GH&Co Kendall Gold #8 in a LHS bent billiard
***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
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Ravenwood Brandywine Bridge in a Torben Dansk.
McClelland 40th Anniversary in a Howell.
"We are chewing the same dirt"
I installed two denso o2 sensors today with my youngest boy on his Toyota tundra
I mixed in a pinch of WCC simply red to a bowl of this match burley and it is Deelishizz. Peterson Sherlock Meerschaum 
Frog’s Overdrive in my Castello slightly bent egg.
I was relieved to find, on closer inspection of your post, that bacon grease delivery is not actually a thing.
Got the heater on out in the garage. Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Peterson Emerald 05 and a Charter Oak Broadleaf are tonight's smokes. 
Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am half way through this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match In a black sandblasted full bend 2025 Rinaldo YY Lithos dublin with a tapered amber tortoise shell acrylic stem. Daisy the Feral Princess ate, and was going to jump back on my lap until she saw me typing, so she's lying near my feet. The other ferals are outside.
Dunhill billiard with Faulkner Flake, Bushmills and a Paulaner Oktoberfest
Selfmade cigar mix in the MM hardwood pipe. I have (and smoke) 4 MM hardwoods for about 10 years. They look the same like they were in the start. I think these pipes are made with a "Forever" technical specification. Plus, I love their minimalistic aesthetics. Not to mention the -more than affordable- price. Great pipes!
I found a small Bic lighter on the street yesterday and it works fine! Always happy when this happens.
Be well good people and a happy preChristmas period to all!
I found a small Bic lighter on the street yesterday and it works fine! Always happy when this happens.
Be well good people and a happy preChristmas period to all!
Well, Progress Report on Pipsqueek Project. Not finished, but well under way. As an aside, here is really what started it all, @Choatecav . . . I asked him to recommend to me a couple of books on pipelore and history, which he most kindly did. Why? because I didn't know what I was talking about, and it was time to upgrade my knowledge. One of them came a couple of days ago. I scanned through it, and, like, wow! My eyes were opened to many thread treasures I'd overlooked before. To say the least. Got two more coming, and so this whole shebang instigated my new project to fill in my collection with shapes, woods and brands I can afford. And from as many countries as possible.
I've been simply stunned as to the magnificence of some of the pipes I've seen here over the past few days, realizing you simply can't judge content on your own likes and dislikes, especially if you are ignorant. Ignorance can be cured, but ya gotta get rid of the pride, first.
My tobacco review of the Dan Jubilee was a trial run to what I'm doing now, and step by step I'll take care of other issues. 'Nuff said.
In my first post of today, I outlined the project and kicked it off with my morning smoke of pipsqueeks, in my usual manner. Here follows the next steps. Didn't finish, but I'll get to that.
First up was Progress Report on the Pipsqueek Project. Morning English, in a small cob, not a pipsqueek, with my own Basic Englishmix. Actually, took place a couple of days ago before my hospital trip with the mini-stroke happened . . . . . but it fits into sequence.
Also used an old picture because of time constraints. There followed, after today's post, two pipsqueeks and the tobaccos shown -
Top pipsqueek is the McQueen Miniature Fable, biased for Oriental Tobaccos. I smoked Amphora Rich (Absolute in Canada), one of my favourite tobaccos. Had an absolutely wonderful smoke, tasting the oft-used three stage Oriental sweetness in the middle format clearly. A bold, flavourful and indeed rich tobacco. After half an hour or so, I swiched pipes, to the bottom pipe, the McQueen Miniature Prospector, a cherrywood gem that absolutely dotes on basic Englishes, including the wonderfully mild Presbyterian Mixture, to my taste the very nicest of the mild Englishes. Have a tin left of this gem. Presbyterian Mixture is sporadically available at the Reserve store, and I'll pick up another tin when they get it in. i'm on the waiting list. Don't know what it is about cherrywood, but I think it's the best wood for English Mixtures. Also had a great smoke.
THEN . . . . . .
Then I dropped the bombshell. Filled my Mad Fiddler dedicated McQueen Barrel Rider (I have two of these, the other one biased for aromatics) with of course, Mad Fiddler. After an absense of 6 months from my very favourite tobacco, I was a bit apprehensive. Yeah, I'm not back to perfectly normal, but the smoke was perfectly wonderful. The bold Perique opening, the middle stage sweetness of the Kasturi leaf, and then a return to the bold and bright Virginias so expertly blended in this masterpiece was very evident to me. I was about to load up my second Barrel Rider with Brigham Shamrock Treasure when my buddy Mike walked in to check up on me, so had to postpone this potential delight, and have a full smoke and a cigar with him. Went to one of my favourite medium pipes, The Mr. Brog Old Army Olive, and loaded it up with a sensational and little known aromatic, TobaccoBarn's Cimmeron, and proceeded to have what was perhaps the best smoke I've had since all this health and prescription drug nonsense began about six or eight months ago with my hernia operation.
This pipe is truly a wonderful smoker, and I'm thinking it's my favourite, in a three way tie with my Peterson Rhodesian Tavern Pipe and the new Savinelli Bing. They are all sippers, company pipes, and all smoke smooth and pensively. The Brog has the smallest bowl of all three, but I still drew almost an hour with it.
I'm currently chewing on some SWR as I type, and will finish the evening with a Phillies Blunt Chocolate before taking my meds and crashing.
Too tired now to continue the project, (five more pipsqueeks to go, and five more tobaccos, I think . . . and I'm pretty sure I'll have to smoke either Pirate Kake or Sutliff Pure Lat tomorrow . . . . . even with spacing, the tongue took a bit of a beating lol.)
