Sunday Morning Smoke

Good morning , it is Sunday 23 August 2009 a humid but Cool day here in da burgh , only 63 F this morning , way down from the 70 plus nights we have been having, yea you guys out in Arizona would be putting on the jackets by now hahahaha , we turned off the A/C yesterday & I had the bedroom window open all night , it was comfortable ! , The boys went to the outer banks this week with there other grandparents so it was a quiet week here on the home front, good thing they went this week as I had the eye surgery on Tuesday & it turned out just fine, , walked into the OR, got on the table, the doc said I have a little some thing to relax you before we get started , next thing I know BAMMMM , I am in recovery ....... missed a little work on Wendsday , & was right back at it Thursday, I am a bit itchy , but cant scratch it dammmm its frustrating, , my hands & wrists are like pin cushions, they must have stuck me 6 different times to get an IV in , just didnt hit it right so they moved to a "better " spot , yea right , just hit it the next time or pick an artery in the chest ! hahahaha , well its 23 days with out a cigar ....................... just cant get over that , 23 FREEKING DAYS , I am walking in my sleep, looking for a great cigar But I go back to the docs on Wendsday to have the stiches taken out so Maybe I will get the OK from him by then, , a few years ago I stopped drinking beer, & the local brewery IRON CITY BEER , closed, & moved out of da burgh, Penn Pilsner ( a local micro brewery) also closed & the Herford & Hops ( a brew pub & steak house ) filled for chapter 11 & eventually closed , well I hope I havent damaged the cigar industry to much hahahaha ...
I will be roasting some corn on the cob , on the grill today with a set of rib steaks that will get a little spice rub in a few hours NO ROAST BEEF TODAY ! cann you believe it , NO ROAST ON SUNDAY , dammmmm she is getting unset, whats next , sex in the afternoon ! hahaha ??? No I just am not that lucky hahahaha , the shop was a little slow all week but Friday was a good day , , I didnt even call to check on saturday, I just laid back 7 relaxed most of the time when I wasnt getting quized by the boss about stuff I have never had any control over, like what would happen if we turned left in stead of turning right at the intersection of 19 & 108 , well we would be going in the opisite direction & headed away from where we were going , , Just inane BS questions that I didnt want to deal with as I wanted to listen to the radio , & the interview of the late Studds Turkel a Chicago based writer & philosipher, But No she wanted to talk about BS & it was getting to me a little , well a lot , I told her 6 times i wanted to listen to this , & she just kept talking , so i turned offthe radio 7 then she said , why did you turn it off I thought you wanted to hear that , wellll I knew better to take the bate & said I thought it was a little boreing & that we should just talk & bingo she had nothing to say , dammmmmm you just cant win can you? , No Dont turn it back on that will just start her up again,my I have still got a lot to learn, so e drove in scilence for about 20 minutes , stopped for coffee & headed home , checked the milage when we got back after filling up 22.7 MPG Not bad for an old bucket of bolts , I was thinking of trading it in for the clunker rebate, BUT WHY? its paid for , like I need an other car payment, so I dont get a new car m, SO what,, I love my old SABLE , speaking of Sable do any of you remember the HOT LADY wrestler called Sable ? dammm I havent thought of her in YEARS , * & I wonder why she just popped into my head just now ahhhh the way the mind works ! , coffee this moring was a pot of pappa malu , a medium light roast , BUT DAMMMMMMM I MISS MY SUNDAY MORNING KONA & Don Carlos #3 ......... 23 days & counting , burrrrrr its gettting TUFFFFFFER as the day s move on .... I havent been in the QTRDECK for a week , I miss the relaxation & QUIET , I still need to get out there & hook up the cd player & radio, as well as the computer , everything is on hold since we got the new coush in the living room & the old one went to the Qtr.Deck, the rocking chair is now at work & the "old command chair "is now in the tool shed , I need to figure out how to set everything up so I can reach it with out getting up, , might need to rethink the chair & bring it back, get the old couch in the tool shed, ( it didnt recline like the new --- old couch )
decisions to make but no way of getting the correct answer with out a lot of hard work, dammmm theres that BAD word again , "Work" hahahaha , I like the word PLAY much better ! , thats about all I have this week, who knows i might find some thing else later this week or even later today who knows ! Enjoy, Vince

you tellen me its NOT 2012 yet , feels like it to me !

