Goood Morning Cigar world , It is a chilly snowey day here in da Burgh woke up to a nice light snow cover this morning , wind chill down to 7F but there is some grass sticking up through the snow , it isnt deep, a broom will clear the walk & drive way , I havent had my Don Carlos as yet but am working my way through the second pot of Kona this morning, & I had Kona yesterday, all day, & you know it is great coffee but , I think I will get back to my traditional Sunday Kona & drink other stuff during the week, that way I look Fwd. to the Sunday Kona , like if you have Lobster all the time soon you want a slim jim or a bratworst , so before I get to the point that the Kona is just an other cup of coffee for the cafine induced high I get , I will switch back to the rotation of the
Kenya AA , Cloumbian,Margoheppie,MokoJava ,Malabar,Santos & Peaberry, & who knows what else I might find if I look hard enough ! I got a post card from Orleans coffee Co, they are back open & ready to ship.6 feet of water in the old warehouse sort of kick the bottom out of the Business , but with all that coffee & all that water, I bet it didnt smell as bad as just all the water in other places hahahaha , Ummmmm Cofffeee hahaha, got to see some humor in it or cry thinking about it, well I look for the humor !
I have a pork roast sitting in crushe garlic & onions with a little olive oil & fresh crushed black pepper, it will go in the oven soon with some dry fruit & a little White Zin. & since I have the garlic out & crushed, maybe some garlic mashed spuds today , or maybe I should mix up a batch of polenta with cheese & garlic, for sume reason I am in a garlic mood, maybe I dont have enough gas hahahahaha !
I drove up to Erie Pa Friday afternoon for a cigar tasting that I was hosting about 120 miles North of me , it was a great drive , 2 pit stops on the way up to get rid of all the coffee & a fine Monte "A" for the drive up, what could be better, I took a thermos of coffee & Cuban Monte "A" got enough ashes to need to empty the ash tray when I got there , I had to "suffer" one of my favorite cigars on the way home , a Wonderful Rich & strong Lamperia , I do like them a lot, ( but not as much as a Cuban Monte) , but then who would'nt? I am not a snob when it comes to contraband smokes , when I can smoke one I do, I will admit the taste is great , but there are a lot of Great non Cuban smokes out there , & I guess its the mystic of the forbidden fruit that makes them so in demand , I have no problem with a fine Nicarguan, Dominican or Hondouran, My every day grab & go smoke is a Cacique Torp from Tabacaleria Tropical , replacing my old every day cigar the Davidoff Double R Churchill , hahahahahaha !!! Yea dont I wish !!
My wife was so good to me this week I cant begin to tell you how good! A small package was siting on the table when I got home from a tuff day onn the road ( hahahaha ) yea tuff , coffee , cigars & BS all day hahahaha
Well in the box was 15 Rockey Patell Vintage 92 Torps, she had ordered for valentines day & they were on back order ! as well as a 5 pack sampler of Don Carlos , dammmmmmm she is good to me & to top it off I find an other sampler in the box, 10 Hemmingways , 5 sigs & 5 classics , Dammm she is tooooooooo gooooood to me . Dammmm woman where is the Whisky !!! hahahahaha
On my drive up & back to Erie I managed to get 25.7 MPG on the OLD Sable , 120K & still going strong, I hope to get 200 K on it before I need to replace it , KNOCK ON WOOD , I havent had to do anything other than regular maintance , tires, belts, hosees & brakes , oil get changed when the carpets need vacumed , that my gage , I dont worry about how many miles I get between oil changes, I go by the amount of cigar debris on the floor, , yes thats how I do it, the place that changes my oil also vacumes the car, so when I need it cleaned out, I get the oil changed ! hahahaa , hey it works for me , I dont worry about it , by the time I get back to the shop he can tell me how many miles I had since the last change & it is always between 3 & 5 k , , the more I smoke the faster the floor gets dirty, the sooner I get the oil changed ! Now if I could just get him to clean the INSIDE of the windshield I would have it made !!!!!! , the inside of the glass sun roof is starting to get a great coating on the inside, cutting down on the glare of the sun on bright days when I just have the roof tipped & not open full. hey the car is 5 years old & I have been smoking cigars in it since the day I drove it out of the show room, I lit one up sitting behind the wheel before I pulled it out of the showroom, right out the door I went & enjoyed a cigar & a cup of coffee on the way home, but I do miss my old Tuarus, it had 213K on it , the ashtray was full & it needed tires & would need a battery soon, so it was time ! hahahaha yea dont I wish I could do that hahahaha
When I was in Erie I was able to stop at the Rehab hospital to Visit Mike, he has been there since for ever, it seams , I did see him at his home one day but he went back to the hospital soon after that & then i ended up in myself & this was the first time I had a chance to visit with him since Christmas , we had about 1 hour , then he had to go to a session with the speach pathologist & I had to get to the cigar shop for the tasting, it felt good to see him again, I do miss hanging out with him, but now it looks like he will never be able to come home to stay . he will be in a nursing home the rest of his time . Sad . Very sad. , I am so perplexed by this I love him like a brother, but then I feel as his wife said he should have never work up , living like this after all he went through , 54 Years old, the strong heart of a 20 year old & the mind of a 7 year old , to be trapped in the frozen body , no use of his right hand or leg , no feeling in the hand at all , But to remember what he did last year & know he can never do it again. SO FRIGGEN SAD
dammm I hate to wind up on a downer but that about all I have from the Burgh this Sunday Morning, the Boss just came in from cleaning up the snow, she turned on the heat in the Qtr.Deck, brought in the Sunday paper & told me to GET OUT Of THE HOUSE , BUT AFTER you get the pork roast in the oven ! hahahaha
So I better do what I am told to do or no Peace in the house today , & no Peace means No PIECE hahahaha
Enjoy, Vince