Dang! Hopefully the new antibiotics do the trick.
***What Are You Smoking, August 2025?***
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Cast the “norms” patterns of others aside! Smoke what you like, when you like!
HU White Horses in a Radice Rind. 
Morning bowl of Sansepolcro in a Bellezia with horn. Time to make some coffee...
Currently puffing on Sun Bear Navy Cask in a Pete. Had a few bowls of it last night but started binge watching a show on PBS about Pompeii and never got around to posting. 
Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.
Bostonian Rhapsody in a meer
GLP Quiet Nights in my trusty Ashton 219. First time with this blend. I think I found my new favorite.
Hiatus Update: My "holiday" continues, but all my berries and cherries are now picked, frozen, dried and now I'm canning the rest as jam and preserves. Will be visiting a couple of local lakes over the next week with whatever buddy wants to use my second zodiac (actually have two - one small 6'6", which fits inside the larger 7'6" and they both then fit in an 8' pickup box just perfectly, with all of the fishing gear fitting inside the stacked zodiacs). I have no shortage of takers, either.
I'll catch enough fish to fill all of the rest of my empty canning jars, then get the smoker out. Lots of work, but the benefits will be immense. Don't need to hunt this year, have enough venison and turkeys (a friend of mine farms them, and trades me a few for venison and/or bear.) Don't need to do much shopping this winter, either - considering wicked food prices, that's a positive.
Nuff of all that until Skippable Drivel. I'll let you know the medical update then, too.
Smokes? Pretty much my usual flavoured cigars, Phillies Blunts and Kwiki Grapes. They go better with the canning, freezing and drying tasks. Usually only one small pipe per day, and the best smokes have been with my vastly underused Ropp J05, with both Black Frigate and Bengal Slices, and the pipsqueek McQueen Miniature Prospector, which dotes on my own Balkan Mix, and TobaccoBarn's Traditional English.
I'll smoke basically English and a few codgers until I'm off the meds and have some tastebuds back again. Skippable Drivel below for a few yard shots that are worth posting.
Skippable Drivel: In the cleanup of my disaster area, I dug out my old 6mp Nikon D50, the first DSLR I ever bought in ancient times. Had it converted to InfraRed back in the early days of digital, when I bought a Pentax D3, because it was compatible with all of my Pentax Lenses. I switched from Nikon to Pentax for this reason, and still shoot film with the Pentax MX, probably the best film camera I've ever owned. Here's a couple of yard shots in my private park: flowers are now fading, as fall approaches, but these were still prime; a wild rose (got lots of them) and some kind of blue flower that I don't know the name of.
And here's a couple of infrareds taken with the old girl Nikon, a shot of the local winery's grapevines (just below the 97 North Highway and the cutbanks above the Nechako, which I've shown often but not in this context), and my new picnic table along one of my garden pathways, this one leading to my front driveway, and under the shade of a big tree. Nice place for a smoke! Traded another unused flyrod for the table. Win/win!
With respect to a health update, the surgeon was extremely pleased with the progress of the operation. Success . . . . . but . . . . . . he wants me to continue the meds for another 3 weeks. So, it's gonna be small pipes and monochromes until the tastebuds return and the ear infection quelled. More whining on that later in a few days when I'm back to normal participation. Cheers.
I'll catch enough fish to fill all of the rest of my empty canning jars, then get the smoker out. Lots of work, but the benefits will be immense. Don't need to hunt this year, have enough venison and turkeys (a friend of mine farms them, and trades me a few for venison and/or bear.) Don't need to do much shopping this winter, either - considering wicked food prices, that's a positive.
Nuff of all that until Skippable Drivel. I'll let you know the medical update then, too.
Smokes? Pretty much my usual flavoured cigars, Phillies Blunts and Kwiki Grapes. They go better with the canning, freezing and drying tasks. Usually only one small pipe per day, and the best smokes have been with my vastly underused Ropp J05, with both Black Frigate and Bengal Slices, and the pipsqueek McQueen Miniature Prospector, which dotes on my own Balkan Mix, and TobaccoBarn's Traditional English.
I'll smoke basically English and a few codgers until I'm off the meds and have some tastebuds back again. Skippable Drivel below for a few yard shots that are worth posting.
Skippable Drivel: In the cleanup of my disaster area, I dug out my old 6mp Nikon D50, the first DSLR I ever bought in ancient times. Had it converted to InfraRed back in the early days of digital, when I bought a Pentax D3, because it was compatible with all of my Pentax Lenses. I switched from Nikon to Pentax for this reason, and still shoot film with the Pentax MX, probably the best film camera I've ever owned. Here's a couple of yard shots in my private park: flowers are now fading, as fall approaches, but these were still prime; a wild rose (got lots of them) and some kind of blue flower that I don't know the name of.
And here's a couple of infrareds taken with the old girl Nikon, a shot of the local winery's grapevines (just below the 97 North Highway and the cutbanks above the Nechako, which I've shown often but not in this context), and my new picnic table along one of my garden pathways, this one leading to my front driveway, and under the shade of a big tree. Nice place for a smoke! Traded another unused flyrod for the table. Win/win!
With respect to a health update, the surgeon was extremely pleased with the progress of the operation. Success . . . . . but . . . . . . he wants me to continue the meds for another 3 weeks. So, it's gonna be small pipes and monochromes until the tastebuds return and the ear infection quelled. More whining on that later in a few days when I'm back to normal participation. Cheers.
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Capstan Blue in a 1915 Patent Pete Bulldog
Good to hear from you, Gord...........
Tudor Flake in the Chris Morgan saddle billiard.
Absolutely! Great advice!
That's exactly what I've done in the past 4 or 5 months. But you have to find out what you like, first. That's the discovery process. I'm smoking less, but enjoying it more, in spite of contrainments. There's always a rock in the road. Part of the journey.
Can't recall having seen that pipe before. Really like it. Different and eyecatching!
We have a fantastic Oriental Import store in Prince George, believe it or not. One of the best I've ever seen, and I lived in Vancouver for a huge part of my life. Love those wafers, but do prefer Pu-ehr to black chai. Have to go pick up some coconut wafers, now. And some black chai. Combo sounds great!
Watch City Simply Orange
(Extra Crispy Dry) in a Radice Bulldog and Diet Coke on the side.
(Extra Crispy Dry) in a Radice Bulldog and Diet Coke on the side.
A third of a bowl left of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Fed my cats. Feeding the ferals was tougher because three neighbors are mowing their lawns right now, and the noises are scaring the cats. I managed to get Daisy the Feral Princess and Harry the Hairy to come out from under the deck to eat. Daisy came in for wet food, and Harry is in, too. Dunno where Tomato the Brave is hiding, but he'll likely show up after the lawns are mowed. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Bayou Morning Flake in a Jirsa 210.
KBV Burlier Morning Pipe in a Holmes and Watson Eagle Claw Meerschaum 
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