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

[Birddog66]

View attachment 287433View attachment 2874343rd bowl of Pegasus out of the Tekin today.

I wanted mushrooms with dinner so I went out to forage and brought a briar with me in case my hands got too dirty for my meer. Amazingly, my hands stayed pretty clean so I fired up the meer when I was done. I found about 4 lbs of winter chantrelles.

I would have loved those in my pasta this evening. I’m gonna try and train WeeBay to sniff out truffles for the summer season.

 

[Birddog66]

It’s a beautiful smoke so far. Even at 25% I can feel the Rustica at every puff. Yet so far (about 50% of the bowl) it has not been overwhelming

It’s a crazy combo, like smoked salmon on a cheesecake

 

[Birddog66]

Salty Dogs, which I keep thinking of as Shady Grove, which is a Quicksilver Mesenger Service album, as opposed to A Salty Dog which is a Procol Harum album from the same year, but I don't think of the tobacco as Procol Harum.

In a meer.

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It’s definitely more Led Zeppelin

 

[Birddog66]

Last one before I hit the sack tonight, Wessex BS in a lizard skin covered Club pipe. I’ve never heard of this brand before but I have a sneaking suspicion that it was a promotion from the Club mens magazine, you know, the one with the boobies and such.

 

[LeafErikson]

I would have loved those in my pasta this evening. I’m gonna try and train WeeBay to sniff out truffles for the summer season.

Aw man I definitely woulda given you some if ya lived nearby.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Yeah I sorely regret returning a smooth 102 back to SP.

Did you keep any of the four you had? I recall you were thinking of keeping the 87…

 

[cshubhra]

It’s a crazy combo, like smoked salmon on a cheesecake

I chose Crème Brûlée so that almost all Nicotine I get will be from Rustica

 

[macaroni]

Rattray's 40 Virginia jarred in 2021 in a 1958 Dunhill Poker

 

[Sobrbiker]

Sutliff Crème Brûlée amped with about 25% shredded wild Rustica whole leaf in a MM Legend Cob

That’s quite a combo!

 

[B.Lew]

Ran a few bowls of this pairing today. Every time I focus on a tin of C&D, I wonder why I don’t give their blends more of my attention.

 

[BenMN]

2021 Penny Farthing in my Peterson short

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

CVP in a Howell.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Last one before I hit the sack tonight, Wessex BS in a lizard skin covered Club pipe. I’ve never heard of this brand before but I have a sneaking suspicion that it was a promotion from the Club mens magazine, you know, the one with the boobies and such. View attachment 287437

Well, who doesn’t like boobies & such. ️

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking Seattle Pipe Club Down Yonder in a straight black 1963 Dunhill LB Shell 4S billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[isaac]

 

[brandaves]

Carolina Red Flake with Perique 2020 in a Savinelli Sienna 673.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Peterson’s Irish Flake in a Royal Danish 988 biliard.
Checking on weed spray progress, foreground was treated last week, background was supposed to be yesterday’s task, but become tomorrow’s due to rain.

 

[woodsroad]

2015 HU Director’s Cut in a generic clay.

 

[LeafErikson]

Watching UFC Fight Night. Going to have Cornell & Diehl Small Batch Folklore (2022, 805/1000) in an unbranded, unmarked, Magnum-sized Swan Neck LC (Large Curve) with a horn stem with an orific bit; this pipe is most likely French in origin, and may be from the late 19th or early 20th Century—it is curve drilled, has a bone tenon, and a cork mortise.

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Supposedly, there are only a couple machines around today that can still bend horn to make these kinds of stems. Ropp owns one of them.

 

[dino]

I just finished a wonderful meeting with my ZOOM buddies, conversation, camaraderie and lotsa BS. I smoked my GBD New Standard 549 bent bulldog filled with McClelland Drama Reserve, one of my favorite tobaccos. A tumbler of Peach/Mango Green Tea with a splash of Honey Jack and a fistful of bergs was my beverage.