***What Are You Smoking, January 2021?***
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Just finished smoking Peter Stokkebye No. 17 English Luxury in a quarter bend smooth dark brown small bowl 2016 Brigham Algonquin 226 Rhodesian with a long black vulcanite tapered stem. Time to snack!
Those kinds of jars work for you? How long do they keep tobacco moist in Vegas? The jars I had of that type barely lasted
Now Smoking: Middelton's: Prince Albert; Sutliff's: Edward G. Robinson; and, Cornell & Diehl's: Orion's Arrow; as I slowly break-in my brand-new, minty-fresh, just out of the hands of the UPS man today, after waiting two years to pull the trigger on this one... 7" long, Brigham: Heritage: smooth Canadian, straight ovoid stem, with acrylic mouth piece, Model #019.
I am drinking Snapple's: Mango Madness; from a big, heavy, glass tumbler, which is packed to the brim with ice. And, Alfred Hitchcock Presents in playing on MeTV.
I began the new pipe Christening ceremony with a 1/3 bowl of PA; purely for 'gently getting acquainted' purposes. Add to that, the fact the besides Middleton's Prince Albert being the "National JOY smoke", PA is also THE 'House Blend' around here; so that makes it only fitting for PA to lead the charge as the advance guidon-bearer.
The results were quite satisfactory, and I was relating quite well to this new - and new shape for me - pipe, and quite comfortably.
I followed up with a 1/2 bowl of EGR Pipe Blend - with which I am not only quite recently introduced to, but quite wholly taken with - and chugged along at my regular smoke-thru-the-day pace, just to see how this Canadian-shaped pipe, which is made in France, for a Canadian company, handled itself.
The results were also satisfactory; however, because I am a 'heavy chugger' who favors the more meaty bowl shapes - apples and brandies - I could start to feel the walls of this thinner bowl design begin to heat-up surprisingly quickly.
Then, I decided to really open it up, and get off the Burley's with a fully-packed bowl of C&D's: Orion's Arrow - a dry tabak which burns fast, being a Va/Per and Turkish blend - to see how the thin 5mm bowl wall thickness handled some Red Virginia nitro-heat in the blend.
The results were also quite satisfactory; as I cannot physically chug Orion's Arrow without paying the obvious and immediate penalty for chugging Virginias; therefore, I could not properly stress the bowl by hitting it too hard or too fast. This informed me that perhaps Canadian-style pipes might very well also serve as excellent 'training pipes' with faster burning tabaks; so to teach people how to sip, savoy, and pace a blend properly... or, face immediate correction.
So far, this has been a great night. Next up on MeTV: Mannix; and for me, back to my Burley-based Codger blends in my new Brigham Canadian - Sherm Natman
I am drinking Snapple's: Mango Madness; from a big, heavy, glass tumbler, which is packed to the brim with ice. And, Alfred Hitchcock Presents in playing on MeTV.
I began the new pipe Christening ceremony with a 1/3 bowl of PA; purely for 'gently getting acquainted' purposes. Add to that, the fact the besides Middleton's Prince Albert being the "National JOY smoke", PA is also THE 'House Blend' around here; so that makes it only fitting for PA to lead the charge as the advance guidon-bearer.
The results were quite satisfactory, and I was relating quite well to this new - and new shape for me - pipe, and quite comfortably.
I followed up with a 1/2 bowl of EGR Pipe Blend - with which I am not only quite recently introduced to, but quite wholly taken with - and chugged along at my regular smoke-thru-the-day pace, just to see how this Canadian-shaped pipe, which is made in France, for a Canadian company, handled itself.
The results were also satisfactory; however, because I am a 'heavy chugger' who favors the more meaty bowl shapes - apples and brandies - I could start to feel the walls of this thinner bowl design begin to heat-up surprisingly quickly.
