Last of the coffee poured over ice. SWRA in this Savinelli Duca Carlo.
***What Are You Smoking, August 2025?***
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Good morning! Solani 633 in the WDC Hesson Guard Zulu, with that wonderful dark elixir of life: "coffee."
2020 Old Toby in a cob. With coffee. Good morning to you all.
Haunted Bookshop Cake in a large Stanwell Freehand. 
Sweet Pete!!
This pipe is a stunner! Fantastic blast! Graceful bend, and dynamite swirl on that stem!
Moving on to a bowl of C&D 2023 From Beyond in a Savinelli Majestic (63 M) that, I believe, was a Memphis Pipe Club Pipe of the Year in the mid-to-late-00s.
CS Parson's Blend in a Cristiano
C&D Briar Fox in a Calabresi Metamorfosia Sandblasted Billard with a mug of black coffee.
Waking bowl was Haunted Bookshop in an Ali cherrywood meer.
After-breakfast-get-the-day-going smoke is now Dark Moor in the same Ali. Busy day. Gotta load up the planter box/pergola project and deliver/set up at my mom's. Also meeting with the septic guys out there, she said there was a leak in the line somewhere. Goodie. Also have to get in for some blood work and then bringing her back with me to take her up to the airport early tomorrow morning. It's go time...
After-breakfast-get-the-day-going smoke is now Dark Moor in the same Ali. Busy day. Gotta load up the planter box/pergola project and deliver/set up at my mom's. Also meeting with the septic guys out there, she said there was a leak in the line somewhere. Goodie. Also have to get in for some blood work and then bringing her back with me to take her up to the airport early tomorrow morning. It's go time...
Tony has a nice-looking pipe today.
Maybe my Pipe Club brothers would be okay inviting Tony to our Sept Meeting.
Maybe my Pipe Club brothers would be okay inviting Tony to our Sept Meeting.
OJK in a Gatlinburlier Christmas pipe. 
Some pipes have an understated elegance. This one qualifies in spades. Nice indeed. Bet it pairs well with SWR. Cold coffee adds to the charm. Nice post!!
That looks about the perfect morning pipe for about two cups of coffee and a bit of the morning news. Great little post, and yah, I'm coveting that pipe! Sweet! Ya need to take that white goop you put in the coffee out for the cat, though, lol, like Bob above!
Started with another bowl of Dusk in the Carroll of Carrollton
Then a cob bowl of Peter Heinrich’s Special Curly
About halfway through that now, probably won’t have time to smoke again until after work, but I am making the most of the smokes I got!
Then a cob bowl of Peter Heinrich’s Special Curly
About halfway through that now, probably won’t have time to smoke again until after work, but I am making the most of the smokes I got!
Different kind of smoke this morning, and last evening. Actually the same smoke. Comes from taking out the underused Ropp R07, which has always been one of my favourites. But it was formerly dedicated to Orientals, abusing its nature as an all round, go to, workhorse.
So, last night I had two pretty much empty jars, one Smoker's Pride Dark with a bit of SWR mixed into it (good combo btw, especially as a chew), and the other the final dregs of a jar of Captain Black Cherry. So I parfaid them with the cherry on top. Topped off the evening about perfectly, but had half a bowl of the mix left. Too tired to finish it after loading the food dryer with berries. If I can't get 70 minutes out of the Ropp, I'm sucking too hard.
So I left the pipe on the table, and picked it up in the morning. Re lit the thing, not knowing what to expect. Lo and behold, I picked up right where I left off - same pipe, half bowl left, tasted just great. Never tried that before. And this pipe handles a half bowl better than any other pipe I own. Not surprised.
So I'm left feeling just great with the Ropp reassignment - already knew it was a great pipe, but was out of it's element as a specialist . . . . . . not only is it back into the workhorse mode that it thrives on, it's about to become one of my two or three go-to's for my backyard picnic table sorties.
Back to the final assault on saskatoons and cherries - apples in about four day, so looking for a fishing buddy now. Need a day off slaughtering finny stuff.
So, last night I had two pretty much empty jars, one Smoker's Pride Dark with a bit of SWR mixed into it (good combo btw, especially as a chew), and the other the final dregs of a jar of Captain Black Cherry. So I parfaid them with the cherry on top. Topped off the evening about perfectly, but had half a bowl of the mix left. Too tired to finish it after loading the food dryer with berries. If I can't get 70 minutes out of the Ropp, I'm sucking too hard.
So I left the pipe on the table, and picked it up in the morning. Re lit the thing, not knowing what to expect. Lo and behold, I picked up right where I left off - same pipe, half bowl left, tasted just great. Never tried that before. And this pipe handles a half bowl better than any other pipe I own. Not surprised.
So I'm left feeling just great with the Ropp reassignment - already knew it was a great pipe, but was out of it's element as a specialist . . . . . . not only is it back into the workhorse mode that it thrives on, it's about to become one of my two or three go-to's for my backyard picnic table sorties.
Back to the final assault on saskatoons and cherries - apples in about four day, so looking for a fishing buddy now. Need a day off slaughtering finny stuff.
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SG Squadron Leader in a Dunhill HT Cumberland.
C&D Exclusive in a 1985 Dunhill 5103 Shell Briar and Diet Coke on the side.
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