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

[renfield]

6 year old F&T Cut Virginia Plug in a Nuttens Bing.

 

[bobpnm]

Ready Rubbed Match in this Savinelli 320KS. Diet Dr. Pepper. Watching Auburn vs Baylor football game.

 

[Sobrbiker]

The Royal Yacht in a Short Army 102
Grateful every day

 

[tfdickson]

Hogshead in my Suhr oval shank billiard.

 

[JimInks]

Just finishing this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a 1984 medium bend black grain etched Savinelli Non Pareil 9310 pokerish dublin with a horn ferrule and a black vulcanite flared stem. Watching Aerial Italy.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2023 H&H Viprati in a 2018 smooth straight flame grain Basil Meadows Merchant Service "Bing" replica with an aluminum band and black ebonite stem. Haven't smoked this pipe in quite a while.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Chenet’s cake in a Herbaugh Stublin, then time for bed.

 

[OzPiper]

My 1st smoke today is Granger - a very generous sample from @SmokEche

In a cob, courtesy of Dave(@Ahi Ka)

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Directors Cut in a Nuttens Bing
and Ginger Tea on the side.

 

[Puff nstuff]

Happy weekend to you all. Just burned a couple bowls of F&T Evans Blend in the Thermofilter dublin. Drank some TJ's hefeweizen along with it. Cheers!

 

[OzPiper]

A 2nd burley blend - Prince Albert. Another generous sample from @SmokEche

In a Ropp cherry wood

 

[Servant King]

Today's smoke was Peterson DeLuxe Navy Rolls in a Stefano Rhodesian, paired with a vodka tonic and some misanthropic banter (even more so than usual) with wifey. This bowl is dedicated to my parents, who were married at the Sportsmen's Lodge in LA 49 years ago today. Thumbing through the photo album, thoroughly amazed at the plaid pants that must've been constructed of curtains absconded from the nearest Holiday Inn. 9/10

Bird report: California scrub-jay, House finch, California towhee, California quail, American crow, Mountain chickadee, Oak titmouse, Bushtit, Northern flicker, Western bluebird, and Mourning dove.

Glad to have a day to decompress here, and know that fall is just around the corner. Shabbat shalom!

 

[kcmontie]

Smoking Stonehaven with a pinch of 5bros.

 

[spearheadbill]

smoking XXV Dawn in a radice. This blend has really grown on me. Listening to Bob Wills and Texas Playboys. Keep it Smokey View attachment 414026

Ra-Dee-chay

 

[spearheadbill]

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Smoking Stonehaven with a pinch of 5bros.

Keeping it smoky

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am near the last quarter of this bowl of year 2014 Sam Gawith Best Brown Flake in a straight smooth brown 1933-1945 Comoy’s patent Grand Slam 159 *4 apple with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching the D-Backs-Dodgers game. Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave came in to eat. Tomato ate a regular portion, wanted some head and ear rubbing, and then wanted out. Daisy went straight for a catnip sock, and I had coax her to eat what little that she did. She's snoozin' on the floor with her head on the sock after playing. Harry the Hairy is outside.

 

[Sandblast]

I got a bag, opened the door, and saw that he was eating a squirrel. I wrapped it in a bag and trashed it. I guess Harry wanted to share the squirrel with me.

Jim - An admirable gesture from Harry & as you so regularly delight us with details of your various meals, I have to believe you'd partake of a wonderful squirrel dinner with GUSTO (!!!). NOTE: I've eaten many squirrels & they're great. The mid-Appalachian area ... VA, WV, NC ... treasures squirrel. There are many YouTube videos on Appalachian cooking. But maybe you shouldn't rely on the cats to harvest them for you, should you become a connoisseur. With a Small Game License & a .22 rifle, you could stock your freezer.

Copied from a hunting & outdoor forum:
When you get an opportunity to have a squirrel dinner (pan fried with mashed potatoes & squirrel gravy)

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Swapped condos with a couple in Pensacola Beach for the long weekend. I think we traded down. They get a fully stocked bar and access to all of my albums. We don’t even get a wifi password, ha ha.

Kelly’s Coin in a Glenn Tinsky dog.

 

[OzPiper]

A 3rd burley blend - the much maligned Mixture 79.

I love all things aniseed/licorice - root beer, black jelly beans, aniseed-flavoured tooth paste, star anise, Chinese 5-spice. So this is a no brainer

In the cob. Again

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Watch City Jim’s Golden Ticket in a 2020 straight smooth dark brown Chacom 213 Bayard Opera Made in Saint Claude France with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ernie sez it'll be another month or two before this goes on sale.