***What Are You Smoking, August 2022?***

[Rockyrepose]

SunBear MountainGoat in the Il Duca C.

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I have not seen a beetle like that, pretty good camouflage.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I have not seen a beetle like that, pretty good camouflage.

That's no beetle! That's the recently discarded exoskeleton of a "Scissor-Grinder" cicada.

 

[JOHN72]

Already at home. After dinner at the Mexican restaurant. Everything went well. Smoking some Toscanos Extra Vecchio. I've had so much coffee, I can't sleep. I take the opportunity to smoke a bowl of Byzantium, in a MM Diplomat pipe.

 

[warren99]

GL Pease Charing Cross in a Tonni Nielsen No. 3 Poker

 

[AMDG]

LJ Peretti’s Pride of Loch Lamond in a Savinelli Sistina 111KS.

 

[Rockyrepose]

That's no beetle! That's the recently discarded exoskeleton of a "Scissor-Grinder" cicada.

That explains how you got it to pose for the shot.

 

[tfdickson]

Dunhill Dark Flake in my Castello bent bulldog.

 

[ThermionicScott]

No picture evidence, but I had a really nice bowl of C&D Epiphany in my Brebbia 984 this afternoon. It’s usually an English/Balkan pipe, so I had extra Orientals coming through at times. I think I might officially make this an English/Epiphany crossover pipe!

 

[Carol]

Anglers Dream in a cob. Good evening all.

 

[damacene]

Enjoying some Captain Black Royal in MM cob on my drive home. First time having CB and its not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I expected a gloopy bitey mess but it's a very pleasant light smoke. i'm not usually a fan of aromatics but this is nice.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, tuna steaks and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've a third of a bowl left of year 2018 Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight, dark brown early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Getting ready to clean a few pipes as I watch the ball game.

 

[Servant King]

I'm still reeling from the sudden death of one of my favorite jazz organists, Joey DeFrancesco. A new cache of samples from @TheIronMonkey should help me get back into a better frame of mind. Digging in today for the first time...

C&D Warped: Saint Espresso in my Savinelli Tortuga 614 bent billiard. Although @JimInks says no dry time needed, I gave it 10-15 minutes, just because I'm a finicky SOB. Lovely blend! It does taste pretty true to its name, although my wife (a coffee snob) took a couple puffs and shook her head as she handed the pipe back to me! But she liked the taste and the room note, so I can't ask for much more than that.

Bird report: California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, House finch, Mountain chickadee, Northern flicker, Common raven, Mourning dove, Western bluebird, California towhee, California quail, and Hairy woodpecker. Nursing a Moscow mule, and preparing for a great dinner of pasta w/chicken sausage and mushrooms. Summer seems to be conceding to autumn a little early, which is just fine by me. That spells lots of work forthcoming for my Sav Bacco 321, my English blend pipe.

 

[Hillcrest]

On my way to work this afternoon, Country Squire Old Toby (dried) in the Barontini 1/2 spigot bent billiard with 20mmx46mm chamber and 9mm charcoal filter. Very mild and pleasant and I waited in the car to finish the bowl. But I forgot to bring extra tobacco so I had to stop at a local Vape/cigar emporium which had limited selection of pipe tobacco unless you wanted big bags of criss cross, premium, and two others i wasn't familiar with or cigarette tobacco (RYO). I did manage to get their last packet of Sutcliffe Chocolate Mousse (all black cavendish) for $7.99. No need to dry it as it was already crispy. If your wondering what it tastes like, it tastes exactly like Carnation Dark Hot chocolate mix. It was a nice change. If you smoke it fast and hot you will get a slight flavor of what cedar pencil shavings smell like. Its a nice change but I can't think anyone would smoke it all day unless they wanted to give up chocolate forever. It burned all the way down with no moisture in bowl. The ashes are not fine white but coarse black like ground pepper or gravel dust. the after taste doesn't last long so that's a small blessing.

 

[Servant King]

That’s the neighbour’s shed. We thought about getting one and putting a bar in it, but, we figured we’d just drink in the house.

You could still put a bar in there, just as an obscure practical joke to your neighbor...

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

St Bruno RR from a Wessex dublin.

 

[Brendan]

Chucked some Amphora Burley in with some Union Square to go with some University Flake leftover in my carry tin.
Give it a shake, load and smoke.
Getting mostly Amphora Burley at the moment.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vintage in a Deschane.

 

[The Clay King]

Vincent Manil Le Petit Robin.

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(Old Dominion clay pipe)

@Tabacco Looks like a Jamestown clay pipe; I've got 2 of them but keeping them unsmoked. Old Dominion clay pipes seem to be popular with re-enactors...

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2018 Mac Baren Original Flake in a straight smooth dark brown 1918 Pre-Republic Peterson’s Dublin 2 apple with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem.

 

[tnfan]

Solani Silver Flake in a Great Line Castello Collection.