Sunday Morning Smoke

I was thinking of having it engraved on my watch but then if I move I would need a new watch ! hahaha Enjoy, Vince

well we made it one more week , & now it is Sunday 26 Aug 07 , Good morning to all you lovers of the leaf, not a lot going on this past week hahahaha , I took last Wed. off from the shop, my daughter had a cyst removed from her shoulder , it was between her breast & armpit, , dammmmmm thing was almost the size of a cell phone , how it got that big I will never know , its a wonder she never found it till a few weeks ago , just a fatty cyst , no danger of anything else so said the doc who removed it , she is all ready back to work & yelling at the kids , so I know she is feeling better !
we had a very warm & high humidity week, the cigars must have loved it thinking they were back in Q-ba hahahaha , I was thinking of taking a few humidors out side & letting them breath a bit of fresh air for a change , but then I knew if I did it to just a few of the humidors the rest would get ticked off so I would need to bring them all out & that just isn't going to happen, the last time I did it I had a hard time getting them back in the cabinet I keep them, & they alway come back in lighter then they were when they went out , seams like they get smoked feaster hahahaha , any way I know as soon as I go outside with a few sticks my brother will show up cigar less & mooch a few sticks as always , some one asked me what was in my humidor, well a lot of fine cigars & my brothers fingerprints , dammm punk @$$ kid brother , well he is the only Brother I have so I guess I better make the best of it cause I dont think I will get any chances to improve with the next one hahahaha , , he took after my fathers side of the family & I took after my mothers side , he is balding & as you can see from the photo I have all my own hair , & have had a full face of it since I was in the Navy . he has a cheesy little mustache but he need to hide more of his face hahahaha , well I guess that is enough about my brother, dont want him to get a swelled head reading this dribble about himself , on to more important things, like VEAL , yep thats what for supper today , I have a few nice red peppers & some vadalia onion & a little package of veal tenderloin , this thing is just going to melt in your mouth , just a quick stir fry of the veggies , a splash of white wine , plate the veggies & add the veal toss it a few times add a weeee bit of chicken stock toss back in the veggies & add just a touch of seasonings & slam it on a plate & get ready to indulge the taste buds , I might run out to the herb garden & check on the availibility of what ever is ready to pick, I think the garlic chives would go nice with this one .
we got some new product at the shop one brand called OLD SCHOOL, a 100% Equidorian puro , not a bad looking stick, but it will not replace my morning Don Carlos #3 , I though about switching to the Rocky Patel 1999 vintage but it just didnt "get to me " like the #3 ! old habbits are hard to change & if it aint broke dont try to fix it, so I will stay with the DC3 till some thing better shows up by accident or I hit the lottery & can afford to smoke contraband Monte #2 torps all day long , but then they might just become mondain so I guess I will just hold off & save them for a special occasion, like the sun came up this morning , or it got dark last night , you know the real importaint stuff in our life that we celebrate with a cigar , in my case a few time s a day is celebration time ! , but I have noticed that I have cut back on cigars this week, my daily average for the week was just 4 cigars per day , we had a lot of stuff going on at the shop, a lot of deleverys & that kept me busy pricing everything , a lot of stuff is showing up that was ordered at the RTDA show & a Zippo ligher display with all the realllllly cool new zippo designs & the new Zippo blu a first from Zippo a real gas lighter from the factory with out adding an insert , a real FLINT lighter , but I have 3 of the z plus inserts in my old Zippo ases so I dont think I will be buying one for my self, I carry all 3 so I never worry about running out of fuel when I am out !
Soon it will be back to school & the grandsons are not in good moods , they were Forsed to go the mall & try on new shoes , you would have thought they were being sold into slaverywhen there mother told them it was time to go shopping for the new school clothes, I never had that problem with her when she was growing up, she & my wife were always "going shopping " , no wonder I am so far in debpt , she still has one of my credit cards hahahaha
time for a second pot of Kona & I think I just might have a Churchill from Ashton , seams like that just might hit the taste buds with the Kona , dammmmm the local fire dept just went by , lights going sirens wailllllling , looks like smoke on the horizon , cant be a brush fire, everything is drenched from all the rain this past week , I hope its just some jerk burning trash , I hate to hear the fire alarm go off , our home had a house fire when I was still in high school, my Punk @$$ brother was building a moddle car & was trying to dry the glue faster by holding a match under it , STUPID JERK , he should have been sniffing it not setting it on fire hahaha , well the fire was contained to just his room but the smoes damage was 100% in the rest of the house, I still tease him about it , hummmm maybe thats why he likes the aroma of a good smoke , he is a fire bug at heart !
Breakfast this morning was just a strip of bacon & a Hot pepper cheese omlet , topped off with a slice of watermellon, ummmmm good , but I have noticed that the seedless watermellons dont have the flavor of the old seeded mellons , yea they are good but side by side the seeded one will win the taste test every time , & I love sitting on the back deck spitting seeds at the bird feeder , dammmm they get ticked off when the incomming seed hits the tin roof of the feeder , thet makes them all dash for the sky , dammm Birds leaving Bird $hit all over my car, cant leave the sun roof open ANYMORE ! , but the boss likes to watch the birds & listen to them churp, so what ever she wants she gets & I pretend to be happy , hey 37 years together , one of us is bound to give in ALL the time hahahahaha ( yea ME) , hey she lets me smoke in PEASE & I can go for that , now if I could just get a little more PIECE , hahahah Enjoy, Vince

