Dang I need to add one of those to my Peterson stable! Gorgeous!
G. L. Pease Abingdon in an unfinished Savinelli 320.
***What Are You Smoking, April 2025?***
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G. L. Pease Abingdon in an unfinished Savinelli 320.
Smoked last night . . . .
Yesterday I posted this picture, with some dried out leaves from my tobacco plants. Said I was going to smoke them. Put them in a bag, crushed them up, and stuffed the bone dry tobacco into one of my "test" pipes, the McQueen Miniature Prospector, the lower of the two little pipes shown in the photo below the leaves. Find out how they tasted in the Skippable Observations below the picture.
Skippable Observations:
Even though the leaves were bone dry, they actually tasted great. Noticeably sweet, moreso than the Kasturi leaves in Mad Fiddler. The background was a touch harsh, but also, less in your face than the Perique in MF. However, probably because of their tinder dry condition, they burned very quickly. Got only about eight minutes from the Seafarer. I usually get 15 - 25 with commercial tobaccos, depending on cut. and packing. The plants are an oriental of some kind, by the way
I know I can blend this with some dark cavendish, and a codger, to produce a tasty and smokeable mix. I have two big plants, and could probably get a pound and a half of rather sweet oriental leaf from what is there, but I think I'll keep clipping the buds and harvesting a bit at a time. We'll see. Got lots to learn about.
So, it's mudpie making time. Just spent 1/3 of my income tax rebate (received just today
, on some blending tobaccos, and managed to snag a tin of Nightcap, which the Mohawk Reserve just happened to have. Yeah, $79 bucks, but this is actually okay for this neck of the woods. I'll keep you abreast of the progress, because I have enough of mix on hand right now to give 'er a try.
As for my vaunted rest time, it ain't workin' out so hot. Directors Meeting tonight. Hasn't stopped and I really do need a break.
And I'm suspicious about tomorrow because every silver lining has a cloud.
Yesterday I posted this picture, with some dried out leaves from my tobacco plants. Said I was going to smoke them. Put them in a bag, crushed them up, and stuffed the bone dry tobacco into one of my "test" pipes, the McQueen Miniature Prospector, the lower of the two little pipes shown in the photo below the leaves. Find out how they tasted in the Skippable Observations below the picture.
Skippable Observations:
Even though the leaves were bone dry, they actually tasted great. Noticeably sweet, moreso than the Kasturi leaves in Mad Fiddler. The background was a touch harsh, but also, less in your face than the Perique in MF. However, probably because of their tinder dry condition, they burned very quickly. Got only about eight minutes from the Seafarer. I usually get 15 - 25 with commercial tobaccos, depending on cut. and packing. The plants are an oriental of some kind, by the way
I know I can blend this with some dark cavendish, and a codger, to produce a tasty and smokeable mix. I have two big plants, and could probably get a pound and a half of rather sweet oriental leaf from what is there, but I think I'll keep clipping the buds and harvesting a bit at a time. We'll see. Got lots to learn about.
So, it's mudpie making time. Just spent 1/3 of my income tax rebate (received just today
, on some blending tobaccos, and managed to snag a tin of Nightcap, which the Mohawk Reserve just happened to have. Yeah, $79 bucks, but this is actually okay for this neck of the woods. I'll keep you abreast of the progress, because I have enough of mix on hand right now to give 'er a try.As for my vaunted rest time, it ain't workin' out so hot. Directors Meeting tonight. Hasn't stopped and I really do need a break.
And I'm suspicious about tomorrow because every silver lining has a cloud.
Rattray’s Black Mallory from May 2020 in the Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
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Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm half way through this bowl of year 2012 Dan Tobacco Treasures of Ireland: Limerick in a 2021 medium bend black sandblasted Peterson Newgrange 80S bent bulldog silver spigot with a tapered reddish brown, black striped acrylic stem. Community Cofffee, neat, is my drink. Twice in the past hour or so, both Daisy the Feral Princess and Harry the Hairy have wanted to go outside. Each time they started out the door, they realized that it was still raining, and each time, they made a hasty retreat back inside. Tracking tells us that Abner the Eager has been at the same place for several hours. When the weather gets better, we're going to visit those people, and see if they are Abner's owners. Haven't seen Tomato the Brave since he left a while ago.
