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

[VA_Red]

20 year old Torben Dansk No 3 Virginia Superb in Peterson.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Yes sir, I am very thankful I was able pick up the ones that I did.

That was a very short stint of him coming back to it. Was it even a year?

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with oatmeal raisin cookies for dessert. I'm part way through this bowl of Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a 1938 smooth straight brown patent Dunhill R 115 bowling ball apple with a tapered cumberland stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[VA_Red]

Warped The Haunting in EMC Custom Cob. A balmy 66° in the smoking tent on a low 40°s evening. Life is good.

 

[tfdickson]

That was a very short stint of him coming back to it. Was it even a year?

I think it was more than a year, but less than two. However long it was, it was far too short.

 

[dunnyboy]

McConnell Scottish Flake in a Castello great line.

 

[das3353]

New Pete’s are lookin good these days. Seems like a big jump from a few years back.

Agreed. Excellent smokers too.

 

[Ben.R.C]

I think it was more than a year, but less than two. However long it was, it was far too short.

Yes. Charatan was a ground breaking brand, he will never be forgotten in the pipe community. I am glad he came back to it before he left us. His interview on the Pipe Mag radio show seemed upbeat and excited about his work during that time. He came back purely for the fun of it.

 

[sparker69]

I was in Montreal for Halloween, so I didn’t get to light up a Halloween themed pipe, just one of the unfinished Savinelli Series III pipes I took on the road with me. So, I’m catching up a day late on the Day of the Dead with Cornell & Diehl Visions of Celephaïs in a Baraccini Halloween Pipe 2022—“Jack” 320 Author.

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While in Montreal, I was very happy to meet up with forum member, @sparker69 on Monday at Blatter & Blatter. I hope it won’t be the last. With our mutual passion for cigars, pipes, craft beer, and whiskies, there’s much to be shared.

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He brought a couple of wonderful Cuban cigars for me. We smoked some tasty Bolivars while we walked around Downtown Montreal.

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I might end up saving this Partagas 898 for my birthday or warmer weather. I think the dampness and cold affected the burn of the Bolivar, which required several relights—usually with cigars, it’s one light and done.

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The grandkids carving pumpkins with their parents:

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Lo, and behold—a very small vampire!

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And another shot of Wasabi in his costume, just because.

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Yes - I really enjoyed the visit! We're going to have to do this again!

 

[samuelgawith01]

HU Asmara in a 1953 Dunhill Tanshell.

 

[HRPufnstuf]

Wrapping up with Mark Twain in my Anton & Co. maplewood Brandy.

 

[VA_Red]

Last bowl of the day is GH Black Cherry Twist and GH American Black Cherry in Altinay.

 

[RobNYC]

Irish Flake in a CAO/Bekler.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Pipe Force V in a Satou

 

[Bbailey324]

Mac Baren 7 Seas Regular in a Rossi Mezzanotte.

 

[onestrangeone]

Bayou Morning in a Radice billiard

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of year 2018 Solani 633 in a straight 1954 patent Dunhill 148 Group 3 black shell bulldog made for the France market with a black saddle vulcanite stem.

 

[Tate]

A quick bowl of Five Brothers in the Benchmade.

 

[JimInks]

I trust cat people!
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So do I, man!

 

[cshubhra]

Peterson Royal Yacht in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard