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Post by sidstavros on Mar 18, 2024 5:50:13 GMT -5
Good morning from Athens-Greece.  We have sun here and 66 'F. |
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Post by Darin on Mar 18, 2024 6:26:24 GMT -5
Monday has returned and so it's back to the grind. 2015 McClelland Tudor Castle in an MM Mark Twain with black coffee to drink. Have a good one everybody!
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Post by coalsmoke on Mar 18, 2024 6:30:27 GMT -5
Good Morning Again! It's now 28° and cloudy here in our neighborhood. I just finished watching a pretty bad movie from 1941 called "Among the Living" on YouTube. Oh, well... I'll try to find a better one later. Currently smoking a bowl of Wessex Brown VA Flake in the Upshall Dublin while occasionally sipping my coffee. Time to check the headline news.
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Post by coalsmoke on Mar 18, 2024 6:31:37 GMT -5
Monday has returned and so it's back to the grind. 2015 McClelland Tudor Castle in an MM Mark Twain with black coffee to drink. Have a good one everybody! Tudor Castle was one of my favorite McC blends. Enjoy! |
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Post by coalsmoke on Mar 18, 2024 7:05:02 GMT -5
Working on a bowl of Bayou Morning Flake in the Upshall Dublin while slowly sipping my coffee and watching the 1947 movie "Tangier" on YouTube.
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Post by lizardonarock on Mar 18, 2024 7:27:24 GMT -5
Morning fellow life forms 58F in the swamp with Piccadilly in the pipe and espresso in the big cup.
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Post by Goldbrick on Mar 18, 2024 9:32:23 GMT -5
My own mixture, Carolina Blue, in a Savinelli Estella Non-Pariel 9004, coffee on the side. 49F here this morning, seems cold after the past few days of temps in the upper sixties.
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Post by just ol ed on Mar 18, 2024 10:02:49 GMT -5
Hope no "Monday Morning Blues" for anybody. Apertif in SerJac Rowlette "scoop", CokeOriginal & a few munchies by side
31, overcast, dry for now
Ed-slowly dealing as usual
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Post by Silver on Mar 18, 2024 10:27:19 GMT -5
Happy Monday! Started the day with a couple bowls of Haunted Bookshop in the Monday cob and coffee.
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Post by Silver on Mar 18, 2024 11:40:17 GMT -5
Having another bowl of Haunted Bookshop in the Monday cob and taking it easy.
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Post by Silver on Mar 18, 2024 13:07:51 GMT -5
Having a bowl of Friar's Bayou in a sandblasted Wessex cherrywood, while sketching on a block of briar in the workshop.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 18, 2024 13:08:00 GMT -5
Happy Monday. 56 degrees and clear blue skies here in NE Texas. Wife's tulips are popping out all over. Wilke Chocolate in a Comoys Pebble Grain prince. Sidral Mundat on the side.  |
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Post by NJDan on Mar 18, 2024 14:09:13 GMT -5
Good afternoon all. The winds came back overnight and brought back the crisp air, but it’s a fine partly sunny day for mid-March. I’m smoking Stockton in a Savinelli Bing’s favorite. Hope you all enjoy the rest of the day.
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Post by urbino on Mar 18, 2024 15:21:08 GMT -5
Happy Monday. 56 degrees and clear blue skies here in NE Texas. Wife's tulips are popping out all over. Wilke Chocolate in a Comoys Pebble Grain prince. Sidral Mundat on the side. Nice billiard! I think we've talked about this, but I've got the same one.
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Post by turbocat on Mar 18, 2024 15:46:08 GMT -5
 HU Flanagan Flake in a TV churchwarden. |
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Post by turbocat on Mar 18, 2024 18:03:24 GMT -5
Just smoked a bowl of Rustica leaf I got last week. My first time smoking plain leaf Rustica, I’ve smoked a number of different Mapacho and related tobaccos from South America before, but they’re always flavored and treated in some fashion so it was interesting to check out the pure flavor. This leaf gave me flashbacks to really hard to get cigarettes from Eastern Europe in the 80’s.  |
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Post by Zach on Mar 18, 2024 18:41:12 GMT -5
2016 Old Joe Krantz in a Country Gent. turbocat - I was going to grow some rustica this year, keep forgetting to start seeds of it that I should’ve started weeks back but it’s small and grows fine in a pot anyway, and a short season grower. I should start some this weekend. |
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Post by Silver on Mar 18, 2024 18:46:42 GMT -5
Friar's Bayou in the Monday cob x 2.
