Been enjoying some GLP Union Square this morning hoping the day will go by fast so I can enjoy the weekend. On a Rattrays Goblin billiard. 
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Loading up a bowl of Roux in a Stanwell bamboo for a trip to town.
A quarter of a bowl left 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. When I got out of bed to feed the cats, Molly Danger followed me, which she hasn't done in a year. I fed her and Sleepy Suzy in the kitchen apart from each other. Daisy the Feral Princess ate where they couldn't see her, because they won't eat if they do. Abner the Eager spent the night inside, and I had to feed him in the den, and keep an eye on him because he wanted to go to the kitchen, and eat wet food. He and Harry the Hairy don't get wet food. After the girls ate, I took Molly back to the bedroom to avoid conflict. I let Tomato the Brave in so he could have his "start the day" wet food, and I fed Harry in the den. M'lady took charge of Abner while I stood guard to make sure Harry didn't bother Tomato. This is how it goes most days.
KBV Stampede Kek in my Pete 606 Short Army Pot with 2nd mug of coffee
sG Squadron Leader in a Tsuge. 
First try with Plum Pudding Special Reserve in the Whitehall Gulfstream. Very nice smooth smoke. Not typical of my usual aros but I enjoyed it greatly!
Got off Early today. Was a good day. Now I'm sitting on the porch drinking some sweet tea, enjoying some Bayou Morning in my Savinelli Tortuga 106. It's going to be an awesome weekend.Wow stunning pipe! Cai Duo DELIVERED with this one!!
First time tasting this. Squadron Leader in a Bari.
Did a set of walking reps, and am near the finish of this 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. Tomato the Brave kept playing hide and seek with me when I got near the house. He likes to hide behind a car, and jump out at me when I come by. Harry the Hairy just stood there and watched the proceedings. So did Abner the Eager until Tomato chased him off. Silly goofballs.
Smoking now some from the Mystery Jar, in a Canasta (with new stem).
Be all well good people!
Be all well good people!
MacB Va#1 in one of my Yorkshire Match Grain pipes.
Made with the legendary Algerian Briar.
Great smoking pipes.
Made with the legendary Algerian Briar.
Great smoking pipes.
Cowboy Coffee in the IMP bent egg. Black french roast on the side.
Morning smoke: Pulled the same trigger as I did yesterday, Captain Black Cherry Cavendish in my 2nd McQueen Miniature Barrel Rider. (I have two of these, the other dedicated to Mad Fiddler). Same delightful over the top cherry with my morning coffee, as I said yesterday, like having a fruit drink and coffee for breakfast. Looks like my rotation is going to change to a shorter aromatic in the morning. Life is weird, eh? 
However, it is the 2nd photo in this post that is the real subject for today, and a Skippable Drivel you may actually want to read, especially if you're a cheap jerk like me who, on a limited budget and poor availability of tobacco, might want to stretch your larder to the max.
Skippable Drivel:
First of all, have a backup or two of similar tobaccos so you don't run out and have an acceptable substitute to "stretch" the rubber band. I have one jar, and one unopened tin of this magnificent Navy style tobacco, and two excellent backups of a similar nature.
Secondly, determine the capacity of your pipe in the manner that you pack and smoke it. I took the full jar, packed the pipe from it as I usually do, and removed the tobacco from the pipe. Put it into a measuring spoon, and it came to almost exactly 1/2 teaspoon of BF. That's not much. It's a tiny bowl.
Now, as there is 24 teaspoons by volume in a 2 ounce jar (and I get 2 full jars of tobacco from each tin), that gives me roughly 48 smokes per jar in the miniature. For whatever reason, BF gives me no less than 20 minutes in the McQueen pictured above, and if I smoke very slowly, I've achieved 30 minutes. And for most times, those are great smoke lengths for me.
If I want a longer smoke from Frigate, I go to the larger pipe. Now here was the surprise. I've mentioned before that this little Ropp J05 is a quirky little bugger. I found out why. It's chamber width is almost exactly the same as the McQueen miniature, but a little deeper because of that tallish bowl. It's total capacity is just a shade more than the McQueen, with a capacity I measured twice to make sure using the same method as described above. It's just a hair more than 5/8ths of a teaspoon. So it burns the tobacco in pretty much the same manner that the McQueen does, and in a much different manner than my other wider bowl Ropps or other pipes do. And it tastes exactly the same as in the McQ. Win-win!
