Old Joe Krantz in a Radice Rind Lovat tonight. 
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Capstan Blue today first in the Vauen Ambrosi, now the Vauen Mokka while watching the Corvallis Knights (WCL baseball). This bowl marks the end of a tin first jarred in February of last year; it had a good run.
Puffing John Bull True English in this unbranded Meer.
Drink *was* frozen margarita until, through neglect, it became lukewarm margarita juice.
Will soon work the L.A. Times Sunday Crossword.
Drink *was* frozen margarita until, through neglect, it became lukewarm margarita juice.
Will soon work the L.A. Times Sunday Crossword.
Amphora Full in a Missouri Meerschaum corn cob pipe, the 1st pipe I ever had.
I was helping with my father in law rehoming to a new appartment yesterday, once a pipe smoker, gave me a set of pipe cleaners.
Weather report says we are going to have a heatwave week...
I was helping with my father in law rehoming to a new appartment yesterday, once a pipe smoker, gave me a set of pipe cleaners.
Weather report says we are going to have a heatwave week...
Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking KBV Burley Morning Pipe beta test in a medium bend fumed tan crackled year 2020 Ahmet Govem reverse calabash meerschaum with a military mount silver band and black acrylic stem. Daisy the Feral Princess banged loudly on the back door, and I let her in the eat. She's snoozin' near my feet. Harry the Hairy is snoozin' on the other side of the den. I'll check on Tomato the Brave and Abner the Eager, if he's here, soon. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
A break for a mug of strong, milky chai (with condensed milk) and some Indonesian Kueh Lapis (literally layered cake)
Next pipe is an Anne Julie designed Stanwell Shape 11R bent bulldog
And a bowl of Sam Gawith’s Full Virginia Flake
Next pipe is an Anne Julie designed Stanwell Shape 11R bent bulldog
And a bowl of Sam Gawith’s Full Virginia Flake
Now smoking first production Seattle Pipe Club Virginia Jazz in a smooth medium brown medium bend 1950s B.B.B. Own Make 307 apple with a sterling silver band and black vulcanite saddle stem. Fed Tomato the Brave, and ever since he finished, he's been extra hyper. He bit both of my feet, the catnip sock, other cat nip toys, and his favorite blanket. Then, he jumped and down on the blanket, went over to the sock, jumped up and down on it, and then came over to me, jumped on my left foot, bit it, and took off to wrestle the blanket. Maybe he's in training to wrestle in the WWE? Harry the Hairy is staring at him wondering what the boy's problem is. Daisy the Feral Princess went to a corner of the room so she could get back to snoozin'. She knows that Tomato is one messed up dude.
Spent some time at Sunset Beach NC and Low Country Pipes. Smoked Briar Fox and tried a few new ones: Captain Bob’s blend which is quite strange, Lane Buttered Rum, and Stokkebye Night Slice.
Most importantly I picked up a pipe from a maker I’ve been eyeing for a while, Claudio Cavicchi. At 36 grams it is light for its size and feels like a feather in hand.
Most importantly I picked up a pipe from a maker I’ve been eyeing for a while, Claudio Cavicchi. At 36 grams it is light for its size and feels like a feather in hand.
Good choice, colleague!
My first time smoking Grousemoor in this large(ish) Barling's Make billiard with saddle stem. It smells and tastes very good, and I love my lakelands; however it is incinerating my tongue. I'm going to let it breath for a week or two in the tin and revisit. I want to love it and it's an objectively stellar blend; but I fear my body chemistry or the Pinot Grigio I'm drinking are causing bite like a rabbid dog.
Lane Ltd Andullo in a Neerup Classic 4 Dublin Sitter. Nice, breezy Texas night.
To drink is iced Green Tea with Jasmine over miniature icebergs.
Hey @crazyhog looks like we got the same lighter!
To drink is iced Green Tea with Jasmine over miniature icebergs.
Hey @crazyhog looks like we got the same lighter!
Old Joe Krantz in a Pete SPD 2011 69. 
8/18 F$T Special Brown Flake in a Cermak.
Just finishing this bowl of year 2014 Esoterica Tilbury in a straight smooth Danish gold straight grain undated W.O. Larsen Hand Made in Denmark dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo. Harry the Hairy wanted some attention before he went out. All the ferals are outside. I just fed Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger. Been reading baseball news, and next will be box scores. Watching/listening to the Cubs-Red Sox game replay on FS1.
Or more simply put.....it did not sell much and was not that popular.(Peterson Christmas 2012 x105)
Continue the story about extinct species of tobacco fauna.
Palace Gate — an extinct species from the order Samuelgawithiformes
With the disappearance of Palace Gate, we witness a textbook case of tobacco extinction under anthropogenic pressure. A representative of the once-thriving phylogenetic branch Samuel Gawith, this species occupied a narrow ecological niche of gourmet aristocrats who preferred a mildly sweet Virginia-Cavendish profile.
Unfortunately, Palace Gate proved unfit for the sudden shifts in its environment: globalized production optimization, market transformation, and the genetic erosion of factory recipes. Neither its expressive phenotype nor its cultural adaptation to European palates could save it — artificial selection proved merciless.
Today, Palace Gate belongs to the paleontological record of tobacco: found only in fossilized strata of private collections, herbarium drawers of forgotten stockrooms, and in the tales of aging smokers — a Steller’s Sea Cow among pipe blends.
All we can do now is list it in the Red Book of Tobacco Fauna and remind ourselves: evolution does not forgive overspecialization. Not even among blends.View attachment 405602
Now smoking Wilke No. 515 in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This was the original 515 that Basil Rathbone smoked, and the model that he smoked it in.
Briar Fox in a medium sized Stanwell Freehand. 
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