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

[PaulRVA]

I’ll be off the WAYS thread for a while. I’m having lumbar fusion surgery on 5/21. I will have several bone grafts and evidently nicotine inhibits their healing. I won’t be smoking for a month before and at least 3 months after. A guy needs his lower back to work right and not hurt. I’ll be around otherwise.

Good luck and wishes for a speedy recovery!

 

[tfdickson]

2015 Mind Meld in the MG.

 

[Speak Easy]

I’ll be off the WAYS thread for a while. I’m having lumbar fusion surgery on 5/21. I will have several bone grafts and evidently nicotine inhibits their healing. I won’t be smoking for a month before and at least 3 months after. A guy needs his lower back to work right and not hurt. I’ll be around otherwise.

Best of luck! Hope everything heals up nicely for you.

 

[renfield]

8 year old Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture in a Nuttens Bing, again.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2014 Esoterica Tilbury in a straight smooth Danish gold straight grain undated W.O. Larsen Hand Made in Denmark dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo.

 

[dottlejockey]

The "Evening Aperitif" blend worked out well. Had a pork chop and a marlin steak for dinner. Now moving on to a nice, relaxing post-meal bowl of Cobblestone Hiking in a CAO and then out for the dog's evening walk.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Having Cornell & Diehl Small Batch Steamworks (4,055/8,000) in an Oguz Simsek Don Hector Salamanca/Mark Margolis (as depicted in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) Figural.

 

[Pipeski]

2019 Westminster in an awesome French made Canadian. Beautiful piece of old Algerian briar.

 

[Pipeski]

Half way through this bowl of year 2014 Esoterica Tilbury in a straight smooth Danish gold straight grain undated W.O. Larsen Hand Made in Denmark dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo.
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Beautiful pipe, made even more special by the previous owner.

 

[DesertDan]

Started the day off with a cob full of Granger.

 

[Servant King]

First time try of Three Nuns in a Stefano smooth Rhodesian, while catching up on some reading that might interest @BingBong regarding how the futures market is used to manipulate gold and silver prices. Fascinating stuff! And a great blend, very well behaved. 9/10

Bird report: White-breasted nuthatch, White-crowned sparrow, House finch, California towhee, Steller's jay, American crow, California scrub-jay, Mountain chickadee, California quail, Blue-gray gnatcatcher, Oak titmouse, Hairy woodpecker, Northern flicker, Spotted towhee, and Mourning dove.

Doing a bit of spring cleaning for the cellar (you may see me in the FS section later this week), and deciding what to smoke for the big 4-0 on Thursday....

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2012 Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight, dark brown 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad.

 

[Scottmi]

GLP Navigator in a Ropp Vintage with horn stem

This Ropp is ON POINT!

 

[Scottmi]

Back home after a lovely Easter brunch with family. Molto Dolce in the SMS Big Bent Lattice Meer and sparkly water for sipp'n.

 

[Sobrbiker]

I’ll be off the WAYS thread for a while. I’m having lumbar fusion surgery on 5/21. I will have several bone grafts and evidently nicotine inhibits their healing. I won’t be smoking for a month before and at least 3 months after. A guy needs his lower back to work right and not hurt. I’ll be around otherwise.

May your surgeon be skilled and having a great day.
Good on you for following their instructions, out of 4 guys at work that had same shoulder surgery in the same year I was the only one that didn’t have problems. I was also the only one that didn’t do anything I wasn’t supposed to during the recovery process.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Burning some Kendal#7/Brown Twist mix in a Ropp, while burning some moldy hay in the burn barrel.

 

[Peter - CCB]

H.U. Dark Moor, Capstan Gold, Eso And So To Bed, Christmas Cheer 1998, Hal o’ the Wynd a lot this month.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vauen No 14 in a Howell.

 

[das3353]

This Ropp is ON POINT!

Thanks!

 

[cshubhra]

Peterson Nightcap from July 2021 in a Balandis sandblasted billiard