Not the greatest weather for a smoke

[fishnbanjo]

My old glasses were giving me fits as I couldn't keep from getting disoriented while walking due to the bifocal portion making me off balance. It was so bad that I took one heck of a fall the other day and landed in the 1/2 whiskey barrel planter my wife has with quite a few plants in it and I managed to break one of them, thankfully she was able to salvage it.
I was given prescriptions for reading glasses and distance glasses, the reading glasses came the day I fell and are fantastic for reading and doing close up work but need to be moved off my nose if I look up or taken off if I want to walk around. The distance glasses came today and they are fantastic as well. It is going to be a few days before it becomes a habit to change them but I'm already making progress today.
It's been raining for several days, we actually got 2" overnight and the end is nowhere in sight. I generally don't take my good pipes out in this kind of weather but I had just about 1/2 a pipes worth of Aston Brindle Flake ready so I rubbed out a coin of Comoy's Cask 7 which filled the Dunhill DRR C- EE pot to perfection and keeping it smokey made me almost forget the rain.

banjo

 

[aquadoc]

Nice. You have a high and low pressure system knocking heads. I have been using the MIG welder all morning working on our car. Finished, the weather is beautiful, time for a smoke. Trying some cube cut Erinmore. If I can figure out which pipe I do not mind ghosting.

 

[didimauw]

Fishnbanjo, it's been raining in S.E. Wisconsin for what seems like all month long. Terrible pipe weather. But sometimes a mans gotta do, what a mans gotta do. But you have got the perfect pipe for crappy weather.

 

[mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast]

Banjo, that's a beautiful Dunhill. I can't see it real well, but what I can see looks very nice. It's a Liverpool/pot shape, no? I don't know a lot about Dunhills? Is there a story behind the DRR C- EE? Also, you're always outside smoking. Do you always smoke outside? Keep it smokey! ::

 

[fishnbanjo]

mothernature, I always smoke outside the only time I didn't was when driving my SL500 with my Weimaraner, Levi, riding shotgun. Levi passed away in November and the SL500 sat idle so tomorrow it leaves for its new home. The DRR C-EE is a 1948 Dead Root but even I don't know why Dunhill used the second R and the C-EE designation is something I have not been able to solve either. Today a Dunhill Dead Root would simply have 1-5 *'s as the grade went up, all I know is it must have cost quite a sum in 1948 with that beautiful straight angel hair grain and it smokes so fine, regards.

banjo

 

[aquadoc]

That grain!!

 

[mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast]

Thanks for the close-up picture banjo. I really like this pipe. The angel hair straight grain is fantastic! It probably was one of the most expensive pipes made in 1948.