Sticking with Prairie Wind this time in the small Michel dublin
***What Are You Smoking, August 2025?***
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Did a set of walking reps, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. Harry the Hairy stood driveway guard. It's time for some lunch.
@Sobrbiker Happy Birthday to you.
OJK in an Irish Seconds Calabash 05.
I don't operate on a computer that's less than 7 years old and assiduously avoid new technology. I know I'm a Luddite anyways, and have never in any area of life bought the latest and greatest. My mind doesn't work that way. Heck, I still shoot film, use cast iron and natural gas stoves and incandescent light bulbs and burn wood in the winter. However, but am very okay with my digital cameras, the newest which dates from 2015. My sympathies in trying to figure this stuff out, even though in 6 months it'll be "outdated."
I operate on 3g Blackberry Passports, and will not upgrade. Nor will I purchase a product produced by a company that has a logo that's a "byte" out of an apple, and my cell has talk and text only and NEVER leaves the house. No online stuff at all. On computers I use Linux, mostly Debian, one online that's the oldest version of Ubuntu that works. It frustrates my friends and especially my sister, who texts and operates like a braindead teen. That's their problem. They contact me with my landline - only a few people have my cell number and all other contacts are blocked or left unanswered.
I'm quite tech savvy and can keep this stuff going. When I can't I won't and will disappear as best as I can when obvious future events materialize. Wish I was younger but it is what it is. Change is good, but not for its own sake. I'll go away now
Wow! This pipes wild man. May be one of the coolest pipes I've seen on here. I can't quit looking at it. It's horrifyingly beautiful.
Yeah - I been struggling with an erratic, poor forum connection for a couple of days now.
Happy Birthday, my friend!
HU Balkan Passion in a Dunhill Shell Group 4 panel.
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When one door closes, another opens, but sometimes you’ve gotta hang out in the hallway.
May your time in the hallway be brief my friend.
Happy Birthday, SB. Hope it is a good one for you.
Enjoyed a tall stack of cinnamon raisin French toast, a regular size bowl of Raisin Bran with extra raisins throw in, and a golden delicious apple lunch. I've passed the first third of this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Hawaiian Kona Extra Fancy Dark Roast, neat, is my drink. Everything's nice and quiet so far.
Happy Birthday @Sobrbiker happy piping
Took me about a dozen posts to catch on the the meaning of "orbit." Can be surprisingly thick at times.
Happy Birthday!!! and may there be many more.
Welcome to the dark side of dinner, Luke!Jim, I always go through three phases with your posts....... First, I salivate at the description of the delicious meal or snack that you have just enjoyed. Next, I find myself laughing out loud at the antics of one of the cats. Then, finally I realize that "Oh yeah, there's a cool pipe and tobacco description there, too."
At the conclusion, I am hungry and leave the forum and go get something to eat. You "ain't" doing my waistline any favors.............
OJK in a Jirsa 210.
Happy birthday!
My laptop was 15 years old, some of the keys stick (made it a serious pain to post smokes the last couple of years), my browser was out of date and I couldn't read a lot of websites any more. I got a big discount on this new laptop and had to do it.I don't operate on a computer that's less than 7 years old and assiduously avoid new technology. I know I'm a Luddite anyways, and have never in any area of life bought the latest and greatest. My mind doesn't work that way. Heck, I still shoot film, use cast iron and natural gas stoves and incandescent light bulbs and burn wood in the winter. However, but am very okay with my digital cameras, the newest which dates from 2015. My sympathies in trying to figure this stuff out, even though in 6 months it'll be "outdated."
I operate on 3g Blackberry Passports, and will not upgrade. Nor will I purchase a product produced by a company that has a logo that's a "byte" out of an apple, and my cell has talk and text only and NEVER leaves the house. No online stuff at all. On computers I use Linux, mostly Debian, one online that's the oldest version of Ubuntu that works. It frustrates my friends and especially my sister, who texts and operates like a braindead teen. That's their problem. They contact me with my landline - only a few people have my cell number and all other contacts are blocked or left unanswered.
I'm quite tech savvy and can keep this stuff going. When I can't I won't and will disappear as best as I can when obvious future events materialize. Wish I was younger but it is what it is. Change is good, but not for its own sake. I'll go away now
As for being a Luddite, which I most certainly am, I could not have gotten this new laptop working without the help of my friend who did all of the work of getting me set up. I remain defiantly computer illiterate. And regarding telephones: I still use tin cans and strings when smoke signals fail.
C&D Speakeasy in a Castello Canadian(ish… it’s a strange one). 
Last Night's Smoke: and it was a good one. Brog Nosewarmer, and Smokers' Pride Whiskey, straight up.
I remember in my early days on the forum, when I'd just taken to the pipe (not that long ago! ) in a post called something like Your Desert Island Tobacco, I said if I could have only one tobacco, what would it be, I replied "Smokers' Pride Whiskey."
If asked, I'd say exactly the same thing today. I could also live with Borkum Riff Dark Cavendish, or Amphora Rich if I couldn't get Whiskey.
And the pipe that I'd select would be none other than the pipe in the pic. It's fully broken in and absolutely dotes on SP Whiskey. Loves it. A medium bowl (just a little smaller than the Ropp J07, which is a tad deeper), I can sit back and relax for an easy hour and contemplate the workings of the universe, which is about my personal limit for this kind of thing before getting itchy. I've other fine pipes I like as much, including the Ropp, but not with this tobacco. I'm still incredulous that for a guy who really loves and cut his teeth on longstems, I would dote on this miniscule marvel.
Cheers and see you this evening. Last round of berries in the dryer, and apples will start either this evening or tomorrow.
I remember in my early days on the forum, when I'd just taken to the pipe (not that long ago!
) in a post called something like Your Desert Island Tobacco, I said if I could have only one tobacco, what would it be, I replied "Smokers' Pride Whiskey."If asked, I'd say exactly the same thing today. I could also live with Borkum Riff Dark Cavendish, or Amphora Rich if I couldn't get Whiskey.
And the pipe that I'd select would be none other than the pipe in the pic. It's fully broken in and absolutely dotes on SP Whiskey. Loves it. A medium bowl (just a little smaller than the Ropp J07, which is a tad deeper), I can sit back and relax for an easy hour and contemplate the workings of the universe, which is about my personal limit for this kind of thing before getting itchy. I've other fine pipes I like as much, including the Ropp, but not with this tobacco. I'm still incredulous that for a guy who really loves and cut his teeth on longstems, I would dote on this miniscule marvel.
Cheers and see you this evening. Last round of berries in the dryer, and apples will start either this evening or tomorrow.
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