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

[Mortar0341]

Mostly Pee Dee but it's got a pinch of Haunted Bookshop in it. Drinking black coffee.

 

[spearheadbill]

HU Tobacco
Louisiana Broken
Peterson Dunmore 106

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Having some Newminster #400 in a Rattrays Goblin with a cup of hot coffee ️

 

[Roach1]

Briar Fox in a small Stanwell Freehand. I have just been smoking this for a few days because of a slight gum infrection. I have been usually an antiseptic rinse 3x a day. Maybe tommorow I can get pack to my standards. I hardly have anything without Perique .

 

[TubbyInTweed]

My grandmother went to be with the Lord yesterday at 97 years old. She was an incredible woman that lived a long and amazing life . As a result, I called out today to stay home and spend some time with the family. But before I jump into son/daddy duties I'm in the garage with my daughter's birthyear pipe, a Stanwell POTY 2023 loaded with C&D Haunted bookshop cake with a plain black coffee.

Thank you to those that reached out and I hope you all have a great day!

 

[xrundog]

OJK in a 1987 Dunhill Tanshell 5109.

 

[ashdigger]

Here’s to a normal day. I’m home in Vegas doing what I do. Two fires and writing reports.

Since it’s a normal day, here we go with Hamborger Veermaster in a 1911 Patent Pete.

 

[Carol]

Briar Fox in a small Stanwell Freehand. I have just been smoking this for a few days because of a slight gum infrection. I have been usually an antiseptic rinse 3x a day. Maybe tommorow I can get pack to my standards. I hardly have anything without Perique .

Don't know if this would help, but try taking "L Lysine" every day. It is an amino acid (protein precursor) supplement. I assume you can get it there. I have a tendency to get mouth sores, ever since I was a kid. But since I found out about Lysine, I seldom get them anymore. And it helps with tongue bite too.

 

[glub]

Capstan Blue in a Castello Trademark Bent Billiard on this (quite welcome) unseasonably cool summer day.

 

[punkeedo]

Enjoying one of my favs as I work this morning: Country Squire's Green Dragon (George's Dragon) in my Viprati Freehand.

 

[B.Lew]

‘18 Ennerdale in a Piersel. Long live Ennerdale!

 

[Roach1]

Don't know if this would help, but try taking "L Lysine" every day. It is an amino acid (protein precursor) supplement. I assume you can get it there. I have a tendency to get mouth sores, ever since I was a kid. But since I found out about Lysine, I seldom get them anymore. And it helps with tongue bite too.

Many Thanks I'll look into it.

 

[SourShank]

Pesse Canoe 20 in my beater Peterson Cara 999. I'm liking this blend. The tin had me cringe (no seal) but the flakes were very moist. Crumbled apart in little doughy chunks.

 

[bobpnm]

SWRA in this Peterson 406. Can’t decide if I like shiny copper or a little patina. Since I have more than a little patina, I’m leaning that direction. That good old southern staple, sweet iced tea along with it.

 

[Scottmi]

2025 Ephemeris with Perique in the Bones Poker. And coffee!

 

[JeffNYC]

Firing up GL Pease JackKnife Plug (2013) again. Tobacco smells earthy, a little smoky, and has that ketchup essence (reminds me of some [McCellands] from a decade ago), plus dried fruit like raisins. Hope it goes a bit better than yesterday getting a bit tongue bite! And no I wasn't smoking too fast, bowl took well over an hour. Taste is similar to Mac Baren HH Old Dark Fired, but a bit..harsher? Both have been aged for 12+ years, for what it's worth. Continuing to break in my new Winslow Crown Smooth Freehand (smoke #3). Wish me luck!

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Janneman Flake in a Castello 31
and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[Roach1]

Briar Fox in a Jirsa 186.

 

[Skink]

LJ Peretti BPC in a L’Anatra Dalle Uova D’Oro Partially Rusticated Paneled Billard - Pipes & Tobacco Magazine Pipe of the Year 2005 #000/250 with a short black moka.

 

[dottlejockey]

Shoddy wifi at the hotel in Houston. Seems to work now during non-peak hours. Taking advantage of it while i can.

The night i left the Seattle area i stopped by a park with my 2 adult children on the way to the airport, picked up some Indian food for dinner and caught the sunset on the bay in Des Moines where i grew up.


The next morning, after breakfast at the hotel, i went out for a walk with a cigar and was greeted by a spectacular view across the street of the early morning sun near the NRG Stadium.



Now heading out to explore another part of Houston with one of the few meers i brought on the trip. A nice sized bowl of Sans in an Ali cherrywood. Will likely refill this bad boy a couple times with some other offerings during the drive.