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[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've passed the last third of this bowl of year 2018 Mac Baren HH Burley Flake in a 1979 smooth straight dark brown Loewe Army 910 billiard with a silver cap military mount and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Molly Danger is still with m'lady. We haven't let Harry the Hairy in because he'd want to be where Molly is, and we aren't going to disturb her peace or take a chance that it might set back today's progress. Below the pipe pic is one of Molly.

 

[RudyN]

Boswell Titus in a 2025 Peterson St. Patrick's Day Pipe.

 

[Singed]

@Singed do they charge as high duty on pipes as they do tobacco?

@Swede No. Smoking accesories are only taxed the provincial and federal sales taxes on the original purchased value (icluding shipping) and a 4% tax on any total value greater than $40 CDN for internation processing. On the other hand, tobacco is similarly taxed with an additional 0.46 cent per gram tariff, which you can imagine adds up very quickly. A 1lb order of tobacco (454g) costs me $209 CDN in tariff. Exchange varies but the tobacco tariff is based on weight so it is predictable and the taxes are more or less the same as anything I would buy in the store. The original price of the actual tobacco, at $11.00 - 21.00/50g US ($16.90-32.00 CDN ), really isn't a big deal to me. A 50g tin of tobacco costs $55-65 CDN for the most affordable pouch brands, +/- $500 CDN / lb locally. I also have infinitely more selection from America than I have ever had here, even with the demise of Sutliff/MacBaren.

My latest order should have had a $92.00 tariff on the tobacco alone (200g of Kopp tobaccos) The sales taxes and processing would have come to only $28.67 on the original Canadian purchase price of $150.92 ($104.89 US). I expected a total of +/- $250.00 CDN for the shipment: 2 pipes, 200g tobacco, and sundry supplies, the tobacco alone would cost me+/- $240.00 locally.

It is worth the hassle but when I get shipments processed at Montreal, QC customs, the stupid bastards always tack on their provincial tariffs and then I have to submit a reassessment for refund. If the end destination is not Quebec, their tariff is inapplicable but the greedy bastards try it every time. I have not had errors in calculation via CBSA in Mississauga, ON.

Of course, there was no tax or tariff on this latest shipment, they seem to have overlooked it. Still, I would not be surprised to received a notice, in 6 - 12 weeks, demanding the applicable taxes. I would be obliged to pay it but would file a reassessment because it arrived through Montreal. We will see....

 

[Singed]

I'm really beginning to enjoy the bent Apple Diplomat I just purchased. I trained it with some Smooth Black and Golden Cavendish today. It gets a little acrid when I reach the pit but that's only the shank charring and will disappear after another 3-5 smokes. Great pipe: light and well balanced with a nicely shaped and sized bowl. I see why you favour Diplomats Bali!

 

[Balisong]

Good Morning!
I did chores this morning and visited a few beekeeping sites so I can help a friend learn a bit before his bees arrive in April. While doing that I also finished a bent MM Legend Rob Roy filled with GLP Westminster that I started last night. Now I'm finishing my first cup of coffee and starting a bent MM Apple Diplomat filled with GLP Westminster.

 

[Singed]

I'm having CH in my Durham Don for a training session this morning, coffee of course.

 

[Gaius Marius]

I'm really beginning to enjoy the bent Apple Diplomat I just purchased. I trained it with some Smooth Black and Golden Cavendish today. It gets a little acrid when I reach the pit but that's only the shank charring and will disappear after another 3-5 smokes. Great pipe: light and well balanced with a nicely shaped and sized bowl. I see why you favour Diplomats Bali!View attachment 25228

I've got the very same cob. It isn't my favorite to look at but it's my favorite cob to smoke and no other cob comes close. Love it.

Good morning BoB,
It's quite a chilly -4°f / -20°c here in the Oregon high juniper desert. On my drive to work, I enjoyed half a bowl of Sutliff Virginia Slices in my Dr Grabow Grand Duke.
I've been doing experiments trying to mimic the consistency and flavor of expensive aged Italian balsamic vinegar using normal balsamic, port wine, maple syrup, and a dehydrator with some good results. My wife loves balsamic vinnegar and I want to make her something special for the 14th.

 

[Singed]

Training my bent Apple Diplomat with CH as well today, with another coffee.

 

[JimInks]

Almost a third of the way through this bowl of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Still cold and rainy, but Tomato the Brave and Abner the Eager will show up sometime, I'm sure. Everybody else has eaten. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Quickhatch]

Smoking a Savinelli author with Squadron Leader in St. Maarten. It’s refreshing to see so many ash trays out and about. A rum and coke is within easy reach.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am nearly finished smoking year 2019 C&D Yorktown in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Terracotta 4AB No.108/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Cafe 645, neat, is my drink.

Harry the Hairy was laying on m'lady's shoulder, and decided to attack the tissue she was going to use.

 

[Balisong]

Earlier I took a bent MM Missouri Pride filled with GLP Kensington with me on a dump run. I just finished that and now I'm starting a bent MM Washington Rob Roy filled with GLP Westminster along with a cup of coffee.

Our two oldest cats, Zita and Rosa have never been this close!

 

[Singed]

Got my latest tariff refund in the mail, $117.98 back from the original $367.72 on 400g. I will never tire of this game.

Had some Haunted Bookshop, part of the order, in my Brigham bent Dublin to celebrate.

 

[JimInks]

Earlier, I smoked a bowl of Peretti Royal in a black sandblasted medium bend 2013 Mark Tinsky Coral 5 cherrywood with a smooth dark brown shank and bottom with a tapered black briar accented acrylic stem. Cleaned a few pipes.

Then, I smoked a bowl of year 2016 Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in a straight smooth brown post-1964 Parker Super Bruyere 88/F group 3 bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

Currently, I am near the first third of this bowl of year 2014 Full Virginia Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Shell bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[Rasher-Roll]

Just finished a bowl of CS Old Toby in a latticed SMS meer bent egg. First pipe in probably a month for me, as life has been very busy. It’s raining today and I had the day off work so it was nice to relax a bit. My gal actually likes the smell of pipe tobacco, so she was also happy for my getting a little break.

 

[William Ziegler]

Finished my dinner of flat bread pizza. Now smoking SG Hansom Flake vintage 2020 in my Dunhill Cumberland Squat Bulldog 5117. I just made a fire. Going down to -24 tonight, which is fine with me. This cold keeps the snow storms South. Very quite here. Bourbon is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, orange roughy and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm a third of the way through this bowl of year 2012 St. James Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Tanshell octagonal paneled EK F/T billiard with a square shank and tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[Singed]

Started watching Justified with Timothy Oliphant. Filled up my Sav 616 with Old Professor after that and watched Guardians of the Galaxy 3. That disappointed me a bit, but the Oliphant series is shaping up, dark humour is my bag.

 

[RudyN]

Today it was Boswell Military Force in a Boswell Bent Freehand Pipe.