***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***
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After Lunch HU Tobacco - Old Fredders Broken Flake in a Radice Pure Rind Billiard and a Cup of Joe and now before I hit the sack Samuel Gawith - Commonwealth Mixture in a Diplomat 5th Avenue Cob on the side a Cup of Lapsang Souchong Black Tea.
Wessex Brown Virginia Flake arrived in a dented tin, so... open it up! Turns out seal was in perfect condition so it would have been ok (but you know, now in a jar). First time trying this flake. Rubbbed and put in the Luigi Viprati Sabbiata (this size flake was just right size for the chamber), with coffee.
Close to finishing this bowl of year 2020 Sam Gawith Best Brown Flake in a straight smooth brown 1933-1945 Comoy’s patent Grand Slam 159 *4 apple with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Lunch follows this smoke on this rainy day.
Finishing up my second go at a Tabac Manil Bouchons de Semois, in a Brigham Algonquin 215. This ‘cork’ was much better after a couple weeks in the humidor, as out of the box the first one was dry to the point of rampant cracking while fitting it in the chamber and didn’t seal quite right against the pipe. It’s a novel experience though, and it has an interesting, burley-meets-cigar flavor profile.
My fist pipe since the birth of our baby girl this January. It’s a classic, the Classic Flake by MB in a beautiful silver band Peterson Deluxe 20s! Complementing my pipe is John Coltrane and his Prestige Records on the HiFi system.
Now that we have a daughter, the wife is less forgiving. Smoking is prohibited. I can’t blame her and I definitely don’t want to do it around our daughter. So the late evenings have become my preferred smoking moment when both of them are sleeping. Hopefully the smoke has cleared by tomorrow morning…
Now that we have a daughter, the wife is less forgiving. Smoking is prohibited. I can’t blame her and I definitely don’t want to do it around our daughter. So the late evenings have become my preferred smoking moment when both of them are sleeping. Hopefully the smoke has cleared by tomorrow morning…
Dunhill 1949, Balkan Sobranie. One of my best, if not best, smoking pipes I own.
The Patience of Dr Silence in the KBB Rocky Briar
2020 Cringle Flake in a light and easy to clench S Klein while reading the paper (a little late to it after an early morning hike at one of the spots in LA that have water from all our rain). Enjoy the day all. 
Uhles Perfection Plug Burley in a Falcon.
Happy birthday! Have a beautiful time!
First smoke in my new to me Mastro de Paya. Classic Burley Kake.
60 is a big one and cause for celebration for sure. Happy birthday!
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