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

[BlueRidge]

Ennerdale innameer

 

[JoeW]

Boood Red Moon in a Falcon


This is a Dover bowl. I think BRM likes the slightly taller and narrower Hyperbole better. Or I could be imagining it.

 

[Sidehatch]

Local BM blend in a new Xmas gift from my bro. Sav Vigna 642

 

[Douglas]

Home brew of Semois and cigar leaf in a Savinelli 811

 

[Auxsender]

GH Brown Flake Unscented in a Stanwell 85

I appreciate your eye for sandblasts.
We have similar taste in pipes.

 

[Servant King]

Although I'm well north of the fires, the wind has been a pain for the last week or so, finally subsiding yesterday. Had my first smoke since last weekend, Mac Baren Navy Flake in a Savinelli Porto Cervo 122 rusticated pot. Wifey even joined me, which was admirable considering my lopsided Scrabble victory over her this afternoon (we have surprisingly cutthroat matches!). 8/10

Bird report: White-crowned sparrow, Dark-eyed junco, House finch, California towhee, California scrub-jay, American crow, American robin, Oak titmouse, White-breasted nuthatch, Steller's jay, Spotted towhee, and Mountain chickadee.

Here's to hoping all the LA-based forum members are safe...and may you stay that way!

 

[Sobrbiker]

5Bros/DBE in the morning, The Royal Yacht this evening, with Ryback+P and C&D Exclusive throughout the day. The replacement Ropp is doing great-this one seems to smoke drier than the one it replaced.
Had to change the battery on the tractor, tend to Bob’s cuts, and fix a tin panel on the shop roof-now mama’s making scampi and gnocchi.
I was bummed SPcom didn’t have a J11 in their “fresh” Etudiants, but I couldn’t help picking up a J07 with the Ropp sale.

 

[Phiredog]

On a rare snowy day in East Tennessee, having some Uhle‘s 44 in a Brigham 3 star billiard or pot (I’m never sure). Excuse the poor photography.

 

[Hillcrest]

I found an unlabeled ziploc bag of dry tobacco and smoked it in the Vauen Olaf bent egg while shoveling snow then again later while running an errand. I'm sure it was a Country Squire blend and I think it was Rivendell. It was very good but dry. My brother stopped by to drop something off and smelled of good pipe tobacco ... I asked him what he was smoking as it smelled like an English ... he just said Peterson Nightcap. I've only just bought some myself and have only had it twice so now I know what the lingering note will be ... not bad !

 

[Brad H]

Hearth and home marble cake
Billy sanders “tyger pup”

 

[warren99]

Good first bowl of Chenet’s cake in my new J Alan chubby
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I recently got my first J. Alan. Wonderful pipe. Enjoy.

 

[Elric]

Just finished a couple flakes of LTF in my IMP meer Rhodesian.

 

[CornhuskerPiper]

Half & Half in a Rossi Piccolo. Good pipe for a quick smoke.

 

[Joe H]

Smoked my proprietary Two Friars with a Cherry on Top while walking the dog to our frozen local lake today. There was a rare winter rainbow out which was a good photo op. The pipe is a Hardcastle diplomat I bought in London about 25 years ago.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Almost a third of the way through this bowl of G&H Extra Sweet Brown Bogie Twist in a smooth straight 1950s Kaywoodie Colt Dublin meer with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Reviewing this blend.
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Looking forward to the review, and that Colt is frickin’ amazing!!

 

[Bbailey324]

C&D CRF w/P 2023 in a Peterson POTY 2024.

 

[das3353]

I appreciate your eye for sandblasts.
We have similar taste in pipes.

Thanks, I love a good blast.

 

[Scottmi]

'Twas a beautiful day! Now Habana Daydream in a Georg Jensen Admiral, and a Nordic Summer cocktail...

 

[Scottmi]

A bowl of OJK in a WV ( Den's pipe shop)made Freehand. I bought this more than 35 years ago. Recently professionally cleaned and polished. Hope it still smokes well. I also have an Erik Nording and a Prebn Holm Freehands that were also cleaned but I am reluctant to smoke them View attachment 362693

It's amazing.. I, too, am finding that more and more of my own pipes are ones i bought ~35 years ago. I swear it feels like it couldn't really have been more than 20... So weird!

 

[Sobrbiker]

6 year old C&D Sea Dog in a Peterson Patent.
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Forgive my limited knowledge, is that an “Antique Collection” model?