Good Morning, it is Sunday the 6th of July , a hot & humid day here in Da Burgh , Finallllly, after weeks of Rain , But nothing like the poor souls in the Mississippi river area , , with all the farm land that has been flooded & all the citys divistated , why dont we see any riots & name calling & finger pointing lootings & the same stuff we saw in New Orleans ? is it the nature of the farmers to take care of there own & not want any help from the federal Government ?????? , I guess its just the way things are , I grew up in a suburban area now I live in a rural area, that is slowing getting developed into an Urban area , ( it SUCKS) , & I can see the difference in attitude of the City folks comming out to the country & find out they need to do things for them selves, Like CUT the grass , hey Dummie you got a house with a Yard now Not an appartment with A Building maintenence staff to change your light bulbs , I have been here over 30years now & its funny to see how self reliant I have become , I have a tool box , & a power drill, & a SHOVEL & RAKE , God Help me I dont use them Much But I have !!! , give me a good Knife & a stove I am fine, but me & a 2 x4 with hammer & nails are not a good mix, , however I can if needbe use them, but some of the city slickers moving out here for the "fresh " air will learn just like I did , when the farmer spread the manure on the fields the Fresh air is RIPE hahahahahaha there is a wild growning Blackberry bush in one corner of my yard, I have been getting my fingers stained as I stand there & watch in amazement of Gods Glory & how that little seed I spit out 10 years ago or so has beveloped into a fruit bearing bush , complete with thorns to get you to stop eating before you eat them all , yea a few scratches 7 when the blood starts to drip onn the shoes , you know its time to stop hahahaha I have pandora .com playing right now , dave brubeck , man this is great , since i found Pandora I havent tirned on the TV at work , just crank up the Jazz on Pandora & relax with a fine OLD Cigar & a well aged single malt with a pot of Fresh ground coffee & tell the customers to wait till the song is over before I move hahahaha I have a NICE set of Porterhouse steaks sitting in a light marinade & some Yams that will hit the grill some time this afternoon , I will Qtr. the spuds , give them a light coat of EVOO & drop them on the grill about the same time I put the piece of beef on for my wife , when hers is almost creamated then I will put mine on , threaten it with a little heat , get some nice grill marks on it to show me where to Cut hahaha, thats about all it will need ! Coffee this morning is a Mexican coffee of some sorts, my wife picked it up at the new coffee roaster in New Brighton Pa , the place is called hallowedgrounds , they are turning out some great stuff so far , we are working our way through the menu of several different styles & roasts of a lot of different blends & single coffees , you can call them at 724-581-JAVA ( a shameless plug ) , tell them I recomended them to you & dont worry they know who I am for Sure hahaha #2 grandson had a tooth pulled this past week, his braces came off & he is just using a retainer at night now , , to many teeth on one side of his mouth & not enough on the other , so Now when he smiles you see teeth not braces , he said it feels funny ............... yea I guess so !! #1 gradson is finishing up his cooking class at the Sweetwater arts & has had a crash course on Caviar , salmon, & cream cheese , now he want to add caviar to everything , well slow down cowboy this stuff is 'SPENCIVE , I am going to show him the food bill & hope he understands you just dont have caviar 3 times a week let alone 3 times a day , 3 times a year can break the bank ! I am having a rabbit problem.... I have this round cement decotative "stone" beside the walkway, its been there a year , never had any problems with is till now, it is set in sand , & for a year the birds, chipmunks & rabbits just ran over & arround it, Now the Dumb Bunnys are digging up the sand & laying there , I gues its cooler , or maybe warmer, , it is all out in the open so I dont think they are trying to nest , but I added a bottle of RED PEPPER flakes to the sand, , same thing all over again, sand tossed every where , for a year it looked like a fine Japeneese sand garden , now it looks like a kids sand box !!! , anyone have any ideas how to get rid of the rabbits , with out cooking them hahahaha ???? I was out doing a cigar tasting yesterday in a mall shop , I have never seen so many people come in a cigar shop who were not smokers, I offer a cigar , they say No thanks I dont smoke I was just looking at the shop, , in the 4 hours I was there I must have had 20 people say NO to a FREE cigar , they had to smoke it there , as the mall was NON smoking but the shop had a smoking lounge , so inside the shop was OK but not OUTSIDE ........ , I dont understand that, you go to the mall to shop & if you dont smoke cigars why would you come in a cigar shop to "LOOK" & COMPLAIN about the AROMA , stupid jack@$$e$ , it says CIGAR SHOP on the door what do you think was being sold there & smoked there , a BIG cloud of smoke Billowing up from 8 or 10 Cigar smokers & you come in & *** about the AROMA , GIVE ME A GUN !!!!! There will NOT be a POSTING next Sunday Morning , I am heading for vegas & the RTDA show , Next Sunday Morning , I knows they changed the name from RTDA to some othe BS , but RTDA is what I remember , I dont know if I will get one posted saturday Night or not, so you will need to put you collictive minds on Hold or get a life hahahaha Hey i am looking out he window at the pasture & this DUMB cow has her back to the electric fence & swishing her tail back & forth Hitting he frece, getting a small shock as I can see the spark & the mussel contract on the hind Qtr,& she isnt moving away from the fence, , hummmm mabe she likes it ! , I sire am going to miss the pasture when the old guy dies & his kids sellit for home development , if I had the cash I would buy it my self & keep it cow pasture , rent it out to some one who wanted to raise beef & not Kids , I dont want to get into raising beef now way to old for all that hard work !!! speaking of OLD this past Friday was the BIRTHDAY OF THE USA , I had the TV on a little & caught a little of the Musical 1776 , dammm I miss drinking with my Buddys Ben & Tom hahahaha , but back then it was mostly Rum , Beer & wine, the drink of the day was Tea, & dont get me wrong , I like a cup of tea here & there BUT I AM A COFFEE person , with a little Single malt on the side , they just pair up a lot better than Tea with anything , Rum & bourbon are to sweet for my taste buds & since i never use sugar in my coffee or tea ,,, scotch is My dram of choice all most noon time for me to get my formerly fat @$$ in gear & get going , Enjoy the next 2 weeks I will try to post next saturday but I cant be sure , SEE YOU IN VEGAS Enjoy, Vince

