Good morning it is Sunday 3/4/18 a cool sunny but windy day here in da Burgh , with all the rain we have been having and I thank GOD it was rain and not snow , my yard is a swamp , we took a short ride to Brush Creek Park yesterday and the benches around the lake are in the water , there are signs of the road being washed out but it was all ready fixed , so much water in the ball fields you might be able to fish in them hahahaha . It is Great cigar smoking weather , but the county has posted signs that the park is a smoke free campus ,,,,, BULLSHIT , you can have a camp fire not a cigar , POLITICS ,,,, but with out police to enforce it , how will anyone one know , so i drove my car through the park with a HUGE Hemingway Maduro masterpiece clamped in my jaw with the sun roof open and I puffed away , i didnt see more than 5 cars in the entire park , no one complained that i know of , if one of them got my plate number and turned me in I will deal with it if it happens right now I dont care for the new notice , , I see the same notice at the Court house , but the President judge is a cigar smoker and enjoys a smoke in his chambers , if he can smoke so can I .
I got a weee bit hungry this morning and went all out on a mixed grill kitchen sink batch of scrambled eggs , onions bacon roasted red peppers, garlic celery , smoked gouda cheese, provelone, Romano , and pepper jack cheese all covered with beaten eggs and tossed around the heat till the eggs were set , a little more tabasco on mine and dry Pumpernickel toast to suck it all up with , a pot of Tanzanian Peaberry to wash it down with ..... smooth , flavorful and a great feel in the mouth , a nice breakfast and the BOSS liked it . after we ate I retreated to the Qtr.Deck , put on the heat , it was a cool 42 F inside , so back in the kitchen and get today's HUNK O BEEF in the oven .... what can I say , happy wife happy life , so she gets her Beef fix I get piece and quiet , fair trade IMHO .
I have been looking at the new Ford Ecosport mini SUV , not ready to pull the trigger as an option I want ( Leather seats ) is not avaiable on the SE model , need to move up to the platnum to get leather , or the SES , I had to move up to the SE to get the sunroof as the S cant get a hole in the roof, just an other way to bump up the price , with 155,000 + miles on my Escape its time to start looking for a new car, , I want to get my wife a new one and I take her Mercury Milan it is older than my car but she only has 65,000 miles on her car , it has all the toys I want , heated leather seats , sunroof , ..... what more do i need , OH yes A/C in the summer ..... She wants a new Subaru forester, I am OK with that but she wants to keep her car, the forester is a nice car , but more that I want to pay for a new unit, , I saw a Chrysler Ragtop with 116000 miles , a solid body , no rust , a few rips in the roof repaired with tape but the guys wants ONLY 1500 bucks , great car for the summer ..... but i dont know , I love the ride I have now , I want to keep it till it will not go anymore , BUT the call of new wheels is strong, , with all the cars i drive at work I thought that might temper my desire for a new ride , , last week i did drive a Lincoln Navagator , a Battleship sized LUX SUV, , and i did drive a BMW 3 series SUV , the BMW was LOUD with the sun roof open , had to jack up the radio at 70 MPH on the highway , the lincoln was fine at 70 .... , size wise not in the same ball park , but close in price . Do I want a Used Jag or a new small SUV, ????? the age old question getting the bang for your buck.
the youngest grandson got a new job , since his dream job at Kmart went south when the store closed , he is now at Best Buy and will be a member of the geek squad , going to classes working and a dating life leaves him little time to hang out with the grandparents like when he was a KID, still a kid but has a chin full of hair hahahaha . and one of the Nephews found a new job that he has been trying to get for the past 10 years , he is a Member of the CENTER TWP road dept , and being the Asst. Fire Chief in Center Twp it will place his work right at home he has been on the road crew for the city of Aliquippa the past few years , but was not able to cover fire calls in center twp , now he can . Good luck to both of them on the new jobs
I got a real suprize in the mail last week the wife went on line and picked up some cigars for me , a Bundle of Bahia Brazil and 2 five packs of Bahia Gold box pressed Torp , a real happy camper an I . hahaha , I dont know what it is about the Bahia brand that i like so much , the old answer is the bang for the buck , I enjoy the taste , and the price , Given my choice I would smoke monte #2 isom all the time , but then it would be the same old same old, so I smoke a lot of cheep cigars , and a lot of pricey ones , cant say if one is better than the other , the Don Carlos #3 is a cigar I dont care what it costs , I like it a lot, but the Maria Mancini Magic Mountain Maduro torp is in my top 5 a 2 buck smoke like the Bahia , ... different tastes , but I like them all, in fact i have the Kona in the press pot and the DC3 ready to go when i get done posting and get some pants on , heading to the Qtr.deck till its time to add the potatoes to the big ass hunk o beef . I have been cleaning out a few humidors to make room for the 20th cigar crawl this summer , I have been stashing cash away for the trip and plan on a restocking of a few of the soon to be empty humidors ..... 20 years , and it has been a BLAST a lot of cigars were consumed as well as a lot of BOOZE drank a few GREAT moments in the life of a cigar smoker .... cant wait for this one , as I am the OLDEST guy on the bus I hope to get a seat upfront so i dont need to walk as dammm far hahaha , the early crawls wer great , not as many people , I had a double seat all to my self a few years, , but now its a sell out with a waiting list , so all i want is an isle seat under the roof vent hahahaha
the timer just went off time to press the Kona and get moving , so what are you smoking , drinking and cooking today ????
Enjoy , Vince