Haunted Bookshop in a Brebbia Serie 1960 lovat
***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***
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Haunted Bookshop in a Brebbia Serie 1960 lovat
After an early dinner of roast pork belly and new potatoes it's cigar time. Oliva V Melanio with a 30 year old cask strength Cognac, a gift from a lifelong friend. Missing the gf something awful, but there's light at the end of the tunnel. Cheers.
How similar?
Lots of princes out there, though few measure up IMO.
This one was made by Fabio Marchese.
Afternoon smokes, a couple of Home Rollies, one Smoker's Pride Classic, the other Smoker's Pride Whiskey. Both work very well in this format, last a good 15 minutes and taste very much like the tobacco in a pipe. Keepers. (best so far, though, is SWS, definite winner)
Also experimenting with tobacco stretchers. Will post on that later tonight. Maybe. Depends on how my backup computer behaves. It's a 32 bit Asus, running on Linux Debian lol. Love old technology. Should be okay; was last time. WhY? I'm an experimenter, and my intuition, which I often use more than my brain, tells me that my smokin' buddies in the US are going to face similar problems that we face up here and Oz faces in Kangarooland.
Oh yeah, as a final comment on Robby Burns Day, and as a ps for my hunting buddies, I've been informed by a good friend that one can make an acceptable haggis from a deer stomach. Venison does taste a bit like mutton, at least the ones up here! Will be trying this next year if I make it.
Also experimenting with tobacco stretchers. Will post on that later tonight. Maybe. Depends on how my backup computer behaves. It's a 32 bit Asus, running on Linux Debian lol. Love old technology. Should be okay; was last time. WhY? I'm an experimenter, and my intuition, which I often use more than my brain, tells me that my smokin' buddies in the US are going to face similar problems that we face up here and Oz faces in Kangarooland.
Oh yeah, as a final comment on Robby Burns Day, and as a ps for my hunting buddies, I've been informed by a good friend that one can make an acceptable haggis from a deer stomach. Venison does taste a bit like mutton, at least the ones up here! Will be trying this next year if I make it.
On a sunny, warm afternoon, had a bowl of Wilke 515 in a Sunrise by Comoy. 
Long day chasing timberdoodle for the last time this season. Smoking Coniston in a meer
Flushed a lone bird today, saw 5 wood duck, a rabbit and two grey foxes. Young girl post bath begging, she put in 15.5 miles and is dead to the world as I type
Flushed a lone bird today, saw 5 wood duck, a rabbit and two grey foxes. Young girl post bath begging, she put in 15.5 miles and is dead to the world as I type
Currently smoking my Cavalier meerschaum with some Arango Balkan Supreme.
Pegasus in a Peterson 2015 St. Patricks Day pipe. The green, to no surprise, is wearing away.
This afternoon following a black powder shoot in the Winter woods...Paul's Black & Gold Cavendish in the Mockingbird...
Slipped out after my boy’s wedding to get a smoke. Firebird in my Becker stack.
Just got back from a cruise out of NOLA. Enjoying some Cowboy Coffee in the little Stublin I picked up on the way home from The Country Squire.
This was my first visit to The Country Squire, they were very helpful and knowledgeable. I took some advice and sniffed just about everything and left with more than I had anticipated.
As for the cruise, this was my first one as a pipe smoker. It was actually pretty easy to manage around designated areas and the wind was avoidable with windcaps and a zippo. I usually lock my phone in the safe fist thing on a cruise as it's the only real time I ever get away from it so no lovely montage of what I smoked to show. However, I did manage to plow through all of CS Lewis' Mere Christianity and about half a tin of Three Nuns.
This was a bucket list vacation for me, not as a cruise but the fact that I got our family on the one and only Chichén Itzá excursion while we were docked at Progresso. It was amazing and apart from the new Mexico smoking laws restricting all forms in public places, the day was fantastic!
This was my first visit to The Country Squire, they were very helpful and knowledgeable. I took some advice and sniffed just about everything and left with more than I had anticipated.
As for the cruise, this was my first one as a pipe smoker. It was actually pretty easy to manage around designated areas and the wind was avoidable with windcaps and a zippo. I usually lock my phone in the safe fist thing on a cruise as it's the only real time I ever get away from it so no lovely montage of what I smoked to show. However, I did manage to plow through all of CS Lewis' Mere Christianity and about half a tin of Three Nuns.
This was a bucket list vacation for me, not as a cruise but the fact that I got our family on the one and only Chichén Itzá excursion while we were docked at Progresso. It was amazing and apart from the new Mexico smoking laws restricting all forms in public places, the day was fantastic!
@infectedpsyche : Glad you enjoyed the cruise. Chicken Itza is a cool place!
No pyramids behind me, save for the stacks of tins i keep opening and need to finish smoking or jarring.
Back in the smoking lounge for some Exclusive in an Albin. I gave up on making the bonfire after bringing in a few truckloads of debris from the driveway it's too late. I'd be up all night. No rain till later in the week, so i'll put flame to it Monday. All i have left to worry about it what's for dinner.
No pyramids behind me, save for the stacks of tins i keep opening and need to finish smoking or jarring.
Back in the smoking lounge for some Exclusive in an Albin. I gave up on making the bonfire after bringing in a few truckloads of debris from the driveway it's too late. I'd be up all night. No rain till later in the week, so i'll put flame to it Monday. All i have left to worry about it what's for dinner.
Pegasus in the Peterson Tyrone while learning my sermon for tomorrow
Great day at the Sealed Knot Battle of Nantwich yesterday:
Got to have a tankard of ale & a clay pipe of baccy with the re-enactors after the battle. I think if I joined the Sealed Knot I'd probably be GUZZLING ale & BONFIRING pipeweed
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I love that mug!! Can I ask where you got it?!
HU Director’s Cut in a Dunhill 5117
Haven’t posted in a while. Met a girl! She loves that I smoke a pipe! Keeper!
Tonight I’m hitting some 21 Cringle in a Blatter Canadian, which I’ve been enjoying a lot of late. Got a very large lot of pipes and peripherals at an action including this super cool Hawaii natural wood ashtray with a little knot of a pipe.
Life is good!
Tonight I’m hitting some 21 Cringle in a Blatter Canadian, which I’ve been enjoying a lot of late. Got a very large lot of pipes and peripherals at an action including this super cool Hawaii natural wood ashtray with a little knot of a pipe.
Life is good!
Thanks! It was a limited edition mug from the Peterson pipe notes forum. Maybe if you email Mark you could convince him to have an another run made!
Solani ABF in a small unbranded meerschaum horn