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

[newbroom]

Match for Elizabethan, Victoria, in my Omega. A nice switch from the Match 975 I had earlier in my MM Pride 2nd.
Contrasts help me to realize I'm actually tasting something else besides nicotine.
Funny how you get one or two pipes that really get used and vice versa. I usually have about 10 or 12 pipes on smaller racks by the door or in a box by the desk that I change out from time to time with another 10 or 12.
I smoke more during the first part of the day and usually get in about 3 miles of walking before noon. I don't typically walk very fast and always have my pipe.

 

[Roach1]

Peterson Deluxe Navy Rolls in a Jirsa.

 

[renfield]

Pegasus in a claw and egg meer with black coffee.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Peterson 3P in a MOB (Stanwell) 079

 

[JOHN72]

Good afternoon. Smoking a cigar, Guantanamera Cristales. An affordable cigar, and you can say “decent”, when you don't have anything else, more decent.

 

[craig61a]

1994 McClelland Mixture #12 in a Brigham 1953-1969 Post Patent 306 Rusticated Dublin.

 

[dottlejockey]

The only negative was I noticed a slight bitter aftertaste, but I think that as this has a chance to "breathe" a bit that will dissipate.

Another thing that can have an effect on this is which pipe you smoke it in. Sometimes one pipe accentuates a note you love and another may reveal one you don't. I have some blends that are finicky this way and i prefer them in specific pipes for this very reason. If you have multiple pipes, try it in several and smoke it in the one(s) that taste best to you.

As for me, the 2nd (after breakfast) pipe today shall be...



LJP Blend 111 in an Ascorti Business KS. Hope y'all have a decent Monday!

 

[RPK]

A little GLP Penny Farthing in a SmithHouse and some 1995 McClelland Oriental No. 8 in a Genod during the company fishing trip with some of the buds from the Alaska Pipe Club.

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Spectacular ! You are blessed to live in such a special place.

 

[telescopes]

Poolside relaxing with a bullmoose and Virginia Flake.

 

[telescopes]

Hmmmmmm . . . . about the only reason I can think of is that there are no trout in your pool and no room for a backcast.

I have a beautiful home along the Colorado River for that. Life is good.

 

[Tom Sawtooth]

Rattray's - Stirling Flake in a Altinay and a Cup of Joe.

 

[Sigmund]

Its been a hot day so the house has been closed tight. Im getting ready to open my office and fire up some HU Delight in a Ser Jacopo. This is an estate I refinished. Took it down to wood, did a contrast stain and wax. That is some hard work. I appreciate pipe makers!

Its not this red but I cant get the color balance quite right.

 

[newbroom]

A Ropp Cherrywood DeLuxe and a mix I've had for about a week consisting of a base of Sutliff sweet VA, with some of their TS-20Perique, well aged, and a dash of HH ODF. The pipe is a surprisingly good conical bowl and small and light compared to a lot of the chunks of cherrywood I've seen.

 

[xrundog]

OJK in an early 20th century French B.O.B.

 

[Scottmi]

It is comfortable and cool with a light but steady, wetting rain for my last "Sakura in the Morning." Hmm.. let's try that haiku-style:

soft rain like teardrops
Sakura in the Morning
gratefully enjoyed

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Watching Mad Dog Russo. Not sure about walking reps today because of the intermittent rain. Ferals are fed.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Radice Chubby

 

[umbrella001]

Escudo in a Tinsky Lovat.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time: Don Pepin Garcia Cuban Classic

 

[dottlejockey]

Late morning, after getting some errands handled, it's time for a smoke break on the rear deck whilst watching the dear munching clover and awaiting call backs. Doing some St Bernard flake in the Hüseyin Ege ornate hammer. Somewhere around bowl 20 in this one.