Thanks for looking in and I'll be back tomorrow, in the afternoon. Getting up early for Mass and I'm sure Stu, Mike, Kevin and Dave will be over to participate in the festivities. Salute and have a great Saturday evening and Sunday Morning, eh?
I've been simply stunned as to the magnificence of some of the pipes I've seen here over the past few days, realizing you simply can't judge content on your own likes and dislikes, especially if you are ignorant. Ignorance can be cured, but ya gotta get rid of the pride, first.
My tobacco review of the Dan Jubilee was a trial run to what I'm doing now, and step by step I'll take care of other issues. 'Nuff said.
In my first post of today, I outlined the project and kicked it off with my morning smoke of pipsqueeks, in my usual manner. Here follows the next steps. Didn't finish, but I'll get to that.
First up was Progress Report on the Pipsqueek Project. Morning English, in a small cob, not a pipsqueek, with my own Basic Englishmix. Actually, took place a couple of days ago before my hospital trip with the mini-stroke happened . . . . . but it fits into sequence.
Also used an old picture because of time constraints. There followed, after today's post, two pipsqueeks and the tobaccos shown -
Top pipsqueek is the McQueen Miniature Fable, biased for Oriental Tobaccos. I smoked Amphora Rich (Absolute in Canada), one of my favourite tobaccos. Had an absolutely wonderful smoke, tasting the oft-used three stage Oriental sweetness in the middle format clearly. A bold, flavourful and indeed rich tobacco. After half an hour or so, I swiched pipes, to the bottom pipe, the McQueen Miniature Prospector, a cherrywood gem that absolutely dotes on basic Englishes, including the wonderfully mild Presbyterian Mixture, to my taste the very nicest of the mild Englishes. Have a tin left of this gem. Presbyterian Mixture is sporadically available at the Reserve store, and I'll pick up another tin when they get it in. i'm on the waiting list. Don't know what it is about cherrywood, but I think it's the best wood for English Mixtures. Also had a great smoke.
THEN . . . . . .
Then I dropped the bombshell. Filled my Mad Fiddler dedicated McQueen Barrel Rider (I have two of these, the other one biased for aromatics) with of course, Mad Fiddler. After an absense of 6 months from my very favourite tobacco, I was a bit apprehensive. Yeah, I'm not back to perfectly normal, but the smoke was perfectly wonderful. The bold Perique opening, the middle stage sweetness of the Kasturi leaf, and then a return to the bold and bright Virginias so expertly blended in this masterpiece was very evident to me. I was about to load up my second Barrel Rider with Brigham Shamrock Treasure when my buddy Mike walked in to check up on me, so had to postpone this potential delight, and have a full smoke and a cigar with him. Went to one of my favourite medium pipes, The Mr. Brog Old Army Olive, and loaded it up with a sensational and little known aromatic, TobaccoBarn's Cimmeron, and proceeded to have what was perhaps the best smoke I've had since all this health and prescription drug nonsense began about six or eight months ago with my hernia operation.
This pipe is truly a wonderful smoker, and I'm thinking it's my favourite, in a three way tie with my Peterson Rhodesian Tavern Pipe and the new Savinelli Bing. They are all sippers, company pipes, and all smoke smooth and pensively. The Brog has the smallest bowl of all three, but I still drew almost an hour with it.
I'm currently chewing on some SWR as I type, and will finish the evening with a Phillies Blunt Chocolate before taking my meds and crashing.
Too tired now to continue the project, (five more pipsqueeks to go, and five more tobaccos, I think . . . and I'm pretty sure I'll have to smoke either Pirate Kake or Sutliff Pure Lat tomorrow . . . . . even with spacing, the tongue took a bit of a beating lol.)
Thanks for looking in and I'll be back tomorrow, in the afternoon. Getting up early for Mass and I'm sure Stu, Mike, Kevin and Dave will be over to participate in the festivities. Salute and have a great Saturday evening and Sunday Morning, eh?
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Double header of a gig today where I got to play with two bands and fill up the wallet just in time for Christmas presents. Long drive to the gig so I brought some extra pipes to keep me awake on the almost two hour jaunt. In the early afternoon I had some Carolina Red Flake with Perique in a Rattray Fachen Billiard, quite tasty I might add, and for the drive home it was the old standby of Old Joe Krantz in a Comoy Everyman Billiard as well. Hope y'all had a good Saturday I sure did but my fingers are so sore I can use them as a tamper. Bass strings make for good calluses hahaha
Quiet evening after a teardown to clean the boiler in my espresso machine. A glass of rum, a tea, some tunes (Dino Saluzzi) and some Quiet Nights in the Radice. Wonderful way to finish the day.
Last of the C&D Rajah’s Court in a Nuttens Prince. This was a decent Balkan/English. I couldn’t tell if it was the brights or Orientals leading. Similar in style to Skiff. Carry on good people. 
Close to finishing this bowl of year 2013 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. The ferals came in, ate and went out.
Just finished season one of Last Samurai Standing, on Netflix. We're enjoying it! Now, instead of watching Stranger Things, going with 2023 From Beyond in a little circa 1940 Brulor Page Pot.
Aye...grazie! I've smoked a few of his creations and all were well engineered smoking machines. This smooth panel is certainly no exception. Excellent with VAs and Vapers, this one.Really, really beautiful Santambrogio -- don't remember seeing before. Both of mine are great smokers.
Lots of stuff scratched off the to do list today. Much less hectic day tomorrow. Going to celebrate my mom's 81st.
For now, i'm calling it a day with some Dockworker in a Pete Newgrange B10.
A third of a bowl left of year 2020 Mac Baren Scottish Mixture in a straight, smooth brown 1960s Lane era Charatan Special 38 bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
