***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***

[Backwoods Briar]

Cob filled with “No bite delite” coffee and enjoying the cooler weather

 

[BingBong]

My big tabby bruiser friend The Boy is in, fed and abed. Meanwhile, I've made a 50/50 blend of Gold Block and F&T Blackjack ("Gold Negro"?) and am trying it in the Dunhill Shell Briar of 19-tumty-tum. A red VA / golden VA / Burley blend, creamy and tangy, very nice for a shot in the dark.

 

[Skink]

Gawith Hoggarth & Co. American Blend Whisky in a Genod Plume Canadian (421) with a mug of black coffee.

 

[Barkman]

jack knife plug in a Moretti

 

[dottlejockey]

Hi, How do Celebi meerschaum compare to others? His prices are very good. I have one old unmarked meerschaum that I need to bring back in the routine and was looking for another.

So far i've bought 2 of his pipes, 1 lower priced and 1 more competitive to higher end stuff. Both are great smokers with no internal engineering issues. The only line of differentiation from one to another is the intricacy of the carving and the metal accents. I wouldn't hesitate to consider Celebi for a reliable pipe at a good price. I've also heard good things about AND Meerschaum. Might give them a look, too.

 

[dottlejockey]

Got back in town last night to a nice little package on the porch. A new Tekin had arrived and it's high time to put it to work. 4th bowl of the morning is the 1st bowl for this new meer. Dug back on the shelf for something appropriately special and pulled this 2010 tin of Wessex Burley Slices for the occasion.

 

[xrundog]

If mine is coated, and if the coating is good, I won’t be disappointed. The water glass/charcoal coating George Dibos demonstrates on YouTube looks like a good way to keep a pipe smoking in spite of previous damage.

Right. I get the occasional estate that has some little fissures or other minor defect once the cake is stripped. I normally just smoke the pipe and it cakes over again. But I understand not wanting to sell a pipe like that. A good bowl coating is fine.

 

[nick24601]

From last night,

H.H. Syrian in a Chrostiano millennium

 

[xrundog]

OJK in a 1978 Dunhill Root Briar 412 41.

 

[Tbaggins]

Brown rope no.4 in an Eltang mini poker.

 

[MattRVA]

Dunhill Ready Rubbed with Jade Cloud green tea.

 

[umbrella001]

HH Pure Virginia in a Pete.

 

[dublinpiper90]

I love thick, smooth rims, but they are a bitch to keep up! I try my best. Chenet’s cake in a Nuttens
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Finally got a tin of Chenet‘s on the way ready to try it

 

[craig61a]

2018 Hearth & Home Classic Burley Kake in a Crown of England Dublin.

 

[Sobrbiker]

PS400 Luxury Navy Flake in a Ropp J11P.
Hoping fall shows up to the desert soon…

 

[Ben.R.C]

“Operation NOT Chenet’s cake” Anthology in a Manduela

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and have about a quarter of a bowl left of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. The last of this bag of Gold Star Jamaican Estate Reserve, neat, is my drink. Getting ready to clean a few pipes.

 

[john19]

I am smoking this wonderful blend. G.L. Pease Quiet Nights.

Well done Pease and C&D. This is a great blend.

Smoking in Savinelli St. Nicholas 2022 320KS.

 

[krizzose]

KBV Jupiter Slices in a Savinelli 707

 

[danimalia]

I'm not surprised by what happened although I know it would have upset me, too. It's hard for feral cats to lower their guard, and keep it lowered. In the past, I had a couple of ferals who came by to eat nearly every evening. One of them did for three years, and neither one of them would ever take a chance of trusting me. They get scared very easily, and your reaction scared him more. If you don't mind a bit of advice, yelling at an animal is one of the worst things you can do. They don't understand what yelling is, and they take it as you being mean to them. That especially goes for outside cats.

Daisy the Feral Princess is the only feral who understands me when I tell her not to do something. Sometimes the others do, but not too often. Tomato the Brave is not very intelligent, but he is loveable. Harry the Hairy understands when I tell him to leave the other ferals alone. I use a fairly quiet tone, shake my finger at him, and get in between him and whoever he might be intimidating. I repeat this every time, and he has mostly figured it out, although when I leave, he'll go back to his behavior.

Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger behave most of the time. Suzy handles criticism well most of the time. I'm very low key with Molly because she's a very skittish cat, and has been so since we got her over twelve years ago when she was about a month old. I never let them go outside, so it was easier to work with them regarding their behavior.

Yeah, I knew I'd messed up when I saw his fear after I jerked my hand back and yelled. It was more out of shock and pain on my part than thinking I was teaching him anything. I'll know better next time. He started coming around when my mom's cat was a kitten, along with a neighbor's cat, and they'd all hang out in the backyard together. Initially if I got within 20 feet of him, he'd scram. It took probably 3 months to get to the point where he'd let me pet him, and you could tell he wasn't really used to it, but seemed to like it, purring, and pushing himself into my hand. But when the food/scratching incident happened, it was all over.

Cats are fascinating. I love dogs, too, because they give so much more back in terms of love and affection, but most dogs, unless they have some previous baggage, are fairly easy to build trust and a relationship with. Not so with cats. They all seem to have different levels of desire for human interaction to begin with, and then building trust can still be a slow process.

Now smoking Reiner Long Golden Flake in the same MM Little Cutty from last night. This is a really nice Virginia. I like it a lot. It is currently unavailable. You know what is currently in stock and just as good? Orlik Golden Sliced!