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

[Smoke Wagon]

Some small batch Carolina Red Flake in the Tekin.

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What’s the string for?

 

[Brewfan]

WCC 558 in a smooth 2022 Christmas Peterson 01

 

[The Clay King]

Ya, I suppose you could drink scotch out of a clay mug. Lol.

@Laurent I meant the Virginia Flake would suit my clay pipes I don't drink spirits...

 

[OSOBUCO]

SPC Plum Pudding Bourbon Barrel Aged in a Savinelli on Plum Pudding Day with black java

 

[PipeWI]

View attachment 201967Yep cleaning , still procrastinating on that task.

If only funds allowed the employment of a pipe butler!

 

[PipeWI]

Good morning. Smoking the first third of Dan Tobacco - Skipper's Flake, in an Stanwell Calabash. We had a grade 3 earthquake, the epicenter was in the Alboran Sea. I wish you a happy Sunday. Prayers for those who died in the earthquake in Turkey. I am still angry with God.View attachment 201965

Such a terrible event. I am angry with the humans myself. My thoughts are with you all (and also, some of my $). May the Turkish people flourish amidst this tragedy

 

[Laurent]

@Laurent I meant the Virginia Flake would suit my clay pipes I don't drink spirits...

It is one of my favorites.

 

[AJL67]

Some Deer Stalker in a Pete’s Meer, this was graciously sent to me by a friend, very old sample, hmm not much sweetness, almost reminds me of some McClellands blends minus the ketchup. It’s complex yet not complex, hard to describe, very good. Now time to enjoy and focus as I’ll most likely never have more of this. Thank you @onepyrotec !

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Folklore in my Cosmic bent bully with a drip band… and coffee.
It’s rained here almost every day of winter…. And I really need to get the orchard pruned, but my ladder sinks into the mud.

 

[trouttimes]

965 in an Upshall with black tea.

 

[Deano]

Duke Albert in a Rathbone with my coffee.

 

[didimauw]

C&D OJK in my Altinay (shocking right?)
Way over dressed for 35° weather apparently.

 

[Ben.R.C]

McConnelll’s Scottish Flake in a Castello on a rainy, cold Sunday.

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

Sutliff CTC Virginia from a 1930s BBB - the TSS BermudaView attachment 201827

I'd like to see the entire painting one day...

 

[MCJ]

2012 McClelland Christmas Cheer in a Lee Erck Brandy.

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Love the blast on that pipe!

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Mac B Original in an unmarked (probably Manx) African meer apple with an @georged acrylic stem.

 

[MCJ]

Going to have Esoterica Tobacciana Margate (2021) in the third birthday pipe, a Briar Root (Freehand? Dublin? No idea what to call this organically shaped pipe) from the collection of the late pipemaker, Thomas Cristiano.

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My birthday dinner was panko encrusted salmon with fried rice and broccoli.

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Susan made birthday carrot cake for dessert.

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We’re probably going to have this Fonseca’s 1977 Vintage Port that I’ve been sitting on for a number of years—about once every decade, a stellar vintage gets released; classic years have been 1955, 1963, and 1977; the 1977 vintage had a number of nearly perfect 100 ratings from a few different houses).

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Awesome finish to your Birthday smokes! I'm started mine (day after yours) and will be posting those below...

 

[UB 40]

If only funds allowed the employment of a pipe butler!

I always ask my wife what the heck the pipe cleaner, as we call him or her, did meantime.

 

[sjohnston0311]

Peretti's Cuban Mixture in a Tsuge, accompanied by a hot cup of black coffee.

 

[UB 40]

Cleaned up all of them, now smoking Irish Cast and in one of my homemades.