Having the luxury of a slow morning today (although slightly ruined by the 105 degree temps) I'm enjoying a cheeky bowl of Sun Bear Mountain Flower in this Bullfrog Eskimo Gumnut with my morning coffee:
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Interesting bevel on chamber-is it lined?Having the luxury of a slow morning today (although slightly ruined by the 105 degree temps) I'm enjoying a cheeky bowl of Sun Bear Mountain Flower in this Bullfrog Eskimo Gumnut with my morning coffee:
Enduring the heat wave day 2 with 2022 Wessex Burley Flake
HU Director’s Cut in a J Alan Acorn and Diet Coke on the side.
Shandygaff in a Ser Jacopo Picta Van Gogh.
Pulling manholes with McConnell Scottish Cake in the workhorse Ropp J07
Glad this wasn’t fatal:
Glad this wasn’t fatal:
Capstan in a Peterson Pre-Republic “Mark Twain” the bottom pipe is a modern Mark Twain. I’m only smoking the top pipe. When you own an original, why would smoke an imposter? LOL
Not lined, just a hunk of briar. It's a signature "gumnut" shape Jeremiah does. Pretty unique I would say and perhaps the originator of the distinct Australian style?
Dang man, that's so depressing. I bet you was mad
It was back in service in 48hrs
Pro Tip: don’t knock dottle out on palm wearing work gloves-it can change the angles of applied force.
A bowl of “Nouback,” a house blend of PS24 Nougat and D&R Ryback. Pretty tasty, grows in strength during the bowl, fantastic burning characteristics. It’s hot here in northern Indiana again today, currently 89F on the porch with 66% RH. Getting this smoke in before it gets totally intolerable in a few hours.
Windjammer was my jam this morning with tea -- too damn hot out today, but a good smoke in my little Meer calabash!
Starting off my smoking day with a bowl from the last of this tin 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. Fed Sleepy Suzy, Molly Danger, and Tomato the Brave, who slept inside. He just went out. Daisy the Feral Princess and Harry the Hairy are eating outside. It's in the mid-90s here with plenty of humidity, so I may do an abbreviated set of walking reps. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Irish Flake in a Savinelli Venere 114 KS.
Did a full set of walking reps, and am close to finishing his 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. When I stepped out the back door, I saw a dead mouse on the doormat. Since Tomato the Brave was inside all night and morning, it had to be either Daisy the Feral Princess or Harry the Hairy who brought us the mouse. I suspect that Harry did it.
Abner the Eager was under m'lady's car. I brought him in to eat, and I didn't see him when I got back inside the house. He must be hiding and snoozin'.
Abner the Eager was under m'lady's car. I brought him in to eat, and I didn't see him when I got back inside the house. He must be hiding and snoozin'.
Balkan Sasieni in an Ashton XXX (2000) Brindle taper billiard.
As per yesterday, I'm going to do a retroactive post first, then spend a pleasant hour or so with emoticons and a few comments as well, as the spirit leads.
Just a health update first . . . . stitches removed, but I'm still stuck with the catheter for a day or two until the anaethesoligist arrives to take it out. Probably Thursday. Relief from stitches out almost instantaneous, living with the pee bag a drag.
That's the skinny and I'm gonna leave it that way. Administrative incompetence involved.
No smoke this morning, yet. Am puffing on a Colt's Whiskey as I type. Quite enjoying it. Hadn't had a Colt in a while, and need to get downtown to buy another couple of packets, as I've only got a couple left.
In any case, did a Return to the Ropp yesterday afternoon and evening. Oh yeah, included a new toy in the snap, a flint sparked trench lighter that operates on about anything. Just for fun, and used the fluid can and container as a prop in the photo.
First smoke yesterday afternoon was the best smoke I've had in quite some time. Loaded the Ropp J05 (top) with TobaccoBarn's Traditional English. I really like English in the afternoon, and the tobacco and pipe delivered.
Evening smoke, with Mike over for a visit, was my newest Ropp, the J06, not yet quite fully broken in, loaded with Borkum Riff Dark Cavendish. Rest of the smoke analysis and comments, which actually a few might find interesting, in Skippable Drivel below the snapshot.
Skippable Drivel: My pipe re-organization is almost complete, and there was (and is) a method to my madness. I'm a precise and academic mindset (Meyers-Briggs personality profile INTJ, as are most academics, and professional classical musicians. A friend of mine wrote a book analyzing MB profiling, and I use it in my teaching. I've tested and profiled over 1000 professional musicians in my travels over the past forty years. This will surprise you. OVER 85% of Professional Orchestral Musicians are INTJs, so get that arty-farty concept out of your heads. Other types exist, but only the INTJ has the discipline necessary to succeed regularly in this area.
