What Are You Smoking February 2019

[slowroll]

Smoking HH Vintage Syrian with 15% perique in my Iron Horse stack. The perique works nicely with this blend.

[unregistered1]

I'm just starting some Brigham's Hudson's Bay in a Peterson Nickel Spigot 69 Rusticated.

[9 Iron]

Smoking HH Vintage Syrian with 15% perique

Heretic! That’s akin to adding cheap vodka to holy water.

[Fr_Tom]

2016 Condor Long Cut in a Westbrook pot

[Islayphile]

DFU, MM straight Twain, Lapsang Souchong in the gifted Yeti.

[MikeDennison]

Well I just had a most interesting smoke! I believe I’ve posted before about the old railroad tracks that parallel a tiny creek just a short distance from here. Well today the sun came out so I grabbed a Geppetto lovat, filled it with some HH Burley flake and went down to sit by the creek and watch the birds and squirrels while I smoked. Just a five minute walk and there’s a spot right by the water with a downed tree that makes for a good seat, this is a little hideaway for me when I want to get away from people. I’ve been traipsing up and down the length of this creek for 12 years, seen a couple rare sights from time to time. A pair of river otters once, some unusual birds, but this little creek gets low and warm in summer and I’ve never seen a fish if any kind in there, not once. The creek dumps out into a lake a few miles down, and decades back before the dam at the lake was built there were runs of salmon and steelhead that were said to come up the tiniest creeks in the area. I’ve never seen it, nor has anyone I know. Until today.

I don’t know if they are salmon, steelhead or huge wild rainbows from the lake. The rainbows are reported to have a very small population in that lake, and I’m thinking these must either be rainbows or some landlocked steelhead that managed to survive all these years in that lake. I just dumb-lucked right into a group of three, two males and a female, spawning in a creek you could cross in three big bounding steps. Unbelievable. Photo attached. I have some video too but not sure how I’d post that.

The biggest fish, the female, is about two and a half feet long, the males maybe 22-24 inches.

Very cool, sir! Thanks for posting!

[MikeDennison]

After a supper of Chinese leftovers, I had a bowl of Dan's Sweet Vanilla Honeydew in this Calabresi Canadian. Man, that's good stuff. Excellent stuff, in fact. Rawther high clahs fer a OTC codger piper like me, but lovely just the same!

[9 Iron]

Here’s a video of the fish I was able to post on facebook.

[MikeDennison]

Now I've got Hair O' the Dog (OJK/BLWB) burning in this Algerian Briar billiard. Brownie Caramel Cream root beer on the side.

EDIT- Gotta just add that this sweet root beer really goes well with this tobacco!

[Tsal]

Ooooh...nice grain!

It is a beautiful pipe all around. It is "Straight Grain" stamped. It might be some fancy grade. I can't remember.

It is a "grade c," whatever that means.

Picayune in a BB&S pencil-shanked pot

Dunno but that sure is a heck of nice pipe!