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

[Servant King]

Capped off a hectic workweek (I know, department of redundancy department) and celebrated a half-birthday in one fell swoop with #2 in my sample pack from @Goblin_Walrus , C&D Dawn XXV in my non-lat non-aromatic pipe, a Stefano Santambrogio smooth bent Rhodesian. Tried drying it slightly less than I'm normally inclined, and I'm glad I did...fantastic smoke! 9/10

Bird report: House finch, California scrub-jay, Dark-eyed junco, Steller's jay, White-crowned sparrow, Chipping sparrow, Northern flicker, Band-tailed pigeon, California towhee, Oak titmouse, Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, American crow, Red-tailed hawk, California quail, Hairy woodpecker, Western bluebird, Spotted towhee, and American robin. A full cast for sure.

Homemade chicken soup on the docket, followed by lots of Shabbat rest. Hope to see some of you at the pipe zoom on Sunday. Unfortunately for you, I will be there.

I can live with this blend being discontinued.

 

[Mortar0341]

2021 Haddo's Delight in my Merchant Service Short Dark Cutty. Just right for this late Friday afternoon.
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I like the blue stem and the shape of the pipe, looks like a good pipe. I love Haddos Delight. I want to Celler some and let it age.

 

[craig61a]

2004 C&D Bayou Night in a 2019 Peterson Rosslare Royal Irish 408; 10 year old JR Nicaraguan Overrun Robusto.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Marvelous! and the blast all along the shank/stummel is divine!

Thanks man! I actually got it for a steal a couple years ago as an unsmoked estate from SP.

 

[JimRoseLV]

It’s Las Vegas International Pipe Show eve. I’m smoking some SG FVF in a Peterson while my new pal Loki takes a nap. Hopefully I’ll see some of you tomorrow.

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Bengal Slices in a Briar Works. I can live with this blend being discontinued. I would like to see what C&D could do with anise in a blend. Watching the World Series. View attachment 426070

Now there’s an idea! I, too, would love to see a C&D anise/coumarin sorta blend.

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Capped off a hectic workweek (I know, department of redundancy department) and celebrated a half-birthday in one fell swoop with #2 in my sample pack from @Goblin_Walrus , C&D Dawn XXV in my non-lat non-aromatic pipe, a Stefano Santambrogio smooth bent Rhodesian. Tried drying it slightly less than I'm normally inclined, and I'm glad I did...fantastic smoke! 9/10

Bird report: House finch, California scrub-jay, Dark-eyed junco, Steller's jay, White-crowned sparrow, Chipping sparrow, Northern flicker, Band-tailed pigeon, California towhee, Oak titmouse, Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, American crow, Red-tailed hawk, California quail, Hairy woodpecker, Western bluebird, Spotted towhee, and American robin. A full cast for sure.

Homemade chicken soup on the docket, followed by lots of Shabbat rest. Hope to see some of you at the pipe zoom on Sunday. Unfortunately for you, I will be there.



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Good choice, I have found that the XXV Twins smoke really nicely straight out of the container.
Red tailed hawk represent! I love those dang birds.

 

[tfdickson]

2003 McC #24 in my Former paneled lovat.

 

[OzPiper]

A couple of squat straight bulldogs today
Chambers of similar dimensions


And trying 2 blends new to me:
Gawith Hoggarth’s Best Brown #2
And Sam Gawith’s Best Brown Flake
Both cube cut (straight from fresh tins), gravity filled with a few Nording Keystones at the bottom of the bowl

1st the pre-Cadogan Comoy 331 Sandblast
With a bowl of Gawith Hoggarth’s Best Brown #2

 

[Danny Haigler]

GL Pease: Jack Knife Plug, in a Nording Freehand

 

[Chieftiabo]

Boswell Sitter with Boswell Christmas Cookies,

 

[depriest1022]

Wow..... great story and thanks for the link.
Isn't Mena in west Arkansas, near the Oklahoma line???
Yes, I bet they do get teary eyed. A tree like that is like the old Patriarch of a family. It is so sad to see one go.....

Thanks for sharing.

Yes. It is 85 miles south of ft smith and 15 miles from the Oklahoma state line

 

[JimInks]

Passing the half way mark of this 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. Daisy the Feral Princess spent the last hour on my lap until she got hungry.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Capped off a hectic workweek (I know, department of redundancy department) and celebrated a half-birthday in one fell swoop with #2 in my sample pack from @Goblin_Walrus , C&D Dawn XXV in my non-lat non-aromatic pipe, a Stefano Santambrogio smooth bent Rhodesian. Tried drying it slightly less than I'm normally inclined, and I'm glad I did...fantastic smoke! 9/10

I got a generous sample of Dawn and Dusk from a most gracious member. The funny thing is I thought Dusk would’ve been my preference, but C&D killed it with the XXV Dawn.
Really wish I’d gotten in on the buy.

 

[Steddy]

Now there’s an idea! I, too, would love to see a C&D anise/coumarin sorta blend.

Ok, I hear you, like a War Horse style with some dark fired. Jeremy, you reading this?

 

[OzPiper]

The next of the pair of straight Bulldogs is a 1932 Civic (top)


With a bowl of cube cut and gravity filled Sam Gawith’s Best Brown Flake - a cousin and now stablemate of the GH Best Brown #2. Both tins bought in 2019

 

[ashdigger]

@ashdigger Man it is like you are on the road every day for investigations! How big an area do you cover? And what percentage is 'nature' vs dumb humans vs arson?

The three states I operate in are NV, AZ and UT.

I’ve been doing this for over 20 years and have investigated roughly 5,000 fires.

Of those, Homeowner arson is about 15

Scumbag arson is roughly 40

People that zig when they should zag is about 80% of the rest.

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Ok, I hear you, like a War Horse style with some dark fired. Jeremy, you reading this?

Conflict Donkey, uhh, uh, Fightin’ Pony, uhh, Assault Appaloosa - free for the taking, the easy work is done

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Early morning pipe in the Pete 103

 

[JazzInAZ]

Conflict Donkey, uhh, uh, Fightin’ Pony, uhh, Assault Appaloosa - free for the taking, the easy work is done

Would love to see a fierce battle between a War Horse and a ... um ... Conflict Donkey?!

The horse would be jousting, and the donkey ... jesting??