Good morning , it is Sunday Aug.30, 2009, a cool crisp day here in da Burgh, we have had a wonderful summer , not a lot of 90+ days , the rain has been OK & the bugs have been at a minium all summer the birds seam to have them all under control , the deer how ever have laid waist to my shrubs & veggies , the only thing left in the herb garden is the chives & organo, everything else has been eaten to the ground , the bird feeder & watering station have been hit hard by the chipmunks , & the rabbits have been cleaning up all the spilled seed under the feeder , from the bird feeder to the woods on the other side of the road you can see a path in the brush where the deer have come in to eat & drink, , next summer the feeder get moved closer to the road, but I am sure they will find the garden weather I move the feeder or not. dammmmmmmm , next year the garden will go on the roof hahahaha , lets see the deer climb a ladder !!!!
Breakfast this morning was a Kitchen sink omlet, , I cleaned out the fridge & put everything on the sink, what I didnt toss out went in the frying pan ! bacon , onions, peppers, garlic, left over veggies from the grill , cheese, & a bit of pasta & there might have been some chicken & rice tossed in also, dont remember if I tossed it out or put it in the pan hahaha , well it took 4 eggs to cover it all a handfull of Jarlesburg cheese diced verrrrrry fine & a pot of Hawaiian coffee , I thought it might be a Kona style coffee from the Hielo coffee company in Hawaii, but dammmm not even close , I picked up a 2 pound bag of roasted hole bean for 11 bucks, should have known it was to good to be true , Oh well live & learn, but by now I should have KNOWN better , REAL Kona next Sunday, & TRUMPET FAINFAIR TADA , CIGARS are back on the menu ! , got thr stiches out of the eye lids & the doc said it healed well, so I am BACK , not up to my 10 a day, that was just getting out of hand, so I have cut back to 5 or 6 , Last night I finished the day at 4 , BUT a GRAND 4 they were, started the day with the traditional Don Carlos #3 ( It just dont get no better than that ) a Casa magna fallowed then a san Cristobal & finished the night with a partagas series d #4..... cant get much better, today I will be starting with the DC#3 & heading up the New castle to the Havana room & Chee Robs for a POD cast of the next Blowin smoke , No idea what we will be lighting up when I get there , I will be taking the wies car so no smoking up & back , I need a wheel bearing & its going to the shop tonight , so I dont want to drive it all that far till its fixed , & I dont think I will need the car the next few days as i am getting a vericose vein, removed from my right knee in the morning , I was instructed to be at the hospital at 5 AM 5 AM 5AM dammmm I didnt know there was a 5 Am , sure I know 5PM , But 5AM come on buddy cut me some slack, Margretta time at 5PM , but at 5AM , whats that bloody mary time ? hahahaha , but nothing to eat ot drink after midnight , dammm if I got to be there at 5 frigging AM I better get up about 4am & sure as hello will in bed by 9PM , so what am I to do get up at 11:30 to have a slice of cold pizza hahahaha ???? , dammm you should see the size of this vien , bigger than a pencil in diameter & it runs right over the knee cap, gross looking S.O.B., but it needs to be taken care of .
the grill will get fired up this afternoon , T bones & summer squash , with a grilled peach for desert , I love to grill with the gas grill I can fire it up all winter long, not as tasty as real charcole but when the snow flys & its freezing out a grilled t bone is just HEAVEN
School has started for one grandson & the other starts monday I dont find them happy at all , no more sleeping in , no more afternoons in the pool, Back to the salt mines hahahaha poooor baby hahahaha
well thats just about all I have this morning, I might have missed some theing , but its just the internet anyway , I will catch up with all of you next sunday morning I hope , Enjoy, Vince

