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

[telescopes]

Tried this blend for the first time last month. I thought I drastically underdid it on the dry time (three hours)...thank you for letting me know this auditory display is normal!

Not only normal, but a part of the experience. Many fans of the tobacco would suggest you not worry about drying it. It stays lit regardless. I was able to pull out some flavor of the tobacco with retrohales. Hay, grass, vanilla, cavendish burley.

 

[mbmoehl]

Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve. Very happy to receive two gifts from my wife.
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Both are really beautiful. Happy New Year!

 

[samuelgawith01]

Smoking Cornell and Diehl Burley Flake #4 in this Charatan Executive.

 

[Tar Wheel]

Good morning, all. Woke up at the crack of dawn to watch footie with @UncleRasta. I’m sipping on a large mug of coffee, doctored just right with bourbon cream, and waiting for my wife and daughter to head out on their adventures today, so I can enjoy a bowl of KBV Van Gogh (I’m still under quarantine according to her). Hope you’re all having a great weekend.

Cheers!

 

[Ben.R.C]

C & D Bayou Morning Flake in a Ser Jacabo Maxima, first time with the flake version, definitely better the ribbon.

 

[LotusEater]

About to watch EPL football and smoking Habana Daydream in a 2016 Stanwell DM Competition pipe

 

[timt]

Good morning folks. I’m getting my morning bowls in before the playoff games start this afternoon. Already planning on how to stay calm in case my Chiefs piss it down their leg, just like I know they’re capable of doing.

Currently finishing my jar of Golden Extra.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Going to have G.L. Pease Spark Plug in one of my earliest Eugène-Léon Ropp pipes, a Cherrywood with a Natural Horn Stem. It’s stamped “Bussang,” so, it’s very likely it was made at Ropp’s original workshop there between 1870–1893. I usually have cherry or berry aromatics in my pipes made of cherry, but, I have at least two cherry Ropps and a briar Oguz Simsek dedicated to those kinds of blends—I decided this one would be for English blends. There are only so many pipes one can dedicate to cherry/berry aromatics. This pipe is truly gargantuan, and easily the biggest pipe in my collection (see a smaller Ropp that’s pretty large by most standards that I’ve posted before, a 12 oz Coca-Cola can, and a Savinelli 320 KS to get an idea of the relative scale). This pipe is probably considered big, even by @Chasing Embers standards—this is a table sitter and way too heavy to clench for me.

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My age battered hands would call that perfect.

 

[Tar Wheel]

Good morning folks. I’m getting my morning bowls in before the playoff games start this afternoon. Already planning on how to stay calm in case my Chiefs piss it down their leg, just like I know they’re capable of doing.

Currently finishing my jar of Golden Extra.
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Hey buddy, do you mind sharing your plan on staying calm??
Liverpool has been pissing it down their leg all season long, and my method of calming nerves ends up resulting in a long mid-day nap .

Cheers!

 

[timt]

Hey buddy, do you mind sharing your plan on staying calm??
Liverpool has been pissing it down their leg all season long, and my method of calming nerves ends up resulting in a long mid-day nap .

Cheers!

Yeah, napping is a good proven technique. Another way is to just play mind games with yourself and resolve to never watch them again, even to root against them forever.

 

[LotusEater]

Yeah, napping is a good proven technique. Another way is to just play mind games with yourself and resolve to never watch them again, even to root against them forever.

I think the napping is related to early morning EPL games and bourbon cream. At least that’s my excuse
Go Chiefs!

 

[AJL67]

2020 Cringle Flake in an Altinay dragon motif meerschaum know as Cool Mo D while watching Season of the Witch. Seemed fitting.

 

[Zeno Marx]

25° and gloomy. Stanwell with new Sutliff 507-C. Good smoke. 7.5/10

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Sutliff Matured Red VA in a Morgason this morn.

 

[Latakia Dave]

Wow your pipes keep getting better and better every time I see a new one! Another beauty.

Thanks buddy. I appreciate it!

 

[Deano]

Irish Oak this morning.

 

[JimK]

Good weekend and pipes to all! Starting this overcast Florida morning with C&D John Marr in an Upshall P Lovatt.

 

[trouttimes]

Balkan Supreme in a Caminetto with a breakfast elk and eggs .

 

[telescopes]

A charring light, some puffs, a tamp, and the True Light. Snap, crackle, and pop. A rusticated Savinelli Bing with Crème Brûlée.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

CH in a Paykoc Meer apple while I start on these re-stems and repairs.