***What Are You Smoking, May 2024?***

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Castello KK 10 Sea Rock and Peets Coffee.

 

[judcole]

Golden Extra in a Country Gent.

 

[BCF]

C&D Exclusive in a Castello KK 10 Sea Rock and Peets Coffee.View attachment 309421

Such a nice pipe!

 

[Bright Orange Red]

KBV Burley Morning Pipe in a cob reserved for coffee aromatics with a cup of coffee.

 

[marlow-se]

Greve Hamilton in Peterson Dunmore 73 a little earlier.



Now Frog Morton Cellar in Peterson Antique Collection "1909" from 1995.

 

[ThomasS]

Home at last! My first pipe since monday is C&D Briar Fox in a cherry and acrylic pipe I made.

 

[Roach1]

Salty Dogs in a Pete Donegal Rocky XL90

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a dark brown medium bend grain etched 1970s Preben Holm Ben Wade Prominence B freehand with a black vulcanite stem. Going to try sleeping once this bowl is finished. Molly's settled down, now.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Nightcap in a Briarworks

 

[Ben.R.C]

Chenet’s cake in the Nutten’s Twiggy. Dig the tiny bit of plateau left on the right side of rim.

 

[PaulRVA]

Such a nice pipe!

Thanks man, these little 10’s are fun.

 

[PaulRVA]

Chenet’s cake in the Nutten’s Twiggy. Dig the tiny bit of plateau left on the right side of rim.
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Gorgeous Twiggy Ben !

 

[Lucro]

Enjoying my favorite pipe with a little Boswell’s Cupcake blend with a sprinkle of berry cobbler. A pleasant aromatic combo to match my morning iced mocha

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Four Square Curlies in the 1927 Loewe "crab apple".

 

[newbroom]

Match 965 in my Bretton Hall Tankard w/saddle stem. I walked about a mile with it, and took about 1/2 hour outside in the rising heat.

 

[Sig]

That sounds familiar. It is probably less rural here than you are. I don’t think we’d have tagged problem bears released so close.

My property backs onto a large section of forest where the bears come out of on well established paths. In the fall they come to feast on the wild apples growing all over the place.

What makes the bears around here a problem is that some people in my neighbourhood leave garbage outside their houses waiting for the pickup day and the bears are drawn to that as an easy food source. I’d say it’s more of a human caused problem here than the wildlife’s fault.

Your property sounds like pure heaven for a black bear. If it unfortunately comes to the bear meeting an untimely demise, then it may just wake up in the exact same place in its afterlife with the addition of a flourishing apiary.

We are very rural.
Our closest neighbor is 1/2 mile away and most in the community are Amish. Our village has 450 people but they are spread out......and the Amish tend to have a lot of kids.
Our property was once an apple orchard so there are 50+ apple trees spread out. Then there are tons of wild berry bushes.
We have an electric fence around our bee hives, but the bears are still attracted to them. It almost might be worse with the fence. It seems the honey attracts them, then when they cannot get to the honey, they search for other food. Over the years the bears have not caused a single issue. They haven't dug up any gardens, they haven't hurt any livestock or pets......but the same can't be said for the coyotes. It took several years to get them under control. Im a huge proponent for not killing wildlife unnecessarily. I am a hunter but only for food.....I have no issue with trophy hunters necessarily....its just not my thing. I did have to eliminate three coyotes, and my dogs took care of three. Most people around here just shoot every one they see. The coyotes ARE a big problem around here. I just rehabed a colt that was attacked by some coyotes.
But, we haven't lost a single animal to wildlife in almost a decade.
This is the third black bear they have relocated near us in the last 20 years.
There is a town of 30,000 about 20 miles from us.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Brown Sugar Flake in a Grechukhin. My favorite pipe. Happy Friday good people!View attachment 309322

That’s very cool. What material is the accent?

 

[dottlejockey]

Nightcap in a Briarworks

For some reason i missed the pipe and tobacco in that picture, but luckily read the text first.
Good stuff.

2nd pipe of the day for me. Getting the juices flowing after breakfast with some oriental goodness in a Mastro de Paja big bent dub.

 

[jaytex1969]

Black Frigate in a Karl Erik Ball.

 

[Steddy]

For the ride home from work last night: Birds of a Feather Anomalous in a Chacom. More George Jones on the radio. Someone asked Johnny Cash who the best singer in country music was, his response was “You mean besides George Jones?”