4 a day not 4 a week ! dammmm the industry would fold up if I went to 4 a week !

The Colonel said:

I have a Bolivar Royal Corona, if this acid reflux ever subsides.

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sounds like your not drinking enough to kill the pain !

good morning, it is Sunday ,SEPT 2,, according to the caleneder we have just 3 weeks of summer left, dammmmm it sure did fly by fast, the kids are back in school & last night was the end of the Grange fair , so I know it is a closed summer soon, my wife & I used to love going to the fair & sampling all the great food, but post by pass , there isnt a lot of choices for us to eat there, so we skip the Stuffed porkchops this year & just waited till later to get the Home made pie, I had Rasin cream & she had peanutbutter , dammmmmm it was worth the 35 minute wait in line to get them ! @ 2 bucks a slice & 50 cents for the coffee zip bam boom change from a ten ! !! , I was able to skip the Barn tour this year I ran into a few cigar smokers at the entrance & by the time I was done kicking arround the BS Barb ad all ready looked at the horses, cows pigs sheep & goats saw the blue ribbon winners & placed a bid on a few of the smaller critters , dammm I sure hope she gets out bid , the freezer is full !

I was able to sleep in again this morning, so I havent had my sunday morning walk with my Kona coffee & my buddy Don Carlos III , but they are ready to go as soon as I am off the computer, , breakfast was light this morning just a grilled english muffin with some fresh cheese, there is a little minestroni soup left & that will be lunch & I have a nice ring of hot sausage to go on the grill later, some corn on the cob will also get grilled , so we are cooking out the last of summer , I know that fall will not start till the 23rd, but labor day is to me anyhow the end of summer , & it starts on memorial day , a few weeks befor the Offical start of summer , so I guess it all works out , any way it is my favorite time of the year, spring & fall are ok , & winter sucks as far as I am concerened , so why do I live in da Burgh? heaven only knows , I should find a climate that never gets above 85 & never below 55 , , BUT I dont want to cut grass all winter so I guess there is a trade off, & besides the grandsons are here so I will stay here or as close as I can till they grow up get married & move away, hopefully to a place that is no warmer than 85 & no cooler than 55 , then I can move in with them instead of them moving in with me ! hahahaha
yesterday was a GREAT day at the shop , I wasnt there ! hahahaha , dammmmm its good to get away for a little bit, I am taking today off & MONDAY as well, , a few of the young kids will open today & monday, I will check in from time to time to make sure the roof is still in one piece & the door gets locked at night , other than that i need to spend a little Vinny time with the boss, she wants to do some thing , what ever it is I know I am going to hate it , BUT I will smile & say yes dear , because I have learned if she is Happy you can pretent to be happy & everything else is just fine with the world !
To my Suprise I was checking all the humidors & consolidating a few of the more empty ones & found 2 were EMPTY , dammmmmmm I went into shock when I found the second one , I had an idea that it was getting LOW but I wasnt ready to see 2 of them BONE DRY, NO STICKS , looks like the credit card will take a big hit this month ! hahahaha , lucky for me it was the bundle box that was empty , so I can fill up on the Yard gars dog rockets with out to big a hit , looks like a job for the cigar buyer to get out the wholesale catalog & see whats on sale or close out , I have found some realllly great smokes getting closed ot, stuff left over form the boom that has ben sitting in some humidor for a number of years , now with its price slashed to less tan half of what it sold for back in the day, & I have found some real DOGROCKETS also , but isnt that what were all here for, to try a different cigar & look for the best cigar at the lowest price ? well thats about all I have today , I need to get out for my walk & morning cigar Enjoy the Labor day weekend & dont forget to donate to Jerrys Kids on the MDA telethon !
Enjoy, Vince

