🎶 It's a family tradition! 🎶
MrShrek
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While digging through the past as Mrs. Shrek and I were working on some family genealogy, she came across this photo of my great great grandfather James Bowron Jr smoking a cigar.
Nice to know I am not the only one of my bloodline that enjoys cigars. It did pose the question that I thought we may find interesting.
Did this fine hobby get passed down to you from a family member or did you pick it up another way?
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My pops started me down this road.
My dad's father. Always had a stick going when we went fishing; White Owls if memory serves. He quit in the mid 1970's I think & died in 1997.
An elderly friend of the family and then my stepfather's best friend smoked cigars when I was growing up. No relatives, though.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
One of my uncles always had a smoke hanging out of his mouth. King Edwards
I take after Cannon and Colombo, my parents quit when we were young, but my dad did smoke a pipe and maybe the odd cigar.
My dad smoked cigarettes, and I think I saw him smoke a cigar once. But I was always interested in cigars... more with the celebration of the experience
Odd as in Gurkha?
Shared one with my kid on his first birthday ten years ago...
Hope you have learned since then to take the cello off before lighting it.
My real dad was military and cigars were always around.
Smoke has always been a thing with american indians.
My step dad, it became a tradition, of sorts, for us to smoke in the wheel house of the boat on our way back to port after the nets, crab pots or what ever were stowed.
I was never much into pipes, so usually a small box of RyJ were kept in the cabinet with his pipe tobacco.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
I used to smoke cigarettes years ago. A buddy suggested I try Backwoods cigars (this was about 15 years ago.) I enjoyed them for what they were. Later on I had a few other gas station cigars. Again I liked them, but thought they could be better. I think the first premium cigar I smoked was a Romeo E Julieta and was intrigued. I had a few cigars off and on until just the last couple years when I have decided to burn all my extra money.
Psst, Franky, the kiddo is chewing the wrong end. A chip off the old block.
Dad smoked a pipe. Cigars I just decided I'd try a few.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
My grandfather. Although he smoked these Italian cigars with three bends in different directions and smelled like someone peed on a hot radiator.
Tuscano!
My maternal grandfather smoked a gar and sipped espresso while reading Emerson on the verandah.
I’m not even going to touch this one😂😱😈
My step mothers father smoked cigars
Who got me started though, was my late friend George.
My brother gave me one the night before my wedding. I really enjoyed it. Now I'm hooked!
Things are about to get interesting...
Nobody caught this? Well I thought it was funny 😄
Guess it’s the redneck in me.
My dad smoked cigars my entire childhood. I remember being 10 or 11, and I gut-shot a rabbit while we were hunting. The smell was absolutely revolting while trying to clean it, and he gave me my first stick to help cover the smell.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
Would someone explain this to a transplanted Yankee who's not too bright.
^^^ Some say there's a "family tradition" in states like WV and AR where they keep things "close to home" and our favorite woodtick, Ricky, (obviously speaking from experience) saw the title and assumed something different than the rest of us.
You mean things like an AR virgin is a 11 year old girl, that can outrun her 13 year old brother.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
Does this have anything to do with being raised in the family bed?
Are saying that you can walk across the gene pool without getting your sneakers wet?
😇
I always wondered, if you get divorced in WV, is she still your sister?
Better yet if your parents get divorced does your mom still stay your sister 😱