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

[Hillcrest]

A few after dinner puffs of some Sutliffe navy flake 507-C in the Vauen olaf bent egg with 9mm filter in the lawnchair in the backyard when a screech owl flew under the tree canopy from the maple in front of me to the maple on the hillside at about head height ... if i hadn't seen it I wouldn't have known it was there as they are completely silent flyers. When I went back inside it flew under the canopy to the oak behind the garage... clearly hunting mice. I hear them trilling at night but rarely get to see them in action as they are so well camouflaged in the trees.
Not mine but it looked like this (That wingspan was about 12-16 inches across guestimate) :

The Vauen:

 

[Scottmi]

Rouxgaroux in my Bones poker while splicing sisal for a cat furniture project. Wetting my whistle (don’t you whistle when you work?) with whatever a Kulshan Brewing Baby Yoda is. The book is a great reference and a long time favorite.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1980 smooth walnut finish quarter bend Peterson 505 Rhodesian silver spigot military mount with a black vulcanite saddle stem fishtail bit. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[Bright Orange Red]

Watch City Glass Slipper in a BBB Walnut Own Make 428.

 

[craig61a]

2018 C&D Pirate Kake in a John Bessai Sandblasted Square Shanked Billiard.

 

[rsshreck32]

Enjoying a bowl of C&D Granulated Perique followed by a Drew Estate Kentucky Fire Cured Fat Molly tonight.

 

[cshubhra]

Cornell & Diehl Palmetto Balkan 2024 in a Dunhill Millennium Shell from 2000

 

[dottlejockey]

Went digging through some pipes i haven't smoked in a while and completely forgot about this dark little pear-wood poker pipe. Running some of my oriental home blend through it to get reacquainted.

 

[JimInks]

Passing the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2010 FVF in a straight smooth dark brown 1896 W.H. Newman, Ltd. billiard with a sterling silver band and a tapered yellow and orange stem with white swirls and an orific bit. Watching a Gene Autry western.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Windy as all get out today, finally snuck in a bowl of Irish Flake. Had to hide out in the feed room to get the little Ropp going.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in an Altinay.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty red delicious apple, and am near the first third of this bowl of year 2013 Esoterica Tilbury in a smooth medium bend 1999 Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Milverton with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem. Brought Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave in to eat. They were happy to get off the deck as it's been raining for hours, but I'll eventually have to put them out. Wish I could let Harry the Hairy in. Abner the Eager is snoozin' in what has become his comfort bed.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Catching up from a week off the ways thread, relaxing with Exclusive in a Eltang basic. I really like this tobacco and pipe combo.

 

[DesertDan]

Falcon fitted with a rusticated apple bowl stuffed with 2023 Cringle Flake.
Oh my, this stuff is good!
I have several, tins of this in my cellar already but recently got another for $5 bucks in a sale and decided to pop this one open and give it a try.
I was worried at first that this was too dry and ended up crumbling it up rather than rub it out. But it packed and lit just fine, and it burned perfectly all the way down to a fine ash leaving no dottle.
Sweet and earthy with a definite floral top note, probably from the Katerini and a pleasant spiciness of the Perique. The Red Virginias in this brought Capstan Blue a bit to my mind.
This bowl lasted long enough to bring a bit of nicotine to bear but not unpleasantly so.
I'm going to stick with this one awhile and put it through its paces.

 

[BenMN]

Pegasus in a Lord Kirk

Showin off a fill oh yeah