Pre-4th Relaxing

Cigar: Rocky Patel Vintage 1990
Drink: Beam and Coke

Sitting on the back deck laughing at my wife who is having her first drink in almost 9 months, listening to the neighbors target shooting off of their back porch, and enjoying a fine cigar.

I think I am ready to film a commercial for the good life.

About the cigar. If you have not had one of these, you really need to try one. Regardless of the controversy as to whether there really is any tobacco left from the "Great Surge" of the early nineties, this really is a good smoke at a reasonable price. The only issue that I have ever had out of one of them (and one that seems to be common to all Patel cigars) is during the first third of the burn, a small run or canoe will develop. This is easily remedied by taking fuller, deeper draws less frequently, and does not detract from the experience much at all.