HCA with the short stem and 1Q, Chocolate, and Mint.***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***
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HCA with the short stem and 1Q, Chocolate, and Mint.
Finishing some 5Bros/DBE, and have a pocket full of Ryback+P for the morning.
Have the horses in a bigger yet controlled paddock-it’s Bob’s first day of letting his wound air out
Have the horses in a bigger yet controlled paddock-it’s Bob’s first day of letting his wound air out
Love the look of that pipe. Great photo! Thanks!
Why is that shape called a Cutty and not a Stacked Chimney?Last of my Rouxgaroux.Will this blend be impacted by the tobacopalypse? In my Merchant Service Short Dark Cutty with morning coffee.
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Last night and this morning - aged Dark Strong from a Briarworks Dublin, then McC 40th in a SeaMonster author.
'23 Folklore inna '22 Sav Saint Nicholas 602 onna frosty morning, with coffee.
Robert McConnell Highgate in a IMP
Great Saturday so far. WCC Old North Church in the workhouse burley machine Stanwell bent Dublin. 
Peterson EMP in a Peterson Donegal Rocky 69.
Slow Saturday morning, mix of Dark Strong Kentucky and Newminster 400 in the Moretti morta stack. And Morty sunbathing. 
Good question... with my custom short stem it may make the bowl look a little taller? It's not really so tall and I don't think of it as a stack or chimney but that is more a term of art or preference I have been led to believe. It has a little cant, and Smooth Dark Cutty is what Merchant Service called it when i bought it. It's a fabulous smoker, and I have really come to prefer the short stem on it!
Thank ya! It's a newer addition, but i'm sure it's not the only squashed meer'mater out there. This shape is perfect for a shorter smoke, which i sometimes like due to the ability to keep the blends switched up and thereby go back on the hunt in the shelves more often.
Was my daughter's 22nd birthday last night, so i stayed up a little later and drank a little more than usual. Spent a little time getting to know her bf over cigars and whisky under the cold stars.
After a quite late breakfast it's time for a bowl of Night Owl in a Castello Sea Rock G and a walk with the doggie.
HU Tobacco- Louisiana Broken Flake in a Radice and a Cup of Joe.
C&D Pegasus in a Peterson Aran 150.
Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Fed everybody, but myself. Tomato the Brave and Abner the Eager left after they ate. It rained some today, and more is supposed to come, but I'm hoping conditions will allow me to finally get in a set of walking reps. The roads are mostly clear of ice.
Tilbury in the marTelo panel w/ bakelite stem.
Buddy Mike and I celebrated the ending of our home rolled cigarillo episode last night starting with our favorite aromatic pipes and TobaccoBarn's delightful Evening Cordial, and ending with a "real" cigar we'd never tried before, a Phillie's Blunt regular unflavoured, which he'd picked up online. It was terrific.
Maybe my tastes are changing, but I've moved decidedly to codgers in my pipe as a "normal" smoke, and to less heavily flavoured cigars (can't afford "real" ones except as an occasional treat. Looks like I can now, eh?
I'll repeat the entire procedure as shown with Stu, Josh and my other buddies who participated. Every once in a while we all get together as a group, but always at my house, so it's a real event, especially in winter, like now. Reason? Their wives, of course.
I had a lady friend many years ago who smokes cigars. She's still around PG but no longer available, fortunately. 
Maybe my tastes are changing, but I've moved decidedly to codgers in my pipe as a "normal" smoke, and to less heavily flavoured cigars (can't afford "real" ones except as an occasional treat. Looks like I can now, eh?
I'll repeat the entire procedure as shown with Stu, Josh and my other buddies who participated. Every once in a while we all get together as a group, but always at my house, so it's a real event, especially in winter, like now. Reason? Their wives, of course.
I had a lady friend many years ago who smokes cigars. She's still around PG but no longer available, fortunately.
Time to show the Danes some love after the recent rounds of STG bashing (deservedly or not)
After all the current Queen of Denmark, Mary, is an Aussie
A couple of Danish made Stanwells
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The 1st is an Sixten Ivarsson designed Shape 24 (from early ‘70s) which has been re-stemmed.
Here it is with the original straight saddle stem
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- I reckon that re-stemmed Ivarsson 24 is - aesthetically, at least - an improvement on the original. Lovely.
Couldn’t resist another Suhr pipe, a little bent billiard with a decent bowl size and great contrast staining as usual.
Beautiful wood. Understand the disease well! I struggle with it all the time. Not French. No Resistance.
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