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Please pass the gravy , Enjoy, Vince

Good to see you over here Vince! 

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ive heard about pandora.com but have yet to try it out. im gunna have to now. do they have different stations? id be interested in the blues station if they did

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I have an account with pandora. You can get stations based on artists or genres. I like it. Enjoyed the read Vince!

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Only real men cut their cigars with the tusks of elephants.- Hugemoose

kuzi16:

ive heard about pandora.com but have yet to try it out. im gunna have to now. do they have different stations? id be interested in the blues station if they did

You just plug in the artist you want & they play it & stuff like it, LOTS of blues & Jazz, even classical, a little Mood music for cigar smoking !

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Capt:

Good to see you over here Vince! 

it took me a little while but I got here !

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Vince, thanks for the tip.(pandora)  If anyone is a music lover you have to try it.  It rocks.

leonard:

Vince, thanks for the tip.(pandora)  If anyone is a music lover you have to try it.  It rocks.

Glad to help

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Hello Vince! very glad to see you over here. I have missed your sunday morning smoke blogs, I really do enjoy reading them.

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pandora.com is amazing

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I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
Ron White

LIVE from the Burgh , its Saturday Night ....... Off the the RTDA show in the morning so here is the weeks BS from da burgh, Busy is all I can say , i was out selling on Monday, worked the shop on Tuesday, back out for a tasting at Cordys cigar box in Girard Ohio on Wed, back in the shop on Thursday & friday night I was there till 10:55 , was trying to stay till 11PM but no one there from about 10:35 so I packed it up . , so today i slept in a bit , went to the store to stock up on Grocerys for the Boss while I am out in LV, dammmm I hate to leave her home hahahahaha , yea why take a sandwich to a FEAST !, anyway she hates to fly . The Political world of Penna, was turned upside down as a few former & current state legeslature's were Indited on Corruption charges , BIG photos on the front page of the paper with them in handcuffs , YEA Baby , when you sleep with the dogs you get flees ! one guy had 58 counts against him with a possable 300 years in Jail, looks like he will plead his case, get 8 years & pay back about 10% of the public money he stole , to light a sentence if you ask me , Castration & public beatings isnt enough for them, , well you figure a guy making 65K a year as a member of the state house , ( not bad money) but when you see him at the taylor shop getting a few 3500/4500 dollar custom made suits , well then you know some one else is paying for them , I just didnt know it was ME & my fellow taxpayers! Since I was out of town a few days last week i didnt get in the kitchen much, we did have a lot of Take out from the local Italian Bistro , seams like the anti pasta has been working overtime, LOTS of garlic , so dont get down wind of me hahaha, I feel sorry for the poor souls on the airplane ! , I wonder if I can get the 02 masks to drop hahahaha My daugher & the boys stopped at the shop today , I was walking down the street to pick up the Pizza for tonight & they were heading home from the movies , just good timming ! I have no idea what they went to see, what ever it was they liked it ,, hey when your 10/12 , anytime you get out of the house to watch a movie is a good time . I have a real delema do I take my travel mug with me or