***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***

[Scottmi]

HU Director's Cut in the Imp Sitter with morning coffee.

 

[tubbyninja1337]

Decided to bring along my Canadian Club again for my commute. This is the first pot shaped pipe I've owned and I am really digging the stout bowl and length. Loaded it up with Arango Balkan Supreme and paired with black coffee with just a hint of vanilla.

Hope you all have a great taco Tuesday!

 

[tschiraldi]

I’m breaking out a dinosaur. This is an old Jobey pipe that was given to me (like a fruit cake) unsmoked a number of years ago. Instead of re-gifting it, I decided to keep it around. I figured it could be used (by someone else) when someone wanted to try smoking a pipe. Since then, this pipe has only been smoked 5 or 6 times. The bit is uncomfortable and the draw very restricted. A regular pipe cleaner almost has to be greased to get it into the airway. None the less, it was meant to be smoked, so I’m now loading it up with G&H Brown Flake Aromatic and giving it a go. Not a bad looking pipe, though.View attachment 366616

Apologies! I made a terrible mistake on this one! The pipe is an old Jelling pipe, NOT a Jobey! It actually smokes pretty well.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Chenet’s in an S Bang lovat and a coke

 

[PaulRVA]

Heaping Bowl of C&D Exclusive in a Savinelli Punto Oro Gold 101 and an Espresso ️ on the side.

 

[Steddy]

HU Director's Cut in the Imp Sitter with morning coffee.
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She’s a beaut.

 

[Meerly John]

Haunted Bookshop in a MM-Dagner poker

 

[JOHN72]

Smoking the first third of glp# Spark plug, in a bent MM Diplomat. It seems that we are in June, before leaving home, I have to check the weather, to be able to decide what to wear. It's crazy. May God bless you.

 

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking year 2012 Esoterica Dorchester in a straight smooth brown 1920s KBB Rocky Briar 1582 patent no.298978 with a B in a circle bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Sigmund]

@JOHN72 Send some of that warm weather up to France. It has been pretty nice but I could use June weather.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[JimK]

Good day all! Yesterday was devoted to Peterson Elizabethan Mixture in a Tilshead smooth Billiard with long saddle stem. Started today with redoubtable but seductive 1792 Flake in a now-dedicated Wilke smooth Billiard with pencil shank and pinch waist tapered stem size 4.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Having Capstan Blue Flake in a Savinelli Autograph (Gruppo/Grade 4) Author.

 

[Roach1]

HU Makhuwa in a Den's Freehand.

 

[atwaterville]

Wilkes Blood Red English in a Winslow's Viking Axe hybrid.

 

[gord]

C&D Burley Flake #3 in a cob for the ride home. Castello for eye candy. My curiosity/mania for trying new blends in search of favorites has caused my actual favorites to be neglected. I’ve got aged tins of Old Joe Krantz and Haunted Bookshop that I won’t open because I know I’ll love them. Gotta try new stuff. Ridiculous haha. View attachment 366571

That pipe really is a fine looking piece. Eye candy indeed!

I've now got a stash of about 30 tobaccos, some of a few ounces at best and a dozen or so of 8 ounces to almost a pound (salut to Smoker's Pride and the Reserve store). Enough to last me probably until I croak. I've come to the conclusion (practicality - forced on me and probably lots of others, and is even hitting the US now) because of tobacco prices and availability), that every one of them has something to enjoy about it. Pragmatism is probably going to be the rule of thumb in these days of uhhh . . . weirdness?

I'd love to buy more, and more pipes too, but after just getting hit with new and improved property taxes, gas prices, a truck repair I cannot afford (I no longer drive), hikes in electricity, food prices, a fixed pension, it's well past time to exercise prudence and moderation, virtues I don't have in abundance. Like many others I and probably a lot of you, it's water treading time, time to hold the fort and batten the hatches.

 

[MisterBadger]

No change from yesterday - Irish Cask in the old Meer - most of the day spent fruitlessly looking for stuff Mrs Badger swears she had me put up in the attic years ago, then embarking on the Dead Sea Scrolls whilst waiting for a very belated delivery of firewood logs. Driver got lost, despite my directions. No GPS signal, he said. At least he arrived before it got dark.

 

[gord]

Morning now. Insomnia last night, tried a pipe at about 3am. Nahhhh . . . . . just didn't enjoy it and let it go out. Taste buds inoperative. Same with a little cigar. Finally got to sleep. Tried again when I woke up, with a McQueen miniature and Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish. Yeah. This one worked. Great quick smoke. Went okay with leftover coffee at room temperature.

No go on getting the computer out today. Lousy, wet snow, cold and lack of ambition

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[JimInks]

A quarter of a bowl left of Watch City English Ernie-ental in a straight dark brown and tan rusticated Peterson 2023 Saint Patrick’s Day 264 Canadian with an Irish flag colored ferrule and tapered black acrylic stem. Abner the Eager was just that when he saw me, and is eating now. Everybody else has been fed, except for me, and I'll eat after I do a set of walking reps.

 

[cshubhra]

Inaugural smoke in my Pipe Club Of India club pipe commission. I will write about this pipe shortly in a new post.

The tobacco is Cornell & Diehl Carolina Red Flake 2019