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  1. ThomasS

    Wisconsin Sales Tax on Tobacco Starting Jan. 1, 2025

    I’m getting my tobacco seeds from Ontario. Also seriously contemplating the whole leaf places, which doesn’t count as a tobacco product yet. Maybe C&D will start making “blend kits” of whole leaves and a jar of flavor essence 😉
  2. ThomasS

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

    One flake each of HH burley flake and old dark fired in my Rattray’s olive wood. The wood is gradually darkening, which is a delight.
  3. ThomasS

    Wisconsin Sales Tax on Tobacco Starting Jan. 1, 2025

    Yep, just checked that myself. I’ll have a nice pile to show in the TAD thread for my last excise-free spree 🤪
  4. ThomasS

    Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

    +2 Hh Burley Flake
  5. ThomasS

    Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

    -1 Trail Head +1 HH Burley Flake
  6. ThomasS

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    it was an antique store find. The stummel says “MEDICO V.F.Q. Imported Briar” and the stem has V.F.Q. stamped in.
  7. ThomasS

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    Match Sunrise
  8. ThomasS

    Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

    Bosun Cut Plug -1 HH Burley Flake +1
  9. ThomasS

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    HH Burley Flake in a SeaSmoke pipe
  10. ThomasS

    Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

    -1 Escudo +1 HH Burley Flake
  11. ThomasS

    What Cigar Are You Smoking? 2025

    Fuente Friday!
  12. ThomasS

    Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

    -1 1Q +1 HH Burley Flake
  13. ThomasS

    Anyone See Anything Odd in this Picture.....

    It’s also a different shape and paint scheme
  14. ThomasS

    Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

    D&R Ryback -1 HH Burley Flake +1
  15. ThomasS

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    Briar Fox and HH ODF in a homemade cherry wood pipe
  16. ThomasS

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    Just finished a Carrol of Carrolton full of home-stoved C&D Bright Virginia following the mason-jar stoving instructions found elsewhere on this forum. It sat from 11/27 to today, and it was really, really good. Fragrant, vastly less bite-inducing, and strong as all get-out without adding...
  17. ThomasS

    Do You Like Snow?

    I didn’t move to the tip of a peninsula sticking out into Lake Superior because I hate snow 😉
  18. ThomasS

    Thriving in the Upcoming Tobacco Apocalypse

    I got approximately 2000 burley seeds for $14. I tried to plant as few as I could (they are unreasonably tiny) and now I have 22 seedlings. I plan to raise these in pots and start another batch more in Feb to actually put in the ground.
  19. ThomasS

    Thriving in the Upcoming Tobacco Apocalypse

    A picture is worth 1000 words, they say. My first burley crop is already underway
  20. ThomasS

    What Cigar Are You Smoking? 2025

    Romeo y Julieta 1875 Nicaragua