Relaxing with a snoring dog and a bowl of Oriental Silk in an Ascorti Business KS with a warm fire in the shop. 
***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***
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First bowl of Exhausted Rooster. Fantastic tin note. Pipe from Ron at Ranz Freehands.
An aromatic day
Ist up is Mixture 79
In a Georg Jensen Shape 72 Ekstra bent billiard which I bought back in the late 1970s.
When I got my old pipes out of storage a few years ago, it was the most heavily caked of them all.
It was either my most smoked pipe or I smoked a lot of goopy blends in it
Ist up is Mixture 79
In a Georg Jensen Shape 72 Ekstra bent billiard which I bought back in the late 1970s.
When I got my old pipes out of storage a few years ago, it was the most heavily caked of them all.
It was either my most smoked pipe or I smoked a lot of goopy blends in it
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Smoking some Beck's Ol' Limey Bastard in this Comoy's sandblasted egg. Enjoying the rain and listening to The Corries.
Danish Gold in Brebbia ninja. Tea and a book
H&H Frenchy's Sonza Bitches in a Mastercraft pickaxe
Another Danish pipe next - a W.O.Larsen bent apple
And another aromatic - a bowl of W.O.Larsen Signature Blend
And another aromatic - a bowl of W.O.Larsen Signature Blend
On the menu for the commute home I enjoyed another bowl of C&D Poplar Camp in my Sav with a cup of decaf black tea. The second time around was enjoyable, but didn't hit as well as it did this morning.
Lane RLP-6 in a Country Gentleman cob this afternoon and Gawith Hoggarth Rich Dark Honeydew in the Falcon tonight, while I watch some Jack Hargreaves Old Country episodes on YouTube. 
Busy week, hope you are all well!
Burned through that '17 tin of Haunted Bookshop, and now have been smoking fresh bulk in my dedicated little Dublin
Burned through that '17 tin of Haunted Bookshop, and now have been smoking fresh bulk in my dedicated little Dublin
Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69. 
@98now Yes it definitely suits the King's Clay!
I need to get a good clay. Perique in a full size bowl is not the right play.
One pic for the entire night's "work". Smoking outside after a rain, so both cool and wet = a ton of relights. Trying to smoke up the cheap MM blends I got for free (buy their premium stuff or other brands they carry, not these weak-flavored pouch blends). Loves me some MM, but these blends are weak. But free is free, and I'm not letting them go to waste.
First up, however, was Briarworks Pete's Beard's Blend, a medium English/Balkan I've liked for some time, but for the first time in the pirate meer. I've never had this happen in decades of pipe smoking, but the meer KILLED the taste of the latakia. Nothing. Mental note made not to smoke this blend in this pipe. Next we had the MM Missouri Pride, a VaBur, in the hourglass MM straight cob. And last, the MM Great Dane cherry/vanilla aromatic in the Nording Hunter 2019 smooth White Rhino, one of just several pipes I use for aromatics.
First up, however, was Briarworks Pete's Beard's Blend, a medium English/Balkan I've liked for some time, but for the first time in the pirate meer. I've never had this happen in decades of pipe smoking, but the meer KILLED the taste of the latakia. Nothing. Mental note made not to smoke this blend in this pipe. Next we had the MM Missouri Pride, a VaBur, in the hourglass MM straight cob. And last, the MM Great Dane cherry/vanilla aromatic in the Nording Hunter 2019 smooth White Rhino, one of just several pipes I use for aromatics.
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Thank you! It's a real American Bison calabash. The ultimate "rustication" was performed by the bison who "gifted" it by fighting with other males and rubbing it on everything. HUGE amount of interior volume cools any and all smoke before it reaches your lips. No tongue or lip bite worries with that thing. It's not just a curiosity; it's a real smoker I use all the time and love. I like to dream I'm Sherlock Holmes' US Southern brother, Bubba Holmes.@BurleyVonPuffington I think the pipe in your avatar looks like a Viking blowing horn
Just an easy Lane BCA in a meer as I finish up my night/early morning before bed.
@BurleyVonPuffington How much baccy does it hold?
Not a ton. It's a typical, medium-sized bowl. The top is the same top as on a Basil Rathbone style gourd calabash. About 0.8 inch diameter at the top and tapering, and about 2 inches deep, but tapered at the bottom. But it's easy to clean, and you can just keep smoking bowl after bowl without worrying about damage to the pipe. I've sat on the porch many times with the tin and just tapped out the last of the ash and shoved more in there and kept on going.