During a zoom chat I finished the last of a tin of GL Pease Ellipsis Flake in a Savinelli 606 Roma. Now finishing a bowl of Cornell and Diehl Sansepolcro 2025 in a Savinelli 673KS Roma Lucite. 
***What Are You Smoking, August 2025?***
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Five Brothers is helping me re-break in this restored Vauen Luxus 3083 with a vulcanite stem. It’s very comfortable to smoke.
Kramer’s Father Dempsey in a Lee Von Erck “A” freehand.
Just finished smoking year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Sleepy Suzy jumped down from my chair to eat once Tomato the Brave finished. He came in and jumped on my lap and demanding attention. He just got up, and wanted out.
Now smoking year 2012 Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight, dark brown 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad.
Just finished a bowl of Bayou Morning in a Cob. George Jones on the record player, one of those kinda nights.
Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69. 
Briar Fox 
in a Santambrogio bent apple. Good combo so far.
Really enjoying the slightly lower humidity last few days.
Drink is Gold Star Yemen Mocha High Grown coffee, black.
Just took this photo of my Praying Mantis friend, who happens to be under my patio table tonight.
in a Santambrogio bent apple. Good combo so far.Really enjoying the slightly lower humidity last few days.
Drink is Gold Star Yemen Mocha High Grown coffee, black.
Just took this photo of my Praying Mantis friend, who happens to be under my patio table tonight.
Now smoking first production Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a straight smooth brown Algerian briar family era Barling’s Make Billiard 6 with a tapered black vulcanite stem. The stampings suggest 1930s, but the “6” is a previously unknown stamp number as is its placement. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo. I'll probably end the day with this smoke.
In young praying mantises (nymphs), wings are absent. This is a typical feature of incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetaboly). Mantises do not have a pupal stage; instead, they develop through a series of molts from a larval-like nymph to the adult form (imago). Wings appear only after the final molt, when the nymph becomes a fully developed adult. In most species, this occurs at the 5th to 7th molt, depending on the species and sex.Briar Fox
Really enjoying the slightly lower humidity last few days.
Drink is Gold Star Yemen Mocha High Grown coffee, black.
Just took this photo of my Praying Mantis friend, who happens to be under my patio table tonight.
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Sherlock Holmes Dark Smooth Lestrade P-Lip, Robert McConnell - Heritage - 5 Year Matured Virginia.
Magnificent Bob's Marvelous Chocolate Flake in the SMS Big Bent Lattice Meer and the end of this very fine First Day of August.
Wow, pretty neat! My knowledge of mantises just increased by a factor of about 4,000.
Thanks!I don't see any wings, so is this a young mantis then? It's not tiny by any means -- nearly 2 inches long.
Btw, the photo is right-side-up -- it just happens to be hanging under the table. LOL
Well, since I’m a biologist by training, I just can’t resist commenting on photos like thisWow, pretty neat! My knowledge of mantises just increased by a factor of about 4,000.
I don't see any wings, so is this a young mantis then? It's not tiny by any means -- nearly 2 inches long.
Btw, the photo is right-side-up -- it just happens to be hanging under the table. LOL
. Actually, he’ll most likely grow wings after the next molt. Let’s keep watching 
Golden Extra in a Mark Twain.
good morning. first smoke of August is LNF in a no name apple shaped meer. it's 61 degrees with a light drizzle sitting outside on the porch with coffee enjoying this respite.
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