Good morning it is Sunday 6 sept. 2009 a great day here in da burgh , , I have no idea what I did to the computer but I cant get the Volume incon off the screen , its stuck in the lower right side & I cant move it or shrink it back to the task bar , dammmm computers, & my grandson ( 13 y.o. ) isnt home to call, sure hope he calls me later today , he will tell me what i diod to stick it where its right now & how to get it to go away , dammmm kids, dammmm computers , life was much simpler before computers ......
I have the leg unrapped , it was driving me to scratch so I unwrapped it & let it get some air, dammmmm cut from the groin to the ankel or is it ankle , what ever you should know what I am trying to say by now if you read my BS every week, you get accostomed to my spelling , & grammer , dammm vol comtrol is in the way , cant see what i am trying to say , he there is no j in what is there ? hahaha , well the stiches & staples all come out Tuesday at 8 am the leg is a bit brused but that BIG honking vein is Gone, that dammmmm think looked like a big blue rope going across my knee cap & winding its way from top to bottom side to side , it was Huge & throbbed with every beat of the heart, , a great plasce to check the pulse , but now its GONE , the vein not the pulse dammm I scared my self on that one hahaha
the shop will be open Monday , & I will be behind the counter in my rocking chair with my leg up on a foot stool, I will be sipping coffee & listening to jazz all day so if your in the area stop in for a cup of mud & a cigar, BYOB , I am out of scotch at work, & payday isnt till the 16th so you got to bring your own till then, hahaha sorry but thats just the way it is right now, back to school shopping was tuff this year, my son in law got laid off from his job & with his 2 kids & her 2 kids , house payments car payments utilitys & Food for all of them & the 180 pound Mastive " puppy" , I got to get some of the back to school clothing bill, as always she finds a way to extract money from my right front pocket, she learned long ago the money ( cash ) is not in the left rear pocket , with the wallet there is just the ID BS & photos & the coffee cards for the local coffee shops , I think I am keeping a few in business all by my self hahahaha
breakfast this morning was a breakfast sandwich, eggs, bacon , swiss cheese, & a slice of garden fresh tomato on an english muffin that was buttered & toasted on the grill , egg mcmuffin my stinky old ass hahaha ( now that just makes me want to get sick , great food & old man smell , I wish I could find some joint cream that has no aroma , you know my joints hurt the same if I skip a day , so I might just save the bucks & get more cigars & whisky & stop trying every otc remedy that comes along ! , get old with pain , get old with out pain, no matter what you still get old hahahaha , as the oold saying goes , had I know I was going to get this old I might have taken better care of the body ! hahaha , hey no way I had fun & still am having fun, isnt that whats life all about, its not who dies with the most toys , but how you shared your toys , it isnt about what kind of car you drive but who you gave rides to , dammm here comes the philophier out, , but I want to slam the door on that BS right NOW , I have a great set of porterhouse steaks in the marinade right now, Corn on the cob will be roasted on the grill along with the BEEF ( I did try to get her to go for the VEAL porterhouse cuts but the cost was outta site ) , if it isnt beef , its not Sunday supper, , give me a plate full of chicken wings & I am happy,, give me a big old pork roast or chops I am a happy camper, give her anything but beef on Sunday & you pay for it all week !
well on a lighter note on of the customers at the shop brought in his laptop with the attchment & program for the dianogistic testings for the car, his computer talks to the computer in the car & I /we got a clean bill of health, 180K + on the clock & nothing wrong with annything but the paint, the dirt on the floor & the loose nut behind the steering wheel hahahaha , still getting over 20 mpg on the 2000 Sable , I just love the way it feels , I like it better than my wife new Taurus ( different body style ) her car is larger than mine , the top of the roof is mush higher there is more room & she has the heated leather seats , But give me my old bucket of bolts & I am a happy camper, just had a wheel bering replaced & now its back to being out cigar ride car , when we take her car , NO CIGARS , so I guess thats why I dont care for her car all that much, , in a few years when she gets her new one & the sable has hit it last oil change , I will inherate the taurus , well maybe if I was allowed to smoke in it I might like it better hahahaha

