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

[cshubhra]

GL Pease Embarcadero from March 2020 in a Briarworks Billiard

 

[tmcg81]

Just packed up my Secret Santa package, and in honor of that, I'm smoking a Savinelli Moka straight apple filled with PS Cube Cut, both gifted to me last year by my secret Santa.

 

[JimInks]

Just did a google search and it's a seriously impressive body of work!!! Very cool!

Thank you.

 

[JimInks]

Happy birthday, @Laurent !

 

[JimInks]

1st Time Burning a bowl of Edward Robinson Mixture,I enjoy it already, thanks to @Jimlnks and your avatar for inspiring me to try this and also for you keeping this blend on the shelf.

You're very welcome. I'm glad you like it.

 

[JimPM]

Of all the money that ever I had
I spent it in good company
And of all the harm that ever I done
Alas! It was to none but me

And all I’ve done for want of wit
To memory now, I can’t recall
So, fill to me the parting bowl
Goodnight, and joy be with you all

What sorrows one finds in the parting bowl. Down to the last of my three-year old Peretti’s Blend DD. And what great company it has been. The dark nuances sing more boldly in their aging. The sweet-sour Burley refrain that now abides its lovely melody would make any Irish man cry like a baby, me included.

 

[cunninghampm]

Tried my first bowl of C&D John Marr in my Savenelli Arcoboleno. Nice blend: toffee-like topping comes through up front, but stops well short of being cloying. The tobacco itself - VaPer and Cavendish - becomes more pronounced on the back half. Burns pretty cool with minimal relights. Happy to have it on hand

 

[cunninghampm]

Tried my first bowl of C&D John Marr in my Savenelli Arcoboleno. Nice blend: toffee-like topping comes through up front, but stops well short of being cloying. The tobacco itself - VaPer and Cavendish - becomes more pronounced on the back half. Burns pretty cool with minimal relights. Happy to have it on han

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[Ahi Ka]

Hey @Ahi Ka hope all is well!

I’m not much of a Sutliff fan...

But, if you’re into VAs/VaPers, Anomalous and States of Virginia are really nice!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Years Mate!

I enjoy making fun of Sutliff’s. Reality is some of the best tobacco currently available is blended in their factory

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Time to clean a few pipes.

 

[onestrangeone]

Bayou Morning in a Ken Dederichs egg

 

[Auxsender]

Voodoo Tour from a Barker dublin while I calibrate a new turntable. View attachment 269183

Cool as hell man. The calibrate-able turntable, the mug, the pipe, the blend; all of it. Good shit.

 

[Auxsender]

View attachment 269202Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Oil Cured Radice Rind with Condor, thank you @JOHN72. Celebrating my mother’s life even while making her funeral arrangements. This smoke is a needed break from the siblings.My mother bought me many pipes over the years. She raced motocross, shot in black power shoots and was a legendary hunter and fisherman. She was also a German. We affectionately referred to her as both the Hun and the panzer tank. She was a force to be reckoned with and even when I was 18 she could pin me in a wrestling match. She once held up the back end of a 56 Chevy when the Jack was moved while changing the Wheel She cold cocked two women who insulted her and dropped them clean out with one punch. A force of nature, she could rip a door off it hinges as easily as flinging cast iron skillets at my idiot dad. We will miss her and know that there was no one like her ever.

Absolutely incredible. What a woman and what a life! Cheers to the memory of your badass mom! May she live forever in memory and spirit!

 

[telescopes]

Absolutely incredible. What a woman and what a life! Cheers to the memory of your badass mom! May she live forever in memory and spirit!

Amen

 

[lochinvar]

Smoking some 20 year old Butera Blended Flake in a Castello Old Antiquari Canadian

 

[Auxsender]

1980s Players Medium Navy Cut in the Yeti Dublin.

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That ring grain is s. Great looking pipe, fella.

 

[rsshreck32]

Please do give an update once smoked.

I see quite a few personal favorites in you cellar... nice selection

That's a good cigar. A nice spice that gets a little milder throughout the smoke. Easy smoking cigar from start to finish. It has a creamy, woodsy flavor throughout to me. I'm going to pick up a handful of these so that my son and I can enjoy then while he's home on leave from the Army.

 

[sittingbear]

Of all the money that ever I had
I spent it in good company
And of all the harm that ever I done
Alas! It was to none but me

And all I’ve done for want of wit
To memory now, I can’t recall
So, fill to me the parting bowl
Goodnight, and joy be with you all

What sorrows one finds in the parting bowl. Down to the last of my three-year old Peretti’s Blend DD. And what great company it has been. The dark nuances sing more boldly in their aging. The sweet-sour Burley refrain that now abides its lovely melody would make any Irish man cry like a baby, me included.
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One of the greatest songs of all time. If you haven't heard it, I recommend the version by Cory Seznec:

...and of course the version by the Wailin' Jennys:

Either one will be fine at my wake!

 

[sittingbear]

GH & Co. Bosun Cut Plug in an Arly Curtz Liverpool with a boxwood stem.

 

[alaskanpiper]

2006 McClelland Blakeney’s Best Ribbon in a blasted brandillieggoop by Sean Reum whilst enjoying a traffic jam.