Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Summer's in full swing and I've appreciated the time to relax and smoke lots of cigars. My cigar of choice today was a La Flor Dominicana also known a "the digger." It's one of my favorites and can take a couple-plus hours to smoke.
Set up shop in the garage and lit up shortly before 4 p.m. Dewpoint and humidity were quite high so saying it was sultry is more than appropriate.
Made a tiki drink, the Joey's Orange Speedo. It goes really well with tropical-type weather.
I'm continually playing with and slightly adjusting the recipe. This time I used 2 ounces of Captain Morgan spiced rum, an ounce and a half of orange curacao, one ounce of falernum, and half an ounce of orgeat. After adding these ingredients I eyeballed how much liquid was in the glass and then added an equal amount of orange juice. Next I added a few ice cubes an then, new to the recipe, I topped it off with Sunkist Zero Sugar.
I gotta say that although the Sunkist orange pop made it a little sweeter than I like it really gave it the color I've wanted.
Next time I think I'll leave out the orgeat to take the sweetness level down a skosh.
Listened to one of my favorite Ultra-Lounge collections, Mondo Exotica. I remember when I first listened to this back in the late 90s and thinking that all the bird and animal calls were kinda weird but after getting used to that I found it quite wonderful and became a fan of exotica music.
Due to the length of time it takes to smoke a digger I also listened to a rather lenthy collection of Martin Denny music titled The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny. Back in the days of CDs this would have been a two disc set.
The combination of the sultry weather, tiki drinks, a cigar, and exotica music made for a fun summer afternoon.
