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

[sardonicus87]

Feel better soon sir!

I'm actually already feeling better, it was a pretty mild variant. My skin hurt and my legs felt heavy for the first day of symptoms (Sunday), fatigue and stuff, upset stomach... but today, I basically feel fine, like I wasn't sick at all. She suffered more than I did when she developed symptoms.

I never actually lost sense of taste/smell, but smell did get altered a little. That's why I thought pipe might be OK. Hopefully my nose will be back to normal sooner rather than later.

 

[JimInks]

Did some snacking, fed the ferals, and I'm almost a third of the way through this bowl of year 2017 Esoterica Dorchester in a straight smooth brown 1920s KBB Rocky Briar 1582 patent no.298978 with a B in a circle bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

Smoking now Capstan, the nicer of the two....
In a EE2 pipe, it was all black but at a point I decided to partially remove the paint.
Have a nice Tuesday good people!

 

[Scottmi]

Peretti 150th Flake in the Viprati Sabbiata...this is such an interesting flake. Thick slices like a heavy very dry beef jerky. To me, the tin note is still of KELP! Tonight in the pipe a gentle sweet is coming across more than I've noticed before. The flavor is good and chewy. This is not a grassy or 'hay' Virginia. I am very glad to have more aging in the cellar! I swear, it is tobaccos like this that have me feel sorry for cigar-only smokers. They have no idea...

 

[Scottmi]

Smoking now Capstan, the nicer of the two....
In a EE2 pipe, it was all black but at a point I decided to partially remove the paint.
Have a nice Tuesday good people!

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I really like that look!

 

[telescopes]

WCC 558 in a Grabow Pot after work today.

One of my favorites

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of year 2016 Sutliff Revelation Match in a straight smooth brown pre-WWII Kingsway (Comoy’s) London Made 61 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Tomato the Brave was crying outside for more food, so I helped the little fella out. He's eaten a lot tonight, but he's worth the trouble.

 

[Scottmi]

Capstan Blue RR in a Wiley. Still need to choose an adult beverage.
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Beautiful pipe! love the edged oval shank, and looks like a monster bowl! what is that capacity!?

 

[daniel7]

Bayou Morning x Bones billiard

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke Surbrug’s Golden Sceptre in a late 40s, early 50s straight black sandblasted Wagner British Thorn 495 (Comoy’s second) pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Finished work for the day, and fed Abner the Eager, who certainly lived up to his name. I went outside to see who was there, and he came running like he was shot out of a cannon. When I put the food down on a plate, he stood on my feet while he ate. I guess he figured I shouldn't move until he decided whether or not he wanted more than I put down. Turns out that he didn't, and when he finished eating, he looked up at me with a happy face and sweetly chirped some appreciation before he laid down next to me. Anyway, I'm close to finishing 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.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of Wilke No. 515 Double Shot in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This is No. 515 with twice the rum of the Basil Rathbone blend. I'll probably end the day with this smoke.

 

[BCF]

Match Victorian in a Graco bulldog to start the day!

 

[BorealPiper]

Enjoying a MM country gent filled with Kendal Kentucky, big cup of black coffee.

 

[FoggyMorning]

Bayou Morning Flake in a Savinelli Tre.

 

[PaulRVA]

Giving a pair of Ashton Pebble Grains a Capstan workout while waiting for the dew to burn off before my afternoon of mowing begins.

 

[JimInks]

Couldn't sleep, so I'm up and am half way through this bowl of Watch City Original Crumb Cut in a 1950s-60s straight smooth brown Bertram 07 octagonal paneled billiard with a square shank and a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

HU Soraya in the Goussard Dubvat w/ boar tusque.

Quite tasty, oriental forward - Hans has a way of melding burley with orientals that makes burley tasty even for me.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Woke up late, didn’t get to finish this bowl of Plum Pudding in a Jody Davis. Will finish after this meeting.