***What Are You Smoking, November 2023?***

[JOHN72]

I posted on another thread that Dad turned 101 last week
To mark his milestone I’m taking out a couple of pipes from his birth year 1922
He was a cigarette smoker.
I remember seeing tins (50 sticks) of Players Navy Cut and when these were no longer available, packs of Peter Stuyvesant and Benson&Hedges

First up is a GBD bent bulldog with tapered vulcanite stem

First bowl of Esoterica Tilbury.
Since Dad smoked cigarettes only, I thought a Virginia blend was appropriate

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That's fantastic. Happy birthday to your father. God bless him.

 

[jttnk]

1 flake Newminster 400 Navy, 1 flake Old Dark Fired. Twist, fold, stuff. Tasty, but I can’t keep it lit. Moretti Stack

 

[Birddog66]

Well...happy birthday anyway. Just keep having them (birthdays, not necessarly hangovers)

Thank you, much appreciated

 

[BenMN]

Pegasus in the '81 Stanwell

 

[Birddog66]

In that case, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, I should add that I’m incredibly proud to share my birthday with the United States Marine Corps so happy birthday to them and everyone that served with that remarkable bunch of guys.

 

[pipeboy122]

Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a MM Shire Cobbit

 

[JOHN72]

Oz Piper happy birthday to your dad mate.

I turned 57 yesterday but I can’t stand celebrating my birthday because I’m a miserable old sod. I did drink way too much however and I’m feeling it this morning.
Smoking MacB VRC in a Civic and drinking coffee, lots and lots of coffee.

There is nothing better for a hangover than a good black Ducados cigar. Happy birthday my friend Birddog66.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of early 2000s Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style.

 

[Winnipeger]

(yestersay)
6 year old Rattray's Red Rapparee in my Trypis

4 year old Hearth & Home Viprati in my SRV Tulip

3 year old G&H Bob's Chocolate Flake in my Huber Sandblasted Mini Bent Razor Egg

Life is good.

 

[Birddog66]

Happy Veterans Day to everyone!
Having some C&D Exclusive in a Ferndown Tomato. It was tradition for me to call and spend the morning talking to my best friend
of 45 years who was also a veteran, instead I ordered flowers for his grave to be delivered and placed today. He passed away unexpectedly last month.
If you know a Veteran give them a call while there still with us or have a toast for the ones who aren’t.
They will appreciate it. That photo in the background was another Veteran and also my father just home from Korea in 1953.
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My condolences for your friend, it’s Remembrance Day here tomorrow and as I always attend the ceremony at the memorial I’ll hopefully post some pictures.

 

[Scottmi]

Somethings not right if you’re smelling prunes. Sam’s Flake is cased with Tonquin Bean, which comes across with a warm, earthy sweet smell.

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Interesting! I doubt there is anything wrong or the wrong flake, but who can know ('till I open a tin of Sam's Flake from my cellar). Very tasty and I am liking it. Warm earthy sweet is certainly what I got and it was my seeking a description found a touch of prune danish to be more specific. Perhaps all in with the Virginias added some bread which got the prune in my head. It made me think of the Prune Danish pastries I loved and used to be able to find when I was a kid. No bakeries around here do them anymore, and most of them have no idea what i am even talking about when I ask.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Gawith Sams Flake from 2019 in the Barling Straight Grain (3639) from James J Fox & Co (London).

 

[umbrella001]

HH Pure Virginia in a no-name Canadian meerschaum.

 

[gamzultovah]

Some GH & Co. Scotch Flake in my Francois Dal Lovat.

 

[Birddog66]

There is nothing better for a hangover than a good black Ducados cigar. Happy birthday my friend Birddog66.

Thank you I’ll have to smoke one, right now I’m trying a little Calvados as hair of the dog

 

[JOHN72]

Good evening. Smoking the first third of Condor, in a MM Diplomat bent. Happy Veterans Day.

 

[JimInks]

What is Peterson Ltd. in Wisconsin??? I assume they are out of business? Nice looking pipe.

I have no idea if they are still in business. It was a pipe shop that was in business for decades. If they are still around, that would be cool.

 

[Birddog66]

Very much enjoying some McClelland Mature Cake in the meer lined 1955 (only year with the meer lining) Kaywoodie All Briar and a little spirit to warm me up and clear my head.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Blustery fall day! Best outdoor retrieving session ever for the puppy - 7 months old this week, been taking things nice and easy with training and paying off. She’s gassed and found the cool granite in front of the fireplace and I’m in the garage and the dogs’ favorite song came on the XM, lol. Nording Woodcock and Nording (McClelland) Hunter Labrador to mark the milestone.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Half & Half in a 2023 Peterson Xmas 53.