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

[gord]

The tobacco flowers are finally opening up and should be ready to harvest for the Jimchi Trout assembly and photo by tomorrow evening or the following morning. Plant is very close to the window, and it's COLD out there. Probably accounts for the blooming delay. Tweaking recipe and am looking forward to posting it in the immediate future. . . . and the kimchee has had enough time to ferment somewhat. I'll be posting the recipe as well.

In the meantime my life, like most here in the forum, is in overdrive, with meetings, concerts, Advent preparation and altogether too many people. Media fast has helped. And so have cigars and chew . . . . a leisurely pipe for an hour or so is going to have to wait until sanity re-establishes itself.

Right, eh?

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Padilla Toro playing golf. Cold here in Florida today.
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“Florida cold” seems a lot more enjoyable than “Wisconsin cold” right about now lol

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

G&H Curly Cut Deluxe in a Chacom poker with water. I’m very grateful I can smoke inside today. Yeah it’s cold out.

 

[warren99]

Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in a Peter Matzhold “D” tomato.

 

[krizzose]

50/50 mix of Peretti BPC and KBV Noble Aztec in a Savinelli Canadian.

Just shoveled some snow. only a couple of inches fell yesterday, and it’s still cold so the snow stayed powdery. Easy peasy

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am near the last quarter of 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. Gold Star 50th, neat, is my drink.

 

[popeofpiping]

Smoking a new acquisition. A giant (for me) Don Carlos Lovat. This is the biggest pipe I have purchased. Let me start by saying Rich Esserman might have a point. Wonderful smoking pipe. The inaugural smoke was some C&D Sansepolcro from 2020, seemed necessary.

 

[dottlejockey]

Smoking a new acquisition. A giant (for me) Don Carlos Lovat. This is the biggest pipe I have purchased. Let me start by saying Rich Esserman might have a point. Wonderful smoking pipe. The inaugural smoke was some C&D Sansepolcro from 2020, seemed necessary.
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Nice looking DC. He makes great pipes and the shank on that bad boy is stunning.

Loading up a bowl of Janus in an Ahmet Govem commission for the ride to town to handle a few errands.

 

[infectedpsyche]

My Black Friday impulse buy came in! A Ropp Vintage Stout Sandblasted Pot. Breaking it in with some 2024 Sun Bear Black Locust.

Now to find some small pipe bits as the end of this is way too small for the Brycos I have on hand.

 

[papapauly]

I always switch to velvet during the holidays. Not sure why or how I started this but for 10 years now it's velvet in a old well smoked cob in december

 

[BlueRidge]

LNF in a new no name meer

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Makhuwa in a Radice Chubby

 

[Fralphog]

Ali Dubmeer with some WCC Old Dominion (sample by @PrivatePiping )
And Russian Caravan tea with honey.

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking KBV Pork Chops and Apple Sauce 2024 in a medium bend fumed tan crackled year 2020 Ahmet Govem reverse calabash meerschaum with a military mount silver band and black acrylic stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Fralphog]

Just finished smoking KBV Pork Chops and Apple Sauce 2024 in a medium bend fumed tan crackled year 2020 Ahmet Govem reverse calabash meerschaum with a military mount silver band and black acrylic stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
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The boys over at Ken’s blended up this here fine tobacco. It’s good I tell ya, real good! Now hurry on over and buy some if ya know what’s good for ya! Scram

 

[JimInks]

Passing the first third of this bowl of KBV Pork Chops and Apple Sauce 2024 in a medium bend smooth paneled 2017 Celebi Turkish Meerschaum with a tapered gold and black swirl acrylic stem. Ismail made this meer for me as a token of friendship. Not far from finishing the review of this blend.

 

[JimInks]

The boys over at Ken’s blended up this here fine tobacco. It’s good I tell ya, real good! Now hurry on over and buy some if ya know what’s good for ya! Scram


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I have plenty of each version of PC&AS.

 

[ziv]

Exclusive in a Rossi.

 

[WirelessSmoke]

Enjoyed a new blend, Watch City's Strange Magic Flake, in a Crown Jewels pot. Great first smoke, and I'm looking forward to getting to know this blend.

 

[renfield]

McClelland's 2013 Christmas Cheer in a Willmer AAA billiard.