Heading outback to the patio for a fire in the pit with some C&D Exclusive in an Ashton LX Bent Dublin
***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***
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Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am not far from finishing 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. Lavazza Classico, neat, is my drink.
I did blend it myself based on the recipe using ingredients I bought from smoking pipes. It’s spot on. It’s always good to know that old blends don’t have to be lost to time. The Black Maria recipe I sent you is spot on as well. The main question is do you use blending Latakia and Perique from Sutliff or C&D. The recipe calls for Sutliff and ive done ok with it but this latest batch is using C&D.
@Fralphog Love your clays; I've got a tin of 1792 Flake to smoke in mine at Nantwich. Bought my train tickets today; how soon after getting off the bus / train in Nantwich do you think it will be before I light my first clay? I can't carry a lit slow match around if I'm going in the church, museum & pub!
PS #23 B&B in a Peterson Irish Harp X105 Sandblasted Billard with a cup of black tea
LJ Peretti #8 Slice in a MM Diamondback this afternoon. 
Yesterday evening smoke:
TAK Cigar Dance in sandblasted Peterson‘s 03 Dracula.
Grousemoor tastes like a Spring day in the forest to me. I hope you are enjoying it.
Near the first third of this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a straight smooth brown 1960s-70s BBB Own Make 506 Canadian with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Working and listening to Eric Clapton.
Sam's Flake while watching the robins enjoying access to the bugs
Completing tonight my attempt to finish off various blends from almost empty jars, using a corn cob pipe.
Enjoy your time good people!
P.S. I see what happened to the vehicles, I wonder what happened to the deers...
Enjoy your time good people!
P.S. I see what happened to the vehicles, I wonder what happened to the deers...
Near the first third of this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a straight smooth brown 1960s-70s BBB Own Make 506 Canadian with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Working and listening to Eric Clapton.
Not only do you have exquisite taste in pipes but music as well!
Ha! I’m listening to some JJ Cale
Not only do you have exquisite taste in pipes but music as well!
C&D John Marr in a Chacom. I really need to get another Chacom or two. 
Close to finishing this bowl of year 2014 Astley’s No. 55 in a 1915-1920 straight smooth dark brown BBB Own Make 150 apple with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Lamenting missing the chance to put away or try any of the now completely out of stock HU Tillerman’s Flake with one of the last bowls of my “extended” McC’s Holiday Spirit 2016 in my old 504 Tortuga. I only have the financial means to put in an estervals order once every January, and the means ended up coming along too late, won’t be possible until the end of the week at best. I’ve watched the tin amount slowly and painfully tick down visibly for the last few weeks in my cart I had been building for the last eight months or so. It seems just like McC’s, too little, too late. If the future follows the trend that has been building these last few years, I’d imagine anyone building a cellar, including me, will have far less unique and quality blends to enjoy as time ticks on. Tried about a billion blends while looking for exactly what Tillerman was, all to have it killed off in front of me, quite likely forever. Future looks a bit grayer now, bummer.
This morning, Sir John’s Flake Virginia in an Altinok.
Butera Dark Stoved in the Musico Set Special Liverpool w/silver.
2015 Laurel Heights in a Castello
Exquisite
Exquisite
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