This gives me a full 40 minutes of Black Frigate if I do my part right, using the loose 2-pack gravity feed that the Cap taught me to do with this tobacco in his instructive PM a few months back. Salute, my friend!
I've used this measuring system on all of my pipes that have been dedicated or genre-dedicated, so I know exactly (or with reason) how many smokes I can get from my remaining stock. It is a huge help in planning rotation with protected species.
Do I do this with all my tobaccos and pipes. Oh, heaven's, NO. I'm anal (I prefer precise) but not daft, ADD, Asperger's, autistic, or any of the like. There are tobaccos I've got lots of, are available to me, and, really, I'd rather smoke a pipe than fiddle and fart around like the madness described above with every known pipe in my universe!
However, it is the 2nd photo in this post that is the real subject for today, and a Skippable Drivel you may actually want to read, especially if you're a cheap jerk like me who, on a limited budget and poor availability of tobacco, might want to stretch your larder to the max.
Skippable Drivel: A TALE OF TWO PIPESSkippable Drivel:
As mentioned yesterday, I'm re-aligning my pipe collection, and I've never made any secret of my top 3 favourite tobaccos, Black Frigate, Mad Fiddler and Bengal Slices, all in rather short supply. Each of these tobaccos has two dedicated pipes, a miniature for short smokes up to 20 minutes or so, and a medium pipe for leisurely smokes of at least twice that length for (usually) afternoon puffs. The subject of this verbose discourse is Black Frigate, and how to stretch the rubber band.First of all, have a backup or two of similar tobaccos so you don't run out and have an acceptable substitute to "stretch" the rubber band. I have one jar, and one unopened tin of this magnificent Navy style tobacco, and two excellent backups of a similar nature.
Secondly, determine the capacity of your pipe in the manner that you pack and smoke it. I took the full jar, packed the pipe from it as I usually do, and removed the tobacco from the pipe. Put it into a measuring spoon, and it came to almost exactly 1/2 teaspoon of BF. That's not much. It's a tiny bowl.
Now, as there is 24 teaspoons by volume in a 2 ounce jar (and I get 2 full jars of tobacco from each tin), that gives me roughly 48 smokes per jar in the miniature. For whatever reason, BF gives me no less than 20 minutes in the McQueen pictured above, and if I smoke very slowly, I've achieved 30 minutes. And for most times, those are great smoke lengths for me.
If I want a longer smoke from Frigate, I go to the larger pipe. Now here was the surprise. I've mentioned before that this little Ropp J05 is a quirky little bugger. I found out why. It's chamber width is almost exactly the same as the McQueen miniature, but a little deeper because of that tallish bowl. It's total capacity is just a shade more than the McQueen, with a capacity I measured twice to make sure using the same method as described above. It's just a hair more than 5/8ths of a teaspoon. So it burns the tobacco in pretty much the same manner that the McQueen does, and in a much different manner than my other wider bowl Ropps or other pipes do. And it tastes exactly the same as in the McQ. Win-win!
This gives me a full 40 minutes of Black Frigate if I do my part right, using the loose 2-pack gravity feed that the Cap taught me to do with this tobacco in his instructive PM a few months back. Salute, my friend!
I've used this measuring system on all of my pipes that have been dedicated or genre-dedicated, so I know exactly (or with reason) how many smokes I can get from my remaining stock. It is a huge help in planning rotation with protected species.
Do I do this with all my tobaccos and pipes. Oh, heaven's, NO. I'm anal (I prefer precise) but not daft, ADD, Asperger's, autistic, or any of the like. There are tobaccos I've got lots of, are available to me, and, really, I'd rather smoke a pipe than fiddle and fart around like the madness described above with every known pipe in my universe!
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Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Peruvian Macchu Picchu, neat, is my drink. I was very pleased that I gained less weight from yesterday's off diet day than expected. That means another one will happen faster. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Molly Danger came out again, but my neighbor was here fixing m'lady's chair, and after a few minutes of watching that happen, she got nervous and went back to the bed room. All the ferals are outside.
Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Molly Danger came out again, but my neighbor was here fixing m'lady's chair, and after a few minutes of watching that happen, she got nervous and went back to the bed room. All the ferals are outside.
Afternoon relaxation today. Out in the sun, dinking around the yard with a bowl of Exclusive in an Albin panel.
Been pocket humping a Castello KK 10 Old Antiquari with C&D Exclusive all day while out to lunch and shopping with Mrs RVA
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