Now smoking and reviewing C&D Sun Bear Black Locust 2024 (Small Batch) in a medium bend fumed tan crackled year 2020 Ahmet Govem reverse calabash meerschaum with a military mount silver band and black acrylic stem.
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2021 Amphora Virginia in a Pete PSB Strand
Trying to set three point lift feedback, GH&Co Rum Flake in a Ropp J11P. There’s a J04 from SPcom overdue (UPS is claiming “railroad emergency” for the delay), and I landed a Mid Century M318 blasted Dublin of fleabay that’s on the way too.
Cops were too lazy to pull a large tree limb another 8ft or so to actually clear the public right of way, so I got a couple hours’ overtime and had the Ropp full of GH&Co Dark BirdsEye out saving the public.
Enjoyed a smoke of my Dark Sails mix in the Peterson Sportsman 87 driving across the reservation on the way home.
Cops were too lazy to pull a large tree limb another 8ft or so to actually clear the public right of way, so I got a couple hours’ overtime and had the Ropp full of GH&Co Dark BirdsEye out saving the public.
Enjoyed a smoke of my Dark Sails mix in the Peterson Sportsman 87 driving across the reservation on the way home.
Telegraph Hill in a Castello #33 Le Dune.
This morning a wonderful bowl of sutliff 507-C while running an errand. This afternoon I have been experimenting with Sutliff 707 Sweet Virginia. Straight out of the bag it burns fast and hot with some bite. Rubbed out and packed slowly it burns a little slower but still on the hot side. I am drying a couple of rubbed out ounces in a bowl spread out overnight to see if that helps tone it down. I may try a different pipe as well ... trying to decide which one....
Good evening. Haunted Bookshop in a Kaywoodie pot
G.L. Pease Laurel Heights in a 2011 Rad Davis.
5 O’Clock Shadow in a Cpipes pencil shank rusticated Bing.
Good day all! Started with GH Ennerdale Flake in a dedicated Tilshead smooth footed Cutty with eighth-bent tapered stem. Followed in the afternoon with another bowl of Peterson Elizabethan Mixture in a dedicated Upshall P Dublin with beveled rim and pencil shank with tapered stem.
Just finished smoking C&D Sun Bear Black Locust 2024 (Small Batch) in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer with a black acrylic saddle stem. Going to put my notes together and finish the review. Watching the Orioles-Rays game until the Braves-Rockies game starts.
A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2022 Watch City Blue Ridge Special in a straight smooth ebony post-WW2 LHS Sterncrest 91 bulldog with a sterling silver band, a diamond shank and a tapered black vulcanite stem. This should get me to dinner time.
Light lunch today. Yesterday, dinner was taken from various wagons at the Northwest Michigan Fair, so just a small English muffin breakfast sandwich for morning, and a sliced pear, Premium crackers and some wedges of Brie for late lunch. I followed this up with a bowl of Nolan’s house blend “Best Cellar” in a Stanwell Treo 86 with a tall glass of local tap (filtered, of course) on the rocks.
This blend deserves a little elaboration. It’s a composed of Cyprian Latakia, Virginia and Orientals and some black Cavenish and “aged” in whiskey barrels assembled by my local brick-and-mortar. It was described at sale as a match for Frog Morton Cellar, once a staple favorite of mine. Well, Frog Morton Cellar it isn’t, but on its own this stuff is … great! Very well done! The proportions of the components are well balanced, the Cyprian is pleasantly condimental, and the Cav adds a little silky space for the whiskey and the tangy orientals to breathe. If there’s humectant, it’s imperceptible, and there’s no trace of “rough edge” throughout the smoke session. The last third of the bowl was a very pleasant magnification of everything that preceded it. Very nice surprise from my local shop!
(Their matchboxes are nice, too.)
This blend deserves a little elaboration. It’s a composed of Cyprian Latakia, Virginia and Orientals and some black Cavenish and “aged” in whiskey barrels assembled by my local brick-and-mortar. It was described at sale as a match for Frog Morton Cellar, once a staple favorite of mine. Well, Frog Morton Cellar it isn’t, but on its own this stuff is … great! Very well done! The proportions of the components are well balanced, the Cyprian is pleasantly condimental, and the Cav adds a little silky space for the whiskey and the tangy orientals to breathe. If there’s humectant, it’s imperceptible, and there’s no trace of “rough edge” throughout the smoke session. The last third of the bowl was a very pleasant magnification of everything that preceded it. Very nice surprise from my local shop!
(Their matchboxes are nice, too.)
2019 Comoy’s Cask #4 in a no name Meer.
Good Evening, haven't posted in a while. Enjoying some 5 Brothers (half a bowl 
) in a Peterson Irish Harp 68 sandblast. I've been on a burley shag cut kick lately. Simple summer smokes.
) in a Peterson Irish Harp 68 sandblast. I've been on a burley shag cut kick lately. Simple summer smokes.
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There were just a few of us on the Saturday ZOOM meeting, but the conversation was Olympic. I smoked my old Big-Ben Commodore 426 filled with some vintage Country Squire Rivendell. A tall tumbler of Peach/Mango Green Tea with a splash of Honey Jack and a fistful of bergs was my beverage.
Went outside to finish the sweet virginia while dinner bakes ... saw a huge screech owl perched on the garage and it took off through the woods ... this must be the daddy ... are the males bigger ? Almost a 2' wingspan; body about 10-11 inches. Biggest one I've seen this year. Silent flier and round head and face.
Dark Star in Castello Pi panel #33
This morning, Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.
This afternoon, MB Virginia Flake in an Altinay.
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