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Delicious pre-Independence Day smoke at the beach.

2006 Edicion Regional Asia Pacifico Punch Super Robusto today... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

San Cristobal de La Habana El Morro (2001) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Happy Independence Day!

Lons

May 15 Robusto

Began my birthday month celebration, today having a cigar I have kept for a while now. Thanks to @mtd057 for this special Montecristo! Thoroughly enjoying it, Matt!

A moment to myself before the kiddos get home RASS on the deck while watching The Patriot and the neighbor’s fireworks ??

Esmerelda

HDM DC just like butta so good And a Dip 2. Also very good

Smoked the first PSD4 out of my box of GEL NOV 19's Despite the young age and the paper sack wrapper, the cigar smoked superbly, with perfect construction all the way through and a wonderful Partagas profile of flavors (perhaps slightly mellower then expected). I can't wait to see what the future holds for this box.

C&C Time. RYJ Wide Churchill (2018) - 24:24 Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

A HdM Epi 2 for me yesterday circa 2017. Used my new Victorinox punch ( Like the one Ken uses) on it, really nice smoke.

Monte 1 ASU NOV18 FOH CLRNC HU MAGNUM 46 TOU ABR19 FOH 2424

PLMC at the Casino for the first time since mid March.

Couple of firsts - my first Sancho Panza Non-Plus (ATE May-18) gifted from a fellow BOTL @StogieSteve23. Very good CC that in the first ¾" was salty pound cake, then settled into a mild toasted tobacco with every 6th puff getting a hint of salt running across my palate and tongue. About half-way through got a very interesting taste that took a few puffs to identify - Water chestnut! Thanks brother for adding another CC to the experience! Also, bought a Colibri V-cutter to see what all the talk is about. Definitely produces a different sensation and more smoke - another fun change.

Montecristo no. 4. Very nice. Young, 2019 but quite sweet. Smoked a couple of Cohiba Coronas especiales earlier today and this tasted eerily similar. Can't explain it. Partagas mille fleurs. I was done for the day. But after my last cigar above wanted to make sure my taste buds weren't fried. Milder than these have been tasting most days this week but definitely a different, stronger more peppery taste.

Opus X lancero and some Farr magic . Happy 4th to all our US folk stay safe people.

some tree damage from last evening’s blow

Ashton symmetry

4th of July breakfast Petit Royales. Happy 4th y’all!

Cohiba Lanceros PFY Dic 2005 I think I've smoked 6 Cohiba Lanceros in the last 3 years and my smoking diary on Cuban Cigar Website has noted each and every one rated five out of five overall. Gifted by @Trevor2118, this Lanceros again solidified for me why these can be great young, and other-worldly when aged. A beautifully complex long and skinny, flavours were ornate from beginning to end. Mocha, milk coffee, Cohiba grass/hay, vanilla, spice and honey, it was all there until the very end when I nubbed it. Another 5 out of 5 but it really deserved a 5 1/2! Despite the cigar not being an aligned parejo (i.e. the image above shows the cigar being slightly bent in the middle), it smoked wonderfully. I nubbed it to my fingers and I immediately thought to myself upon completion that I could smoke another, the cigar was that exemplary! I've smoked an array of quality Habanos cigars in 2020 and this 2005 Cohiba Lanceros would have to rate as one of the very best cigars that I have smoked thus far this year!

Ohhh my goooodnessss. Early 2019, I don't keep track, so forgive me. But.... this is everything I want out of a cigar. Purchased, put away, recently heard great things. I concur. Great smoke. Happy 4th to those in the states! Otherwise, happy day just because we are here and moving forward. Cheers to you and whatever may bring you joy, pride, and happiness!

Montecristo #1 BUM ABR 15

PSP 2012 Monte 2.. great smoke.. happy 4th to all in the states..

Glorious burn and construction Sent from my SM-G973U1 using Tapatalk

Gonna be a lot of this for a couple weeks! Love coming to the beach for vacation! My little man really loved it today.

2019 Montecristo Linea 1935 Leyenda today... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Happy 4th July to all my friends in the USA. Now smoking another undisclosed custom roll 5 9/10” x 58RG beast this time from@jerrybrowne Been a while since I smoked one from this batch. So good, if you know the term "If Carlsberg did Cuban cigars.." Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk

Love these UEB Churchill’s

Happy Independence Day! Spending the day at the beach!

Happy Saturday or Sunday or Fourth of July to all you gents

A Reynaldo robusto I picked up in Cuba with a local brew. Happy birthday USA! Even with all your faults I love you. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

These came in the day I left for vacation, great way to start it off. Brought one a long to try, 2020 codes! Fresh!

