Saint Espresso in a Nording. Tonight's feature film is Sherlock Holmes Faces Death.
***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***
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Savinelli Juno from September 2020 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Enjoyed a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. Just finished smoking Wilke Lizzie Blood Virginia in a straight black with burgundy undertone sandblasted early 1960s Lane era Charatan 420 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
GL Pease Jackknife Plug in the Peterson pipe of the year 2022.Jim Beam Devil's Cut alongside. 
Off to work with a bowl of D&R Raccoon’s Friend in a pre-1980s straight dark brown Comoy's Sandblast 186 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
That's a fine looking Comoy sandblast! I think I have two or three Comoy 186s. Great smoking pipes whether smooth or sandblasted.
Taking out my 2 recent arrivals this afternoon.
A very hot afternoon, so a nice cold long Campari with pink grapefruit soda and a slice of lime, lots of ice.
The 1904 Barling bent billiard, army mount saddle stem with slotted bit.
Chopped Semois cigar.
A very hot afternoon, so a nice cold long Campari with pink grapefruit soda and a slice of lime, lots of ice.
The 1904 Barling bent billiard, army mount saddle stem with slotted bit.
Chopped Semois cigar.
Stokkebye 4th Generation Small Batch Aged Virginia (2019) in a Castello Collection 55.
GLP Barbary Coast (cubed burley, red Virginia, Perique, and a touch of brandy) in a slightly bent rusticated Parker poker sitter, listening to WUNC NPR "Back Porch Music," acoustic, country, blues, bluegrass, etc. Grooming some sermons I wrote for a class, being a non-minster, interested in learning that form of short essay.
Straight after the 1904 Barling, I had
a second bowl of Semois
In the straight Forever stemmed corn cob.
This is my 1st smoke in a cob
I wanted to see if there was much of a difference between this and a briar.
Both pipes had overnight alcohol soaks and airways cleaned out with alcohol soaked cleaners, so there should be minimal, if any, ghosts.
The 1904 Barling was reamed before alcohol treatment
My impressions:
the cob had a more open draw. Most old Britwoods tend to have slightly more restricted draws .
I will repeat the head to head next week with a Castello, which should have a draw similar to the cob
I did think that the flavour of the tobacco was clearer with the cob.
I removed quite a bit of cake from the Barling, but the remnant of the cake may have influenced and muted the taste.
The cob had been smoked, but only minimally. There was bowl charring, but asolutely no cake.
Semois is a very dry tobacco.
Both smokes were dry, with no gurgles and minimal moisture in both airways when cleaned post-smoke.
I enjoyed smoking the cob very much, but, vain person that I am, will smoke it only in the confines of the home
Thank you Dave (@Ahi Ka) for fulfilling one of my wishes
a second bowl of Semois
In the straight Forever stemmed corn cob.
This is my 1st smoke in a cob
I wanted to see if there was much of a difference between this and a briar.
Both pipes had overnight alcohol soaks and airways cleaned out with alcohol soaked cleaners, so there should be minimal, if any, ghosts.
The 1904 Barling was reamed before alcohol treatment
My impressions:
the cob had a more open draw. Most old Britwoods tend to have slightly more restricted draws .
I will repeat the head to head next week with a Castello, which should have a draw similar to the cob
I did think that the flavour of the tobacco was clearer with the cob.
I removed quite a bit of cake from the Barling, but the remnant of the cake may have influenced and muted the taste.
The cob had been smoked, but only minimally. There was bowl charring, but asolutely no cake.
Semois is a very dry tobacco.
Both smokes were dry, with no gurgles and minimal moisture in both airways when cleaned post-smoke.
I enjoyed smoking the cob very much, but, vain person that I am, will smoke it only in the confines of the home
Thank you Dave (@Ahi Ka) for fulfilling one of my wishes
Sample of Boswells Northwoods that was sent to me along with a purchase of a pipe I made…in said purchased Rossi Notte 
A third of the way through this bowl of Wilke Crystal Palace in a dark brown smooth straight post-WW2 LHS Certified Purex 79 bulldog with a nickel ferrule and tenon with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Shy Stripesy has returned, and I made sure she got plenty to eat. Tomato the Brave is eating, too. Daisy the Feral Princess didn't feel like eating.
Tabac Manil Bouchons de Semois in an Italian Brigham Algonquin. As a smoke, the experience itself is less than the novelty of the ‘cork’ imho. Unique flavor, but not extraordinary.
Finishing up some Jack Knife Plug from the ride home from work. 
A quarter of the way through this bowl of C&D Virginia Gentleman in a straight smooth dark brown pre-1940s Comoy’s Jost’s Olde English Supreme J299 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Smoked a bowl of Jackknife plug earlier in the MM Bracken. In a couple of minutes I'll be enjoying some SparkPlug in a Stanwell Royal Guard prince.
Did a little snacking, and am passing the quarter mark on this bowl of 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.
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