I’ve had one of their vulcanite steamed clays on my wishlist for a while…. I’ll pull the trigger someday.
***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
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Ending the 2020 tin of Mad Fiddler Flake in the Moonshine Long Devil Anse, with a tall Bier and Massive Attack.
Enjoying Nightcap in a Neerup Volcano. A successful harvest from my potted Satsuma Mandarin tree this year; juicy, sweet, and a little tangy.
Smoking Mr. Church’s “Christmas Cookie” in a cob. It’s like an American aromatic if American aromatic blends did not suck! Getting that nice dusty burley forward hit with some sweet Virginia and I believe a bit of cavendish.
@damacene that is a cool Comoy's! Nice blast and rim! Do you know what year/era it is from?
Good to see you here, sir!
Thank you @Mortar0341 It's a neat pipe, smokes great and has it all: briar, meer, leather, and a stinger!
A claw to aspire to!
@LiveAsALyon You are getting me hooked on these creepypasta stories! Took me days but enjoyed the Prison Guard one!
RMC Piccadilly Circus + Gasparini
Gentlemen, it’s the last day of the year. The old one is still smoldering in the bowl, while the New Year is quietly approaching. Wishing everyone calm, thoughtful smokes, good health, warmth at home, and a year ahead where tobacco brings pleasure, pipes smoke cool and dry, and life doesn’t demand unnecessary haste.
Happy upcoming New Year!
Gentlemen, it’s the last day of the year. The old one is still smoldering in the bowl, while the New Year is quietly approaching. Wishing everyone calm, thoughtful smokes, good health, warmth at home, and a year ahead where tobacco brings pleasure, pipes smoke cool and dry, and life doesn’t demand unnecessary haste.
Happy upcoming New Year!
5 Brothers in a Meer, coffee, such a good satisfying smoke. With coffee
2011 Christmas Cheer in a Sav panel shanked billiard.
No sooner had the ranch finally started to dry out that I found myself battening down the hatches once again. Therefore, I chose something special for what might have been my final smoke of the year, the last of a jar of Drew Estate Grand Central in my aromatic pipe, a Savinelli Miele 641 KS smooth bent apple. Got one more tin left (translation: TinBids here I come!), but I've got several other new-to-me aromatics to try first. 9/10
Bird report: Dark-eyed junco, California towhee, House finch, California scrub-jay, California quail, Chipping sparrow, Oak titmouse, White-crowned sparrow, Steller's jay, Common raven (got the mouse carcass I left for it!), Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Northern flicker, and Spotted towhee.
I know I joke around on here a lot, but in all seriousness, 2025 was a very mixed year for me, and weighted toward the
side, for sure. Wishing everyone here a better and brighter 2026! 
Bird report: Dark-eyed junco, California towhee, House finch, California scrub-jay, California quail, Chipping sparrow, Oak titmouse, White-crowned sparrow, Steller's jay, Common raven (got the mouse carcass I left for it!), Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Northern flicker, and Spotted towhee.
I know I joke around on here a lot, but in all seriousness, 2025 was a very mixed year for me, and weighted toward the
side, for sure. Wishing everyone here a better and brighter 2026!
This post is full of ornithology.No sooner had the ranch finally started to dry out that I found myself battening down the hatches once again. Therefore, I chose something special for what might have been my final smoke of the year, the last of a jar of Drew Estate Grand Central in my aromatic pipe, a Savinelli Miele 641 KS smooth bent apple. Got one more tin left (translation: TinBids here I come!), but I've got several other new-to-me aromatics to try first. 9/10
Bird report: Dark-eyed junco, California towhee, House finch, California scrub-jay, California quail, Chipping sparrow, Oak titmouse, White-crowned sparrow, Steller's jay, Common raven (got the mouse carcass I left for it!), Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Northern flicker, and Spotted towhee.
I know I joke around on here a lot, but in all seriousness, 2025 was a very mixed year for me, and weighted toward the
Gawith Hoggarth’s Ennerdale Flake in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Thanks! I'm not exactly sure, but @ssjones was the previous owner; so he might know the exact details.
Odds and Ends in the FlySpray Special.
Grateful every day
Grateful every day
Anchorage has been experiencing the coldest spell we’ve had in maybe 25 years. As a kid I remember every winter getting temps in the -20s, but thankfully it’s been warmer lately. This cold spell was only as low as the negative teens, but still way too cold to enjoy a pipe. I haven’t smoked a bowl since Thanksgiving.
Today it “warmed up” to 14 degrees so I took the dog out and tried a new blend I’m calling “Joe’s Secret Ingredient.” It’s a mix of 40% long-cut bulk Perique, 40% rubbed out Samual Gawith 1792 Flake and 10% of a bulk Latakia forward blend. To this I added some chopped A. Fuente cigar leaf. I moistened the blend with dark rum and have been letting it meld. I added a pinch to one of my Burley cherry blends. I used one of my home-made cobs because it’s easy to clench and I was keeping my hands in my coat pocket. The secret ingredient was an excellent way to make a fairly mild aromatic much more robust; just the thing for a crisp afternoon walk when it’s well below freezing!
Edit: Since we're covering ornithology, yesterday I watched a Northern Shrike catch and eat a Red-breasted Nuthatch in my back yard. We've had Bald Eagles, Sharp-shinned Hawks and Norther Saw Whet Owls back there as well.
Today it “warmed up” to 14 degrees so I took the dog out and tried a new blend I’m calling “Joe’s Secret Ingredient.” It’s a mix of 40% long-cut bulk Perique, 40% rubbed out Samual Gawith 1792 Flake and 10% of a bulk Latakia forward blend. To this I added some chopped A. Fuente cigar leaf. I moistened the blend with dark rum and have been letting it meld. I added a pinch to one of my Burley cherry blends. I used one of my home-made cobs because it’s easy to clench and I was keeping my hands in my coat pocket. The secret ingredient was an excellent way to make a fairly mild aromatic much more robust; just the thing for a crisp afternoon walk when it’s well below freezing!
Edit: Since we're covering ornithology, yesterday I watched a Northern Shrike catch and eat a Red-breasted Nuthatch in my back yard. We've had Bald Eagles, Sharp-shinned Hawks and Norther Saw Whet Owls back there as well.
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Relaxing after a wonderful salad, mahi-mahi and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. Part way through this bowl of Ken Byron Ventures Mr. Christian’s Brown Flek 2021 in a straight smooth brown 1950s Comoy’s Selected Straight Grain Extraordinaire bulldog 5 with a diamond shape shank and black vulcanite saddle stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Tomato the Brave didn't show up for feeding time. As cold as it is, I wonder where he is. The others are inside. Watching the first Gunsmoke episode when Burt Reynolds joined the cast.
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