Sept 9 2007, it is Sunday Again & time for the Sunday morning news from the dining room table , well it has been a very quiet week here in da Burgh , with Labor day last monday we were some what slow all week, the weather was FRAND all week till Saturday then it rained & is still raining this morning, I have a soggy cigar in the ashtry on the back deck to show for it , , I now know , Dont leave a Monte Platnum out on the deck all night , it is like a sponge & will not stay lit no matter how hot you get it & then the smoke is so dammmmmmm hot you cant enjoy it , Oh well after all these years you would think I would have better sence than that but just remember whos talking here & the idea of common sence just flys out the window with me hahaha
I did have a great breakfast this morning , I got up gratted sopme potatos & made pancakes with them , the wife was suprised , a little bacon & sour cream , dammmmm I hope this is an indication of how good the food will be the rest of the day, BUT I dont think so, , we are having a cigar tasting this afternoon at the shop during the Steeler Browns game , the local Altadis rep wanted to have a place to watch the game so he told his wife he had to work, Smart man , gets out of the house & gets free Beer on top of it ! dammmmm, so I will be going to the shop for a few hours today just to "help" a little hahahaha
I have some chicken breasts , swiss cheese & a few slices of Prosutte cappacola that will get all rolled up & backed today , maybe a little fresh herbs & some olive oil to season them with, & we can finishe the left over potatoe cakes from this morning, hummmmm sounds Ok to me !
, We got up early yeaterday to go watch the #2 grandson play soccor , but with all the thunder & lightning the game was a washout so I got up early for nothing , had to be at the field at 9 but we were back home before 10, & I got a mid morning nap hahahaha
later in the day the boss & her sister went shopping & I got an afternoon nap, yep sleeping like a baby , awake every 2 hours to get up & go to the bathroom ! hahaha, dammm I hate that, , got to cut back on the coffee before bed tome, not that I cant sleep, just full of liquid & need to get ride of it !
I have an appointment with the eye doc at 8 am Monday, , it looks like it will be an all day session, , drops at 8 sit & wait, see the nurse, get more drops at 9, & see the doc by ten, hahaha, if I am lucky, lazer treatment , injection & more drops , then home to sit in the dark for a few hours & them to the shop for MONDAY night football, OH joy, like I could give a good crap about working late on Monday & then neding to open On Tuesday , I wonder who the DUMBASS was that thought up this schedual, hummmmm Oh yea that was me , dammmmm what was I thinking at the time !, must have been all the great single malt & & contraband cigars I was enjoying ! hahahaha

I got the trees trimmed in the yard, but he didnt have a tall enough ladder to top them so that is still on the adjenda & the herb garden needs to be weeded, dammm I hate that job, maybe I will just get the line trimmer out & chop it all down HUMMMMMMMM ,,just pull what is ready to dry & cut everything else down to the ground, , a lazy mans way of weeding ! hahahaha

, I just got a call from a customer , he is laying some block this morning & wants me to come open the shop so he & his helpers can get a Cigar, , dammmm I just got up an hour ago, I havent had my morning pot of kona & he wants me to get dressed & drive to the shop 11 miles one way , open up for him to get a few packs of DeNobilie & not even pay me for them till some time next week when he gets paid , hahahah, Now thats BALLLLLLLLLLLS , I think he is going to need to go to the drug store or the gas station & pay for his cigars this morning , I sure am not going to go in & open this early for no sale , NOW if he wants to spend a few hundred bucks to make it worth my time , well thats a differnt story, but to get 3 packs @2.75 per pack on credit , NO F WAY , dammm give them an inch & they want to take a mile , besides we will be open at noon providing Tim remembers he is opening today hahahahaha , thats just an hour from Now , & if I were to stop playing on the computer right now get a shower & drive to the shop it would be almost noon anyhow, so lay the block with out the cigars buddy or just WAIT tioll Noonbecause I am not making a special trip in to open early , till i have finished my Sunday morning postings & rreadmy E mail , contray to public opinion I do have a life outside the shop , now maybe if I lived upstairs from the shop & ran it myself 16 hours a day it might be different, ahahahaha, BUT dont count on it hahahaha

I think that about all I have right noe maybe more later if I find the time hahaha Enjoy, Vince

