Peterson Deluxe Navy Rolls in a Castello 55 and Diet Coke on the side
***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
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Haunted Bookshop in an Il Ceppo. 
Mallard Flake +P in the SMS 6 panel bent lattice meer, with morning coffee. Not raining!
Still out and about. It’s very icy on the roads here in Indy! Orlik golden slice in a Marcey.
Rivertown Tobacco Works Sir Vanderberry / Stanwell Facet
Almost a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. M;lady and I fed all the cats except for the absent Tomato the Brave. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Tomato the Brave seems to be very independent? My two ferals are becoming very affectionate towards me but still wary of my better half (I'm the feeder). Mother cat unfortunately has a load of kittens on. Guessing Christmas babies. They are the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.
Tomato the Brave is independent, but he loves us. And vice versa.
Sounds like that you have you hands full dealing with all of that.
Is it a blessing or a curse? Depends on the day
Trying some Pipe Force Episode I in the clay. About half way through the first bowl and enjoying it for a lunchtime smoke. 
Visions of Celephais in my new Rattray's Ahoy. Pulled the 9mm filter out and she smokes mighty fine now!
Nice post-lunch pipeful of C&D Pegasus in my Viprati freehand.
Peterson Deluxe Navy Rolls in a Dunhill 5117 Bulldog and Diet Coke on the side
Did a set of walking reps, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. Tomato the Brave was at the back door when I went out to walk. He ate very well and was a bit playful before he went out. The other ferals are out, too.
Dorchester in a Barling meer
Nutty Irishman in a medium sized Stanwell Freehand.
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Nightwish, neat, is my drink.
Enjoying the last bowl of a limited tobacco run at Club Humidor in San Antonio, TX: Tiffany's Santa Blend. I've had this stuff stashed away for years.
Pee Dee in this Pete Donegal Rocky 150. Iced tea.
Rattray's Westminster Abbey in a Stanwell H.C. Andersen, with its short stem. I love churchwardens, but this pipe's long stem is straight rather than curved, so I feel like I can't see what I'm doing to light the bowl. 
I'm struggling with this tobacco. Have tried it on four occasions, with varying degrees of drying. Today it was dried for two hours, until it no longer felt cool against the back of my hand. Three pinches then looked like much less tobacco.
Packed it using the Frank method; smoked it slowly, using the breathe method. Even set the pipe down for a little while, and came back to it.
Still bitey. And drying just seems to decrease the topping flavor - which, I must admit, is rather cloying (to me), anyway.
I'm still learning... but struggling with a tobacco is not enjoyable, and I think I'll give up on this one. I'm grateful for the experience of smoking the Dunhill's Elizabethan Mixture that my friend gifted me, because that gave me a baseline for what enjoyable smoking should be like. Life's too short to have to work to make friends with this particular tobacco... unless anyone's got some suggestions?
Accidentally retrohaled, without thinking. For the life of me, I couldn't do it again.
I'm struggling with this tobacco. Have tried it on four occasions, with varying degrees of drying. Today it was dried for two hours, until it no longer felt cool against the back of my hand. Three pinches then looked like much less tobacco.
Packed it using the Frank method; smoked it slowly, using the breathe method. Even set the pipe down for a little while, and came back to it.
Still bitey.
And drying just seems to decrease the topping flavor - which, I must admit, is rather cloying (to me), anyway.I'm still learning... but struggling with a tobacco is not enjoyable, and I think I'll give up on this one. I'm grateful for the experience of smoking the Dunhill's Elizabethan Mixture that my friend gifted me, because that gave me a baseline for what enjoyable smoking should be like. Life's too short to have to work to make friends with this particular tobacco... unless anyone's got some suggestions?
Accidentally retrohaled, without thinking. For the life of me, I couldn't do it again.