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

[CPT]

Some 20 year old Haddo's Delight in an IMP Meerschaum with a pot of English Breakfast on the side.

 

[telescopes]

Damn it. I thought you were in California. Are you telling me you're on the sunny coast of Malaga?

I wish - but sadly no. I am in Nevada and tomorrow I’ll be Las Vegas for the Pipe Show. However, your talk of Moroccan tea brought back many memories of Spain.

 

[Jwebb90]

We Three Kings in a Peterson Meetschaum.

 

[telescopes]

Damn it. I thought you were in California. Are you telling me you're on the sunny coast of Malaga?

Malaga - What a nice town. I could have tea with Anthony Bandaras or sit next to Picasso and watch the Flamingo dancers stroll by.

 

[RL Bucktails]

Some 20 year old Haddo's Delight in an IMP Meerschaum with a pot of English Breakfast on the side.
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That looks like a vintage ash tray.

 

[judcole]

HH Burley Flake in an MM Washington.

 

[CPT]

That looks like a vintage ash tray.

Yes, I bought that ashtray at the old Smoker's Haven in downtown Columbus on 12/20/1972. All the salesmen smoked pipes in the store--the scent upon entering was heavenly! (I know the exact date because in that era customers' purchases were tracked on a typewritten index card. Premal Chheda still has those cards and gave me mine.)

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[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Radice Bulldog and the last of the Coffee ️

 

[WorthyStewart]

Aperitif in the Loewe Centurion Barnet, one of my favorite pipes . . .

 

[Hillcrest]

Sutliff 507-c in an Pete Erica 302 second with Savinelli dry system stem and 6mm filter to start the day. Have a great day everyone !

 

[mtwaller]

KBV Dread Planet 2024 in a Radice Clear Billiard w/ Cumberland Stem and the trusty Kiribi Kabuto Mizo

 

[cynyr]

Carter Hall in a MM Diamondback.

 

[Choatecav]

Morning man,
Up and at it. That pole saw has your name on it and the limbs aren't waiting any longer. Im sure you’re already acclimated but with mine extended to 16ft you have to think about your cut strategy before committing. If you do a quick file every refuel it will also save you on the back end chain wise.
The first time I used it was on a 120 ft White Oak that I pushed down with a neighbors Dozier.
With the tree down and the diameter of the trunk you had to buck the limbs to get the trunk parallel to the ground. The pole saw saved me having to climb around the tree and walk the trunk to do that. The trunk diameter was close to 5 feet and with the limbs attached it was still 16 feet off the ground at the top end when downed.

Yeah, I was out early with it in the back pasture and trimmed down a lot of stuff. Then I stacked it in piles so I can lift it with tractor and forks and pile up. Got an amazing amount of trimming done and as you said yesterday, it has already paid for itself.... Now eating lunch and resting my shoulders, ha. Shortly, I will go get the tractor and move what I have cut.
Man, that must have been a helluva white oak. Although I know y'all have some monsters up there. Five feet in trunk diameter is really something. No telling how much of the nations history that ole gal had witnessed. Was it diseased and starting to die??
As to the pole saw, I did not get one that extended out. It is a Stihl 56 HC and is about 10 feet and should do all I will need, although I may eat those words.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Lunch break-
Dan Ascanian in the Kai Nielsen JOD B.

 

[Peter Turbo]

KBV Brightflek on a glorious fall day

 

[JimInks]

Getting a late start to the day, and am part way through this bowl of year 2024 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. M'lady fed all the cats. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[xrundog]

OJK in a WDC French Briar Bakelite.

 

[Danny Haigler]

Cascadia, Downwind Plug in an Eric Nording Freehand

 

[pipersalmanac]

Next up! Some post lunch from beyond in the Halloween 315XL.

 

[Roach1]

Peretti BPC in an Il Ceppo.