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

[telescopes]

Up for 24 hours - now parked in Venice for a week. Macanudo with some Italian wine and cheese and sausages. Sleep awaits me. Here in Venice this week I have nothing - nothing planed other than to wander the streets and get lost. It won't be difficult except I am a stone's throw from the Rialto bridge -so there is that.

 

[gervais]

Big n burley in a trim little Peterson 69.

 

[gervais]

View attachment 398431Up for 24 hours - now parked in Venice for a week. Macanudo with some Italian wine and cheese and sausages. Sleep awaits me. Here in Venice this week I have nothing - nothing planed other than to wander the streets and get lost. It won't be difficult except I am a stone's throw from the Rialto bridge -so there is that.

Enjoy your vacation my friend!

 

[JimK]

Good day all! Started with a pair of pipes, namely with GLP Westminster and Quiet Nights in Upshall P Poker and P Lovatt, respectively. Dropped into a wonderful "zone" yesterday smoking Westminster. Haven't been there before in twenty years of pipes even smoking these same blends along with a the steady diet of VIrginias and Aros. And QN performed the same trick for me today even more quickly. Must investigate this English-induced nirvana.

 

[telescopes]

Enjoy your vacation my friend!

Thank you - of course - my bag with the pipes and tobacco is currently enjoying a trip to other parts thanks to United Airlines and their very helpful AI that was used to determine that the initial plane needed to have some baggage sent separately on other flights. Yes folks, AI is here and it is making decisions.

 

[telescopes]

According to United - there is nothing they can do about it because the program makes certain decisions based on bag weight. Mine was well under 50 lbs. There was no person who could prevent the decision because some decisions are made automatically. I was told it would be okay and the bag would join me in two days. I am thankful that the AI felt it would be okay. It has my total trust when it comes to my happiness. SNAFU!!!!

 

[Scottmi]

End of the Stampede in the Pete Short Army Pot 606 with morning coffee. 20F cooler today. How does that even happen?

 

[JimInks]

Half way through his bowl of year 2024 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. Fed my cats, and three ferals. No Abner the Eager yet. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Choatecav]

I have 5 pipes from George. I lived in Bulgaria for the past few years, and his workshop was a short walk from our first apartment in Sofia. It was a real treat having him so close. I got to hang out at the shop with him and witness each pipe take shape!

Now that would be cool to watch.
Thanks

 

[Choatecav]

View attachment 398431Up for 24 hours - now parked in Venice for a week. Macanudo with some Italian wine and cheese and sausages. Sleep awaits me. Here in Venice this week I have nothing - nothing planed other than to wander the streets and get lost. It won't be difficult except I am a stone's throw from the Rialto bridge -so there is that.

My favorite country to visit....... Enjoy.

 

[Jwebb90]

A home blending experiment in an Altinay.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Jirsa 210.

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps in the steamy heat, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. Abner the Eager was waiting under my car. I brought him in to eat, and he's snoozin' in a comforter. Molly Danger came out, ate, and went back to the bedroom. Harry the Hairy stood driveway guard, and followed me to the house. He's by my feet now. Tomato the Brave stayed under a neighbor's car the whole time out of the sun. Daisy the Feral Princess is under the deck.

 

[JoeW]

Morning work meeting, so I’m trying some Peretti Ampersand Flake in the Falcon Plymouth Hunter bowl



On Tuesday I tried some Presbyterian Ordained, which was pleasant enough, but very mild. Ampersand is an entirely different beast: smells great, and much more flavorful. I could easily
see smoking this regularly.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Wilke 193 in a Wilke Canadian, with coffee

 

[PaulRVA]

Mowing is Finished 90f with 94f expected so finished it early.
C&D Exclusive in an IMP Poker and Ice Water on the side.

 

[Roach1]

Briar Fox in an Il Ceppo.

 

[atwaterville]

GLP Chelsea Morning in a Rattray's TGD straight billiard.

 

[kcmontie]

Oriental Silk

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed three ham, cheddar cheese, double egg open face sandwiches for lunch, with a slice of lemon blueberry cake, and a bowl of the last of the French vanilla ice cream for dessert. Had a golden delicious apple, too. Now smoking year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Coffee from a freshly opened bag of Gold Star Nightwish, neat, is my drink. Watching the Nats-Mets game.