What Pipes or Pipe Tobacco did you smoke today? (2024-2025)

[Sid.Stavros]

Good morning from Athens-Greece.

The "Zatrikion" (1600 BC) was one of the most popular pastimes of the Greek royal families, who used it to teach their children that the king was powerless without his people. Like chess today, it had 64 positions, each corresponding to a separate region of the kingdom. Of course, the king should under no circumstances lose a single district of his kingdom, for then he would be left alone and desolate, without arable land and nationals.
The ancient Greek Zatrikion was later renamed Byzantine Chess (it was circular in shape), a copy of it is also housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

I am smoking Cornell & Diehl Small Batch Folklore, single espresso plus cool water beside me.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Salutes from Athens-Greece, we had clouds and light rain but now we have sun and 57 'F here.

Planta No1.

 

[PiperBob]

Quickly falling in love with Boggy Nights:
Peterson Jekyll and Hyde bent apple:

 

[Ted]

I felt like a reset day. I’m on my second bowl of straight Maryland leaf. There’s something I really like about it by itself. I’m smoking it in my Savinelli 315KS.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Greetings from Athens-Greece, we had sun and 66 'F here.

Planta Danish Black Vanilla.

 

[Alpine]

Sigh… we had a max temp of 28 F today… I’m a bit envious @Sid.Stavros

pier

 

[DaleB]

Sigh… we had a max temp of 28 F today…

This is why I’m looking at installing a ductless mini-split heat pump in our garage…

 

[Juxtaposer-]

Irish cake! I am working on a blend in the vein of Irish Flake. Equal parts red VA, dark air cured, and light fire cured. Using ready rubbed tobaccos (pressed, cut, and rubbed out) mixed and pressed into a cake. Only a few puffs from a test bowl and this blend has been given the green light!

 

[Ted]

A friend sent me some tobacco from this tin to try. I’m smoking it in a Savinelli 315KS. I know nothing about it. He was able to determine it was made from 1959 to 1982 by the US Tobacco Company. This tin looks late 60’s to 70’s production to me.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

'Dayyy from Athens-Greece, we have sun here and 63 'F although the forecast says rain in few hours.

Vanilla Caribic.

 

[Redleaf]

Enjoying a corn cob of 3 year stalk aged Virginia. Just straight with 0 added. Unbelievable how sweet it is. Of course it has a bit of bite to it but otherwise very good. I pressed it and it really has brought out a nice flavour profile.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Hello Ladies & Gentlemen, we had sun with few clouds and 66 'F here in Athens-Greece.

An ''intermediate" snapshot.

Planta Number 1.

 

[deluxestogie]

It's supposed to be daylight now. Rain pours down from a darkened sky. I sit in my study, at my 2011 vintage laptop computer, smoking a small bowl of the now extinct, McClelland No. 8 Oriental, in a Stanwell Lovat. The rare tobacco was a gift from last Christmas. I've rationed it.

There is a chance of the rain changing to snow later today, as the temperature drops.

Bob

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen, we have sun and 56 'F here in Athens-Greece.

When we were young, Heidi-Girl of the Alps.

I am smoking Reiner Rot Blend 51, double Greek coffee plus cool water beside me.

 

[Stinkerpipecigar]

Smoking some McClelland Red Cake with just a whisper of 2009 Penzance mixed in. Alex Florov pipe.

 

[Guyrox]

The only commercial tobacco I can tolerate at the moment is GH & Cie Scotch Mixture. In a Dunhill Cumberland 1/4 Bent Pot (5406).

 

[WillQuantrill]

As the sun decided to come out today, I decided to slip outside while the babies nap. This was a special experience, not only the christening of my MO meerschaum Honeypot, but the first bowl I have tasted of my KY17 Burley I grew this year. Nice to relax even if it's a short time.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Hello from Athens-Greece, we have sun and 56 'F here.

Here is a trick from the Cafe owner (a member of the Resistance team) to bypass the restrictions that those damned ''Hygienists" force the government to apply. There is a gap so the external space of the Cafe is considered now as ''open'' and naturally ventilated so people can smoke in it.

Poeschl Brookfield Black Vanilla.

 

[deluxestogie]

Corncob with a bamboo stem.

Bob

 

[DaleB]

Here is a trick from the Cafe owner (a member of the Resistance team) to bypass the restrictions that those damned ''Hygienists" force the government to apply. There is a gap so the external space of the Cafe is considered now as ''open'' and naturally ventilated so people can smoke in it.

Nice when someone tries to make it so you CAN smoke a pipe. In most cases they seem to go out of their way to ensure that you can't, or if you are able to it's as far away, as inconvenient, and as uncomfortable as possible.

We just got off of a cruise ship. On a vessel 1100+ feet long and with a 200+ foot beam, there were three tiny smoking areas available. Of the three, only one was sheltered from the wind enough that I stood a chance of getting a pipe lit. Smoking cigarettes is bad enough, but smoking a pipe anywhere other than your own front porch these days is sailing into a significant headwind.