For YEARS I have been using the coffee cup I got from Cuesta Rey, some of you might remember them , a tall black mug with the yellow logo , the cup had a groove for your thumb when you were holding the cup with your right hand , it dodnt work left handed like so much other stuff, but who cares I am not a south paw , nor am i ambidextrous & cant spell for $h1T either so what you know what i mean & if you dont jus tre read it till it makes you understand hahahaha well after all the years of using this coffee mug she thought it was time to boldly go where it had never gone before, I the dish washer .............. services for the deciesed coffee mug were last Thursday, as the heat from the drying cycle melted the lid , I have been working out with a different array of mugs & cups all week end to find a replacement, so far I havent found the ONE , ther are a few sitting on the kitchen counter, that I have collected over the years & the one that I like the lid on the best, is a tumbler, NO Handle & that lid will not fit on any odf the other mugs or cups , looks like a set of hose clamps & a little cutting on the stainless steel mug thats the same size but a different style lid, well I just might need to give is insulated life up for that handle to go on the stainless steel tumbler, BUT I might find a replacement to the black mug I have used for so many years , .......... I will keep looking hahahaha
the coffee is still that cheep Hawaiian sruff, , cant wait till its done, then back to the real KONA, I have a little Sumatra ready to grind for monday morning , I might roast a liitle this afternoon if I feel up to it, might do a little moca java or some good old Columbian , with the wonderful summer we have had & the crisp cool mornings with a cigar on the back deck & a pot of coffee , man it just dont get much better than this ! Enjoy, Vince

Good morning it is Sunday , but for some reason my computer is telling me its Friday , , dammmmm repairs to this thing were not good, having trouble logging on to a buch of sites & my e mail is getting out & some of it is comming back as undeliverable , But I guess the cost of the fix was well worth the headaches it causes, the grandson got rid of the trojan & the fake fire wall, & did get to spend a lot more time here explaing what he was doing & I have no frigging idea of what he was talking about ! hahahaha

All the staples(17) & stiches(22) are out of the leg, the groin is still tender, but I am back at the cigars hot & heavy, dammmm I missed them !, back at the eye doc Friday morning for a steroid injection to the right eye ball & a good zap of the lazer to the right eye , , it was tender all day friday & saturday , still a little tender to the touch this morning, dammm its tuff getting old, hahahaha
I spent most of saturday at the leaf & bean ( cigar shop & coffee roaster) in the strip district in Pittsburgh rolling cigars , I might not be fast , I might not be good , but the cigars all had a good draw & a good taste, hey I have no control over the taste I roll what I have , But I did get a great Habano wrapper to cover the Nic filler & conn binder , dammm good stuff, after 5 PM I was at the Long Ash Club in Pittsburgh @711 Penn ave , right in the heart of downtown again Rolling cigars , they are a cigar bar & eating establishment , that caters to cigar smokers & gourmets, the scotch selection is grand & food was great , & they have an ANTIQUE cigar rolling bench, that I got to use, , & had a great time , made a few bucks in tips , ate & drank all eveing, & they had a Pot of kona waiting for me when I got there , classsssssy !!!!
My wife & her sister are heading out for the day , I DONT HAVE TO MAKE A HUNK OF BEEF for her today, I will be dinning alone today , looks like it will be tofu , hahahahaha maybe chicken , but tofu sounds good to me , after all the black beans & pork last night , & speaking of pork, , the chef made a stuffed pork chop , that was to die for , a marinated chop, stuffed with ham swiss sheese & a slice of pickle , a Cuban sandwich with out the bun ir was great, the deeo fryed plantains, the black beans , & freezay were all good in there own rught but that hunk of pork was OUTSTANDING ! kudos to the chef , as an added BONUS Max Talbait of the Penguins was in the house & enjoyed one of my fresh rolled cigars , But since I am not much of a sports fan when the owner of the place brought him up to introduce him to me I had no frigging idea who he was , looked like I had seen him some place before , but wasnt sure, , Robin the owner say the vague look on my face & told me he was the winning goal of the stanley cup finals , THEN the lights went on & some one was at home, Big Smile & a harty handshake , complete with bits of tobacco & glue hahahahaha , he was with a HOTTY , dopnt know who she was , little black dress, 5 inch spiked pumps , cleveage & a great tan with LONG BLOND hair .................... what was I talking about ? dammmmm just got a wiff of her perfume in my mind again , lost my train of thought ! hahahaha
I will be spending the day on the back deck, or in the Qtr.deck since the boss will be out & about, with her sister, well thats what she is telling me anyway hahaha, so I will be heading to the grocery store for bread & eggs & maybe a watermellon , then its CIGAR time, well as long as I am awake its cigar time but NOT in the house , ahhhhh one of these days ......... hahahaha

