***What Are You Smoking, April 2023?***
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Mcclelland 40th Anniversary in a Howell.
Russ Oulette Acadian English in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Briar Fox on the ride home after a glorious, wet, and long opening day hunting for NC Wild Turkeys. There’s nothing like spending 11 hours in the woods. I couldn’t have done it without proper rain gear. Food and caffeine helped of course. 
Oh yeah, those mountain brookies, especially the bigger ones, can be cagey, but they are colorful, pretty. The furthest south I've fished is down near Damascus, VA, there on the Tennessee line. Beautiful country.
C&D Bayou Night -- Latakia, Perique, Virginia, Turkish, and burley, or as it occurs to me, the full English with a Scottish accent -- in a Peterson Donegal Rocky bent rusticated briar Calabash B10.
Rainy and cool here all day, while I ran around to my tax person, the grocery, and for gas. It seemed like people were really staying home, fairly light traffic.
Rainy and cool here all day, while I ran around to my tax person, the grocery, and for gas. It seemed like people were really staying home, fairly light traffic.
ODF in a twin bore oil cured Radice Bark Billiard
Enjoyed a big, tasty golden delicious apple, and am almost half way through this bowl of Watch City Original Crumb Cut in a 1950s-60s straight smooth brown Bertram 07 octagonal paneled billiard with a square shank and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Off I go to work!
Part way through this bowl of Wilke No. 524 in an undated, unbranded, slight bend smooth darker brown made in France Los Alton VBF zulu with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
If you like VAs, try Sir John’s Flake; (that’s John Aylesbury’s site)
Sir John Flake - John Aylesbury
Eine reine Virginia-Spezialität. Fein und weich im Rauch. Eine Mischung der dänischen Art. Mit einem dezenten Aroma und feiner Süße auf der Zunge. 11,40 € VK-Preis/Stk. 11,40 € Verp.-Einh. 50 Gramm Intensität 5
www.john-aylesbury.de
My buddies and I had a very nice ZOOM meeting this afternoon as I smoked some 2019 4th. Generation Small Batch Aged Virginia Blend in a meerschaum gifted to me by my "brother from another mother" Al Shaw.
It was quite temperate today in Chicago, so I finished another bowl out under the gazebo.
To my Christian friends, "Happy Easter."
To my Jewish friends, "A Zissen Pesach."
May you all be greatly blessed on this Holiday weekend.
It was quite temperate today in Chicago, so I finished another bowl out under the gazebo.
To my Christian friends, "Happy Easter."
To my Jewish friends, "A Zissen Pesach."
May you all be greatly blessed on this Holiday weekend.
HH Pure Virginia in a Castello greatline with kimberlite floc. 
Peterson Flake in the Savinelli 313 Prince after a couple days not smoking.
Newminster #400 in a Peterson Carroll of Carrollton
as we say sailing around these parts, no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes. didja limit out?!
In the backyard having a snatched pleasure while 5yo Miss Bossy Boots is at the playground down the street
A bowl of Esoterica Tilbury
In a 1922 GBD half-bent thick shanked bulldog with a tapered stem, orific bit
Blustery here.
This is going to be one short smoke
A bowl of Esoterica Tilbury
In a 1922 GBD half-bent thick shanked bulldog with a tapered stem, orific bit
Blustery here.
This is going to be one short smoke
2/3 through a really nice Merchant Service Fireside Chat in the 6 panel bent lattice meer. the flavors come through nicely with this pipe. First couple bowls of this blend didn't do anything for me, but this VaBur base certainly works now, and ends a day with ease. Really enjoying it!
A third of a bowl left of Wilke No. 222 in an undated, unbranded straight smooth dark brown made in France Los Alton VBF billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Happy Easter everyone! Smoking my traditional Easter morning 12:01 AM bowl of Presbyterian. This is from a tin I opened and jarred on Easter 2020, in a HSB saddle stemmed billiard, my Latakia briar.
Going another round with the Fireside Chat...so nice. The 6 panel bent lattice meer is pictured here in a new dump bowl. I 3d-printed up a lid for this tonight which just finished--but was just an itty bit too big. will resize and print again tomorrow--seeking a snug fit.
For anyone unfamiliar with Cougar Gold, it is an EXCELLENT cheese made by Washington State University, and though I went to to the UW, I have to give our so-called rivals credit when due. Possibly the finest product of that institution! Separately, some sympathy for them, tho.. They recently had a fire at their library. It was a total loss--BOTH books were burned. AND...wait for it....the real tragedy was one hadn't even been colored-in yet.
For anyone unfamiliar with Cougar Gold, it is an EXCELLENT cheese made by Washington State University, and though I went to to the UW, I have to give our so-called rivals credit when due. Possibly the finest product of that institution! Separately, some sympathy for them, tho.. They recently had a fire at their library. It was a total loss--BOTH books were burned. AND...wait for it....the real tragedy was one hadn't even been colored-in yet.
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