Some are just more talented than others I guess

better balance with a tripod

The Universe is 13.8 billion years old. Did anyone send it a card?

Elon was supposed to deliver it... 😟

Pinar del Río, the region in Western Cuba where most of the country’s premium tobacco is grown, is facing perhaps the worst tobacco harvest in history, according to a report by Granma, the Cuban state-run newspaper. The lingering effects of Hurricane Ian, which destroyed most of Pinar del Río’s tobacco barns in late September, are largely to blame.

The hurricane made landfall in Pinar del Río on September 27, and tore across the island with winds in excess of 100 miles per hour, leveling about 90 percent of the region’s tobacco curing barns, more than 10,000 structures in all. Burdened by the impossible task of rebuilding them all in time for the growing season, Tabacuba, the agricultural arm of Cuba’s tobacco industry, said in a report that it would prioritize the highest-quality farms to meet export demands. Tabacuba cited lack of building materials as the main problem.

Edit: You could argue this should be posted in Cigars & Related. However (comma) it is knowledge recently acquired. So..
nanny-nanny-boo-boo!

Likely why stock is very limited at every vendor I know of... and why the price is 3+ times what it was pre-covid.

Sucks to be Cuba, for more reasons than just communism now. Ain't a lot of people gonna buy those cigars for those prices.

I'm learning to like NC's now that they're cheaper than Cubans. If ya can't afford what you like... learn to like what you can afford.

90% of the curing barns, and the tobacco therein all gone. More from the article...

Cuba had originally planned for farmers in Pinar del Río to plant around 11,000 hectares of tobacco (about 28,000 acres) for the 2022-23 season, but they will most likely struggle to achieve even half that amount. So far, 5,150 hectares (about 12,726 acres) have been planted, according to Granma. Harvesting this amount of leaf will require approximately 4,000 curing barns, and currently, only 1,400 have been built.

Covid ravaged rolling production.

Covid increased cigar demand such that they ran out of stored tobacco for production.

Oil price spiked.

Supply chain function was grossly impaired for a long time- and then the hurricane completely ruined it all, making the prices even higher.







MACS, I am down to my last 25 or so single Havanas. No idea what my next move will be.

Quite a dichotomy.
-Covid ravages production due to a respiration disease.
-Cigar demand is up during the spread of the same disease.

Weird.

Ravaged production due to sick workers and closed factories.

Increased demand from everyone staying home and/or receiving stimulus and having more disposable income due to decreased expenses and Covid stimulus (paid by many countries).

Ironic

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The speed of light has never been measured in one direction. We use a mirror and measure the there and back speed.

It is only assumed that light travel the same speed in all direction - but never proven.

And ugly travels to the mirror and back just as fast.

Some would say faster....

I don't know if this post belongs here or in the Politics section but 78 years ago today, American forces liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp.

It was always harder to determine ugly in the early a.m. on the weekends. At least during the second half of the 80s.

Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as humans do.

Does that include football linemen ?

“Us” linemen have the same number, they’re just packed tighter together…much tighter! [gonzo]

I've heard of switch hitters in baseball (can bat either right or left handed). Never heard of a switch pitcher.

Venditte was a switch pitcher, capable of pitching proficiently with both arms. He was recognized as the only professional pitcher who was able to do this. Venditte's rare ability to pitch with either arm required both Major and Minor League Baseball to create a rule for ambidextrous pitchers, known colloquially as the "Pat Venditte Rule". This rule essentially requires any ambidextrous pitcher to declare which hand he will use to pitch to a batter before the at-bat starts and to throw with that hand through the entire at-bat (unless he is injured during the at-bat).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRqnRLu5RBo