6 year old HU Edward G in a smooth Savinelli Qandale, again.
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Wilke Royal Scot, in a no name great smoking billiard. Coffee
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Bob’s been an a-hole to mama when she turns the horses out in the morning, so I’m enjoying a nice mild smoke after working his butt off to get his mind right.
Bob’s been an a-hole to mama when she turns the horses out in the morning, so I’m enjoying a nice mild smoke after working his butt off to get his mind right.
Not far from finishing this bowl of aged Rattrays Hal O’ The Wynd in a straight smooth brown pre-WWII (Comoy’s) Corinthian De-Luxe 126 pot made for Sutliff in San Francisco with a black tapered vulcanite stem. Watching the Orioles-D-Backs game. Tomato the Brave came back to eat. I dried him off, and he's roaming around the den. Knowing him, he'll want out again. Most cats don't like being in the rain, but it bothers him less than any cat I've ever seen.
Sir Walter Raleigh in a fabulous smooth Marxman $15 grade Big Boy Chubby Lovat, polished with a dab of coconut oil.
Coconut oil smells wonderful and dries in minutes. So far it’s the best pipe oil I’ve found.
Sir Archibald John Clark Kerr, Lord (later First Baron) Inverchapel’s ravishingly beautiful and shockingly young Chilean aristocratic wife could have bought him Marxman pipes equal to the best London makers for the same $15 as he spent in Idaho in 1946.
Oil aids to color the magnificent blonde pipes of Bob and Helen Marx and Louis Cowan and the Seven Carvers to a deep reddish brown.
The highest and best ancient Algerian briar in time colors to the shade of the 1943 LHS Sivercraft Second on the left. They get zestier , sweeter, and better smoking as they color.
Coconut oil smells wonderful and dries in minutes. So far it’s the best pipe oil I’ve found.
Sir Archibald John Clark Kerr, Lord (later First Baron) Inverchapel’s ravishingly beautiful and shockingly young Chilean aristocratic wife could have bought him Marxman pipes equal to the best London makers for the same $15 as he spent in Idaho in 1946.
Oil aids to color the magnificent blonde pipes of Bob and Helen Marx and Louis Cowan and the Seven Carvers to a deep reddish brown.
The highest and best ancient Algerian briar in time colors to the shade of the 1943 LHS Sivercraft Second on the left. They get zestier , sweeter, and better smoking as they color.
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Near the half way mark of this bowl of year 2019 C&D Yorktown in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Terracotta 4AB No.108/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Harry the Hairy's been in and out twice since my last post. Daisy the Feral Princess was out once. She was quick to come back in when she saw Harry go outside. Thos two just don't like Harry. They remember how mean he was to them when he first showed up here. Harry's settled down quite a bit being around m'lady and me, and of course, having been neutered helped. But, he still can be territorially aggressive too often, and it's not making him any feline friends.
Enjoyed a rather large bowl of Peterson Connoisseur's Choice in this rather large IMP meerschaum bent apple, watching it spit snow outside and looking forward to warmer weather.
Some Plum Pudding to end the night in my first real pipe, a Made in England Zulu sandblast.
On the menu for my commute home was a delectable bowl of GH&Co Kendal Dark loaded in my sans nom French Paneled pipe.
Hope everyone had a great Monday!
Hope everyone had a great Monday!
C&D Folklore in a Chacom Grand Cru.
Coupla Pegasus through this '81 DM Stanwell tonight
Wondering what secrets and wonders @Sandblast will be revealing at club a week from tomorrow...
Wondering what secrets and wonders @Sandblast will be revealing at club a week from tomorrow...
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