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

[JimInks]

Passing the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2018 Dunhill London Mixture in a brown medium bend 2002 Ser Jacopo Delecta Fatta A Mano R1 sandblast Rhodesian with a smooth extension at the shank with a military mount and a tapered black acrylic stem.

 

[VDL_Piper]

Morning smoke of Irish X Twist in my Pete, fast becoming my morning ritual this stuff.


Happy birthday @JoeW sounds like you had a great day all be it snowed in.

 

[umbrella001]

Rouxgaroux in a J. Mouton apple.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a Rubio.

 

[dottlejockey]

Inaugural smoke with Peggy for this new blasted Peterson Newgrange spigot. This is a real looker in person. Pics don't do it justice. Arrived yesterday and happy to fill it for a smoke out in the sunshine.

 

[xrundog]

OJK in a1910 OHA Finest Quality amber stem Belg.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Had some Royal Yacht in the Kaywoodie Thorn earlier, now on to some GLP Fillmore with a few years on it in the commuter pipe.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem.

 

[MisterBadger]

3 days of spring sunshine, and the soil is dried out enough to work again. Planted parsnip seedlings, pruned off about 10 years' growth of wild root stock suckers from a cherry tree, dug a bed for early potatoes, which are sprouting on the windowsills at home at an alarming rate. Then lit up a bowl of McConnell's Scottish Cake in the Chris Askwith Liverpool Morta and watched the sun set over the Teme valley till the stars came out. With a Thermos of black coffee. Very satisfying day, and I hope you all had something similar.

 

[Carol]

A Warrior has fallen!

Poor cob. Gave it's all for an experiment. My 5 cobs are no doubt glad I'm not into that kind of research.

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Director’s Cut in a Suhr Dublin and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[renfield]

C&D Old Grove in an Ashton Old Church XXX sitter.

 

[telescopes]

Mustafa from Morocco is looking for this @JOHN72 guy. I hear there’s a job down by the docks and a shipment needs to be moved quietly, if you know what I mean.

 

[dino]

JoeW...
Happy Birthday!

 

[scottbtdmb]

After a lot of rain and wind today, smoking conditions are finally acceptable on the deck. Enjoying some C&D Maestro Pucinni in a Savinelli Estella 315EX with decaf coffee and music on the Bluetooth speaker.

 

[dino]

Well, Thank You, HeavyLeadBelly, not belatedly, for your super belatedly birthday wishes.

 

[Chieftiabo]

Boswell Private Stock for the virgin bowl, in my first restoration.
1999 Boswell

 

[das3353]

GLP Navigator in a Genod Bulldog

 

[infectedpsyche]

Moving on to some Plumcake in my Briar Cigar.

 

[BenMN]

This afternoon I’m enjoying a birthday blizzard bowl of Hal O The Wynd in my Irwin’s 676

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I took the day off to relax, spend some extra time with my family, attend Ash Wednesday services, enjoy my yearly steak, and smoke a nice cigar, not necessarily in that order. Instead, I got my birthday blizzard, a fairly common event for an early March birthday: at least 8 inches of snow so far, with 30-50 mph winds, and projected to last until the early morning hours. So instead of steak, it'll be spaghetti, a traditional birthday treat; instead of going out on the town, we'll stay home at watch a movie. At least we've had electricity most of the day.

It's too cold and windy for a full-size cigar, so I'm spending some quality time in my tent with the propane heater. My birthday hauls have been delayed due to weather, but that's ok: lots of quality tobacco in my stash. After Monday's first taste of HOTW, I wanted to see if it's as good as I remembered. It is. I'll be shopping for more of this.

I consider the Irwins 676 to be my birth year pipe: as far as I can tell, it was made in the mid to late 60s: close enough for me.

I also consider this to be my pipe birthday: a year ago today I bought my first pipe, the Irwins 676, and received some free samples of house blends with it. Total cost: $10 cash. After my first taste of Cap'n Black Gold induced tongue bite, I tried one of the house blends, and found it much better. It's been a learning experience with some challenges and frustrations, but overall very enjoyable and worthwhile. This forum has been a big part of that enjoyment: I've enjoyed a lot of fellowship and learning here. Thank you all for being part of that!

Happy Birthday Joe! Hope it's a great one

Glad you're here

Love me some Hal. We got the snow here too. Like wet cement