I filled up the tank last night 26 MPG , 26 can you believe it , 26 on a car with 180K on it & a BIG car , a Sable , 3.0 V6 , sure not a Huge motor or a Huge car but lots of room & good size for me to relax in , I 20/22 MPG back & forth to work, , but I had a few extended drives on this tank of gas, lots of highway miles & dammmm I am one happy camper with that set of NUMB3RS
I am about ready to fill up the mug again , ahhhh yes Sunday morning Kona & spening a little time with my buddy Don Carlos III,
LIFE IS GOOD
Enjoy, Vince

I dont have a digetial camera, still in love with my OLD Nikon & FILM, but there are some photos on the web site for Don Gonzalezes cigars , the tobacco I use is all his , he has a small boutique cigar , natural, maduro & coroho , , in Churchill, torp, toro & robusto, , , , my favorite is the maduro line , it taks me a long time to roll , I am not fast, BUT the draw is fine, as far as the blend well I have no control over that i just roll what i have , I do have a mold that will roll 50 ring cigars & I like th make torps better than straight sticks, I have trouble making the caps correctly, do the pig tail is a NO brainer, & thats me for sure, no Brains hahahaa
its like rolling a cabbage roll or a stuffed grape leaf, but NO tooth picks to hold it together hahahaha , Enjoy, Vince

Bloofington said:

Very glad to hear of your progress, old buddy. And when I say old, next April will be ten years that we've been chatting back and forth.
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10 Years dammmm, thats a long time , cant believe its been that long, NOW when are we going to get together for a cigar & a drink ?

The Colonel said:

I see Willard Scott had a 100 year old feller from Freedom, PA on the Today Show earlier this morning.

I thought, for a minute, I was gonna see Vince!!

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hahahaha , thats just a youngster hahahahaha

