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

[VDL_Piper]

Hey @VDL_Piper!

I love your new avatar. Telegraph Hill is possibly the best VaPer out there. I bought an 8 oz tin of it in 2017 and waited until last year to open it. I can't think of a VaPer that tastes better and is so balanced and easy to smoke.

I Googled Kelpies and Wikipedia says:

"A kelpie[...]is a shape-shifting spirit inhabiting lochs in Irish and Scottish folklore. It is usually described as a black horse-like creature, able to adopt human form."

You've got some cool fauna there in Oz boy.

Thanks on the Avatar, Christmas looms. Got to agree on TH, it's crazy good and the flavour is just sublime to my palate. By the way winter can't be to far away for you there, much snow about?

Kelpies are dogs breed here for livestock work, cattle and sheep. This might be closer than the Scottish version but sometimes I think these dogs are from another world the things they can do with stock.

Australian Kelpie - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Winnipeger]

Thanks on the Avatar, Christmas looms. Got to agree on TH, it's crazy good and the flavour is just sublime to my palate. By the way winter can't be to far away for you there, much snow about?

Kelpies are dogs breed here for livestock work, cattle and sheep. This might be closer than the Scottish version but sometimes I think these dogs are from another world the things they can do with stock.

Australian Kelpie - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Beautiful dogs!

We had snow and then an Indian Summer hit us last week and all the snow disappeared. Now it's dry and windy as fuck and getting colder this week. They're forecasting a high of -9 on Monday but it keeps getting pushed back. We'll see. I'm still cutting Greek oregano out of the back yard, even though it was covered in 6 inches of snow two weeks ago.

 

[Winnipeger]

Thanks on the Avatar

Oh and I didn't mean to imply that your previous avatar featuring your own handsome was mug any the lesser!

 

[VDL_Piper]

@Winnipeger great you're still harvesting the garden but -9 might stop that in its tracks. Here we are unusually dry, missed about 10 inches of annual rain and now starting to warm so it's drying out. Here is our farms soil moisture probe, you can see the water table has fallen away and the top 60cm is starting to fail.

 

[VDL_Piper]

@Winnipeger If you're up for a good light hearted movie based on a true story about a Kelpie this might hit the spot.

 

[pipeboy122]

Lane RLP-6 in a MM Shire Cobbit

 

[Trainpipeman]

@Winnipeger If you're up for a good light hearted movie based on a true story about a Kelpie this might hit the spot.

A very good suggestion for a movie!

 

[Sigmund]

Some Makhuwa mixed with a sprinkle of HH Lat flake in the Rovera. Its good straight and a little lat adds some additional interest for a change. Great with a glass of red.

 

[gamzultovah]

Smoking HHPure Virginia in my Tsuge 502 in the crisp, cool, free morning air of Decatur, Georgia.

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving, my friends.

 

[judcole]

HH Burley Flake in a Mark Twain.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Castello 55
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

 

[lordnantwich]

2006 Christmas Cheer in a Benner estate - wonderful ketchup aroma wow.

 

[Sigmund]

Loading up some HU Edward G in a Ser Jacopo. This might become my go-to smoke. It ticks all the boxes. Goes great with apple juice too.

 

[Ryan]

GH Burley and Bright in a Charatan

 

[BlueRidge]

Happy Thanksgiving to the US pipers and Happy Thursday to all others! smoking some Kendal Kentucky in a Pete 314. ready for this 4 day weekend, whew

 

[Dave760]

Today seemed like a good day to open this. Maple Shadows in a MM maple diplomat.

 

[Ben.R.C]

CRFP in an Asteriou. Happy TG to y’all from NC!

 

[Carol]

Good Day Everyone!

 

[bluegrassbrian]

McConnell Mature in the Musico Floodlight Special Liverpool.

 

[Ben.R.C]

CRFP in a Manz. Does anyone have a link to a good video on inspecting pipe internals? Over time I want to be able to identify if any damage is starting so I can prevent it from getting out of hand. Cheers!