***What Are You Smoking, August 2023?***

[VDL_Piper]

Afternoon everyone, trust your day is going well. Smoking some Union Square in my dedicated Virginia Castello #33. Still cool and very wet here but spring isn't far away and it's time for that grass to really grow. Need to get some more green house gas farters to keep it in check.

Happy Birthday to @Akoni808 hope you have a cracker

 

[Carol]

Smoking some Solani silver flake 660 for my birthday today. Still enjoying my 20’s.View attachment 238968

Happy Birthday!

 

[RobNYC]

Smoking some Solani silver flake 660 for my birthday today. Still enjoying my 20’s.View attachment 238968

Happy Birthday!

 

[RobNYC]

Pegasus in a Tekin.

 

[Akoni808]

Happy Birthday to @Akoni808 hope you have a cracker

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Mahalo nui guys

 

[The Clay King]

Another tribute to Pee Wee Herman August!

Just opened, trying for the first time, Orlik Golden Sliced in a Dr. Grabow: Commodore 65 Zulu, dated from 1967-1969 with a vulcanite stem, metal screw-in tenon, no stinger.

This one also goes out to @hoosierpipeguy not sure you’ve smoked this? When I opened it, I was really surprised how much the flakes looked like Sir John’s, but even more amazing, the tin note is similar, that floral note Sir John’s has.

Also, it has a similar taste profile, along with that floral note, I can taste too... hmm quite odd.

I thought at first this is a casing Sir John’s had added, maybe it still has something, but this does seem like a style of VAs, but this is only the second time I’ve experienced this.

I can’t believe how First Class this blend is!

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@PipeIT Looks like it would be a good baccy for my clay pipes. @Birddog66 Still not received my Musketeer I ordered on July 23rd.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am passing the first third of this bowl of year 2016 Sutliff Revelation Match in a straight smooth brown pre-WWII Kingsway (Comoy’s) London Made 61 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[VDL_Piper]

Little afternoon smoke of C&D Red Burn in a Pete 12.5 whilst I feed the dogs and they have their last run of the day.
They don't make heads much rougher than this one.......

 

[sardonicus87]

For a while, I was smoking Haunted Bookshop, but now I am smoking through this tin of the C&D/Warped Midsommar.

Just now finished a second bowl for today, Ennerdale, and it wasn't hitting quite right. For some reason, these late night smokes never hit the spot I want them to. Maybe it's the humidity (I only smoke outside and it's currently a 93% RH), or maybe my Lakelands pipe is due for a good cleaning.

 

[RobNYC]

Irish Flake in a Tekin.

 

[Birddog66]

Smoking some Solani silver flake 660 for my birthday today. Still enjoying my 20’s.View attachment 238968

Happy birthday, enjoy them while they last

 

[JimInks]

Finished work for the day, and will finish it tomorrow. I'm close to finishing this bowl of Wilke No. 515 Double Shot in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This is No. 515 with twice the rum of the Basil Rathbone blend. Spent time feeding the ferals.

 

[Birddog66]

@PipeIT Looks like it would be a good baccy for my clay pipes. @Birddog66 Still not received my Musketeer I ordered on July 23rd.

Not good news Dan, on top of the charges I received yesterday the lady at the post office told me Customs want £120 for four tins of MacBaren that I ordered. There’s no logic to the prices they charge it just seems to be any ludicrous number picked out of the air.

 

[JimInks]

I’m not one these days for Latakia, how noticeable is it in this blend?

Sad it’s only sold as 100g tins, and only through SPC.

Anyone know why SPC is the only retailer of Drucquer & Sons?

@glpease Mr. Pease please consider making this in 50g tins, and being sold at other retailers too.

That won't happen. It's exclusive to SP.

 

[Birddog66]

Just got back from the Post Office Depot with my tobacco and am about to smoke Sutliff Phantom Privateer in the Civic. With the charges these tins cost over $40 each which I’m going to try and reclaim from the thieving government.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2013 Esoterica Tilbury in a 2002 smooth Rinaldo Silver Line 3 EGER 05 paneled horn with a silver band and a black acrylic stem. I'll end the day with this smoke.

 

[Birddog66]

Trying my $45 tin of Pipe Force in the new Pete Barrel, unless the coin inside the tin is worth thirty bucks I’m feeling a bit put out

 

[PipeIT]

In the midst of tragedy, I must continue honoring not only Pee Wee Herman but now the island of Maui.

I can’t believe I only live 30 minutes away, from a place that now looks like a war zone, it’s so surreal, maybe it hasn’t fully registered, but I think it has.

I was thinking to drive there and have a look around, but now, I really don’t want these images in my head.

Have a look at these pictures if you want to get a glimpse into some of this destruction.

PHOTOS: A look at the devastation caused by wind-whipped brush fires on Maui

Hawaii is under high wind, red flag warnings as Hurricane Dora continues to track west.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

To Pee Wee & Maui!

G.L. Pease Bankside in a Dr. Grabow: Commodore 65 Zulu, dated from 1967-1969 with a vulcanite stem, metal screw-in tenon, no stinger.

I sat for a moment thinking, why did I choose to want to smoke of all things a smoky smelling blend, at a time like this... hmm

I ask that you stop for a few minutes, to reflect on you! We all know life is hard at times, but whatever you are going through, I truly hope you find joy, peace and love in this world, because as today reminded me, know one has a crystal ball, to know what the future will hold.

So please hold dearly on to what you have, and please be well everyone!





ALOHA!




P.S. August 9th 11:30PM HST. 🗓

 

[BCF]

GL Pease Windjammer in the Weber. Expecting a little rain today. Enjoy your day!

 

[FoggyMorning]

Dark Birds Eye in a Williamsburg clay pipe.