It is amazing how much difference a change in the coffee maker can have. Enjoy....
Oh, and congratulations to hitting your "Lifer" category recently.
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Oh, and congratulations to hitting your "Lifer" category recently.
Some Wessex Virginia plug in an Aldo Velani 301.
Ahhhh hahaha I didn't even notice. I'm a Lifer now boys, it's official!
OJK in a Cpipes Bing. The Arkansas Cpipes, not the Chinese.
This pipe is stunning
Did a set of walking reps on this chilly, windy day and have finished smoking 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. Tomato the Brave was waiting for me when I finished walking and as I started bringing up the trash and recycle cans, he ran to the back door as fast as he could. Harry the Hairy stood driveway guard and followed Tomato. Daisy the Feral Princess was on the deck and she came in, too. They ate less than usual the first time, but ate some more before they went back out just now.
Davidoff Flake Medallions in a Dunhill 5117 Bulldog and Diet Coke on the side.
Sitting in the 58 degree greenhouse out of the wind. Smoking some Watch City Kringle's Koncoction Christmas Blend in the Altinay.
A mug of Russian Caravan Tea with a few cardamom pods added.
A mug of Russian Caravan Tea with a few cardamom pods added.
My knowledge of the fiddle is limited to my appreciation of Celt folk punk, and what the nuns at StMark’s in Indy tried to instill in me as a fourth-grade recalcitrant student.Not Much of Interest Smoking Wise Today . . . . . just another Bantam Falcon Bowl Break-in with straight Sutliff Lat and a cheap cigar or two. Ho hum and not worth a picture. So let's go to the TA-DA!!! New arrival in the mail this afternoon:
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You may be wondering what this music (Fritz Kreisler's Tambourine Chinois) has to do with the new Falcon Stack bowl I just got a few hours ago. Actually, quite a lot.
I remember beginning to learn the Kreisler in 4th year University, and wondering "How on Earth am I going to play this 2 1/2 minute monster? More technique packed into this beastie than quite a few concertos.
I'm saying the same thing about the Stack bowl. Not confronted anything like this before. Guess I'll have to find out the same way - I tackled "Tambo" head on and, although not one of my frequent encores, did perform it as an encore a few times and as I said yesterday, I had planned on including it on a concert when I was programmed to play the Mozart Violin Concerto #3, when covid nailed us.
Any suggestions as to how to approach the stack would be welcomed. In the meantime, I thought a few of you might like to hear this nifty little piece of terrorin an incredible live performance by the master Fritz Kreisler himself.
Enjoy. See y'all tomorrow.
But that is some masterful fiddlin’!
C&D Derringer in a Paykoc ram.
Being lazy today before attacking some jobs this weekend, the week’s work adventures flared up some old tendinitis issues, but someone felt compelled to give jackhammer and concrete finishing lessons (again).
Being lazy today before attacking some jobs this weekend, the week’s work adventures flared up some old tendinitis issues, but someone felt compelled to give jackhammer and concrete finishing lessons (again).
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For the first time in days it isn't "bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn" (raining old women and sticks, as they say in Cymru), so grabbed the opportunity to plant my overwintering onions and elephant garlic. Followed by a smoke of Manil Semois La Volute, in the Butz-Choquin Balzac with shorter optional stem. And a mug of Russian Caravan tea. Happy Friday and a pleasant weekend to you all. Stay sane in the runup to the holidays. The way folk are acting in town, you'd think Christmas was a two-month siege during which no commodities whatsoever will be obtainable.
That is a beautiful Meer. If I've seen it before, I don't remember it. I think your greenhouse solution is masterful -- wish I had one!
The 'Sad' emoji was for the weakness of the flesh versus jackhammer and concrete. But I also wish to express delight at your pipe.
That’s how I took it. Unfortunately the Scots-Irish and Germanic blood that courses my veins has a hard time conceding “weakness of the flesh” in spite of what what the brain knows
I went the opposite route as @MisterBadger and emoji-ed your pipe! -- but sorry about the tendonitis, ugh. I have always loved that Ram meer. I have an affinity for the Ram, being an "Aries."
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I bought it to commemorate my visit this fall to my father, who turned 95 last April, due to his astrological affinity for ramsI went the opposite route as @MisterBadger and emoji-ed your pipe! -- but sorry about the tendonitis, ugh. I have always loved that Ram meer. I think I have an affinity for the Ram, being an "Aries."
Smoking Red Carpet again. I am enjoying it alot. Smoking it in a Boswell (D.B.) i picked up in 2016
Thank you, sir.