Sunday Morning Smoke

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Mr. O, give Mrs. O the Big O tonight!!

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I showed this to her, she said if its no bigger than it was this morning Forget it ! hahahaha , the story of my life a day late & 3 inches to short ! hahaha

Good Morning , it is Sunday April 19 2009 , today would have been my fathers 90th birthday , so Happy Birthday Dad , I know he is still hanging arround at times , it him or my mother, popping in & out of my life , dropping things, moving things , Hiding my keys at times hahahaha , I dont know if I believe in Ghosts but I do believe in Angels , been saved by a few over the years talked with a few from time to time , Ghosts I dont know who is to say that a troubled soul just didnt get to where they were going yet , I guess the only time we will know for sure is after we have left this world for a better one ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.......
I started off the morning with a Casa Fuente Churchill , a wonderful cigar but not what i should have had this wonderful Sunday morning here in Da Burgh , right now it is 65 F with partly cloudy skys & a nice SW brease , the wind chimes are singing & speaking of singing Last night we all went to the Lincoln School for Preforming arts , the local "Fame " Highschool, the production was Chorus Line , DAMMMMMM I cant believe they are highschool students , , I have seen the movie & the stage play with various actors in the road company & they couldnt have been any better had they been paid professionals , a wonderful show & inexpencive for the school to do, NO PROPS, stage sets or costumes other than the final number , the rights did cost a few bucks , but then the rights to a lot of plays , Shows cost a lots for the rights plus the sets, the costumes & the band, here everything was all ready there, a whits line down the stage , a wall of Mirrors & a CD with the music ............... GREAT STUFF .................. looks like we are back to the pot roast AGAIN today, I got up to make breakfast & there is the dreadded pot roast defrostong ............ Dammmm I wish she would EXPAND her taste buds , but this morning we did have sheared eggs , I think thats how its spelled, 3 sausage links in a small oven proof dish, ( fully Cooked ) , then you crack an egg in the dish & bake it to set the whites a slice of toast to dip the yoke & the sausage is encased with the egg white , just a different way to serve sausage & eggs ...............
The Sunday morning kona went by the wayside with the casa fuente , right now I have a pot of moca java that I am working on & soon it will be replaced with a Bold , dark roast Columbian , & who knows what I might get into after that, looks like it will be a Great coffee day , as I have a 1964 Padron Anniv. Churchill for this afternoon, , But my taste buds are still looking for that Don Carlos, maybe I will drop in a #4 , it is a little smaller that the #3 but it will solve my craving , , I have a Camacho Liberty for later today & who knows what I might find if I start to did in one of the long term aging humidors ,,,, dammm I want to hit that POWER BALL so I can build a new house with a Proper walk in Humidor, about 12X12 , yea that ought to just about do it , then a trip to a few different Islands , all south of Miami , some a little to the east , some a little to the west, & maybe a stop or 2 in central Americia , & south Americia , for some Home grown coffee & more cigars , Hey do they grow tobacco in Hawaii? , How abot a kona coast cigar Hummmmm, maybe its time to think about that one a little more !!!
The grandsons are doing Fine, we did find out that the 11 Year old is lactose intollerent , dammm 11 years it took to find out the kid is allergic to milk , well he hates the taste of Soy milk , & rice milk is just as bad according to 11 year old taste buds , I like soy milk , I am a BIG advocate of Tofu , But he has the taste buds from his Grandmother, not mine, I wonder How my life would have been had a set of normal taste buds & not the ones I do have .......... Oh what a different world it would have been ! ................... the eyes are getting a little more settled in , but I still reach for the glasses as I get up every morning, strange to be able to see the clock with out the glasses & the Colors are so ALIVE , after all the years looking through the cateracts , NOW I understand what the big deal with HD TV is ........... I did order a set of frames with a line in the bifocal, I hate the wind & smoke getting in my eyes , I have been wearing glasses almost 60 years now & just cant get used to the feeling with out them , I have a set of readers, but they have been dropped , scratched & chipped so may time all ready they are in worse shape than the trifocals that I have that are 2 years old ! , ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Filled up the tank last night , 21.7 MPG on a 2000 Sable with 177K on the clock, dammmm I hate to think about getting rid of this one, its a keeper, the body is starting some sigh of rust over the back wheels & the hood is chipping from the last time it was recked & the paint job was sub standard , But you get what you pay for & I didnt pay much ! Not Much else happening here in da Burgh , OH YEA the Pittsburgh PIRATES ( not to be confused with the Somlillia pirates ) are off to a great start, after 16 or 17 loosing seasons in a row, maybe just maybe a little of the Steelers Victory will rub off on the bucko's , a few year back we had the World series trophy, the Stanley cup & the Vince Lombardy trophy all in the same year , the steel mills were all working at peak production every one was working overtime & making Big Bucks & Now well we still have 6 yes SIX Vince Lombardy Trophys , the Pens are back in the playoffs for Lord Stanlys Cup & who knows the pirate just might ( MIGHT ) finish a game or 2 over 500 this tear ! hahahaha yea & I will go cigarless for a day, maybe a day and a half hahahahaha .....................
Enjoy, Vince

