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

[bobpnm]

If it’s morning, it’s coffee, burley and cob time.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Pegasus in a Shamrock with coffee on a chilly morning

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Dunhill Shell 4109 Canadian and the last of the Coffee ️

 

[BenMN]

Having Daughters & Ryan Three Sails British style Virginia in the smaller of the two Japanese nobe-kiseru pipes from my 2025 Birthday Haul—this is the plain, undecorated one (the other is decorated with a dragon motif). A nobe-kiseru pipe is a single piece of metal, and much less common than rau kiseru (made with three pieces—two metal ends, usually connected by bamboo). This cast iron pipe could be from the earlier or middle part of the Edo period (1603–1868), but there’s no way of really knowing; it is much bulkier and cruder than most kiseru pipes, which often look elegant (this makes me think it’s from an earlier part of the period). This one measures about 7.5" in length (the dragon motif one, about 8.0"); it’s not as long as most kenka-kiseru (fighting pipes) which would normally fall in the 12.0"–18.0" range, but it is entirely possible that it was used for eye gouging and could have been a fighting pipe.

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We made some progress on the attic and got about 90% of the boards back in place and screwed down. Some needed blocks of wood to be sistered to the wood underneath in order to have something to screw the boards into; the electrician that started the job a few years ago cut the boards, but not always in spots where they could easily be remounted with support. The Honeycomb Hideout is one step closer to being ready.

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For Saint Patrick’s Day, Susan made corned beef and cabbage with potatoes. It was yummy.

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This morning, Susan got some sad news. A dear friend of hers in Florida succumbed to ALS last night. While not unexpected, it was sooner than we thought.

Sorry to hear that

 

[Roach1]

HU Louisiana Broken in a Den's Freehand.

 

[tubbyninja1337]

In Mexico, abuelas to this day recite an incantation when applying Vick's to the chests of their grandchildren - "Sana, sana, colita de rana." This has been proven to be una brujería Irlandese, an Irish spell.

Never in a million years would I have guessed that's where the saying came from, thank you for the write up!

 

[MisterDearly]

If it’s morning, it’s coffee, burley and cob time.
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Very well said! And totally agree. I deviated this morning with bayou morning in a cob, but 90% of the time that true for me too.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Sorry to hear that

Thanks. It was a bummer of a way to start the day. Her friend had gotten the diagnosis about a year ago—it wasn’t too surprising as ALS runs in the family (her father died from it). What was odd was the loss of muscle control affected her throat before limb extremities, which was unusual; this necessitated a feeding tube. Susan had read that average survival time after a feeding tube with ALS patients is about five months. Sure enough, it was almost five months to the day since the feeding tube got put in.

 

[xrundog]

OJK in a fancy bulldog.

 

[Sigmund]

Directors Cut in a Peter Klein

 

[thomasw]

Good morning fellow pipemen! Smoking a bowl of PS LnF / ODf in my 1954 shell 33 liverpool along with a coffee.

 

[Scottmi]

Solani 633 in the SMS 6 panel bent lattice meer with morning coffee. Sun is shining and birds are chirping. Going to be a beautiful day!

 

[Sobrbiker]

‘18 Kendal Plug in a Ropp J07. Driving dump, hauling concrete.

 

[Scottmi]

The absolute genius of Lewis Cowan (not Albert) at Marxman by middle 1953 had rendered a machine shaped cheap pipe able to be sold for $5 under government price controls and be purchased a virgin and turned to oxblood color in just one smoke and zero break in needed.

And on the second smoke, this one with Smoker’s Pride Cherry Cavendish, the Marxman would start to sweat.

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Relaxing with a Marxman.

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The sweat just wipes off.

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Calls for some appropriate music!

Each Night at Nine- Floyd Tillman 1957 version

And by middle 1953 Marx flat out copied the Kaywoodie ball but unpolished with zero holes.

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@Briar Lee Love your commentary re Marxmans. You'll have to scrape the forum for your posts and publish them as "The Marxman Companion." The Library of Congress should have a copy!

 

[Carol]

Good morning all. Very windy and chilly today. Enjoying Troutstream in my Brigham smooth, with more coffee on the side. Troutstream is one of the few I will smoke inside, and smoking outside is hopeless today.

 

[gord]

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Love the picture! Copied it . . . didn't know she existed and me an RC.

Also noted that Rhodesian bowl on your Dunny . . . I only have one Rhodesian bowl, and love it's fit in the hand. There might be another one in my future. Great post!

 

[gord]

Quite tasty is this Apricots And Cream
And this new System Spigot smokes like a dream.

You're a poet and don't knowit. Are your feet Longfellows?

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Director’s Cut in a Dunhill 4109 Cumberland Canadian and Diet Coke on the side. It was 29f with frost this morning and climbing to 70f this afternoon. Like they say here in Virginia “If you don’t like the Weather, Just wait 15 mins”

 

[PaulRVA]

Love the picture! Copied it . . . didn't know she existed and me an RC.

Also noted that Rhodesian bowl on your Dunny . . . I only have one Rhodesian bowl, and love it's fit in the hand. There might be another one in my future. Great post!

Thanks, I figured it was worth posting for @JimInks yesterday as he’s what I consider a Patron Saint of Felines and our threads Originator.
She is usually forgotten or overshadowed by St Patrick so I felt it was worth a nod not only to her but for Jim as well.

 

[RPK]

Kind of a nice day today so I’m heading outdoors and on the way will select tobacco from one of my tins and put it in one of my pipes and enjoy the afternoon while the suns out.