Pop musicians DO NOT usually have this personality. They are a different animal. They share their personality typing with actors. Generally ESFPs or ESFJs Crossovers are not common except the INTJ is rampant in top Jazz musicians. They are a different breed, highly disciplined (think Jean-Luc Ponty, Darryl Steurmer, and the Marsalis boys - all classically trained and many with orchestral experience.) This is a skinny, but something to think about.
I'll relate all of the pipe stuff to this kind of categorization in my Skippable Drivel in my evening smoke post tonight. Time to go back and do some emoticonning and comments.
Smoke analysis: I've now almost completed my pipe re-organization, and it's paying huge dividends. I now have given or traded away pipes that I didn't really care for smoking-wise, and replaced them with pipes better suited to my ways.
I can now decide ahead of time what I want to smoke, how long a smoke I want, and then choose the best tobacco and pipe combination for that purpose.
All this'll simplify my life without having to bore the crap out of you with musings. This is almost exactly like deciding what I was going to practice while preparing for a concert or tour, or memorizing repertoire. Systematic, and many who don't "get" the INTJ mindset would say "anal". Fine with me! 
Guilty as charged!
Cheers for this Monday, folks. Time for breakfast then commenting.
Oh yeah, as a PS - Classical composers and Soloists are about equally divided between INTJ and INTP, which, if you know anything about MB, makes perfect sense.
Just a health update first . . . . stitches removed, but I'm still stuck with the catheter for a day or two until the anaethesoligist arrives to take it out. Probably Thursday. Relief from stitches out almost instantaneous, living with the pee bag a drag.
That's the skinny and I'm gonna leave it that way. Administrative incompetence involved.
No smoke this morning, yet. Am puffing on a Colt's Whiskey as I type. Quite enjoying it. Hadn't had a Colt in a while, and need to get downtown to buy another couple of packets, as I've only got a couple left.
In any case, did a Return to the Ropp yesterday afternoon and evening. Oh yeah, included a new toy in the snap, a flint sparked trench lighter that operates on about anything. Just for fun, and used the fluid can and container as a prop in the photo.
First smoke yesterday afternoon was the best smoke I've had in quite some time. Loaded the Ropp J05 (top) with TobaccoBarn's Traditional English. I really like English in the afternoon, and the tobacco and pipe delivered.
Evening smoke, with Mike over for a visit, was my newest Ropp, the J06, not yet quite fully broken in, loaded with Borkum Riff Dark Cavendish. Rest of the smoke analysis and comments, which actually a few might find interesting, in Skippable Drivel below the snapshot.
Skippable Drivel: My pipe re-organization is almost complete, and there was (and is) a method to my madness. I'm a precise and academic mindset (Meyers-Briggs personality profile INTJ, as are most academics, and professional classical musicians. A friend of mine wrote a book analyzing MB profiling, and I use it in my teaching. I've tested and profiled over 1000 professional musicians in my travels over the past forty years. This will surprise you. OVER 85% of Professional Orchestral Musicians are INTJs, so get that arty-farty concept out of your heads. Other types exist, but only the INTJ has the discipline necessary to succeed regularly in this area.
Pop musicians DO NOT usually have this personality. They are a different animal. They share their personality typing with actors. Generally ESFPs or ESFJs Crossovers are not common except the INTJ is rampant in top Jazz musicians. They are a different breed, highly disciplined (think Jean-Luc Ponty, Darryl Steurmer, and the Marsalis boys - all classically trained and many with orchestral experience.) This is a skinny, but something to think about.
I'll relate all of the pipe stuff to this kind of categorization in my Skippable Drivel in my evening smoke post tonight. Time to go back and do some emoticonning and comments.
Smoke analysis: I've now almost completed my pipe re-organization, and it's paying huge dividends. I now have given or traded away pipes that I didn't really care for smoking-wise, and replaced them with pipes better suited to my ways.
I can now decide ahead of time what I want to smoke, how long a smoke I want, and then choose the best tobacco and pipe combination for that purpose.
All this'll simplify my life without having to bore the crap out of you with musings. This is almost exactly like deciding what I was going to practice while preparing for a concert or tour, or memorizing repertoire. Systematic, and many who don't "get" the INTJ mindset would say "anal". Fine with me!
Guilty as charged!Cheers for this Monday, folks. Time for breakfast then commenting.
Oh yeah, as a PS - Classical composers and Soloists are about equally divided between INTJ and INTP, which, if you know anything about MB, makes perfect sense.
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