Good morning , it is Sunday 20 Sept. 2009 the Last Summer Sunday this year , the weather here in da burgh has been just FANTASTIC , low 50's at night , mid to low 70's in the day, the sky has been a Penn State blue & white all week & the sky at night has been top notch for star gazing , sit back look up & watch the cigar smoke head tward the heavens & the milky way . it just dont no better than this , a fine cigar great coffee fantastic season & no a/c running or furnace bills to pay for , I will take this all year if I could, , I wonder if there is a place on this great spinning rock we all call home that has weather just like this all year round? San Diego was nice when I was there but since I dont speak enough Spanish to live there & I DONT want to pay the high tobacco taxes in the Republic of Kalifornia , or not be allowed to smoke in my own back yard ( what BS) , maybe I should just move up in the hills of Hawaii & get it over with, BUT then we have a problem of COST, dammmm everything needs to imported there but the coffee & salt but then again I dont think I will need a lot of gasoline , as I will not need a car , but once a month to cash my check & get grocerys, , the mail man or UPS driver can bring me my cigars hahahaha , just sit on the deck, listen to the wind & watch the clouds & the surf breaking down below from my home on the hill, yea like I got that kind of $$$$ to do that hahahaha , but its good to dream hahahaha
the shop was S L O W all week, barley breaking 100 bucks one day, cant have that to many days , I had 3 cutomers all day, , but it was a great day sitting outside watching the traffic go by & talking to the hookers metermaid & the town crazys who shuffel off to the bar when the crazy check comes in , they get all blasted on cheeeeeep beer & then when the $$$ is all drank up they shuffel off to the drug store to get the meds & end up in a stooper , dammmm to go through life with out a pourpose other than to get high ,,,,,,,, yea its great every now & then but for years at a time dammmm a real wasted life , BUT its not up to me to judge , sooner or later they will find what thier after or kill them selfs trying . Now that school is back in session I havent seen the rugrats all that much, , the 13 Y.O. fixed the spyware problem with the computer & the 11 Y.O. is busy with school, & what ever kids do , dammmmm its been so long its hard to remember hat I did as a kid, well not much different now, hahahaha
I stopped at the gas station & filled up yesterday, 25 MPG on my old sable with 180+K on it , its just getting better with age , & the fact that I have slowed down a lot , the state put up signs , Slow down & save a life , so i did , & dammm the milage went up, now I have a 12 minute drive to work ( with out traffic, ) & about 20 minuts with traffic , but on our cigar rides we get a few hours of steady driving, last night after i filled the tank we went 99.8 miles , & I had a Diamond Crown Maximus number one , & it lasted the entire 2.5 hours that it took us driving the back roads of Beaver , Butler & Allegheney countys of Pa , it was a great night , a great mug of java & a fine old cigar that had a date of Dec. 2005 on the sticker , nice blume on the stick & a great aroma & draw, all in all it was a great evening.
we had a 5 cheese omlet this morning with bacon & Kona & I will be heading out to the Qtr.Deck as soon as I get Barbs Hunk of Beef in the oven , dammmm I feel like a broken record, but if that what makes her happy so be it , a happy wife makes a happy home , Nuff said about that for sure , she might read this & reallllly get on my @$$ for nothing hahahah , as far as the medical reports , everything is fine the leg is healing , the eyes are not far behind, BUT I have noticed a tightning of the pants a bit, since its getting a little cooler sitting in the shade at work I have switched from the shorts to the pants, & they seam a bit tighter now than they did in the spring when I put them away , & the scale confered , up to 242 , so its back on the tofu & water diet, cant let this get out of hand, , got to get back down to the 220/225 area, , sure would like to get back to the 200/205 area but hey lets not push it hahahaha , so starting Monday , No pasta, bread or cake ( well maybe a little bit of Pie as long as its fruit & not a cream filling hahahaha ( pumpkin,lemon & key lime are a delema hahaha ) , but if I just eat the apple (NOT PIE) plain its just fine !!!!
Since this is the Last Summer weekend I plan on getting out side asap & fire up a Contraband Monte #2 torp, sipping a second pot of kona & maybe , just maybe a weee dram of single malt who knows it might turn into a great day, hahahaha Enjoy, Vince

Bloofington said:

WHERE YA BEEN?!?!?!?!?!! WAITIN' ALL MORNIN', YOU OL' SEA COOK!!!

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hey I got it posted before 10:30 us old farts need our sleep , anyway i have been busy all morning & afternoon killing the dammm stink bugs, , so far i must have sent 50 of them to the ground, the fly swatter is about worn out !

Bloofington said:

Take another look, feller!!! 1124 hours. Barely before noon. No wonder those sailors were always complaining where's the chow? Vince can't tell time, hawwwwwwww!!!

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Look again , copy & pasted right off my screen
Posted: 20 Sep 2009 10:24