***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***
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I dont usually carry my phone with me, but the other day while walking past our horse pasture, the beauty over took me.Just a beautiful day here in the mid-state with low humidity and cool temps.
As if that wasn't enough to make the day a winner, Watch City took it upon themselves to send me a nice package with some goodies in there. Included are my first two HU tobaccos. I have been "peer pressured" into getting some by @PaulRVA and his frequent posts.....
So.... I loaded up my home-made pipe with Edward G. and tried it. While I'm not ready to say it is one of my new favorites.... it may be one of my new favorites.
The flavors of all of the Virginias were very present and tasty and the perique continually made it's presence known. Just a wonderful blend. If this is indicative of HU blends, then sign me up......
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Three of the horses were enjoying munching some grass while I enjoyed my Edwad G.
My pastures were so nice and green prior to our summer drought. Now they look rough.
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Three of our horses were just coming over the hill. The sun, the sky, the green grass...just all came together. Pictures dont do it justice.
Nice score brother! That Capstan was mine and it must’ve been miss-routed to youJust a beautiful day here in the mid-state with low humidity and cool temps.
As if that wasn't enough to make the day a winner, Watch City took it upon themselves to send me a nice package with some goodies in there. Included are my first two HU tobaccos. I have been "peer pressured" into getting some by @PaulRVA and his frequent posts.....
So.... I loaded up my home-made pipe with Edward G. and tried it. While I'm not ready to say it is one of my new favorites.... it may be one of my new favorites.
The flavors of all of the Virginias were very present and tasty and the perique continually made it's presence known. Just a wonderful blend. If this is indicative of HU blends, then sign me up......
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Three of the horses were enjoying munching some grass while I enjoyed my Edwad G.
My pastures were so nice and green prior to our summer drought. Now they look rough.
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I’ll pm you my address. The Edward G really sings the drier it gets. Play with it and see what you like. I dry the whole Tin for 24 hrs and place it back in the Tin. It gets better for me every time I dip into it after that. Jim might have some better advice on it but so far it’s been a great smoke for me.@Sigmund turned me on to the HU line when it hit the US market and every blend he suggested to me was a winner. Louisiana Broken is another must try IMHO.
I almost forgot how much I hated Beltway traffic. Being retired I can’t run lights anymore but still made good time up to Camden Yards and back from Richmond for a Game. It’s good to be back home and finally have a pipe and the lack of one during the day made for a long one.
C&D Exclusive in a Castello 31 and an Americano️ on the side and a Pic of Mookie Betts smacking his Homer and Ohtani doing the same
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Having a quick dinner break right now, and looked over the posts . . . . Hey, Paul, I gotta give you today's Kewpie for this pipe. Not because its stellar (which I don't know the first thing about, lol) or valuable (which I also don't know anything about) or because it is stunningly beautiful (which it ain't), or because it caught my eye (which it does, every time I see the thing), but because it's butt ugly in the "Monster Cute" vein and was the direct inspiration for my search for my own "Cute Monster," the infamous Mr. Brog #52 "Scoot", Miss Piggy, which I just put out on the "on deck" rack for an upcoming evening smoke for a viewing of one of the great monster movies of all time, "Young Frankentstein". Sort of a retroactive and well deserved Homage to the genre. So, here ya go, man!!
Gotta also compliment you on those terrific baseball photos, and looking forward to what yu can do for NFL football, eh? Which of course, is my favourite spectator sport
Going to give one more late this evening, but will need to find it, first. Will do that later. Like an idiot, I didn't notate the page. Have to sort crabapples and get to the store for more baggies and Saran Wrap now. Cheers!
Picked up an estate Briarworks C22 for a song recently. Cleaned it up and enjoying some Burley Flake No.1 in it now.
Arango Balkan Supreme in a Karl Erik Ekstravagant “A” horn.
Enjoying this Uhles Blend 44 in a Savand can see it being part of my morning smoke rotation With water and watching sportsball. 
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, haddock and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm smoking year 2015 Mac Baren Modern Virginia in a medium bend, smooth dark brown 1950s Peterson 999 Shamrock chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Watching the Braves-Cubs game with Sleepy Suzy by my side. Molly Danger is on m'lady's lap. The ferals are outside.
Good tips, Paul.Nice score brother! That Capstan was mine and it must’ve been miss-routed to you
@Sigmund turned me on to the HU line when it hit the US market and every blend he suggested to me was a winner. Louisiana Broken is another must try IMHO.
