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

[TN Jed]

KBV Western Trilogy in a Roush.

 

[Choatecav]

Smoked a bowl of year 2019 C&D Yorktown in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Terracotta 4AB No.108/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
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While in a grocery store parking lot, m’lady saw a small and skinny black cat crying from a storm drain. She rescued the li’l fella, and brought him home. Luckily for m’lady, she had cat food in the car to feed him because he got nervously wild in the car until he saw the food. She called me and told me to meet her at the car with cat food. I didn’t know what had happened, but I had the hope that maybe she had found Abner the Eager. It wasn’t him, of course. I brought him to the outside food dish, and he couldn’t decide whether to eat the dry food on the plate or out of cup I had it in. He also couldn’t decide whether to eat or love on me.

Tomato the Brave saw all of this, and the two touched noses. The black cat shrunk back, and hissed Tomato, who backed off and walked away. I brought the stray in to eat, and he went back and forth from one bowl to another to a third bowl constantly. I rubbed his underside and he was so thin that I felt his ribs. He ate, and ate, and ate. Sleepy Suzy came in, saw the intruder, and hissed and swiped him when it tried to touch noses. I moved Suzy to the den, so the li’l fella could finish eating. When he did, he laid by my side, and licked and marked me several times.

After that, he came to the den and jumped on my lap. I took a bunch of photos of that. He purrs very loudly. When Daisy the Feral Princess came in, she was extremely unhappy to see him. I had to traffic cop that business because the li’l tyke was afraid of our Feral Princess who hissed and swiped at him. M’lady fed Tomato and Daisy their wet food outside. It’s going to take some time for things to settle down especially considering that Molly Danger hates other cats. I don’t know what we’re going to do about this at the moment. He’s so friendly and loving that we believe somebody owned him, and dumped him in that parking lot. We just can’t let him go out right now. He’s stretched out on m’lady’s lap as I type this.
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Great story, Jim.
The little gang is growing by leaps and bounds...

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

C&D Rajah’s Court in a cob that loves Latakia. Instead of looking at a chewed up cob please consider looking at this Ardor instead.View attachment 428372

What a tasteful substitute! This is kind of like when YouTube tries to convince us it’s a friendly cool guy by showing 1.5 seconds of nature footage during a blank period of advertising programming of an NFL game - except it’s heartfelt and interesting instead!

 

[JimInks]

@JimInks, I keep hoping to read of Abner’s reappearance, (sigh).

I can't tell you how often we think about that, man. Not knowing what happened to him is still affecting us.

 

[spearheadbill]

A bowl of very old Stockton in a Pete 106 with prayers for Donna G. on my heart. My favorite era of Grateful Dead was the 70’s with her. RIP

 

[kcmontie]

Exclusive in a Castello

 

[Scottmi]

Mad Fiddler in the wire-brushed Moonshine Long Devil Anse.

 

[tfdickson]

2018 Viprati in my MarTelo bent billiard.

 

[renfield]

10 year old HH Vintage Syrian in a Nuttens Bing.

 

[telescopes]

Haven't had it but it does sound good based on @telescopes recipe.
If I ever come across the ingredients I’d make a batch

It's no joke, EZ1 is a brilliant recipe. But truth be told, the bones of the recipe lay with our friend in Alaska, @BarrelProof. The mix of chocolate, mocha, and of course, mint is a mix that goes back for hundreds of years all across the world. Here is the issue - Chocolate Supreme and Frosty Mint are gone due to the end of Sutliff. I have a small supply of FM left as well as Chocolate Supreme. Mocha is available from C&D. Two out of three - gone.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Haven't had it but it does sound good based on @telescopes recipe.
If I ever come across the ingredients I’d make a batch

If I ever break into the double vacuum sealed and Mylar package containing the Choco Supreme and Frosty Mint I FOMO’d, I’ll give you a heads up (I think the 4oz ea is a lifetime supply for me, and I’m skeered to open it as the package ghosted my mailbox).

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I smoked a bowl of year 2012 St. James Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Tanshell octagonal paneled EK F/T billiard with a square shank and tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.


