HU Makhuwa in a Castello KK 10 Sea Rock
***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***
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Disadvantage of living in Pacific Time - I'm just getting up and you guys are into afternoon already! Be that as it may, I'm now posting last night's successful smokes. I had the excellent Borkum and Riff Cavendish in my Tundra 047S, which I use for aros in the afternoon. When I smoke aros in the afternoon. Likewise, I used my O26S Rhodesian for a repeat of the Presbyterian Mixture failure of yesterday. This smoke was more than successful.
Both of these pipes are entry level Brighams, and both smoke very well indeed. I should smoke them more often but afternoon I'm usually busy with things that don't suite pipes or even cigars. Both are broken in, but do need a half dozen more smokes to take the final edge off the process.
O crap. My asshole mutt just peed on the floor - His Majesty objected to my posting this thread when I should have been feeding him. He was asleep when I started typing . . . . his waking at this precise moment is done deliberately, I'm sure. People used to say "Oh, he's so cute." Yeah, right. He's butt ugly and totally disobedient. Gotta go now and mop up the mess and take him out before he starts laying eggs.
I'll come back and catch up on seeing what you folks did this AM a bit later.
O crap. My asshole mutt just peed on the floor - His Majesty objected to my posting this thread when I should have been feeding him. He was asleep when I started typing . . . . his waking at this precise moment is done deliberately, I'm sure. People used to say "Oh, he's so cute." Yeah, right. He's butt ugly and totally disobedient. Gotta go now and mop up the mess and take him out before he starts laying eggs.
I'll come back and catch up on seeing what you folks did this AM a bit later.
Woke up craving either Brown Twist or Gaslight.
Gaslight got the nod, in my Nording "kind of a Danish Bing" Billiard
Gaslight got the nod, in my Nording "kind of a Danish Bing" Billiard
More CRF24 in a no-name Italian. 
Espresso, Exclusive, Bones Brandy for a late breakfast
HU Flanagans in my Barling 1812 meerschaum. I love this tobacco. The orientals and Virginia just top shelf. Maybe same virginias as their Haymaker it seems I don’t know 
Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of pre-2014 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. All the ferals except for the absent Abner the Eager came up to greet me as I walked down the hall to the den. I though that they were hungry and/or just wanted attention, but they all wanted to go outside. I saw that very little dry food that we always leave down was eaten while we slept. I let them out, and saw that Abner the Eager was eating dry food that I left outside before bed time. He stopped eating to watch the other ferals. He didn't want to come in, but Daisy decided to, and she's eating now. Abner will be back, and so will Tomato the Brave because he didn't get his wet food. M'lady fed Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger.
Sutliff Match Victorian in a Cavicchi lovat.
Burning through the last hour of the morning with a bowl of Tashkent in a Devorin Denovic morta freehand.
Don't know if you ever smoked that Wills's Cut Golden Bar but that was some pretty fantastic tobacco. I'd be OK if that was the only tobacco I had.
I'm too young to have ever experienced it alas, I bought the tin for a fiver from an antique shop so I could carry my tobacco in something that's not plastered in a garish health warning
Here's my morning smoke. A wonderful 15 minutes or so of my favourite morning smoke, Mad Fiddler, in my favourite miniature, the McQueen Barrel Rider. And, like my Namesake Tobacco, this guy was truly a Mad Fiddler as you are about to see. A doggy photo of which I doubt the Forum has been witness to. below the smoke pic.
Proof of the Pudding. No, I was NOT KIDDING about my last post. For those of you who don't know, my dog, Ricoh, is 20 years old, and totally blind and totally deaf. I have a love-hate relationship with him. Those of you with teenagers will understand totally. Ricoh is totally disobedient, totally into food as a first priority, and totally into playing me. ShitZoos (spelling deliberately altered) are 9th in the dog disobedient list, disobeying 85% of first commands. About the same as those below them. However, the Shih-tsus are the only ones of this group of above average intelligence. The others are stupid to the max. The Shih-tsus simply have a permanently erect middle finger.
No, again I say I was NOT KIDDING in my prior post. That isn't my style. He did his egg laying simply to piss me off AFTER I had put food in his dish on the kitchen exit. (note my plant, for those of you who know that story). He probably also raised his tail and farted at me - assumption here to a common occurance.
So you know I'm not totally mad, those water bottles (and there are lots of them) form a barricade to other parts of the house where he travels. Ricoh locates himself, being blind, by circling to the right, bumping into them to locate where he is. They are heavy enough he can't knock them over unless he's really ticked at me, usually for withholding food. The bottles serve a dual purpose as spare water if the pipes freeze, which has happened on more than one occasion. I also don't trust what's going on out there, if you know what I mean.
The only good thing about this morning was the MF smoke. It will improve however, because the little stinker will now sleep for 6 hours at least, and friend Daryl is picking me up at noon and we're going to the range to shoot. I'm going to sight in my Weirauch 98, which has not been shot since last season. It's my competition rifle. I've been tuning up my backup 97 in prior sessions.
No cigars or pipes on range day - chew time. I'll catch up on commenting on your posts later. Feel like pulling a trigger right now. Cheers.
So you know I'm not totally mad, those water bottles (and there are lots of them) form a barricade to other parts of the house where he travels. Ricoh locates himself, being blind, by circling to the right, bumping into them to locate where he is. They are heavy enough he can't knock them over unless he's really ticked at me, usually for withholding food. The bottles serve a dual purpose as spare water if the pipes freeze, which has happened on more than one occasion. I also don't trust what's going on out there, if you know what I mean.
The only good thing about this morning was the MF smoke. It will improve however, because the little stinker will now sleep for 6 hours at least, and friend Daryl is picking me up at noon and we're going to the range to shoot. I'm going to sight in my Weirauch 98, which has not been shot since last season. It's my competition rifle. I've been tuning up my backup 97 in prior sessions.
No cigars or pipes on range day - chew time. I'll catch up on commenting on your posts later. Feel like pulling a trigger right now. Cheers.
The first Flor de Olivas I tried, were right off the truck and that left me with a bad first Impression.
The Corojo version is damn good though. They smoke like a premium cigar. You can find them for about 2 bucks a piece usually. Hard to find a good strong cigar for 2 bucks. The construction is pretty much always on point, and they are long filler, made by Oliva. I bought a pile of 'em.
The Corojo version is damn good though. They smoke like a premium cigar. You can find them for about 2 bucks a piece usually. Hard to find a good strong cigar for 2 bucks. The construction is pretty much always on point, and they are long filler, made by Oliva. I bought a pile of 'em.
perhaps I should keep an eye out in that case!
I would not hesitate if the price was right. To me, it was right up there with Scottish Nuns and State Express Roundels.
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. It's time for some lunch.
OJK in a House of GBD Masterpipe.