ypur so right , I never claimed to be a gud speler hahahaha , hope all else is well with you, BTW you did understand what i was trying to say so I guess i made my point hahaha Enjoy, Vince

Spell check, we need Spell check !

Good Morning , it is Sunday 26th of April 2009 a fantastic , warm day here in da burgh, looking for a high of 85 , way to warm for this time of the year but I will take whawe get , after a somewhat crappie winter the warm air is a welcome releaf....... Yesterday I had the privlage of attenting a Birthday party for a 1 year old girl the daughter of on of my nephews, her name is Anna & she is a tiny little peanut, cute as a button & the first baby Girl in the family since my daughter 37 years ago , so now besides having 2 grandsons I have 5 grandneeses & nephews , & countless young men & ladys who are friends of the nephews that all call me Uncle Vince , some times it makes me wonder when people come in the shop & say Hi Uncle Vince , & I have NO idea who they are , we are Marks friends or Mikes friends , Good I say I thought my brother was hiding some thing from me , like a few more kids hahahaha
I have the day off today , I will be NOT COOKING ANYTHING today , well no cooking after breakfast, , it was a light breakfast, toasted english muffins , melted pepper jack cheese on them a little home made sweet red pepper relish on a bacon & egg scramble ........... tasty little bite , but thats it for me in the kitchen today, barb & her sister along with our daugher & her step daughter will be hitting the shops in Volant Pa today , a small town north of here filled with small gift shops & specialty stores , dammmm it would be a great place to put in a cigar shop so all the men had a place to hang out when the ladys were "Shopping" , but it is just not for me , I have enough problems with one shop, sure dont want to worry about 2 of them , dammmm I dont want to get OLD before my time hahahahaha , I have a date this afternoon with a rag & a can of paint remover , got to get that yellow highway line paint off Barbs car that has been pissing her off since November , I took off a little bit last week, but it was a little chilly on the hands , so with the temps getting into the mid 80's here today I might just find the time to finish the job hahahahaha maybe , well since she will be gone all day I might just take a nap hahaha , No today will be a good day to get the car done & then she will need to find some thing else to complain about , & for her , she has a TON of stuff to work with , & it all has to do with me, some times I wonder why she is still here with me , if things are as bad as she tells me , well I would have been long gone by now hahahahaha
This morings coffee is a blend I like to call Pacific Paradise, a mix of all the left overs from the pacific rim countrys , that I didnt have enough to make a pot from , so it all went into a glass jar , & when I had enough to make a pot , I ground it & thats todays coffee, a bit Mild for my taste there is a lot of light roast kona in the blend, & I never did like to blend anything with kona as i enjoy the taste of the kona alone , taste buds are hard to fool eather you like it or you dont , , & this gives me that light kona hit on the front but lacks the AHHHHHHH at the end , I think I like the AHHHHHH at the end better , oh well nothing to complain about when this pot is gome & that will be SOON , maybe an American pot next, a single country a dark roast Columbian or maybe a Santos from Brazil or a peaberry from Panama , maybe some thing all together different , I might use a sppon of this & that & drop in a few cigar ashes & a a shot of single malt, & make it in the press pot , sit out on the back deck & fire up a BIG OLD Monte "A" & say the H3ll with the paint on the car ,,,,,,,,,,, But then I would have to listen to her when she got home WHY didnt you do the car ????? so I guess i will just say to h3ll with it & do it asap , that way I can sit on my formerly well padded behind , sip some coffee & a weeee dram as well as find a nice stick in the humi to "entertaine " my self with ................
dammmm I cant wait to get my glasses from the eye doc, I hate this BS with out glasses, I am getting smoke in my eyes at an alarming rate , & the Wind, How do you guys who dont have glasses deal with the wind ????? , Give me back my big old avaitor frames & keep the smoke & wind out of the eyes !!!!, I dont care for the look with out the glasses , but this morning I didnt reach for the glasses when I was getting up , the best thing about having the cateracts removed is the Colors , man they POP, I havent noticed the megenta in the flame when you light a cigar , maybe i did notice it years ago but I was not as observent then , Now that i am getting older I try to remember the little things in life that make an ordinary day some thing special , no matter how trivial it might seam at the time it is some thing to hold on & remember , I dont know who said it , but its Not the Number of breaths you take , its the number of breaths you take away Enjoy, Vince

