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

[RPK]

Can You Believe It's August? (... a traditional saying every year, right?)
Now having seen Back-to-School ads since early to mid-July, everything seems to kick into high gear when August arrives. All the stuff & plans that lingered w/o getting done, now GOTTA get moving. County Fairs, State Fairs all coming up. Stayed light until nearly 10pm in June, now pitch dark by 9:15pm. Weather still hot, humid but that'll be changing --- NOTE: looking forward to those first chilly, even crisp nights. Farmer's Markets & Roadside Veggie stands will start flourishing. Trees still green but have seen (counted) 8 yellow leaves. And, of course, Football Season beginning, for those that follow. Another month (September) & kitchens will be fragrant with Baked Squash & Roast Pork w/apples & onions.

In solidarity with the calendar, felt it appropriate for first pipe of August to have my own Aro, something I put together 12 years ago, left it jarred for 10 years, now dip into it periodically --- and named it Autumn '12.
Smoking in a Pete 309 System Standard Rusticated.

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I like the way you described the current season and the one that's on its way. I can see a couple of Norman Rockwell pictures in your words. Enjoy your Autumn '12

 

[andysc83]

SG Bothy Flake in Scottie Piersel

 

[Cloozoe]

Sansepolcro

 

[RPK]

C&D Exclusive in a J Mouton Short Liverpool commission And Peet's ️ on the side. 108f Heat Index with 98% Humidity, I’m beyond ready for fall weather.
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We are currently at 89 degrees with 86% humidity in the shade. The humidity is from a ½" downpour we got late last night. Yuck !

 

[Sobrbiker]

C&D Exclusive in a J Mouton Short Liverpool commission And Peet's ️ on the side. 108f Heat Index with 98% Humidity, I’m beyond ready for fall weather.
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Awesome smoke, hellish weather

 

[happy_lunter]

Italia in a cob.

 

[alwayslit]

 

[PaulRVA]

We are currently at 89 degrees with 86% humidity in the shade. The humidity is from a ½" downpour we got late last night. Yuck !

Yeah, thats brutally hot and humid brother. I’m going to man up and mow here in a little while once the dew melts off. Not going to be fun!

 

[dcon]

2017 Dunhill Three YearMatured VA in a Savinelli Roma #305 Half-bent Dublin.

 

[AreBee]

Lane BCA/Stokkebye No. 52 in Ben Wade Ovation

The Lane BCA was too moist and aromatic for me, so I mixed in one part Stokkebye No. 52 Proper English to two parts Lane and it balanced out nicely. The pipe was purchased to support a recent widow who I don’t know, and wanted her husband’s pipes to live on in good use.

 

[Speak Easy]

More GLP Gaslight for me.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John’s Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[dottlejockey]

Kicked off the morning with a nice big bowl of boswell's premium burley in a Radice.
Now commencing with the after breakfast smoke of Viprati in this smooth paneled Savinelli Autograph.

 

[dcon]

2017 Germain Royal Jersey VA and Cavendish in DIY Briar #1.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Cupido Toro in wretched heat.

 

[craig61a]

2017 C&D Kajun Kake in a Ryan Alden Freehand Morta w/Bamboo.

 

[telescopes]

My father’s Willard full bend pipe, filled with a favorite of mine, EZ1. This is a fine smoking pipe and blend.

 

[Scottmi]

It's a good morning, with KBV Burley Morning Pipe in the brebbia Noce billard, and coffee. A puff and a sip to you all!

 

[JimInks]

Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Just fed my cats, and will feed the ferals next. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[keith929]

D&S First Amendment in a Peterson Antique bent billiard.