Old Joe Krantz in a Pete SPD 2011 69 with coffee. 
***What Are You Smoking, April 2025?***
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Smoking mb# Scottish blend, in a MM General bent. Last day of the local feast today. There were more cops than people enjoying the party. This has changed a lot, in a jump of almost 
25 years. I wish you a happy Sunday and God bless.
25 years. I wish you a happy Sunday and God bless.
Wallace flake in a Ser Jac with coffee
I’m curious. What legalities are there to grow just a few plants for personal use? Unless you voluntarily join a homeowners association here or rent, or have a condo in a high rise in a city, not many places in the US care in the least. Grow to your heart‘s content.Probably pushing the envelope, but am returning to what was working for me as of late. Just had, this late morning and early afternoon, a return to what was working for me, a late morning smoke of Capt Black Cherry Cavendish, in the below pictured McQueen Miniature Barrel Rider, and an early afternoon cigar, a Swisher's Sweet Grape. I'd say about 65-70% return of the tastebuds, which was hindered by a bit of tongue bite caused by forcing things yesterday. Patience is not my middle name. All before eating, this time btw.
Some interesting (to a lot of you, I think, this time) things in Skippable Drivel below the pipe picture.
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Skippable Drivel: My usual procedure, after an initial sulk, is to get right back to business as usual. Always has been; we are all creatures of habit, I suspect. Pretty sure that if I was a trophy buck, I'd be taken out on opening day.
I began working on my indoor target pistol range, a quick snap below. A full and precise 10 yard Sanctioned Target setup, with two targets. Not shown yet is the swinging target, just below the two International mounted targets, for sustained practice at varied ranges (in my case from 7 - 33 feet), for Field Target position practice. The quick snap shows the mounting system. No, I am NOT going to put a shield up on the windows. If I miss at any of these ranges, I cotton-pickin' DESERVE to shell out the 200 bucks to replace a pellet throught the glass!!I'll more likely just put a piece of masking tape over the hole, which ain't gonna happen anyway, as a reminder of hopefully left behind mediocrity.
Under the picture is a quick synopsis of my latest upcoming project, based on the seemingly successful experiment in growing my own. Check it out as I know some of you can help out here.
Made a major decision. I am not going to buy any more tobacco at all for a full year. I've got enough, even my "protected species", to last that long, and about three years with what I have in most other tobaccos. and my current plants have translated into very a smokeable product, so I'm holding pat. Should I live that long, eh?
Instead, I'm going to be growing my own and making my own pipe tobacco. Checked into legalities, and I've been given a lot of horsebleep by local "authorities". Have a friend who's got a greenhouse, and she'll be starting the 5 types of seeds I'm ordering, and I'll transfer the foot tall plants to pots for my growing system in my yard and then indoors at frost time. It's worked so far, and I'll be sending out my seed order tonight or tomorrow. 2 Types of Virginia, a Black Sea Balkan, a hybrid Burley, and a Turkish Oriental. (to be continued.) The Lord knows I need a project, eh?
PS - oh yeah, Michelle is a former piano student of mine, quite gorgeous, and I've got her interested in pipes and cigars. She should be joining our little group soon, and will add a most interesting mix to our evenings. Just a bit of manipulation here, eh?
And I sure hate you lost your pup, but I see he wasn’t the only old dog in your house! Be gentle with Michelle, lol.
Now THAT was a literal LOL!It's 39 degrees and windy, so I'm just having a quick bowl the MacB VA#1 in a cob.
Sorry, the camera focused on the wrong thing.
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HU Tobacco - Director’s Cut in a Radice and a Cup of Joe.
Some 2021 Russ’ Cinnamon Roll from a blending kit. Has some Virginias and Burley, but is sadly mostly cavendish, and cellaring didn’t do much for the rather bland taste. Not half as good as Russ’ Espresso Bean, which is heavenly for an aro.. But not goopy in the least. In the Nording Hunter White Rhino bent paneled with short saddle stem.
Amen! For those of us who do most of our smoking outside with wind gusts and sometimes poor lighting, there’s nothing worse than getting rim darkening around the top of a brand new artisan pipe. It’s why I only smoke mine occasionally, and half my collection is older restored and/or cheaper pipes. I find many of them interesting, including their histories, but it’s no, or at least low, guilt smoking. A little wear and tear or a little tooth mark on the stem doesn’t affect my enjoyment in the least.
Almost, but not quite, the last of my really aged Captain Earle's Private Stock in a Grabow blue spade Rhodesian that arrived along with a pipe rack. It had chunks missing from its rim so I took a few tools to it.
This Private Stock is smooth, has latakia, and about 9 other tobaccos. I get a yeasty taste from it. Interesting and satisfying blend.
This Private Stock is smooth, has latakia, and about 9 other tobaccos. I get a yeasty taste from it. Interesting and satisfying blend.
Milan Milestone in a Country Gent.
Huber Englisch Perique in an Irish Seconds System 302.
C&D Exclusive in a Ser Jacopo Hawkbill and Coffee 
️ on the side.
️ on the side.
Jack Knife ready rubbed in the BriarWorks sandblasted bent pot with saddle stem, and then a bowl of Peter Heinrichs English in the eagle claw meer.
Now over half through smoking a bowl of 2007 Borkum Riff Bourbon Whiskey, which now tastes much more like a Virginia blend than an aromatic, in a Jobey Stromboli bent, rusticated pot, model 030. Finishing a Pepsi, and about to start with Rusty Bucket coffee, black.
Thank you! It is indeed Bolesławiec pottery, from Blue Rose Pottery. Maybe next time I need to pair it with one of my Polish pipes...
HU Edward G in a Peter Klein.
@Homer Happy 45th. Hope it’s a great year for you. I’ll find myself on the same page in a couple months.
I had a visitor this morning while enjoying some KBV PODS in a BST
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