Coimpleat with misspellings & poor grammer & bad punction , not proof read, cause I mis the stuff anyhow ! hahaha

Good morning it is Sunday May , THIRD ,2009 dammmmmm its already May, the time flys when you get old, the days drag on & On & the months & years fly right by, , seams just like yesterday I was standing in my side yard & thinking about going back to school the next day , after a summer of baseball & swimming , it was 1957 & I was going back for that one final year before I would be joining the navy to get away from the small town steelmills & make a name for myself in the kitchens of the world ,,,,,, so close yet so long ago , now I am hampered with arthritis , Poor eye sight , hard of hearing, & an iritable colon PLUS the iratable one I have been married to for 39 years , dammmmm its not easy getting old , just to dammm bad I abused this bmuch when I was a younger man , had I known it was going to be this hard I might have saved a little more for my old age , , , , , , hahahah NOW WAY , I would have enjoyed myself even more had i known I was going to be this happy in my old age hahahaha , lets face it , a pain here & there isnt as bad as missing out on the kids , & grandkids , & the extended familys that have developed over the years friends are a gift all on there own, , as the old saying went , you can pick your friends but not your relatives , well in a big way thats true, but you can mke the relatives your friends if you woirk hard enough at it , I never thought I would be still visiting my Mother in law at the nursing home, she has no idea who the hell I am or even what my name is but she is always glad to see me , she has no idea who here granddaughter is but she knows the nice lady who brings her grandsons to see her , I just hope I go out with my some what little mind I have left & not sitting in my own little world not knowing anyone ..............
I got the new glasses this week & can see a bit better now than I could with the drug store readers, , they were just a pain in the nose , never was able to look over them for distance & when I put them down on the nose to do that they ended up on the floor , big chips & scratches all over them, so now I have the full size frames with a bifocal , & I am a happy camper again. ........... it has been a wet week here in da burgh , & nexxt week looks like the same old stuff, , great sleeping weather but the grass is high enough to hide in hahahaha , the birds are flocking to the feeder & DEPOSITING the leftovers on the back deck , they are great to watch & listen to , yea like I can see & hear all that well, but I do get to bitch about cleaning all the crap from the bench & Rockers on the deck, why should she be the only one to have a Gripe ! hahahaha , this morings cigar was Not my usual Don Carlos #3 but I felt like some thing a lot lighter so I went with a R&J reserve real torp. , dont know why I did that , just when I pulled out the humidor , it was sitting there on my 3 finger case & I said to me self, hummmmmmm why not, the coffee was a fine new batch of kona that was light roasted this past tuesday & ground course this morning , steeped in the press pot 4.5 minutes , ahhhhhh a great pot of coffee, i have a little montescristo coffee to try this after noon , I have no idea who grows this stuff or where it was roasted or how long ago , but it was free .............. never say NO to a free pound of coffee , till you try it one time anyhow, , the grounds can still go in the compost pile hahahaha
since today is sunday I will cooking a little bit, I picked up a few rib steaks & have had them marinading for a few hours now, a little olive oil, peppers onions & garlic they will hit the grill some time after 4 Pm today , roasted corn on the cob for a side & I might just fry up some onions & peppers to add as a garnish for the steak ......
the boss & I went to see the Soloist yeaterday , dammmmmmmm moving & a great story the local newspaper critic gave it 1.5 stars out of 5 , I wonder if we saw the same movis, maybe she has become a bit jadded in her movie watching as she suffers through them all at the maulti plex, dammm what a tuff job watching movies & telling people what you thiunk about them,,,,, almost as tuff as my job sitting on my formerly large rear end, smoking a fine or not so fine cigar , sipping coffee & single malt scotch & telling people what I thougt about that cigar , dammmm getting paid to do what i love to do, hummmmmm I just wonder if I could ever make any "real" money doing it hahahaha .................
I hit a turkey crossing the road on my way to work one morning this week, 22 pounds of Hen Turkey , smashed the grill ,hood & windshield, , but it was soup that night hahahahaha , the glass is allready replaced & the aprasior is going to look at the car monday morning , looks like I might get a new paint job on the hood !,,,,,,,,,,,, 177K 9 years old, it almost seams like a government bail out for something way to old to spend any money on . BUT I have been paing my premiums all the years so I guess I get a little back , & a free range Wild Turkey on top of it all ! , well that about all I have time & space for today , if anything pops up during the week , check back for updates, I will be going on a cigar crawl May 16th, check it out at www.cigarcrawl.com this will be the 11th. one & I have made 10 in a row , yea baby its party time !! Enjoy, Vince

