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Wow. Tough set of rules as I rarely smoke CCs of 2019 vintage now that I've learned what only a few years will do for them. A village elder once told me I was wasting expensive CCs smoking them too green?

I was ogling the Davidoff tubos and this past week I ordered my first box out of the Signature line and otherwise, have tried very few samples.

Tristan Wirfs (University of Iowa) was predicted to go as high as #4 in the draft but ended up at #13. He carried an interesting story. He was raised by a single mother in Mt. Vernon, Iowa which is only about 20 miles from the university, in a household that included his sister and grandmother. He grew into an offensive tackle with size and incredible skills. Tristan would have been a junior this year if he returned to school. And should you like basketball, the U of Iowa has another player by the name of Luka Garza who was a first team, All American this past season and it looks like he may return for his final season?

I opened a box about six months ago and immediately began looking for another. It's a difficult item to find among typical online vendors?

Not surprised because it's a group activity but has the owner been allowed to stay open during this shutdown? In Iowa, establishments that sold alcohol/tobacco products mainly were allowed to remain open per the governor.

I was shocked to learn of the amount of leaf that is grown in Wisconsin today. I was told Connecticut when I asked a grower who was hanging it in a barn.

Other than construction issues, I've never had a bad Cuban compared to many NCs over the years that were absolute monsters. Probably 99% of my cigars came via mail order as I live in a cultural desert lacking a decent cigar store. So I ended up hooked to bandits like Thompson who found it too easy to unload their latest house brand on me. When I started smoking, Rocky Patel was a house brand along with Ghurka and Victor Sinclair. Victor is still in that line along with too many new arrivals ie Diesel or Asylum but my experience is large cigars heavy on the nic. When I started seeking other options was my discovery of legal CCs.

Most of mine now hit the trash can as well however, I have a 3 gallon jar somewhere that is stuffed with NC bands which are more colorful than the CCs.

I found a box of these online for $340 so I jumped. I have smoked through several boxes of Reyes but never stepped up to the table on this one.

Without need of copying the post, may I concur with Sigmund above? I also had my only cold with a minor fever in February. There is too little known about this crazy virus but I am old enough to be scared. Tomorrow morning, I have a gastro procedure I had been putting off because of this virus but can't do it any longer. On the plus side, I will be tested.

I listened to Sticky Fingers and Beggar's Banquet all the way through last night for the first time in years.

He put some of mankind's most depressing moments into music. I can still recall the first time I heard the line 'there's a hole in daddy's arm where the money goes' and pictured the child who stated it. Prine was one of the poets of my generation.

Two boxes are cheaper than most single boxes today.

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin announced the end of May as the point where the economy reopens, but he is just another spouting off with no facts to back up his words. For too long, the world has turned to the USA in times of crisis as they sought the proper avenue. You no longer can rely on the USA. The leadership is not there and those in charge too often refuse to comport with the facts and instead will relay the scenario they wish would happen?

On the 6pm news tonight and without citation of any facts, 'experts' claimed that hot (highly infected) areas of the USA could have shelter in place and social distancing rules until the end of May. Too many businesses in free rolling economies are mortgaged to the hilt and will not survive this.

In the USA, predictions are that this virus will be an annual event at a minimum. Otherwise, it seems like the bulk of the nation becomes infected to some degree?

I have had terrible luck of late in the acquisition of this cigar which I have been chasing because I believe it may not be rolled again and most CC vendors are now out of stock. Last November, a box was lost in the mail which is the only box sent to me out of hundreds that never arrived. Last month, I placed an order for another box with a long time, well known CC vendor only to find out today that the site has been taken down. This may be an omen and perhaps I just need to be happy I was able to smoke a box and I have one in the locker?

Maybe not the best cigar of March but the entire Ramon Allones regular production was my revelation in a taste of Cuba that no NC is able to mimic. I rarely get the flavors some folks speak of but the stewed fruits (rhubarb?) comes through vibrantly. The Superiore is my favorite followed by RASCC but the flavor nuance is evident in all that I've tried. I've heard others mention creamy with certain marcas ie Hoyo but creamy seems more of a texture in the smoke than an actual flavor most times? I admit that my palate is junk.

I spent last weekend studying and then on Tuesday buying another cigar cutter that I did not need. It's a Xikar Xi1 but it seemed like the more I studied this label and others ie Colibri, Paleo, etc. that I became an authority in my own mind on this silly subject matter and it was necessary to put that education to use and make it pay its way? It reminded me of my teaching days at the U and all those co-eds in the glory of higher learning. I found the cutter on an auction site and it only cost $20.

I smoke too much and have ended up with a jaded palate but I do get some flavors. Unsweetened chocolate is consistent with Monte.

I just opened my second box this year of the Punch Petit Coronations which I give an excellent review to as well as Punch Punch. Only in the last year or so have I ventured into tubos which I will chalk up as my mistake but forever, I avoided the extra cost and Spanish cedar lining. What I found is the cigars are not majorly taste affected by the wood nor do they have the construction issues that are common to other regular production Cubans. They burn as they were meant to burn. For whatever reason, boxes of tubos are generally older than their brethren and the rollers are more experienced?

And I learned this week that Xi1, Xi2 and Xi3 are all the same Xikar cutters with the difference in cost reflected in the handles?

I hit this post because I was nearly finished with a morning El Principe which is a near daily cigar for me. There are occasional construction issues that I blame on the wrapper but today, it was perfect.

I confess to springing for a couple of boxes of Arturo Fuente last night because the price was too tempting. Picked up Hemingway Short Story because it's an old friend as well as a box of Fuente Exquisitos which I have not owned in 2 decades or more?

Cheap cigar brands like White Owl and Swisher Sweets may have found salvation by mass marketing blunt wraps in 20 fruity flavors? I turn 70 this year and confess to continuous smoking of high end weed since my college days, for sure far longer than my cigar habit, but no way in hell can I ever hit off of a blunt. Inhaling anything cigar is out of the question though it's common for me to have a joint in one hand and a stogie in the other. That's the top of my world.