I couldn't post before now for obvious reasons. The skinny fella is acting like he's been here all of his life. Every time I get up, he follows me. Like a lot of cats, when either one of us has to go to the bathroom, he follows us. I put him in the litter box, and he used it. We think somebody dumped him because he has so easily adapted to us with a lot of affection. He's fourteen inches long, and weighs 4.4 pounds so there's no telling how long ago that might have happened. Since he has big ears, I'm thinking he's about seven months old at the most.

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of year 2014 FVF in a straight smooth brown year 1923 Dunhill A billiard 60 patent March 9.15 with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo. Took me a while to download the cat photos and post in my last entry while I was smoking this pipe. I've got a lot more photos to download.

 

[abecox]

Trying a new one, C&D Super Balkan in a Vauen Cambridge 3781. This pipe is a true tank, heavy in the hand and has a nice capacity, so it's one of my favorite Latakia burning machines. So far I'm liking this blend, quite lat forward but the orientals keep wandering in to speak their piece and the Perique pops in every so often to make a statement. Maybe this winter will be the winter of Balkans, Lord knows I got a selection of various lat forward blends from the last sale on smokingpipes.

It's also my inaugural trying out of the garage lounge, I got a light and a medium sized heater so I can stay somewhat sheltered from the incoming Northeast Ohio weather. Hopefully the heater puts off enough btus to counter that lake wind. I guess we'll see.

 

[abecox]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I smoked a bowl of year 2012 St. James Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Tanshell octagonal paneled EK F/T billiard with a square shank and tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
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I couldn't post before now for obvious reasons. The skinny fella is acting like he's been here all of his life. Every time I get up, he follows me. Like a lot of cats, when either one of us has to go to the bathroom, he follows us. I put him in the litter box, and he used it. We think somebody dumped him because he has so easily adapted to us with a lot of affection. He's fourteen inches long, and weighs 4.4 pounds so there's no telling how long ago that might have happened. Since he has big ears, I'm thinking he's about seven months old at the most.
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What a cutie pie!

 

[cynyr]

If I ever break into the double vacuum sealed and Mylar package containing the Choco Supreme and Frosty Mint I FOMO’d, I’ll give you a heads up (I think the 4oz ea is a lifetime supply for me, and I’m skeered to open it as the package ghosted my mailbox).

Once you have it, it'll never be enough.

I've been 'redneck engineering' my own version of EZ1 with alternate ingredients, and enjoyed two bowls tonite in a Ropp Canadian.

 

[telescopes]

If I ever break into the double vacuum sealed and Mylar package containing the Choco Supreme and Frosty Mint I FOMO’d, I’ll give you a heads up (I think the 4oz ea is a lifetime supply for me, and I’m skeered to open it as the package ghosted my mailbox).

2 oz Frosty Mint, 4 oz chocolate Supreme, 10 oz of Mocha = 1 pound of tobacco gold. You will have used up your supply of chocolate supreme and you will only have 2 oz of Frosty Mint left, but you will have a pound of something you I assure you will be pure joy for those moments when you just need something different, just need to break the monotony and doldrums of life's treadmill of idiocy. Now that last 2oz of frosty mint. add it to 14 oz of 1Q and you have another pound of something almost as fun. Call it crossing your t's and dotting your I's

Let the batches set for a month.

Or, you can double up the frosty mint and make what I call EZ1 plus. Only do this if you intend to let it set for a while. But be warned, Cavendish is not a blend that loves being aged.

 

[telescopes]

Once you have it, it'll never be enough.

I've been 'redneck engineering' my own version of EZ1 with alternate ingredients, and enjoyed two bowls tonite in a Ropp Canadian.

There really wasn't another blend of tobacco on the market like Frosty Mint. I've used it mixed with several other tobaccos - BCA and 1Q. But mixing it with chocolate and mocha was without a doubt the best. I even used Chocolate Strips when I didn't have chocolate supreme and yes, it was good.

Some folks on these boards will laugh and snicker. Let them. They don't know what they don't know. But those that do, ....do. The cigarette makers figured this out a long time ago. It's not rocket science. Just ask candy makers.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

This morning,Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Rocky Patel Platinum while playing golf today.