***What Are You Smoking, May 2022?***

[Carol]

@Carol Nice pipe; I enjoyed the Luxury Navy Flake in my clay pipes. Try not to break it! The stem of my church warden pipe broke after smoking while at the Redcoats and Revolutionaries event...

Sorry your pipe got broken. I will try not to break mine. I don't smoke while doing anything more active than sitting and reading, or watching the world. Not reenacting a battle. Should be safe. Did you get it lit at the forge?

 

[nwohioan]

GLP Quiet Nights in the Radice Rind. Having a cup of coffee and about to dive into some writing tonight.

 

[B.Fee]

This season’s scrap jar View attachment 148167

I love a bowl of scrap. ? Nice pipe?

 

[condorlover1]

Well its my bedtime so I will bid you all a pleasant evening and if it is so written by the MD upstairs I will see you all tomorrow. Good night people!

 

[Servant King]

As for bird report, the Cardinals are busy feeding their young who seem to have hatched in the pine near the garage; the wrens are doing the same in a woodpecker hole in my attic (have to patch once they leave nest); two sets of Robins are sharing the Japanese Yew bush in front of picture window which has apparently gone condo and the baby dear are busy in the back fern garden eating whatever birdseed they can snag from the chipmunks. Tonight the Screech owls will once again be teaching their 4 offspring to trill and hunt in the woods as they do every year for 5 weeks (this is the end of week one.)

Speakin' my language! You've got some impressive activity there.

 

[dcicero]

Finished that SG Navy Flake and had some Celtic Talisman out of a Gigi for the first time. Was underwhelming.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time- Oliva Serie G in a Natural/EMS wrapper. I think it is Cameroon

 

[Hillcrest]

Speakin' my language! You've got some impressive activity there.

You have no idea ! The property qualifies as a National Wildlife Habitat under all categories when i get around to sending in the paperwork to get certified and get a plaque ! The mothers all drop their young off here while they go forage. I even have a picture of a baby mountain lion napping on a rock about 35 lbs.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Dark Bird's Eye in a cob again. My go to smoke while at work.

 

[renfield]

Rougaroux in a GBD Prince.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, barramundi and sugar snap peas dinner with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream for dessert. I just finished smoking year 2016 Sutliff 507-C Slices in a black sandblast PSB medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 228/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[LotusEater]

Epiphany again in the GBD 76er

 

[onestrangeone]

Union Square in an RD Powel egg

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Dunhill Flake in a Rubio.

 

[cshubhra]

Smokers Haven Exotique Mixture in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[reloader]

Spent the day driving 3 1/2 hours each way to spend time at the National Veteran's Cemetary to pay our respects. Once home had some Pegasus, Crooner and some old very dry Sir Walter Raleigh in various pipes.

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of first release 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. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[UncleRasta]

I'm glad Yorktown worked out for you. I devoted one of my 4ABs to it, so I had to cellar a lot. If you haven't tried Derringer, I'll recommend that as well.

Got some of that on the way too. Am I reading your mind or your reviews Jim?

 

[warren99]

GL Pease Charing Cross in a pre-Lane Charatan Selected bent brandy

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Oh man, I just popped a ton of Saint Espresso. The tin note is amazing. It's like a sweetened cappuccino or a Starbucks Frappucino.

Awhile back, I saw a low slung, Squat Bulldog by Mark Tinsky at smokingpipes.com and was tempted to buy it. The low profile bowl and curved line of the stem really appealed to me. I was hesitant, though, because Susan had ordered a bunch of briar blocks from Mark Tinsky's company for my birthday, and the bag of briar had a tuft of cat hair in it that sent me into violent coughing fits (I'm highly allergic to cats). In the back of my mind, I've wondered if Tinsky's stock of briar is impregnated with essence of cat. The last thing I need is to inhale the Fel d 1 protein. My colleague at National Lampoon, Gerry Sussman, died from an allergic reaction to cats many years ago. I remember seeing him at the office before the weekend, he took a trip and the next thing I knew, he was dead from a reaction to the cats at the friends he was visiting.

It later occurred to me that Tinsky's pipe was his version of a GBD 9282. I wasn't able to get a GBD, but I found the shape in their second line.

I'm going to light up Warped Saint Espresso in a Digby Squat Bulldog 9282. I'm hoping it tastes as good as it smells.