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

[JimInks]

Couldn't sleep, so I'm up and reading. I've passed the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2019 Low Country Pipe & Cigar Natural Virginia & Burley in a 1980 black sandblasted full bent Ascorti Business Extension Saxaphone with a thin gold band accent and black acrylic saddle stem. Thought I'd see if a few years has made much difference, and since I haven't smoked this pipe in quite a while, it seemed to be a good match.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Steamworks in the Iafisco bent w/silver.
Loving the mild, albeit overcast morning- perfect for a pre-work bowl.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

an afternoon tea(Earl Gray) smoke of S&G 1792 flakes in a small group 2 Dunhill Root briar 113 F/T long billiard shape anno 64

 

[BCF]

A rain day reprieve from heading back from vacation to the field has led to a day behind my desk. I know which is worse... Oh well, smoking the scrapings of this tin of C&D Burley Flake No.3 in a Brigham. Coffee.

 

[BayouGhost]

Peretti Tashkent in a Savinelli 122 pot shape.

 

[dog_park_piper]

Took a personal day from work.

Enjoying Conistor Plug Cut in a wonderful sandblasted Castello billiard and watching the smoker get moving in dinner

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Took a personal day from work.

Enjoying Conistor Plug Cut in a wonderful sandblasted Castello billiard and watching the smoker get moving in dinner
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What a coincidence, I'm smoking Coniston Cut Plug this morning too! In a little Dr. Grabow Lark in my case.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Couldn't sleep, so I'm up and reading. I've passed the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2019 Low Country Pipe & Cigar Natural Virginia & Burley in a 1980 black sandblasted full bent Ascorti Business Extension Saxaphone with a thin gold band accent and black acrylic saddle stem. Thought I'd see if a few years has made much difference, and since I haven't smoked this pipe in quite a while, it seemed to be a good match.
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Now that’s a “saxy” photo….make it NSFW!

Ok I’ll show myself out now….

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Black coffee with Sterling Flake in a Grabow.

 

[ThomasS]

Briar Fox in a Grabow Riveria as the fog rolls in from the lake

 

[Speak Easy]

Wish I’d have popped the top on this tin sooner. Half way through an excellent smoke!

 

[dog_park_piper]

What a coincidence, I'm smoking Coniston Cut Plug this morning too! In a little Dr. Grabow Lark in my case.

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Great smoke!

 

[The Libertine]

Smoking Sutliff Heavy English out of a Stanwell HCA dublin with the churchwarden stem.

 

[Roach1]

HU Nyala in a Jirsa 107.

 

[Speak Easy]

OJK in a clay.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Louis L’Amour, one of my favorite authors, if not the favorite. His characters inspire me to act like a man in the best possible sense. Strong, steady, balanced, reliable, common sense smart, ready at all times to be available to help, humble yet confident, and capable. He should be required reading in school.

Well said @Steddy 100% agree! Starting “Last of the Breed”

 

[MattRVA]

More 3 Sails and french pressed Yerba Maté with honey.

 

[MisterBadger]

Smoke of the evening, HH Old Dark Fired in the Ropp mule. Hot lemon water with honey and a dash of whisky, my accompanying beverage, as Mrs. Badger has kindly shared with me her cold which has developed into Man Flu (you know what Man Flu is like: in a recent survey, 9 out of 10 men said it was worse than childbirth). I still enjoyed my smoke, though, and it occurs to me that this excellent flake is even better than it seems to one with a compromised olfactory system. But thus far, if ODF and Peterson's Irish Flake were Wagner overtures, and PIF was Tannhäuser, ODF would be Götterdämmerung. YMMV but I think it's a crackin' smoke.

 

[rsshreck32]

OJK in a clay.View attachment 354675

Now that's a pipe with some character!

 

[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. Been raining all morning so no walking reps today. Ice water and bergs is my drink.