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

[VDL_Piper]

Well a great lunch was had and I had my usual 750gm/22oz Rib eye on the bone which came from my farm and cooked just how I like it. The chef chases it through the kitchen and knocks the hide and horns off and then brings it to me. What was a surprise is the lads cobbled together and purchased me a pipe and I have to say I'm gobsmacked, what a pipe, what a gift.


I am also humbled by the well wishes here too so a big thank you to those I've already covered and @FurCoat @Sobrbiker @cshubhra @TN Jed @Laurent @Carol @JimInks @rsshreck32 @ThermionicScott @BenMN its you guys that keep this place great and worth the effort, so once again thank you.

 

[VDL_Piper]

@VDL_Piper , And Happy Belated Birthday wishes to You from across the big water,

Thanks Paul, been a big day.

 

[irishearl]

That's a real nice variety you've got out there! I envy all cardinal sightings--we don't get those out here, or indeed anywhere west of the Rockies. Grackles will box out all competition and plow through your birdseed like Penzance at a pipe club meeting. Don't say I didn't warn you!

They do indeed. Only lately have they been showing up at the feeder this year.

 

[BenMN]

That's a real nice variety you've got out there! I envy all cardinal sightings--we don't get those out here, or indeed anywhere west of the Rockies. Grackles will box out all competition and plow through your birdseed like Penzance at a pipe club meeting. Don't say I didn't warn you!

We get cardinals here too. Lots of blue Jay's as well. I never knew what a scrub jay was until your posts and I looked them up.

 

[BenMN]

Oh I didn't know we were sightseeing birds here, that's a whole new thing

Everyone brings a bit of themselves.
I'm not sure I'd hang around if it was just pipe, tobacco, done.

 

[BenMN]

Well a great lunch was had and I had my usual 750gm/22oz Rib eye on the bone which came from my farm and cooked just how I like it. The chef chases it through the kitchen and knocks the hide and horns off and then brings it to me. What was a surprise is the lads cobbled together and purchased me a pipe and I have to say I'm gobsmacked, what a pipe, what a gift.
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I am also humbled by the well wishes here too so a big thank you to those I've already covered and @FurCoat @Sobrbiker @cshubhra @TN Jed @Laurent @Carol @JimInks @rsshreck32 @ThermionicScott @BenMN its you guys that keep this place great and worth the effort, so once again thank you.

What a lunch.
WHAT A GIFT!

And they obviously know you're preferred shape #. Incredible


Edit* I need a ribeye soon

Couple cigars for me this evening. Finishing the day with a mini of Pegasus

 

[Sandblast]

I like the pipe & tobacco info .... of course .... but also enjoy reading about the meals, pets, horse stories, home remodeling, wife commentary (etc) .... also "enjoy" (but very sadly) reading touching personal sharing about the loss of beloved pets, personal medical issues (etc). Everything here is gripping & fascinating, keeping me riveted. I'm somewhat new here, but I feel like I've joined a great community.

NOTE: I'm now craving a ribeye.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Well a great lunch was had and I had my usual 750gm/22oz Rib eye on the bone which came from my farm and cooked just how I like it. The chef chases it through the kitchen and knocks the hide and horns off and then brings it to me. What was a surprise is the lads cobbled together and purchased me a pipe and I have to say I'm gobsmacked, what a pipe, what a gift.
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I am also humbled by the well wishes here too so a big thank you to those I've already covered and @FurCoat @Sobrbiker @cshubhra @TN Jed @Laurent @Carol @JimInks @rsshreck32 @ThermionicScott @BenMN its you guys that keep this place great and worth the effort, so once again thank you.

Oh my , to this day I was thinking this size of them ribeyes are only available in Texas and Argentina, but now i see they're not uncommon in Australia as well, Good to You ,Sir, ps. i have one friend who in his youth was working down there at the cattle station somewhere in northern territory close to Alice Springs city

 

[JimInks]

Did some important low calorie snacking, and am a third of the way through this bowl of Wilke Surbrug’s Crystal Palace in a dark brown smooth straight post-WW2 LHS Certified Purex 79 bulldog with a nickel ferrule and tenon with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Listening to the December 7, 1941 episode of The Great Gildersleeve. The show was interrupted several times for news, but the actors kept on going.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

CVP in an Altinay.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of a bowl left of year 2018 Mac Baren Acadian Perique in a straight smooth brown 1933-36 KBB Yello-Bole Honey Cured Briar 2384 Acorn with a tapered yellow rock ambra stem.

 

[The Clay King]

Archive posts from Egremont Crab Fair:

Egremont Crab Fair & World Gurning Championships

Mr Alan Johnson of Egremont has once again won the Pipe Smoking Competition!

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https://www.facebook.com/EgremontCrabFairWorldGurningChampionships/photos/a.627591147281795/8222548207786013

David H Photography

Last nights pipe smoking competition down the street at Egremont Crab Fair & World Gurning Championships.

www.facebook.com

I'd like to take part in the clay pipe fast smoke-off

 

[The Clay King]

Special Virginia in a clay. The bigger bowl is costing me more in leaf...
Need to get a clay with a regular sized bowl - and a few packets of Clan. It takes a lot of pipe baccy practicing for clay pipe smoking competitions

 

[JimInks]

Just finished work, and this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke Little Round Top in an undated straight smooth brown pre-Republic Peterson’s Sterling bulldog 150 with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem. This blend is Back Bay with much less perique (10%) than the regular Back Bay. Reading forum posts.

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

Cornell & Diehl’s Big ‘n Burley in my Vauen Mamba 5591 with a 9mm filter was my smoke to end the other day and to begin yesterday. I thought I didn’t like this shape since it’s a modified version of the -93 shape being more bulbous and lacking that sharp heel I like so much. It’s a great pipe though and very comfortable.

Yesterday afternoon I had some more Big ‘n Burley in my Vauen Rosewood 175 with a 9mm filter while running errands.

In the evening yesterday I fired up my new estate pipe for the first time. A Vauen Boston with an acrylic stem and Five Brothers. This one must be very old.

My last smoke yesterday while I took my dog out for a walk was a new old stock never smoked before Vauen Dr. Perl 5290 with a vulcanite p-lip stem and more Big ‘n Burley. It still had the original paper filter in it, which I didn’t realize until after.

Those were my smokes since my last post. It’s busy being a new dad.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a year 2021 straight black sandblasted Peterson Ragaire 150 bulldog with an unmounted army mount tapered acrylic cumberland fish tail stem. I'll end the day with this smoke. Reading baseball box scores.

 

[PipeIT]

@VDL_Piper wow, the meat sounds amazing, and what a pipe!

Happy Birthday it sounds like it was amazing!

 

[PipeIT]

C&D Palmetto Balkan gifted to me by @Akoni808

In a 1967 - 1969 Dr. Grabow Commodore Shape 65 (Zulu), with a metal screw in tenon, the stinger removed, and a Vulcanite stem.

Be well everyone!

Now off to go watch Formula 1 Drive to Survive on Netflix! 🏎

 

[AreBee]

That's a real nice variety you've got out there! I envy all cardinal sightings--we don't get those out here, or indeed anywhere west of the Rockies. Grackles will box out all competition and plow through your birdseed like Penzance at a pipe club meeting. Don't say I didn't warn you!

One of the male Cardinals recently began perching in the camera feeder, something I’ve never seen before. Forgot about the Blue Jays and Titmice, never a shortage of those. The Grackles are a force for sure! Really enjoying watching them with a pipe and relaxing.