***What Are You Smoking, December 2022?***
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I always hear Angels singing when I see dunnyboy's pipes, he has a very nice collection. As do others here.
Wife is out of town and I’m thinking about how mad she got last time she went out of town and came back home to the smell of smoke in the house. I swear she could smell an ant fart. So on the back porch I sit, happily puffing away on C&D Oriental Silk. 
2021 Cringle Flake in a Ryan Alden Tomato.
Now smoking Wilke No. 72 in a pre-1974 dark brown straight Larus & Brother Co. Signature billiard with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem with the initials LCR on the top of the stem. This blend was smoked by Walter Cronkite.
After 50+ minutes, a pint of water and a glass of wine, I conclude that the 507c flake was...superb! I love the mild nic-level, too. I hear this comes in 5 lb. boxes? I'm going to seriously consider that (oh who am i kidding, i'll grab one if I can find one, else, a # at a time should do!)
Now to finish the evening with Sillem's Blue in the Larus & Brother Co billiard I have dedicated to this really delightful aro (for now).
and speaking of Sillem's, that reminds me: USPS provided an update today on an order with another tin of this I have been expecting to receive before christmas..the package arrived in Guam today... Not really on the route from Connecticut to Orcas Island. Crazy season!
Now to finish the evening with Sillem's Blue in the Larus & Brother Co billiard I have dedicated to this really delightful aro (for now).
and speaking of Sillem's, that reminds me: USPS provided an update today on an order with another tin of this I have been expecting to receive before christmas..the package arrived in Guam today... Not really on the route from Connecticut to Orcas Island. Crazy season!
Going to have Esoterica Penzance (2021) in what the maker, forum member, @Ag®o and I are calling an Etruscan-Rhodesian, with a Gold Band and Hand-cut Stem. This amazing gift was a highlight this year. I still marvel that this was done without a lathe.
64 month old C&D Crooner in a Stanwell Bamboo. Haven't touched this since I jarred it. It has improved. 
Some Dorchester from a Sasieni Two Dot paired with some Fernet
C&D Bright Virginia in my Savinelli 313.
It started out light and sweet, but about halfway through turned darker and "earthier" for lack of a better description. I suspect that's the influence of the FVF I smoked in this pipe last.
It started out light and sweet, but about halfway through turned darker and "earthier" for lack of a better description. I suspect that's the influence of the FVF I smoked in this pipe last.
Closing in on the half way mark of this bowl of Wilke No. 222 in an undated straight, smooth light brown unbranded short shank Bing-ish billiard with a long, tapered black vulcanite stem. Have one more page to touch up, and this Ghost Fox story will be finished. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Listening to William Conrad as Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke.
Second bowl of 2022 Cringle Flake in a Tom Richards wasp(?). I’m hooked…
First smoke of the day at 10:30 pm, a Stanwell Majestic filled with Wilke 179, had guest all day. Looking forward to tomorrow, I will be lining up my tobacco, pipes and tampers, whiskey and scotch to welcome 2023. 
Starting the day with Bayou Morning in a 1930’s Linkman’s Dr. Grabow.
Smoking 5100 in a Former Apple, paired with EH Taylor Small Batch in a vintage Dunhill glass.
Dunbar now from an early Comoy's Tradition paired with Redbreast 12 Lustau.
Not a huge fan of Irish, but dang, it's my favorite whiskey to have around the holidays
Not a huge fan of Irish, but dang, it's my favorite whiskey to have around the holidays
The story is done, and I'm taking the rest of the night and tomorrow night off before starting the next story. I'm a third of the way through this bowl of year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. Chatting with the fella who gifted me the two Conrad Charatans that I own.
Arrowhead. It's a Michigan thing. Locally made and owned.
Throw in a Cayuga pipe, some Vernors or Faygo and Ready Made chips and you have a little slice home with you whenever you travel.
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