Good Morning , it is Sunday May 10th, Mothers day , 2009, so a happy Mothers day to all you MOTHERS , so when is Mothers day ? 9 months AFTER fathers day ! hahahaha
it been a slow week here in da burgh, the Hockey team is keeping pace but the baseball team , well lets just say I might as well be a Cubs fan ! I feel your pain !!! , we had a good week at the shop , a few new faces & a few out of towners we able to stop in a have a cigar or 2 & there was a batchlor party there last night, I stopped in for a few minutes to "Check " on the party, , , , it was the LAMEST batchlor party I was ever at, some DUMB@$$ brought his Girlfriend to the party , like taking a sandwich to a banquet , Dumb@$$ for sure !!!
well I have been putting in a lot of hours at the shop , havent had much time to do anything but work sleep & eat, , , , didnt get to spend any time with the grandsons this week as they were BUSY doing what ever 11 & 13 Year Olds do , No time for the OLD folks hahahaha , & speaking of OLD folks my mother in law is still kicking , she might not remember your name but she is still going strong, , 3 laps arround the hall way of the home is one mile, she must make 20 trips a day , No walker, no idea where she is going but she is bound & determined to get where ever she has in her mind that she is going, yep its just arround the next bend ! ..............
since its mothers day , barb wants the standard HUNK OF BEEF , so i will be getting it on soon, dammmmmmm I wish I could talk her into a hunk of veal ,chicken,lamb,or pork some times , BEEF its whats for Dinner !
I got a nice little checkm from the car insurance , that road kill turkey not only had a nice taste but put 135 bucks in my pocket , got a grill from the junk yard for 20 bucks , Bingo , all is fixed ... Not much else going on , the H1N1 bug has not hit me or anyone in my family , YET ................ But younever know, being in the shop, handling the money all day , YEA I wish it was "all day " & being in a smoke filled enviorment all day , sucking down a "few dozen "Cigars a week might not be the best thing for the lungs, BUT you got to die of something , sooner or later, it might as well be something you enjoy hahahaha
The grass is looking a little shabby, but with all the rain its way to wet to cut, yea like I would be out there even if it was dry hahahaha , I enjoy living here in the farm country, BUT I think I might be signing up for a lawn service soon, Not that I would cut the grass my self, But she is getting up in years now & with BOTH knees all ready replaced, a hip thats going to be replaced , I think its time to sell the mower & weed wacker & just pay some Professional or a kid to do it ! , the grandsons should get first choice to bid on the job, but then I would have to keep the mower & pick them up feed them & take them home, Hummmmmm, maybe I should just get a lawn service hahahahaha ............
The mutant Mastiff has learned a new trick, he lays on his side in the grass & just lifts his leg, & lets it fly, he isnt Motavated enough to even get up to PEE, dammmm how lazy can you get ??????
not much else going on here in da burgh, catch you all next Sunday , as it will be the day AFTER the cigar crawl so I might not get it posted all that early, so check back later in the day next sunday for the cigar crawl update , Enjoy, Vince