***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
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GH Rodeo in a Radice Silk Cut Chubby Billiard and Diet Coke on the side
@Deano Fantastic pic!
I'm sorry, but I cannot resist sharing this excerpt from "Twas the Night Before Christmas" (A Visit from St. Nicholas) by Clement Clarke Moore:
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More of this tasty local B&M blend, in a Guildhall billiard.
I love that castle Meer. Although I'll admit, upon first glance, the images in my head were of Eskimos and Igloos. But now I see that "castle turret" is clearly apropos.
There are no harp seals anywhere within 4000 miles of that pipe.
He does narration on one tune. Great album, especially for the holidays.
Love the finish and the stem coloration.
Same to you and yours!
Good day, everyone. Hope you are well. As it's the holiday season and I'm feeling a bit sentimental, I would like to thank you for welcoming me into this community. I look forward to checking in to see what you're smoking - and what you're up to - every day.
4th Generation 1957 in an Old German Clay Basic Briar churchwarden. Had to set the pipe aside for a while, to jar up all the tins that (local friend) Matt The Generous has given me, and to get a beef roast cooking in a cast iron Dutch oven. Between the tobacco and the roast, the house smells nice.
Tobacco really needed more drying time than the 1/2 hour I allowed; learning new things.
Reading Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising" in real time during this holiday (chapters on the days that they would have taken place.) Have never read it before. Glad I didn't read it when I was a kid, because I would have been terrified.
Audiobook is "The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" and it is bizarre and captivating; like Groundhog Day, but if one inhabited different people, while trying to prevent a murder/solve the crime of one. Unique premise.
Nowhere to be today, so should probably update our RPG chronicles before we play again. Should get in some woodshedding with the instruments as well.
Daisy and Milo wish you Happy Holidays!
4th Generation 1957 in an Old German Clay Basic Briar churchwarden. Had to set the pipe aside for a while, to jar up all the tins that (local friend) Matt The Generous has given me, and to get a beef roast cooking in a cast iron Dutch oven. Between the tobacco and the roast, the house smells nice.
Tobacco really needed more drying time than the 1/2 hour I allowed; learning new things.
Reading Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising" in real time during this holiday (chapters on the days that they would have taken place.) Have never read it before. Glad I didn't read it when I was a kid, because I would have been terrified.
Audiobook is "The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" and it is bizarre and captivating; like Groundhog Day, but if one inhabited different people, while trying to prevent a murder/solve the crime of one. Unique premise.
Nowhere to be today, so should probably update our RPG chronicles before we play again. Should get in some woodshedding with the instruments as well.
Daisy and Milo wish you Happy Holidays!
Enjoyed a Jethro Bodine size bowl of Raisin Bran with extra raisins thrown in, unsalted peanuts, and a golden delicious apple lunch. I'm smoking year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Hawaiian Kona Extra Fancy, neat, is my drink.
Beautiful sentiments, and cute photo of the puppers. Daisy & Milo sure look ready to party for the holidays!!
Happy Holidays to you, too!
Somehow, it's just how I've always pictured you, Jim.
Next thing, you'll be telling us about your brain surgeon career and your double-naught spy skills.
100% agree. Even our stud wasn't too cantankerous.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Haunted Bookshop in an Irish Seconds System 302 once again.
Pee Dee in this Don Carlos. Iced tea. Busy and fun day putting together bicycles, swing sets, basketball goals and all manor of Santa Claus goodies. We put together over 100 bicycles this morning! Other volunteers will get all the goodies delivered on Christmas Eve.
Sutliff Crumble Cake Barrel Aged No. 1 in a Tinksy acorn.
This is the last bowl from a tin I opened 18 months ago. There’s still the tiniest remnant of the apple brandy barrel on the retrohale, but more of the wood than the apple. This was a really enjoyable Virginia. My remaining tins are pushing 6 years old, and I won’t wait too long to open a “fresh” one.
This is the last bowl from a tin I opened 18 months ago. There’s still the tiniest remnant of the apple brandy barrel on the retrohale, but more of the wood than the apple. This was a really enjoyable Virginia. My remaining tins are pushing 6 years old, and I won’t wait too long to open a “fresh” one.
Part way through this bowl of year 2024 Mac Baren Virginia #1 in a pre-1923 smooth dark brown early Comoy’s Prior (Gros, Grenier, Ostero & Cie.) pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Going to compare the new STG version to the last MB production of this blend for review.
That's what I admire about you the most, Paul. Always willing to make sacrifices for the betterment of others.Gatl
Gatlinburg was mild and in 30’s to 60’s the last few days. This morning the closer you got to the Virginia line the temps started dropping hard and raining but now the same temp system here in Richmond through Thursday that East Tennessee had. I’ll take it though over the last couple of weeks of snow and temps in the teens
I would’ve been willing to meet you between Knoxville and Murfreesboro to take that 55 off your hands
