Kicking off this chilly afternoon with a fire and a bowl of Six Pence in a Castello Sea Rock.
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Got to work, worked for an hour and a half and then got sent home due to weather. Snowing currently and freezing rain is expected later. So, I'm home now and smoking my 60's era Iwan Ries - Leather Wrapped Billiard with a "Frankenstein" blend.
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50/50 Bob's Chocolate flake and 507C Virginia Slices in a 2011 Rad Davis Pot.
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am near the half way mark of this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Cafe 645, neat, is my drink.
Interesting post for sure. I have only one estate pipe . . . don't think I'll go that route, but I might grab that Falcon if I could get it for cheap, just for the bowl. The few you've photographed look restorable though. Thanks for the tour.
That might be the most "no nonsense pipe" (whatever that means) that I've ever seen. Big bowl, short stem thick bowl walls, a bit ugly - I'd snort on that if I drove in traffic, for sure!
Don't think I've seen that pipe on your posts before. Very, very elegant and beautiful figure.
Quick evening smoke of Barens HH ODF in a Jeantet Distinction 701 lithe billiard
Some Old Home Place on this sunny afternoon in a MM legend. 
I've started "doing up" a pipe in a similar manner lately, abandoning (or at least limiting) the "3 layer firm pack" thing. Thanks for posting a picture of affirmation. Helps!
After work and after firewood duty I am smoking G H & Co. Kendal Flake
Counting myself in on that august number, I have a feeling there are way more than 3
!!!Do you perchance have a link to that "chicken stare" thing You have me most curious!
I didn't say that. I recommend you join the artillery. You'll swab or worm and load the guns to start. And haul and chock them into position. Firing is generally the gun captain's privilege. You'd have to work your way up to that. If in doubt, get yourself to another SK or ECWS event and stand behind the gun lines, and watch. And see how much comparative leisure gunners get to smoke their pipes
@MisterBadger I volunteer with the Don Catchment Rivers Trust:It's a 20-acre model farm, with 2 orchards and a few more scattered apple trees (all cider apple varieties), and about 1,000 more acres and 3 more farms comprising the rest of the estate (plus 3 more cider apple orchards). We could certainly do with some volunteers who know about pruning. The rewards consist only of free tea/coffee and biscuits (bring your own sandwiches), some interesting people to talk to, a sense of fulfilment and some excellent scenery to contemplate whilst smoking your pipe. More pics of that to follow when I'm next up there and communing with the goddess Nicotiana
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So you recommend firing the guns?
@MisterBadger Sounds good to me! Need to go away from the gunpowder to smoke your pipe thoughI didn't say that. I recommend you join the artillery. You'll swab or worm and load the guns to start. And haul and chock them into position. Firing is generally the gun captain's privilege. You'd have to work your way up to that. If in doubt, get yourself to another SK or ECWS event and stand behind the gun lines, and watch. And see how much comparative leisure gunners get to smoke their pipes
We are not weird. We just like to know stuff. And did you know you can tell the colour of the eggs a chicken lays, by the colour of the feathers around its ears?
My grandmother would remonstrate with Grandfather when, very late in life, he would sit at home of an evening reading his way through the family encyclopedia. "What do you want to know all that stuff for?" she'd ask. "What use is it going to be?"
"My dear," he would reply, "I am not long for this world, and knowledge is the only thing I shall be able to take with me when I'm dead."
Sutliff Crumble Cake Barrel Aged No 6 in A Peterson Xmas 2024 X105.
Just finished smoking year 2021 Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation Evening Flake in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson Ebony POTY 4AB No. 422/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Now smoking year 2024 KBV Mr. Christian's Haunted Virginia in a straight, black sandblasted 1980s Comoy’s Mark-2 G * 6 (4) bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
Decided to bust out the plug cutter and process the whole block of Vertical Limit. It's got an interesting top note that i'm not sure whether i like or not yet, so i'll be running this through several pipes to explore it further. For now, i'll rub this pile out and continue with the Rattray's olive wood...
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HU Makhuwa in a Glenn Tinsky Stippled Billiard and Diet Coke on the side.
Having a fire and watching several Northern Flickers hanging out.
Having a fire and watching several Northern Flickers hanging out.