Tiny Tim's Cigar World!: 01/01/2006

January 09, 2006

Sad day in Paradise!

Unfortunately, after my trip to JR's on Saturday, I had to attend the last cigar event to be held at Paradise Cigars in Charlotte, NC. The store is closing on January 12th. I've been to several events that have been held at this cigar shop and I will miss going there alot! I've made some good friends attending events there. I hope I can see them again at a new location to gather for cigars in the Charlotte area! Many of them attend the SC Sit Down Smokes, so I know I'll see them there!

Ernie and me!

Jim (Alchemist) and Rose:

Chef Ed! (great chili maker!)

Nate, being "Nate":

Professor:

Me with "the Indian":

Skeegar being...Skeegar!:

Obviously, Nate's store will be missed!:

Thanks for the great time at Paradise Cigars, Nate! If you ever get the hankerin' to open Paradise II, we'll be there!!!!!

Report from Cigar Mecca!!!!!!!

Saturday, January 7th was quite a milestone in the cigar life of Tiny Tim! I infiltrated the domain of JR Cigars in Statesville, NC!!! What a BIG-FRIGGIN HUMIDOR!!!! It was WAY-cool going to that place! I didn't even look through the "store" part of JR's; I (we) only had the cigar store as our target!

Upon entering the cigar store, you notice that there are a LOT of cigars in there, all in alphabetical order for the most part, and cigar deals everywhere! Since the whole store is a humidor, they have a misting unit close to the ceiling that goes off every so often to emit humidity into the room! It sounded a lot like a steam machine! I had a list of what I was after, so as not to get caught up in the whole "there's cigars everywhere!!!" thing! I quickly found what I was after; Ultimate No. 1 in oscuro, Partagas Black Magnifico, and La Escepcion's. The prices on singles was very good, so I picked up 14 or so of those too!

While you're in JR's, you can have a cigar, but you HAVE to stay in the cigar shop to smoke it. They have a lounge area that has free coffee, so after our purchases we sat there for an hour or so before heading down to Charlotte for a cigar event at Paradise Cigars!

I only got 2 pics; here is the entrance to the cigar store in JR's:

Officially, NO pictures are allowed to be taken in JR's, but the manager allowed us to take one in the lounge!From L-R; Me!, Cheeze, Jim, and Robby

I thoroughly enjoyed my first visit to JR's; I'll be back!

January 03, 2006

Happy New Year, 2006!!!!

Happy New Year everyone! Here's a few pics from New Year's Eve at the Wild Hare Sport's Bar and the next day when we were at the Stogies and Hoagies' annual New Year's Day pig pickin'!!!