Star of the East Flake in a Kaywoodie shape 07 billiard
***What Are You Smoking, August 2024?***
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Anomalous in my Herbaugh bamboo billiard.
Celsius or Fahrenheit? One is brutal heat, the other is crisp autumn evening.Enjoying the penultimate bowl of a jar of Mac Baren VRC in an Al Pascia meerschaum billiard. Only question now is what tin to crack once this jar is done. 9.5/10
Bird report: California scrub-jay, Red-tailed hawk, House finch, California towhee, Steller's jay, American crow, Oak titmouse, Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Western bluebird, Mourning dove, and Hairy woodpecker.
Harvested our first watermelon today! Slightly more than football sized. Had to close up the greenhouse early today, though...thermometer read 40 at 6:10am. English blend weather in August!
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Peretti Tashkent in a Radice Rubino poker. Bale Breaker IPA on the side.
Well, he’s in America, and added a chilly emoji, so…
@Servant King, I’m jealous-it was 40C (
) here…. We’ve still got a couple months before cooling down.
Have seen several pics of Bob appearing curious about a pipe ... maybe it's the smoke? Don't think I've ever seen Gracie (?) this way, however. Could the attraction be "a guy thing"?
Maybe Bob's thinking: And if so, he might request:
Just finished smoking Wilke No. 111 in a straight smooth medium brown 2016 Brigham Klondike 16 bulldog with a tapered black acrylic stem.
Now smoking Wilke Surbrug’s Crystal Palace in a dark brown smooth straight post-WW2 LHS Certified Purex 79 bulldog with a nickel ferrule and tenon with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Listening to the Mets-Padres game while I work.
Smoking some Troost Aromatic Cavendish in a Stanwell. I remember when my guitar teacher mentioned in a lesson he'd gone to buy tobacco (Troost slices) and was not the same. I finally found a tin of the slices. In the meantime, I got a little crazy stocking up on the Troost in pouches when I could find it. My teacher is no longer with us but I think of him every time I smoke Troost.
Now smoking Hearth & Home AJ’s Vaper in a pre-1952 Sutliff Falcon 372 (made by Comoy’s) smooth light brown straight bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
That’s awesome! Here is curious about the smoke often, and actually seems to like a whiff but Gracie rarely is. The times she’s caught a whiff, I’ve been unsuccessful at getting her reaction-she almost always rears her head back with her upper lip rolled back-it’s pretty funny.
Couple year old Orlik Golden Sliced in a favorite Stanwell DM ('06)
Now smoking Wilke No. 78 in a straight black sandblasted undated, unbranded Made in France short shank billiard with a long black vulcanite tapered stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Just fed all the ferals without incident.
Currently smoking some Blockade Runner from a freshly cracked tin in a Briar Workshop freehand. 
How are you doing? Don't you miss your beautiful meerschaums
Another gray and rainy day here in Denmark.
Hiding inside with a bowl of My Own Blend "Elizabethan" in a Altinay rusticated billard Silver Spigot.
Hiding inside with a bowl of My Own Blend "Elizabethan" in a Altinay rusticated billard Silver Spigot.
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ES 4th Generation Family Reserve on the Meer Ball 
Smoking the last third of mb# Capstan Gold, in a MM Cobbler, while drying a flake of mb# Capstan Blue, I opened a new tin, it retains fantastic moisture, the aroma of cooked red fruit, plums, a touch of sour, fresh hay. Good stuff. I wish you a happy weekend. God bless you all.
Finished work for the day, and this bowl of Wilke High Hat in an undated black sandblasted straight made in France Silvermatch Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Just fed Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger.
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