***What Are You Smoking, August 2025?***
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Finishing my ES Evening Flake in a Vauen 2024 Pipe of the Year while also finishing a bottle of this tasty drink: Woodinville Bourbon finished with toasted applewood staves.
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Prince Albert with a dash of Sutliff Frosty Mint in a new to me Nording.
Currently reading: Britannia's Mission by Antoine Vanner
Currently reading: Britannia's Mission by Antoine Vanner
The kid just can’t win, y’all! I’m out here without a lighter or matches, hotel is nonsmoking right up to the street, and there isn’t a good place to smoke or a place to buy ding dang matches! I tell you, the kid cannot win tonight. However, I am not above a little chaw out of the pouch, and even in my present predicament I am fortunately privy to all of your fine smokes this evening, and what’s more, privy to a generous double pour of Jim Beam from the lady at the hotel bar. At least she looked sad when she told me there weren’t any matches or place to smoke!
I’ll be honest, matches are really the limiting factor here, you saw me earlier,smoking in that airport! I tell you…
And, now that the whiskey is in my mind, I don’t mind saying that I would buy a pound of Big Honkin’ Flake sight unseen from the first manufacturer with cojones enough to make it.
I’ll be honest, matches are really the limiting factor here, you saw me earlier,
And, now that the whiskey is in my mind, I don’t mind saying that I would buy a pound of Big Honkin’ Flake sight unseen from the first manufacturer with cojones enough to make it.
That's a really cool photo!
Near the last quarter of this bowl of first production Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead in a well appreciated medium bend, smooth brown 1950s Peterson 999 Dublin chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Molly Danger was crying for attention. Of all the cats that have been around here, she is the most vocally demanding when she wants something. She's happy now, though.
I am always pleased with your feline reportage, Jim. You are doing the Lord’s work, and I mean to say that from the bottom of my heart.
KBV’s Dark Fired Cherry in The French Pipe #5.
M'lady and I both thank you for the very kind words. We love animals... well, maybe there's a couple of two legged ones I'm not fond of.
Erinmore Flake in this Peterson De Luxe. Earl Grey.
That sounds like it would be an interesting tasting pipe.
The tree itself is marvelously resistant to the corrupting influence of flame, and being invasive to Texas (or so I have been led to believe) it is not appreciated for much more than its ability to draw scorpions, and the coverage it may offer to the hunter against the prying gaze of dove… I know I am not the first or last to suspect it might lend itself well to the applications chiefly considered by our Group. I’m going to harvest some from one of the trees around me once back home in Texas, and I’ll give it a chance to dry out (and vent scorpions) for a while, and we will see what my dumb ass can do.
Looking forward to hearing, and seeing, how it turns out
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Hey Goblin, that sounds great -- can't wait to see the fruits. My favorite tree in my folks' yard in Phoenix is their Mesquite. I just love how gnarly they grow. Mesquite is also quite a hard wood, so I have a feeling it would work very well for a smoking pipe. (The facts, of course, may not care about my feelings. And as you know, my first pipe-making attempt did not involve extensive wood research!) Good luck with the project!
Peterson De Luxe Navy Rolls in a falcon
Now some Low Country Waccamaw in a Vauen Oregon
C&D Virginia Gentleman in a Cob. Nice easy smoking nightcap to a fun weekend.
Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am at the last third of this bowl of year 2012 Anniversary Kake in a smooth burgundy medium bend 1979 Chippendale (Charatan second) Rhodesian 49 with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Smokes as well as a first and worth the $19.95 I paid for it all those years ago. Brought Daisy the Feral Princess in to eat, and after that she came to the den to be hissed at by Molly Danger. Daisy stood still and did nothing. I took Molly to the bed room to be with m'lady so she'd relax. Daisy was by my feet, but as I am typing this, she jumped on my chair for attention, which she'll get in a moment.
Elizabethan Match Plug sounds sooo good. Jealous of your decades of involvement in the industry (or at least the fruits of
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Trying something new courtesy of a generous member -- Peretti Cuban Mixture in my V.F. Cherrywood Morta. Wow, that's really pleasant -- a lot going on, in a good way. A superb cigar leaf blend. 
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Once again, Tamnavulin Single Malt Scotch, white-wine cask finished.
(@dottlejockey)Once again, Tamnavulin Single Malt Scotch, white-wine cask finished.
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