***What Are You Smoking, January 2026?***

[PrivatePiping]

First pipe of the year for me is Fires on the Levee in my Altinok poker. Side of Pellegrino.

Hope everyone has had a great holiday, and looking forward to the new year!

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, halibut and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. Hope to go off my diet tomorrow. I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2012 Stonehaven in a 2002 medium bend smooth brown Rinaldo EGEA 03 Silver line spigot 10 with a black acrylic saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. When I took the trash and recycle cans to the street, I was followed by the usual feral suspects who followed me out of the house. Dunno what excitement they see in watching that, but as it's cold, they couldn't wait to come back inside.

 

[Ahenry]

Winding down with some PS41 Cube Cut in a Peterson Rusticated Tankard.

 

[Servant King]

First bowl of the year was C&D Folklore (sample) in my small-bowled "everything else" pipe, a Foyard beechwood smooth straight Rhodesian. A nice companion while I walked around the ranch, surprised at how little destruction resulted from all this rain. Thanks to @Questionable Source and @TheIronMonkey for the sample and the pipe respectively! 8/10

Bird report: Dark-eyed junco, California quail, California towhee, California scrub-jay, Chipping sparrow, Golden-crowned sparrow, Oak titmouse, American crow, Northern flicker, White-breasted nuthatch, and Spotted towhee.

Regarding 2025, in the immortal words of Paul Bellini, "Thank God that's over with!"

 

[Lux]

Since we're vacationing in the Lowcountry, I thought it appropriate to bring plenty of Edisto and Pee Dee with me (left the unopened tin of Waccamaw back home).

Thoroughly enjoying Pee Dee in my Rossi rusticated dublin.

 

[Phiredog]

For my first smoke of 2026, my first taste of McClelland: a sample of 2017 Christmas Cheer, in a Falcon meerschaum bowl with the green stem (bowl and stem purchased from @Skippy Piper )

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Wow! That’s a nice looking bowl!

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking first production Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead in a well appreciated medium bend, smooth brown 1950s Peterson 999 Dublin chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

8/18 MB HH Pure Virginia in an Altinay.

 

[Steddy]

GL Pease Jack Knife Plug in a Castello 23. Delicious.

 

[wyfbane]

The Country Squire - Rivendell
Im my meer dude.

 

[JoeW]

Wow! That’s a nice looking bowl!

I’ve coveted that bowl every time he showed it, and the stem too. Never expected to have them myself!

 

[JimInks]

Near the half way mark of this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[MontyTX]

GLP Maltese Falcon in a Neerup Volcano.

 

[kcmontie]

Red Carpet in a Wiley.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Kendal Mixed in a Paykoc Ram in the light of the almost full moon before turning in.
Grateful every day

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight 1960s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem.

 

[MidnightPuff]

Smoked some custard conspiracy with added dark burley.

 

[TubbyInTweed]

Starting off the New Year with Savinelli 140° in my 60th Birthday pipe, a virgin, sandblasted Savinelli Autograph Extraordinaire (Eccezionale) Fan*. Using the Savinelli IM Corona Briar Old Boy I picked up to pair with it.

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*Full back story on this unique pipe here.

What an amazing story! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. It’s absolutely your birthday pipe. And honestly, what makes it even cooler is that you actually use it for what it was made for. I can definitely see why you’d wear gloves with it too!

 

[TubbyInTweed]

On the menu for my evening smoke was a bowl of D&R Two Timer provided by @JoeW and loaded in my cob.



Afterwards, I had a bowl of Warped Cigars' The Haunting loaded in my Chacom Prestige Billiard with a saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking first production Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a smooth medium bend terracotta Peterson POY 2023 X160 464/1100 military mount egg with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Cleaning the pipes I smoked this evening.