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

[towhee89]

Dr Grabow Hillcrest 84L Canadian with some CH

 

[PaulRVA]

@PaulRVA, You are a trendsetter..View attachment 395606A Bruno Nuttens sandblasted Bing, coffee to drink.

Man, I love the photo brother !
Is that your Father, Grandfather or You ?
If you ran a bowl of Exclusive through that Bing I’d say your after my heart

 

[Douglas]

Five Brothers in a current manufacture rusticated Dr Grabow Grand Duke

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Louisiana Broken in a Merchant Service Big Billiard and Diet Coke on the side.
Just finished trimming and a property line and hill mowing to prep for the big mow tomorrow now that the rain has finally subsided.

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps, chatted with a neighbor, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. Fed all the ferals, and they are all inside snoozin'.

 

[keith929]

G.L. Pease Blackpoint in a Peterson 302 Silver Spigot.

 

[greysmoke]

Another back-of-the-cabinet tobacco find, Balkan Supreme from 5/2010 in a Johan Koch brandy. Wonderful bit on this stem.

 

[craig61a]

2017 McClelland Virginia Perique #2015 in a GBD Collector Prehistoric 9557.

 

[bobpnm]

Cellar in this Talamona. Iced coffee.

 

[Roach1]

Old Joe Krantz in small DM Stanwell Freehand.

 

[happy_lunter]

PS LTF in HS Studio acorn.

 

[Scottmi]

Solani 633 in my custom Merchant Service Short Dark Cutty with the last of the morning's coffee. Thought I'd be out weed-whacking today but it's WET, WET, WET, out. Good time to do some studying up on how to treat my new 12v 100Ah LiFePO4 batteries that arrived yesterday.

 

[Douglas]

Dr Grabow Hillcrest 84L Canadian with some CHView attachment 395618

I love the rustication on that one.

 

[gord]

Sutliff 507-C in the Vauen Olaf bent egg with 9mm filter.

Last week some lawn treatment guy stopped by to offer me a neighborhood discount on organic lawn treatment to combat bugs. I explained to him I didn't want chemicals on the lawn (thank you but no); he started to push and I said I don't need it I have catbirds and wrens that nest on the property and eat all the bugs, He said "Oh, then you don't need this" thanked me and left. Today while smoking I noticed that the wrens have a brood hatched in a pagoda style bird box hanging on the garage. They are working tirelessly to feed the young. The male seems to be leaving bugs on the apron for the female to pick up and bring into the nest. But what I've never seen before ... a catbird started calling and walked toward the nest with a bug in its mouth and left it on the apron before the box. So the catbirds are also helping feed the wrens ... I have never seen that before !!! I do know birds of different species help one another when they are teaching the young to fly by acting as sentinels to ward off predators but I've never seen help feeding !! Nature is pretty cool ... P.S. Very few bugs around !

Society could learn a thing or two ...

No Kidding! We can learn a lot from birds for sure! Including how to have fun!

 

[filmguerilla]

Castello (KKKK/16) Sea Rock with H&H Classic Burley Kake.

 

[gord]

Five Brothers in a current manufacture rusticated Dr Grabow Grand Duke

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That is such a beautiful pipe! I just love plain briar, no sandblasting or other adornments. Alas, I have only two plain pipes, just Chev Bel-Air grades. And also alas, I'll never buy another, let alone something like what you've pictured. Having only one functioning eye, I have no depth perception.

And scorching the bowl of a pipe like that with either match or torch, or even another Chev Bel-Air, would be in my estimation, pretty much a mortal sin. I scorch just about everything I torch.



PS: I don't see the rustication on that pipe - I guess I must really be losing it. Enlighten me.

 

[Choatecav]

@PaulRVA, You are a trendsetter..View attachment 395606A Bruno Nuttens sandblasted Bing, coffee to drink.

You are so right that @PaulRVA is a trendsetter. He was the kid at school that always wore the cool clothes and had the cool phrases before anyone else did. All the girls wanted him and all the boys wanted to be him.

Please tell us more about who the boy in the photo is. Is that dad???

 

[Lucro]

A good friend of mine gave me a JC Newman cigar. It’s their “the American “ blend. I’m loving it. It’s dreary and chilly today and this just makes me happy

 

[Choatecav]

My shipment came in and one of the tins was C & D Sansepolcro small batch 2025. I never tried the 2024 version but I understand it was shredded and the new version is a flake. Rubs out easily and smokes great. I love good VA tobacco so I really am enjoying this blend. The Burley is very subtle and for me, it almost gives a Vaper type of taste. I am enjoying it in one of my Ben Wade bent pipes.

 

[pipeboy122]

GLP Horizons in a Abe Herbaugh sandblasted billiard with bamboo