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Post by Zach on Mar 18, 2024 18:48:07 GMT -5
 Watch City Slices in a Karlheinz Joura. Whatever made you decide to break out of your routine and smoke this pipe, you should keep doing it. I’ve got a John Cotton belge like this one. Mine has what you would call “no grain.” |
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Post by urbino on Mar 18, 2024 18:48:25 GMT -5
Just smoked a bowl of Rustica leaf I got last week. My first time smoking plain leaf Rustica, I’ve smoked a number of different Mapacho and related tobaccos from South America before, but they’re always flavored and treated in some fashion so it was interesting to check out the pure flavor. This leaf gave me flashbacks to really hard to get cigarettes from Eastern Europe in the 80’s. Heh. A paper plate seems like a very appropriate background for a cob. Like you're at a pic-a-nic.  |
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Post by turbocat on Mar 18, 2024 18:56:52 GMT -5
2016 Old Joe Krantz in a Country Gent. turbocat - I was going to grow some rustica this year, keep forgetting to start seeds of it that I should’ve started weeks back but it’s small and grows fine in a pot anyway, and a short season grower. I should start some this weekend. I have read that it’s an easier grow than common tobaccos. I had a somewhat failure growing a Virginia plant in the past, but that was mostly due to not knowing what I was doing at the time. I’ve considered trying again with a Rustica plant or two though. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts and results. |
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Post by Zach on Mar 18, 2024 18:58:34 GMT -5
Kipling was said to take Twain to task for smoking Turkish tobacco in a "lowly American corncob pipe." Twain was said to have replied that "this, sir, is not a corncob pipe. It is a 'Missouri Meerschaum.'" |
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Post by Scott W on Mar 18, 2024 19:23:18 GMT -5
Smoked some Gentleman Caller in a square shank rusticated billiard. It was ok.
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Post by urbino on Mar 18, 2024 19:24:59 GMT -5
Kipling was said to take Twain to task for smoking Turkish tobacco in a "lowly American corncob pipe." Twain was said to have replied that "this, sir, is not a corncob pipe. It is a 'Missouri Meerschaum.'" I don't think I'd engage Twain in a verbal tete-a-tete. Even if I was Rudyard Kipling. The man floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. |
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Post by Gypo on Mar 18, 2024 20:00:34 GMT -5
Briar Fox in MM Carolina Gentleman.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Mar 18, 2024 20:18:46 GMT -5
2013 Capstan Blue Flake in my Jason Patrick Billiard.  |
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Post by john on Mar 18, 2024 20:20:42 GMT -5
Went to the VA for the first of three appointments this week. Next weeks the same again... then I get a week off and repeat it same again... So I guess I’ll put my road warrior hat on and go with the flow... Meanwhile back at the home it will be a nice bowl of St Bruno in the Jobey Meerschaum Filter... if I ever find out who has some Meerschaum filters and they are affordable I might just have to try them... A large sweet tea alongside... Now let’s see if my hosting service is back working...  Yea! Success! |
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Post by Goldbrick on Mar 18, 2024 21:21:31 GMT -5
I had an after dinner bowl of Carolina Blue in a Grabow freehand...now, F.M.O.T.T. in a Kaywoodie handmade.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 18, 2024 22:05:10 GMT -5
Went to the VA for the first of three appointments this week. Next weeks the same again... then I get a week off and repeat it same again... So I guess I’ll put my road warrior hat on and go with the flow... Meanwhile back at the home it will be a nice bowl of St Bruno in the Jobey Meerschaum Filter... if I ever find out who has some Meerschaum filters and they are affordable I might just have to try them... A large sweet tea alongside... Now let’s see if my hosting service is back working... Yea! Success! I've tried meershaum filters. They are like balsam, but inferior in every way. |
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Post by just ol ed on Mar 18, 2024 22:06:41 GMT -5
Abingdon & cobs, to the chats
Ed
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