English.
And hosting some delicious 2007 Borkum Riff Bourbon Whiskey in a 2019 Nording White Rhino smooth bent paneled with acrylic swirl accent on the saddle stem. 
When new, I thought it tasted like meh cheap tobacco, and it was indeed inexpensive back then. When I buy more, I hope I don’t have to wait that long for the new big tins to cellar the 65% Virginias. This stuff is now bursting with flavor.
When new, I thought it tasted like meh cheap tobacco, and it was indeed inexpensive back then. When I buy more, I hope I don’t have to wait that long for the new big tins to cellar the 65% Virginias. This stuff is now bursting with flavor.
While I remain convinced that any day I am vertical and mobile is a good day, I do concede some days are better than others. This one wasn’t. No matter, tomorrow will be an entirely new day. Dr. Pepper accompanying, my favorite pipe filled with 2013 Virginia Spice.
MM Country Gentleman in a BriarWorks Cannonball with bent tortoiseshell stem.
On the menu for my evening commute home was a fun little mixture of 5 brothers, Rivertown Crimson Shadow, and C&D The Beast loaded in my nameless French paneled pipe. The mixture has potential but definitely needs more 5 Brothers.
Hope you all had as good of a day as possible
Hope you all had as good of a day as possible
A BriarWorks Bullmoose hosting some C&D Chopped Cigar Leaf. It’s all Pennsylvania broadleaf wrapper, too. So tasty by itself.
A thought struck me as I viewed this latest post of yours. We should start an in-thread lottery based on them including:
1. What shirt you're wearing
2. What cigar you're smoking
3. Judging by the smile or frown, what you did or failed to do on the hole
Provide me with the stats ahead of time, and I'll volunteer to publish the stats after the post, and keep track of the results.
Prizes could include a used cigar stub from the hole, a framed photo of the post, and the grand prize of the year, one of the shirts you wore so the lucky recipient of the prize so it can be used as a smoking shirt. Let me know what you think . . . .
Love these posts, btw!
Quite funny. I'm quite blessed to live in Florida where I can enjoy warm weather year round and also be able to play golf with friends 4 days most weeks. I'm smiling regardless of what I scored the previous hole. I have yet to figure out why someone would pay $100 or more and invest 5 to 6 hours of their time to get mad, rage and break clubs. I'm a fairly decent golfer generally shooting 78 to 85 but what I really enjoy is the friends, the sunshine and the beautiful wildlife on the course (even the alligators). And if course, enjoying a couple of Cigars while doing all that.
I think I’m now “caught up,” and the smoke of the moment is Samuel Gawith No. 4 Kendal Brown Twist in the big bowl “EXTRA” sized Jobey sandblasted Shellmoor billiard with saddle stem with sharp, 90-degree transition. This tobacco was made for this big bowl and oversized drilled pipe restored by @98now.
The contrast shows the 90-degree stem transition on the big boy Jobey billiard.
PS LNF from 2019 in a Peterson Dracula 80s. A bit of age does amazing things to this stuff.
A third of a bowl left of year 2016 Hearth & Home AJ’s Vaper in a pre-1952 Sutliff Falcon 372 (made by Comoy’s) smooth light brown straight bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Had a very nice chat with an old friend, and am going to touch up pages on the Archie story I have been doing.
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