***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***

[Cloozoe]

PFVI and coffee

 

[Backwoods Briar]

@Backwoods Briar Nice pipe and Five Brothers seems a popular baccy choice for a clay. A long stem clay is best for Jason the blacksmith to light with an ember from his forge Going to meet him at the Viking re-enactments at Cromford Mill and Elvaston Castle this year; I've told him I'll have my pipe ready!

Vikings of Middle England - Cromford Mills

Outside family fun events, open-air exhibitions, children’s activities and online lectures, we have an exciting variety of events planned for our 250th Anniversary Year.

www.cromfordmills.org.uk

Hey King, that Looks like the perfect place to smoke a clay filled with good baccy

 

[The Clay King]

Hey King, that Looks like the perfect place to smoke a clay filled with good baccy

@Backwoods Briar Especially when lit with an ember from the blacksmith's forge!

 

[Ben.R.C]

ODF in a Herbaugh plateau tomato with musk ox

 

[The Clay King]

Morning everyone, I started the day with PS Bullseye in a K Super Grain with shank logo, I’m really loving this blend and fortunately have some more on the way.
I’m getting ready to walk WeeBay with Dark Annie in the rusticated Yello Bole with yellow circle logo and Solani 633 in the other YB which is made of Algerian briar. I’ll finish my coffee first, Lavazza Rosso today. View attachment 284003

@Birddog66 Brookfield No.2 in a clay. Mixed some of the OTC with the Villiger Jamaican. The Cavaliers & Roundheads say you don't want a baccy that burns like gunpowder Got Steak & Ale Pie & honey roast carrots for dinner - very medieval!

 

[newbroom]

Pulled another rack ornament (seldom if ever smoked pipe) and loaded it with Match VIP. This is my most shiny pipe. A Kaywoodie 13b. drinkless.

 

[RPK]

Finishing up some reading this morning and some leftover Evening Flake. Coffee black. And a quote out of the book.

“But experience is he best teacher, hunger good sauce, and I really think to be acquainted with misery contributes to the enjoyment of happiness, and to know one's self greatly facilitates the knowledge of mankind. One thing I often console myself with, and that is, the earth will lie as hard upon the monarch as it will upon the hunter, and I have no assurance that it will lie upon me at all. My bones may, in a few years, or perhaps days, be bleaching upon the plains in these regions, like many of my occupation, without a friend to turn even a turf upon them after a hungry wolf has finished his feast.”

Thank you for posting the lines above from the book, they are very thought provoking.

 

[Speak Easy]

Thank you for posting the lines above from the book, they are very thought provoking.

You’re more than welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Castello 55 Old Antiquari with Army Mount and some pour over Sumatra.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Didn't want to leave the house this morning- one of my favorite movies was on (The Yakuza).
Hit record before I left.

Mcclelland MV27 in the Il Duca D sax.

 

[Scottmi]

@Scottmi Nantwich was fantastic! Got to meet 2 re-enactors I'd smoked a clay with before, at Bolsover Castle in 2019 & Nottingham Pipe Show 2022. It was VERY windy the day I went to see the Sealed Knot at Bolsover Castle; Dad says I spent all day trying to light my clay

Excellent! Sounds like successful weekend all around. Did you have final victory over the wind?

 

[FoggyMorning]

Sillem's Black in a Savinelli.

 

[telescopes]

James Upshall Straight Bulldog with a black saddle stem and my old favorite.

 

[The Clay King]

Excellent! Sounds like successful weekend all around. Did you have final victory over the wind?

@Scottmi Yes I found a sheltered corner out of the wind and lit my clay. I don't think it lasted long with the wind keeping it stoked

 

[telescopes]

Morning everyone, I started the day with PS Bullseye in a K Super Grain with shank logo, I’m really loving this blend and fortunately have some more on the way.
I’m getting ready to walk WeeBay with Dark Annie in the rusticated Yello Bole with yellow circle logo and Solani 633 in the other YB which is made of Algerian briar. I’ll finish my coffee first, Lavazza Rosso today. View attachment 284003

Those are some mighty fine Yello-Boles.

 

[Speak Easy]

Off adventuring again. Really like the little Ropp. Thinking of getting a few more of similar style. They fit my daily activities well. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young singing Ohio. Ole blue dog asleep in the backseat.
Have a great day, folks!

 

[UncleRasta]

Wishing you the best @Carol

 

[Carol]

Wishing you the best @Carol

Thank you sir!

 

[Carol]

May your surgeon be skillful!
Heal up well!

Thank you sir!

 

[Carol]

Good luck with that Carol, wishing you a speedy recovery

Thank you!