What are you smoking? - October, 2018

Barclay-Rex Maiden Lane in a Jan Zeman Signature, Mammuto.
This tobacco was gifted to me a few weeks ago. This is my 3rd bowl so far and I’m finding it quite to my liking!

Rimboche S.J. in a 320EX. Delighting in my surroundings.

I live on the side of a mountain. My house is two stories in the front and one story in the back.

My backyard goes up at greater than a 45 degree angle something like 200 feet. It is all wooded, with Douglas Fir, Sugar Maple, some Oak, and feral Apple, descendant of some old orchard planted 100 years ago. There are some quince bushes along the borders next to the house, which I think came from previous tending of a garden.

I look out the back and up the hill this time of year, with great blue clouds of S.J. ringing my head and filling my senses, and see an occasional deer, grouse of some kind, (identified by there exact resemblance to the label on a bottle of Famous Grouse), and every now and then wild turkeys on the more level spots, walking together like little old men leaving a diner. There is evidence of black bear up there but I have only no direct sighting. (Something large crunches around up there every now and then.)

Flying over head are Red Tail Hawks. And at dusk, I see many bats come out. Several of the trees, growing precariously on the slope, have a wash out beneath them making small caves the bats call home.

The apple trees yield these large softball sized apples. I have tasted them and they all taste a little different and never taste good. The quince however are quite good. I harvest them and I gift them to folks who make applesauce and in return I am gifted with jars of apple sauce 10% quince.

Rimboche, S.J., it makes you sit back and look around. Savinelli 320EX, enables you to ignore the mechanics of smoking and concentrate on the flavor. Coffee to drink, and the music? Sounds of a weak little breeze rustling the leaves.