MM hardwood, my go-to car pipe, and some Lane Black Raspberry.
***What Are You Smoking? December 2019.***
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Yesterday was one of those delightful days when an old friend comes up in the rotation. It's a simple straight ball, purchased from Campbell's Smoke Shop in East Lansing in 1972 or 1973, for $10. I have heard, since, that the house pipes from Campbell's were made by Savinelli in those days.
Yesterday, spread out over the day, I enjoyed three bowls of McCranie Red Ribbon. This is a tin of the 2008 crop that I set aside in 2014.
I've smoked a fair amount of RR over the years. I never got a chance to smoke the fabled '83 crop that started it all. A quick check of my logs reveals that I still have 22 tins set aside. Most are from the 2000 and 2008 crop, although I do have four from the 2011 crop, the final one, and 2 from the '96. I've had both of those tins for over 10 years.
Yesterday, spread out over the day, I enjoyed three bowls of McCranie Red Ribbon. This is a tin of the 2008 crop that I set aside in 2014.
I've smoked a fair amount of RR over the years. I never got a chance to smoke the fabled '83 crop that started it all. A quick check of my logs reveals that I still have 22 tins set aside. Most are from the 2000 and 2008 crop, although I do have four from the 2011 crop, the final one, and 2 from the '96. I've had both of those tins for over 10 years.
From 72* & bright sun yesterday to low 40’s & overcast, my Brigham filled with my own blend Yale Dropout is the only thing warm. Even the coffee’s gone cold ?
Starting the day with a bowl of GH & Co Best Brown #2 Flake in a Boswell's Jumbo Two Tone Free Hand.
Drive into work had C&D Night Train in a MM cob
Mac Baren HH Burley Flake in a IMP straight apple meer, with my coffee in my truck idling in the driveway. -15F.
Tax preparation time! Starting the day with a bowl of G&H Kendal Kentucky sent to me by my dear friend Weezell which I shall enjoy whilst I try and fathom out the 1099 stuff for 2019 and then imput it into my computer. My pipe for this mornings foray into amateur accounting is 6' 'cutty' meerschaum circa late 19th century by a no-name maker from either France or Austria. I always find it amusing that the cheaper no-name pipes have a knack of surviving in better condition than their expensive peers.
On my way in to work. I have to give some people hell today, so I'm smoking Black Frigate in a MM General to get myself in the mood.
Having some HH Acadian Perique in a MM cob
D&R Ramback Gold tweaked with Perique & DFK, in a no-name Santa Claus figural meer, with coffee and the morning paper.
Cornell & Diehl’s Good Morning in a smooth Marxman Royal apple with a hot cup of McCoffee on the way to work.
C&D Kajun Kake in a cavalier figural meer by Medet, with coffee.
Half way through this bowl of Ken Byron Ventures Festivus Cheer in a 2002 smooth natural straight silver banded Ardor Venere Extra Fatta A Mano Maigret billiard, signed by Dorelio Rovera and a black acrylic tapered stem.
2012 Wessex Gold Virginia Flake in a Zack Hamric Apple.
Rattray Old Gowrie in Stanwell Relief 232 in the morning
and
Sillem's Black in Savinelli Roma 614 in the afternoon
and
Sillem's Black in Savinelli Roma 614 in the afternoon
Is in my rotation to, but I'm looking to blend it with something else
'97 McClelland MV22 in the '78 Dunhill DRB☆.
Now smoking Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 1982 black sandblasted paneled slight bend Savinelli flat bottom sitter with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
Packed and drying, for later today, PC Midtown series Chestnut, match to the discontinued Walnut, in a Johs smooth bent tomahawk freehand with plateau on the rim and shank, a fairly large pipe
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