Then, I decided to really open it up, and get off the Burley's with a fully-packed bowl of C&D's: Orion's Arrow - a dry tabak which burns fast, being a Va/Per and Turkish blend - to see how the thin 5mm bowl wall thickness handled some Red Virginia nitro-heat in the blend.
The results were also quite satisfactory; as I cannot physically chug Orion's Arrow without paying the obvious and immediate penalty for chugging Virginias; therefore, I could not properly stress the bowl by hitting it too hard or too fast. This informed me that perhaps Canadian-style pipes might very well also serve as excellent 'training pipes' with faster burning tabaks; so to teach people how to sip, savoy, and pace a blend properly... or, face immediate correction.
So far, this has been a great night. Next up on MeTV: Mannix; and for me, back to my Burley-based Codger blends in my new Brigham Canadian - Sherm Natman
Now smoking D&R VIP in a 2004 smooth long shank Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 lumberman with a black vulcanite tapered stem.
GH Brown Flake Liquorice in a 1958 Dunhill Shell shape 6R.
Now Smoking: Super Value's: Vanilla; in one of my best smokers, a MM: Diplomat, smooth apple, with bent stem. That, to be immediately followed by C&D's: Vanilla Cavendish; in my own version of a vanilla-flavored 'Punch-Out'. My drink for tonight's Main Event will be my traditional evening drink: hot, black tea with sugar; no cream. - Sherm Natman
MB HH Pure Virginia in a Viking Classic Dublin.
Now smoking the last of this sample of 1950s Rattray’s Black Mallory in a 2003 URAL full bend big bowl egg shaped Lattice meer with a black acrylic saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Cleaning a few pipes.
Just smoked some Lane Voodoo Queen in a small straight meer apple as I walked about a mile and a half in the pre-dawn FL morning.
I got it in from P&C yesterday along with a nifty Lane soft flame pipe lighter. Also got some Haunted Bookshop in honor of Matches 860 (my first HB !) and some Lane's Dark Red for a laugh. I've tried em all and am very happy with each. Variety/spice
I've been hunkered down since last March or February late. Somehow I've convinced my doctors to refill my prescriptions w/o coming in for office visits now for over a year.
Life in the fast lane is a thing of the past por moi.
I got it in from P&C yesterday along with a nifty Lane soft flame pipe lighter. Also got some Haunted Bookshop in honor of Matches 860 (my first HB !) and some Lane's Dark Red for a laugh. I've tried em all and am very happy with each. Variety/spice
I've been hunkered down since last March or February late. Somehow I've convinced my doctors to refill my prescriptions w/o coming in for office visits now for over a year.
Life in the fast lane is a thing of the past por moi.
Last smoke of the day is Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a 2016 Peretti's M.T. Natural made in Holland straight smooth brown Algerian briar billiard with a black acrylic tapered stem.
Now Smoking: Match: Country Doctor; in a Brigham: Algonquin, smooth billiard, bent Vulcanite stem, Model #223.
... And, so to bed. - Sherm Natman
... And, so to bed. - Sherm Natman
Good morning smoke of Bayou Morning in a MM hardwood with coffee.
Good morning friends.Enjoying now 633 Solani hydrated with rum,and irish coffee cup..............9º and raining..........
I missed out on the calabash by £2, I immediately consoled myself by buying another pipe. It’s getting out of hand and I’m worried that I might actually move on to injecting pipes. I’m starting the day with Ch’tns 3yr Matured with Kendal Lat (it’s lightly topped with Amaretto) in my 50’s or 60’s Peterson Bulldog.
Good afternoon folks, Early Morning Pipe in a Savinelli pipe.
Le Parfait jars work very well for me . . . they are kept in drawers out of the sun - 26 jars per drawer.
Don't know about the climate in Vegas but in the U.K. I've been using them without issue since 2007.
Just finished up a bowl of D&R Three Sails and now smoking some C&D Pegasus in my Altinay bent pear meer. Black coffee flowing freely.
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