Moving on to a bowl of Kentucky plug in a blasted Bellezia with horn...and then the joy of paperwork.
***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***
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Chorin' done and the snow's falling again. BlackHouse in the Ropp Pot with the last of my Shiner Peach.
Dan tobacco Tumblin Dice in the Peterson 106 St Pat. New to me, cube cut vaper. First impression is funky and delicious!
GH Kendal #7 Shag Cut in a Radice Silk Cut Chubby and Diet Coke on the side.
Happy IPSD to everyone!
Happy IPSD to everyone!
GH Brown Pigtail in a new acquisition which arrived this morning: a dinky little unmarked one-piece briar billiard with an orific bit. Circa 1900, at a guess. Sweet little smoker.
That is beautiful , Paul !C&D Exclusive in a Vladimir Grechukhin Pot and Coffee️ on the side with some light snow
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Quite a display of distinguished pipes!
and also a bunch of tobaccos I can only hope to try one day!
2017 Mac Baren Mixture in my 'No name' meerschaum Big White Egg.
On tap for post lunch launch, Milan Sangria drying a bit in the moose hide and calf skin tray I made last year, in a Stanwell Norman Rockwell billiard.
Lunch pipe, Chenet’s in an Eltang, looking forward to taking a stroll in the snow later.
FVF in a Scottie Apple. There is a time and a place for small chambers sizes. Sometimes my smokes just sing out of them.
Week 2 of hernia lockdown. Going well. Swelling way down and back to where I was before the lockdown. Been doing a lot of smoking and got some projects going. If you remember, my convalescence set-up was a bunch of miniatures to work on slow smoking, ensconced in the little den/bedroom on the main floor.
So for the next week, I'll be smoking these pipes, and about eight others - it's 3 month cleanout time, and for about the next week or so, I'll be smoking only Smokers' Pride Whiskey and/or Smokers' Pride Classic, two blends I really like and that are fairly fast burning, medium hot codger burley heavy aros - perfect for breaking in and cleaning out (resetting?) pipes that need it, especially those biased for gooey, messy tobaccos like some aromatics and all lats. And I have about a bag and a half each of these, and they're available here for a bargain price of $70 bucks a bag from the Native Reserve Store, God Bless'm.
Won't be posting all the smokes cuz this hopefully about says it all, eh?
Going to brave the indoor range today - not terribly taxing because I have a walker (or more likely a cane cuz I feel pretty good) and great friends that'll carry the heavy stuff for me. Will report on that later, and other current projects I'm doing that may be of interest to some of you.
Excited about the indoor shooting today, because with Alpha pistol last week I shot the best groups i've ever shot with a pistol, iron sights at 10 yards, all ten shots within the 8 ring, 5 times. For me, a personal best and even got a few nods from my betters. Then, I proceeded to outshoot myself on moving targets, wwaaaaayyyy better with the pistol than my rifle. Not unexpected because I simply don't shoot rifles at moving targets or game. And my target springer weighs 18+ pounds.
Cheers 'till tonight!
So for the next week, I'll be smoking these pipes, and about eight others - it's 3 month cleanout time, and for about the next week or so, I'll be smoking only Smokers' Pride Whiskey and/or Smokers' Pride Classic, two blends I really like and that are fairly fast burning, medium hot codger burley heavy aros - perfect for breaking in and cleaning out (resetting?) pipes that need it, especially those biased for gooey, messy tobaccos like some aromatics and all lats. And I have about a bag and a half each of these, and they're available here for a bargain price of $70 bucks a bag from the Native Reserve Store, God Bless'm.
Won't be posting all the smokes cuz this hopefully about says it all, eh?
Excited about the indoor shooting today, because with Alpha pistol last week I shot the best groups i've ever shot with a pistol, iron sights at 10 yards, all ten shots within the 8 ring, 5 times. For me, a personal best and even got a few nods from my betters. Then, I proceeded to outshoot myself on moving targets, wwaaaaayyyy better with the pistol than my rifle. Not unexpected because I simply don't shoot rifles at moving targets or game. And my target springer weighs 18+ pounds.
Cheers 'till tonight!
Cigar Time: Padilla Reserva
MB Classic Rollcake from 2023 in a Jirsa 210. Getting to like this stuff. 
Love that pencil shank and silver work!
Bills and insurance papers at the ready. And a pipe to get me through it. KBV Spaghetti Western in a Kevin Arthur nose warmer, so i can be in hands free mode.
Earlier, I smoked a bowl of year 2015 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.
Currently, I'm just finishing this bowl of Seattle Pipe Club Virginia Jazz in a smooth medium brown medium bend 1950s B.B.B. Own Make 307 apple with a sterling silver band and black vulcanite saddle stem. Haven't smoked either pipe in a while.
I had to run an errand, and when I got back home, Tomato the Brave was running through this snow crying out to me. He shook the snow off, ran to the back door, and ran in to eat and get warm as fast as he knew how, silly fella.
Currently, I'm just finishing this bowl of Seattle Pipe Club Virginia Jazz in a smooth medium brown medium bend 1950s B.B.B. Own Make 307 apple with a sterling silver band and black vulcanite saddle stem. Haven't smoked either pipe in a while.
I had to run an errand, and when I got back home, Tomato the Brave was running through this snow crying out to me. He shook the snow off, ran to the back door, and ran in to eat and get warm as fast as he knew how, silly fella.
You folks in the south and east are really getting hit with that cloudsnot. A lot of the pictures I'm seeing posted look like Prince George does for 6 months of the year!
Oh I like ‘em a lot. I think the new (to our market at least) Aniseed Twist could be a daily. I try to keep Black X, Sweet Black Cherry, Brown Bogie, SG Black XX, And Maple on hand. Cutting them with SG Kendal Plug/BBF makes a wonderful smoke to mix things up.
So far my WAYS day has been Match Victorian in Briarlee, and my Dark Sails mix and now Mc Connell Scottish Cake in a Ropp J07.
Feeling like crap but surviving on Sudafed…
I hope you feel better soon!Tried to smoke a bit today, but it just set off my constant cough. Leftovers from the bout of Flu. Guess my pipes will have to wait a while longer.
Stay healthy and warm folks.
That looks like a "comfortable" pipe, that we'd all be at home with. Nothing flashy but just good and solidl Love it!