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

[Choatecav]

View attachment 401332Top of the Spanish steps. My trusty Sasieni second with Amphora.

Been enjoying your photos, Scopes.

On my first trip to Italy, we stayed in the Hotel Hassler, which is at the very top of the Spanish Steps. The company paid for it as it was too pricey for me. Liz Taylor was staying there at the same time and word got out that she was coming down the elevator so the paparazzi was bunched up in the lobby for photos. What a let down it was for them when the elevator doors opened and it was just me and my wife, . Guess it was a ruse and they probably shuttled Liz out the back entrance.

What a view... What a city. Enjoy.....

 

[judcole]

Low Country Natural Virginia/Burley in a Mark Twain.

 

[telescopes]

Been enjoying your photos, Scopes.

On my first trip to Italy, we stayed in the Hotel Hassler, which is at the very top of the Spanish Steps. The company paid for it as it was too pricey for me. Liz Taylor was staying there at the same time and word got out that she was coming down the elevator so the paparazzi was bunched up in the lobby for photos. What a let down it was for them when the elevator doors opened and it was just me and my wife, . Guess it was a ruse and they probably shuttled Liz out the back entrance.

What a view... What a city. Enjoy.....

Yes it is quite a city. Not without its issues, but an interesting and spectacular place nonetheless - You have a great story there to tell on top of it.

 

[telescopes]

Been enjoying your photos, Scopes.

On my first trip to Italy, we stayed in the Hotel Hassler, which is at the very top of the Spanish Steps. The company paid for it as it was too pricey for me. Liz Taylor was staying there at the same time and word got out that she was coming down the elevator so the paparazzi was bunched up in the lobby for photos. What a let down it was for them when the elevator doors opened and it was just me and my wife, . Guess it was a ruse and they probably shuttled Liz out the back entrance.

What a view... What a city. Enjoy.....

Yes it is quite a city. Not without its issues, but an interesting and spectacular place nonetheless - You have a great story there to tell on top of it.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Germain’s Dorchester topped with some Cornell and Diehl Burley Flake #1 for kindling. Larry Roush Billiard. 40% ABV Soju.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Capstan Blue RR in a Castello #33 panel with some handy grain is the next smoke today.
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Nice piece of wood.

 

[RobNYC]

Three Friars in an Ardor Meteora.

 

[ashdigger]

State Express in a Pete Meer

 

[Sig]

The Beast 2024 in a Hardcastle Regency.
When the topic of grain versus smoking quality came up recently, this is one of the pipes I was thinking about. It doesn't get much more plain than this mixed grain Hardcastle. It's got a bit of everything...crossgrain, birdseye, straight grain, but mostly just empty space.
But, it is a great smoker and makes any tobacco taste great.

 

[JazzInAZ]

Beautiful Texas morning (before it gets too hot).
Got Newminster 403 in a 2011 Pete SPD (221).
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee with cream.

Watching some grass court tennis -- tournaments leading up to Wimbledon which starts next week.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Peterson’s 3P’s plug in a very early Kaywoodie push tenon 4 digit Lovat.

 

[Roach1]

OJK in a Geppeto Eximia.

 

[PaulRVA]

GH Bosun Cut Plug in a Peterson House Pipe Heritage and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[towhee89]

Bertram's 30 with some CH

 

[ashdigger]

State Express in a B42

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Good morning lady and germs. I had logged off earlier this month intending on a couple day break and came back a month later. Time flies when you get older! Spent the morning with a bowl of G&H #7 Broken Flake in a Kaywoodie Flane Grain Meershaum #72 Canadian with coffee while catching up on 130+ pages of WAYS pages.

@gord im glad you moved through your surgery. Hope you’re back to whole once the healing is done!

@Sobrbiker im sorry about the loss of your pup. That’s the thing about pets, eventually they have to leave us

 

[gord]

Germain’s Dorchester topped with some Cornell and Diehl Burley Flake #1 for kindling. Larry Roush Billiard. 40% ABV Soju.View attachment 401345

Lotta short pipes today . . . love this one! Pretty sure I haven't seen it before.

 

[gord]

State Express in a Pete Meer

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Another dazzling shorty! Love it! Looks like a new toy, too!

 

[JimInks]

Starting off my smoking day with a 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 Molly Danger. After Sleepy Suzy finishes her meal, I'll check on the ferals. I did look out the window, and Tomato the Brave is laying near the back door.

 

[gord]

Morning Menu, and insomniac fare, too.

Chompin' on the Kwiki Grape as I type, as usual. Did some emoticon and replies. Lots of very interesting short pipes today. Here's what has transpired so far:




Woke up about 3:00 am, couldn't get back to sleep. The Falcon with the Buttered Rum Meer bowl , was there at my bedside table, so I indulged in an insomniac rarity and smoked a bowl of a blend I made up for buddy Mike, dubbed Mike's Favourite Buttered Rum. He sucks it up like a sponge, and now makes it himself. I'm not crazy about it, but it was handy - the only other BR I have on hand and actually like is the Backwoods variety. I won't be making any more of this stuff, either. Got back to sleep.

Morning smoke just a while ago was my own Grape Mix, not bad at all, and a change from morning cherry, in one of my two MM STC Mini Cobs, this one marked with a Sharpee dot so I can tell them apart.

What the rest of the morning will bring is a return to the sack probably until noon or possibly later, but not before I finish this tasty little cigar. What will transpire later is unknown, but I'm not going to do another (and probably final, it's about ready) break in smoke on the Brog Scoot. Probably an evening aro in my big Sav, but that's just a thought.

Enjoy your Saturday. Seems I'm going to miss most of it.