Same, he’s a master at the contrast stain and making the grain pop, learned from the best, Mr. Eltang
***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***
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Enjoying a bowl of Dark Holler in my Boswell pipe after a delicious roast for dinner. Sipping some icy water while I enjoy this bowl.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, cod and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm getting near the first third of this bowl of year 2014 Full Virginia Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Shell bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
Gawith Hoggarth aniseed twist in the large Castello collection KKKK billiard with white lucite stem. Still the best aniseed twist I’ve ever smoked!
With all the recent moisture making horse hoof material a bit softer, it was perfect timing to do a trim, and assume my usual apprentice role. A well-dried bowl of Mac Baren Vanilla Flake in a MM Dagner Poker did the job nicely, and by that, I mean the room note didn't piss anyone off. Small victories! 9/10
Bird report: White-crowned sparrow, Dark-eyed junco, California towhee, House finch, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, American crow, Band-tailed pigeon, Oak titmouse, White-breasted nuthatch, House finch, Mountain chickadee, Northern flicker, American robin, and Hairy woodpecker.
Hope everyone has a productive week ahead!
Bird report: White-crowned sparrow, Dark-eyed junco, California towhee, House finch, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, American crow, Band-tailed pigeon, Oak titmouse, White-breasted nuthatch, House finch, Mountain chickadee, Northern flicker, American robin, and Hairy woodpecker.
Hope everyone has a productive week ahead!
Cornell & Diehl Carolina Red Flake 2019 in the PCI Horn Meerschaum carved by Ahmet Govem
HU Director’s Cut in an Original Merchant Service “Special” and Diet Coke on the side.
Thanks man. I think the smoke caught the Guinness harp just right.
Peretti Yuletide in a Savinelli Roma full bent. I wasn’t quite done with the holidays I guess.
Sutliff 759 match in a Peterson Donegal Rocky 69 while cleaning a few pipes.
Posted a couple of times in other threads on this, my interim computer. Got my online job back, new installation of the latest and greatest Ubuntu distro. Not using it yet, just had an orientation session and took me about six hours to figure it out and get the setup to my liking. Looks good though. Still have to install VPNs on the new Brave Browser yet, and should be back to posting in this thread day after tomorrow.
What I'm using right now is glitchy and tomorrow is a directors meeting at the club. It's currently 26 degrees below zero outside. Like, winter has hit now. Been wet and sloppy snow so far, but it's back to normal.
I don't know what that translates into farenheight numbers, but it's cold out there. Hate the celcius/centimeter stuff. If God had wanted us to go metric, He'd have given Jesus 10 apostles.
Not going to do the picture thing with my smokes, but I've been puffing on cigars mostly, and just finished a bowl of Pirate Kake in a longstem McQueen. Wanted to taste an overdose of lat again, after reading and posting a picture on a couple of other posts, nah . . . . I'll wait until Tuesday.
The PK wasn't all that bad. Good smoke actually.
I've been off/on with respect to PK lately.
What I'm using right now is glitchy and tomorrow is a directors meeting at the club. It's currently 26 degrees below zero outside. Like, winter has hit now. Been wet and sloppy snow so far, but it's back to normal.
I don't know what that translates into farenheight numbers, but it's cold out there. Hate the celcius/centimeter stuff. If God had wanted us to go metric, He'd have given Jesus 10 apostles.
Not going to do the picture thing with my smokes, but I've been puffing on cigars mostly, and just finished a bowl of Pirate Kake in a longstem McQueen. Wanted to taste an overdose of lat again, after reading and posting a picture on a couple of other posts, nah . . . . I'll wait until Tuesday.
The PK wasn't all that bad. Good smoke actually.
I've been off/on with respect to PK lately.
McClelland 40th Anniversary in an Altinay.
Germain’s Brown Flake in my HSR billiard.
Gawith North Star in a Willmer AAA billiard.
Finally getting around to fitting the St James plug into a jar. Taking a slice to rub out in my Peterson 53 PSB
4th Gen Afternoon Melange in a Rattray's bent billiard.
Mac Baren Scottish Mixture in a Falcon.
Earlier, I smoked a bowl of year 2014 Sam Gawith Best Brown Flake in a straight smooth medium brown year 1912 Henry Tongue bulldog with a silver cap and band and an amber saddle stem with an orific bit.
Enjoyed a short snooze because Sleepy Suzy laid on my lap while watching TV, and am currently not far from finishing this bowl of aged Rattrays Hal O’ The Wynd in a straight smooth brown pre-WWII (Comoy’s) Corinthian De-Luxe 126 pot made for Sutliff in San Francisco with a black tapered vulcanite stem.
Enjoyed a short snooze because Sleepy Suzy laid on my lap while watching TV, and am currently not far from finishing this bowl of aged Rattrays Hal O’ The Wynd in a straight smooth brown pre-WWII (Comoy’s) Corinthian De-Luxe 126 pot made for Sutliff in San Francisco with a black tapered vulcanite stem.
Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69. I had only one pipe yesterday. We have been fighting stomach flu.
Enjoyed a couple of oatmeal raisin cookies, and am half way through this bowl of year 2021 first production Watch City Simply Orange Virginia in a black sandblast medium bend Peterson POTY 4AB No. 182/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.