drink out of the cups they supply on the airplane, I have 2 carry ons , no checked bags , I need a third hand for the coffee cup & a FOURTH for the CIGAR ! , 4 hour flight , NO cigar for 4 Hours, .............................. & I have to come back ! , 8 hours total, what will happen to the industry if i stopped, catastrophic repercutions in the cigar world & the scotch distillerys , sure Hope I can DRINK on the plane ! , I havent flown since 82 , thats 1982 you smart @$$e$, & NO I didnt fly with Orval or Wilber , But I did date thier sister hahaha well its about time for me to think about packing & getting my cigars ready for the trip , filling all the water resavors in the 15 Humidors before I go , cause I know my wife will not do it when I'm gone ..... even if she knows I will be back ! Enjoy, Vince

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vince, you know that if you had four hands only bad (or good depending how you look at it) would come of it. heres how it would be MOST of the time:
in hand one would be a cigar, in hand two would be a botle of scotch, in the third hand there would be a frying pan and in the fourth... sometimes a chefs knife and sometimes another cigar.

some day i will go to the RTDA

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I'm home, Broke,hungover & TIRED , see you all Sunday

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Good morning, it is SUNDAY , 20 th of JULY , 2008, it was a BUSY week for me , as I was in LV for the Cigar convention, , , , , what happens in LV ....... well you know the saying BUT I can tell you I did come home with some cash, not a lot but sum, LV was not built on winners. , this was MY first time to the desert , people were "friendly ", but the cigar smoking was limited by the police, OK in the casino & on the street & your room, but not in the halls or the open spaces of the shopping areas , OH well the Nanny state is getting closer , way to many people thinking they know better than you & want you to do it there way & not yours, , 'cause my way is better, yea sure for you maybe but not for me , BS like Global warming, sure it happens, BUT so did the ice age , it is a cycle & this world will continue to have cycles , the sun shines & the world spins , water gets warm , & water gets cold , NOTHING we can do about it ! , I ate well on a few of the manufactures , hit a few partys , drank a LOT , smoked a ton of FREE cigars , some good some bad , got to meet a few readers of the Sunday morning smoke , made a lot of new contacts & managed to stay out of the hot sun for the most part I left home last Sunday Morning & got home Thursday about 3 am , slept most of the day went to work on Friday , had a good day there & bang off to the Cigar & BBQ at Slippery Rock cigars on Saturday , so I havent been home much & the wife is wondering who is this Strange Guy hahahaha I am planning on making a little pasta today , I have some fresh veggies & some Olive Oil , sounds like a nice sauce & a plate of tossed greens & that will be supper today, I ate enough sausage & deep fryed turkey yesterday to hold me for a meatless Monday on Sunday ! I did get a few T shirts for the kids & mailed them Home with my lighters & other Junk , dammm you got to travel light , carry on what ever you can , or pay to check in an over weight bag , NO not you wife, dammmmm you trying to get me in trouble hahaha to be honest with you all I am still tired from the 4 hour trip & the 32 hour time zone change , My internal clock has not reset it self & all the scotch didnt help, , so I am going to go cook breakfast for the boss & try to make her happy to see me. hahahaha Enjoy, Vince

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Sounds like you had agreat time Vince. I'm glad to see you made it back OK and I'm jealous. Oh well, there's always another year.

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