Good morning all, it is the First day of Autumn, what a wonderful streach of weather we have had here in da Burgh, you need the A/C during the day & the furnace at night ! hahaha yep your in Pittsburgh when that happens , right now we have a layer of Fog covering the area, I just came back in from getting the sunday paper & cant see the intersection just a few hundred yards from me , thick as mushroom soup , with that slightly brown cast to it , the leaves havent started to fall & for the most part are still green, there are a few trees here & there that do have a little color to them, we are a few weeks from the great fall colors we get every year .
I am moving kind of slow this morning kind of like Uncle Joe at the shady rest hotel, havent had breakfast yet, havent even made coffee yet, dammmmmm I must be getting old orsome thing hahahahaha, I am letting the Boss sleep in , & since Mother nature & a full bladder woke me & its to chilly to sit on the back deck & look at the Sunday paper I decided tomake my Sunday Morning post before I get busy & forget to do it ! hahaha
I dont plan on cooking anything today after breakfast that is , time for the dreaded refidagator fall out, yep time to clean up the left overs , so today will be stuffed porkchops left over from Thursday,with some baked sweet potatos , then a little cococnut cream pie left over from Wensday, for desert the local Greek Church had a food fert this past week so there is a ton of Grape leaves to finish along with a good deal of pastrys , dammmm I dont know if we will be able to finish it all, well what ever we cant , the trash man will take Monday morning , I still have eyes that are bigger than my belly, , it is hard to realize I cant eat like I did before , I look at Anthoney Bourdain from the food or travel channel & with all the stuff he eats he is still "thin" , not like twiggy was at the hight of her modling carier , but no pot gut like Andrew Zimmer on Bizarre foods , of well what ever it takes to get through the day I guess I will adapt !
I did get a visitor at the shop this past week, John aka 2 Putts from Michigan stopped with a great bottle of white wine & a fine Cobiha Contraband of course some really good hard cider & a little bottle of MEAD , well I sipped a little scotch , drank a little wine , swigged a bit of cider & savored a bit of Mead , so needless to say I was feeling NO PAIN when I closed the shop friday night ! , well Saturday morning I had to go in & open for a customer who was going some place & he called to make an appointment for an early shopping trip , * 30 plus cigars & a humidor I was just about to leave & go home when a few more customers showed up , Now here I am at 9 am on a Saturday when I cant get anyone to stop that early in the morning, during the week, well it looks like we will be opening at 8 am on saturdays & not at noon like we have been doing , didnt het out of the place till after 2 am & when I got it all cleaned up, & got home it was closser to 3 , then back in at 8 dammmm makes a old fella even more tired than I should be , but when the cash regester rings I feeeeeel Gooooood !
well just as I was about to close on Saturday morning a couple came in with Coffee, Fresh roasted & ground, so I made a pot & the BS ran wide & deep, before you know it, Noon & dean is there to work his shiftdammmm the morning went by pretty fast whenthe BS & coffee are both hot there is nothing like TIME to worry about , hahahaha , this couple wants to buy or rent the building on the corner & put in a commerical coffee roasting business , all I can say is WELCOME to the Burgh !!, we dont need no stinking $tarbucks when you can get a local to make a better cup of coffee , not the $starBux is bad , JUST way to much $$$$ , I stopped at the local $tarbux & got an espresso for myself & a frozen capachino for the boss & it was almost 7 buxs !!! the local coffee shop in Rochester my regular purchase if the same order & I get change from a 5 & leave a buck tip, & 70% of what I spend there stays right here in da Burgh, what I spend at $tarbux only 20% stays local , so I like to patronize the local shops before I gp to a national franchise or chain store , keep it local & let the other small guys make a Buck ! or 2 , wallfart might have lower prices but when I need some thing that some one who is local has a shop that sells it even if its a few bucks more , thats where I spend my hard earned cash , look at it this way , sure my cigar prices are a little higher than mail order but I provide a lounge with comfortable leather chairs & a place to smoke in side out of the heat & cold I provide a big screen TV for all the games & I give the coffee away when you want it just get off you lazy @$$ & get it your self, & if I am in a great mood I might even get it for you, but you need to bring your own cream & sugar, I dont use them so I dont buy them, hey I provide the single malt scotch whisky also , I guess the lest you can do is seal a few packets of sugar & a creamer from McDonalds if your to cheep to buy your own hahahaha ! , personally the only thing I want in my morning coffee is just more coffee & maybe a weee dram of single malt hahahaha
I missed my thursday evening smoke witht he guys , my grandson had a soccoor game & I went there to watch him sit on the bench hahahah, he did get some playing time & he did have the biggest fan section there, both sets of grandparents his mother ,father & a few aunts uncles & cousins were all there a rooting section of 13 in total, on the side lines & one behind the goal (me ) the wind was blowing right down the field & I didnt want to piss off some mother with my cigar so I sat down wind of the field & all that great aroma when for naught ! no one was able to enjy the aroma , buy the end of the first half of the game I did have some company , a pipe smoker & 2 more cigar smokers, , thank God I had a few extra's hahahaha , I have no idea who won or what the score was , but we had a nice hour watching & talking to all the other fans , parents & grandparents , that about all that is happening here in the burgh this week, as far as I can remember, , maybe I should start taking note as it is easy to read than remember hahahaha
yea remember, the eye is getting a little better but not near what it was a few months ago ! OK thats all I have time for right now, I am getting hungry, the coffee is ready & the boss wants BREAKFAST ! N O W !
hahahah Enjoy, Vince