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

[LeafErikson]

Kendal mixed in an AGovem

 

[PaulRVA]

Peterson’s Nightcap in a Peterson Deluxe System 12.5S Silver Cap and Peppermint Tea on the side.

 

[Scottmi]

2021 Navigator Flake in a Butz-Choquin carved 'Calabash.' One of my first pipes I bought new in the mid-1980s, from either a Tinderbox or 'Pipelane Ltd' store. It's capacious, and a good smoker! ...with Grog.

p.s. saw a pipe smoker 'in the wild' yesterday in the ferry line. First time I've seen one in quite some time!

 

[rsshreck32]

Starting the day with some Ryback in a C1920 (maybe pre-war) F&T all briar devil anse. View attachment 387730View attachment 387731

Absolutely beautiful pipe!! Maybe a little jealous!

 

[rsshreck32]

Brown Twist Sliced in a Peterson Irish Harp Lovat.

 

[Scottmi]

C&D Cavendish Cut Burley in a Ropp Mid-Century Sandblasted Dublin (M513) with a cup of black coffee.
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That is one gorgeous Ropp!

 

[Servant King]

Stepping outside for my final smoke as a 30-something, Savinelli 140th Anniversary in a MM mini-cob. Saving my palate for the triple-smoke birthday I have planned tomorrow, although that's more contingent on cooperative wind and cooperative neighbors (in no particular order) than anything else.

Bird report: White-crowned sparrow, House finch, California towhee, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, American crow, Oak titmouse, Mountain chickadee, Northern flicker, Western bluebird, White-breasted nuthatch, California quail, Brewer's blackbird, Mourning dove, and Spotted towhee.

Oh, and it's Barbara Streisand's birthday tomorrow as well. You can choose which of the two are more noteworthy to celebrate...

 

[Scottmi]

A sincere thanks for all of those wonderful birthday wishes. I'm kinda overwhelmed. Now another year to conquer.

Got back late last night, and finished the day with an unphotographed smoke with my Missouri Meerschaum cob, and the first jar of fodder I grabbed which happened to be CAO Cherry Bomb, and had a nice, leisurely smoke that ended the day about perfectly.

Started today with a totally great smoke, Amphora Absolute in a Miniature McQueen Fable. I did photograph this because I wanted to say a bit about the "gizmo" I attach to my longstems. It's simply a 3D printout holder, tapered so it will fit any size longstem, and fitted with a removable and replaceable Colt cigarillo tip. I use it because it simply gives me better control over the smoke column than the wood stem itself, which is also then protected from being chewed on - it's much more subject to wear than a nylon or other composite stem.

I'll hold on to Skippable Drivel until tonight. My two tins of Hearth and Home Magnum Opus have arrived, and I've got a buddy picking them up for me at the post office. So you pretty much know what this evening's smoke is gonna be, eh? Also preparing a series of posts because I've got some kudos, thank you's and observations to make in light of my first year anniversary in the forum, which happens in May.

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@gord Happy belated Birthday!

 

[Scottmi]

Got some pasture mowed, some weed burning and general yard up keep done. Time for a relaxing smoke- Pegasus in a Hilson Giant Canadian. A glass of ice water.
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That is a very fine looking smoking tool!

 

[Chieftiabo]

Orlik in a Volkan Bulldog

 

[Scottmi]

The last crumblings of some GH&Co Glengarry Flake in this commissioned Nate King Troll Poker:

Stunning! And love the name. I'm a huge fan of the movie "Troll Hunter!"

 

[Speak Easy]

Absolutely beautiful pipe!! Maybe a little jealous!

Haha! Thank you, sir!

Hope you and yours are all well and enjoying the new home!

 

[Sig]

That's one of the most elegant bents I've ever seen. Very svelte and the rustication suits the pipe perfectly.

Thanks.
It's a Lane Era 211 "Outsize".
I guess that's how they say it's a big pipe.
It holds a lot of tobacco.

 

[Questionable Source]

Oh, and it's Barbara Streisand's birthday tomorrow as well. You can choose which of the two are more noteworthy to celebrate...

Turning 40 be like:

Happy Early Birthday Servant King!

 

[happy_lunter]

Hiland Cigars Black Gold courtesy @BrightDarkEyes in a cob.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Hamborger Veermaster in an Altinay.

 

[rsshreck32]

Brown Twist Sliced in a Peterson Irish Harp Lovat. View attachment 387867

Haha! Thank you, sir!

Hope you and yours are all well and enjoying the new home!

We are doing very well, thank you. Blessings for you and yours as well!

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I should be able to go off my diet tomorrow. I'm near the end of this bowl of year 2015 Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a 2016 PSF POY quarter bend black sandblasted Vermont Freehand egg with an aluminum band and a tortoise shell colored acrylic saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Cleaned a few pipes, did the dishes, and fed Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave.

 

[Servant King]

Turning 40 be like:

Happy Early Birthday Servant King!

Thank you! Although I was thinking more along the lines of:

 

[Questionable Source]

Passing the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 1985 Dunhill Shell Slight Bend Quaint Panel #5 Unsmoked Pot. Topo Chico and bergs is my drink. Fed my Dog, Jay the Stellar bird is nesting in the motion sensor light. I know I'll see the others at some point, Quail, Towhee, Junco. Watching the Dodgers-Cubs game. Nice to see a game at Wrigley Field, and I hope they don't get beat too badly.