Weather getting hotter here but new patio furniture makes for a great spot for my weekend handicapping. Can't (or don't want to) go anywhere so might as well make home more comfortable.

Happy Fourth everyone! Wish everyone a great day. Enjoying a smoke along with some ribs on my drum!

Happy 4th to all our US folk . Stay safe people

BSM NOV 19 Clearance Sig 2’s ?

Keeping it simple with a RASCC.

SPB

Opened the New Riff, this is absolutely stunning!

morning again, Ray. great shame you don't live closer and we could discuss this on the balcony at length. only if you were willing to wear a mask, of course. all i did was quote your examples. if they are not appropriate, the easy answer is not to use them?? we have never been far apart on the overall view of most things and also in the use of 'greater good'. but that does not mean that just occasionally, the greater good is relevant. it does not always lead to hitler. that barn door might already be swinging in the wind. i am simply talking about the mask v no-mask (and toss in isolation/distancing if you want). i am not talking about manning the barricades to save us from the four horsemen. whether you like it or not, every single one of us has endless rules and limitations placed upon us. we live with them (sure, many we could probably happily exist without, but no one gets this exactly right). many we might not like. others we would not want it any other way. wearing masks is not something from way out in left field. and unlike so many of the restrictions/regulations/rules etc under which we exist, assuming that the virus is defeated, at least largely so (probably will be with us in some form forever), then they'll go. i think we are the perfect example of that. as i mentioned, we are down to minimal impact here in Queensland. masks are largely gone. i'm sure some will feel safer wearing them but most won't now. and that should not be a problem. if it turns out to be so, then we will revisit it. someone mentioned seat belts. i am just old enough to vaguely remember that many here screamed blue murder at having this restriction placed on us. many insisted they would never do it. this was an unacceptable imposition on their liberty, civil rights, right to be an imbecile if they wanted to be. these days, who bitches about seat belts? i suspect most under 30 or 40 would think it is such an obvious thing to do, and i also suspect none feel that their liberty has been infringed. to be honest, yes, i think we can safely say that those making those claims about seat belts were indeed idiots. on that issue. there are countless laws regulations etc, which protect people, which limit the actions of individuals in order to preserve the safety of others or even themselves. wearing masks is a really minor one. if you are in an area impacted by the virus, is it really such an imposition to wear a mask? to distance? to act with a modicum of responsibility to prevent harm to your neighbours? just for a few months until we beat this? this site seems to largely think that this is an american issue. it is most obviously not. it is not a conspiracy by faceless men to attack america, to benefit one side of politics or the other. it is a fricking virus. and it will do what it does wherever it is. there 130,000 plus deaths in the states, more than half a million worldwide. no doubt many more to come. ray, if terrorists attacked america killing that number and people were told that simply wearing a mask will help to defeat them, would you still refuse? sorry ray but you will never convince me that anyone who wants their neighbours to act responsibly in relation to this virus is a form of bigotry. i think that suggestion is utter nonsense.

morning ray. always fun to read your posts although this is not one on which i'd say that i am in complete agreement. somehow farting in public gets equated to 130,000 of your countrymen dying of a virus, a great many of these deaths being needless? i simply do not buy this supposed bigotry re wearing or not wearing masks. a convenient argument to deflect but without substance. ever thought it could be that people are genuinely concerned about their safety, that of their family, their friends and the rest of the country? i don't see the situation as one which is demanding that people wear masks for the rest of their lives. once this is under control, be nice to see a return to whatever the new normal is. but the appalling selfishness of those who won't experience some temporary inconvenience to help get it under control staggers me. this is not about the economic issues, just some simple minor temporary adjustments. too much to ask of many, it seems. here in Queensland, you don't see many wearing masks. but that is because we did lockdown fairly tightly early and we are fortunate that the impact of the virus has been pretty minimal. but if we had copped it much worse, i'd expect/hope to see us doing so. "Individuals understanding and respecting other individuals." easy to say all this, ray, but the reality is that risking the lives of those individuals is the exact opposite of what you claim.

BBF MSU OCT 19

I had the drone out about 2 or 3 miles over the Atlantic Ocean, looking for whales, sharks, and dolphins, which always seem to pop up when I don't have my drone handy, when I came upon this small fishing boat. Clearly, this guy doesn't share my enthusiasm for drones.

Partagas D4s ABO AGO 19 UEB AGO 19 The chocolate looking bombs are ABOs. TY FOH!

One of many boxes just made it’s way home from our host. NOV 19. Very pretty box, Thanks Rob and FOH team!