I will take it out of the jar and put it back in the tin to dry more and give it a test drive. I'm not sure that it can get much better than what I experienced today as it was a delight. Oh, and I did look up @JimInks review and he gave it four stars, but that was back in 2013 and he said that it was in coin cut form which was not the current shag type cut that they are now using. Any ideas, appreciated.
Finally, thanks to @Sigmund for kicking the ball off.
I can't wait to try the other HU offerings.
Didn't know it's a shag cut blend now. I'm glad I still have a couple of tins of the old stuff. I wonder how different it tastes now. I tried the 2019 version in Vegas that year, and while it was still coin cut with a little loose broken flake, it had changed by then. They decreased the perique by at least 40%.
No pictures but Ive been smoking some Kings fool and lots of Haunted Bookshop both are new to me.
Wow, WAYS Sept now at Page 49. Beginning of Sept found me busy with some great things (!), plus took me awhile to finish WAYS Aug. But I'm here now ...
Peterson System Standard XL305 (smooth) with McConnell Scottish Blend. Sad that my only tin is getting close to the end.
Chieftiabo: For some time, I've admired the leather tobacco trays I've seen here, plus also at Pipe Club, rectangular with a rivet on each corner. Couple months back, I went to the Goodwill, wondering if I might actually find one there. No luck, but instead, I found a wooden bowl exactly like the one in your pic, darker wood but a twin. And it works great. I really like that it's wood, especially since for several years, I've used large wooden soup bowls for eating. Per my own habits, I never wash them with soap, just a quick splash of hot water, turn them upside down to dry & they're fine. Gotta think people have eaten out of wooden bowls for centuries.
NOTE: Of course, the Lady Friend would be HORRIFIED if I disclosed this habit, but WTH (!?).
Peterson System Standard XL305 (smooth) with McConnell Scottish Blend. Sad that my only tin is getting close to the end.
Chieftiabo: For some time, I've admired the leather tobacco trays I've seen here, plus also at Pipe Club, rectangular with a rivet on each corner. Couple months back, I went to the Goodwill, wondering if I might actually find one there. No luck, but instead, I found a wooden bowl exactly like the one in your pic, darker wood but a twin. And it works great. I really like that it's wood, especially since for several years, I've used large wooden soup bowls for eating. Per my own habits, I never wash them with soap, just a quick splash of hot water, turn them upside down to dry & they're fine. Gotta think people have eaten out of wooden bowls for centuries.
NOTE: Of course, the Lady Friend would be HORRIFIED if I disclosed this habit, but WTH (!?).
Campaign Dark Flake (2014) in a BriarWorks.
Its a hodgepodge now Some coins some shag and some broken flake.
Outside at my hotel with some Wilke 10 Downing St in a Kaywoodie 600 Drinkless with a bottle of water. What a great little smoker! It lives in my pipe travel bag and I keep threatening to send it to the big leagues. 
Edisto, in this unsmoked L’Anatra partially rusticated paneled (137/250 Pipes & Tobaccos Magazine 2005 pipe of the year). Another fine job by Smokingpipes.
Now smoking year 2018 Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a straight smooth dark brown 1950s Comoy’s Deluxe apple military mount with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo.
Thank you @gordHaving a quick dinner break right now, and looked over the posts . . . . Hey, Paul, I gotta give you today's Kewpie for this pipe. Not because its stellar (which I don't know the first thing about, lol) or valuable (which I also don't know anything about) or because it is stunningly beautiful (which it ain't), or because it caught my eye (which it does, every time I see the thing), but because it's butt ugly in the "Monster Cute" vein and was the direct inspiration for my search for my own "Cute Monster," the infamous Mr. Brog #52 "Scoot", Miss Piggy, which I just put out on the "on deck" rack for an upcoming evening smoke for a viewing of one of the great monster movies of all time, "Young Frankentstein". Sort of a retroactive and well deserved Homage to the genre. So, here ya go, man!!
Gotta also compliment you on those terrific baseball photos, and looking forward to what yu can do for NFL football, eh? Which of course, is my favourite spectator sport
Going to give one more late this evening, but will need to find it, first. Will do that later. Like an idiot, I didn't notate the page. Have to sort crabapples and get to the store for more baggies and Saran Wrap now. Cheers!
She’s the Ugly girl at the Dance but she wears it well
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