Firing up the afternoon with a bowl of the Orient in a pipe from the Orient (HS Studio freehand).
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I like your worry beads, Christos. Great color.
My dad traveled internationally for work for about the last 12 years of his career. He took my mom, my sister, myself, and sometimes all of us, on many amazing trips abroad as a result. On one trip, he took me along with him to Greece. We stayed in Athens and travelled to some other mainland towns and a couple of islands as well - I believe Mykonos and Santorini. I remember walking the streets of Athens with him on one of his days off, and I can still recall a shop we stopped at where I got my souvenir for the trip; a set of Tiger Eye worry beads. I hung them from my car's rearview mirror for many years and still have them in my memory box. I'll have to dig those out again... and maybe start using them as they were intended!
Thanks for reminding me of this great memory!
The pipe is really nothing special. It's a briar basket pipe that has been stained to present the pattern. I've dedicated it to aeros(mostly Autumn Evening) and use a 9mm Balsa filter.It is very different I must say. I must admit that I enjoy Autumn Evening. I combat the gooey problem by drying it overnight after opening a tin by removing it and laying it out on a paper towel. It probably reduces the sweetness some.I don't recall seeing Sunday Morning. I'm thinking about adding some Perique to the Autumn Evening. I really like Perique blends.
Thought I’d get the day off to a solid start so it’s Kendal Black Irish Twist in a Pete Squire and coffee.
Mac Baren Roll Cake
No name house pipe.
No name house pipe.
Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2017 Velvet in a straight smooth medium brown post-1940s Comoy’s Tradition 110B billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Haunted Bookshop in a Pete 444 
Dark Sails in the Briarlee.Crappy mood…
Trying a new KBV offering (thanks Steve from another forum) in a new-to-me Radice Rind Pure billard (thanks @AroEnglish ).
It's a nice afternoon, indeed.
It's a nice afternoon, indeed.
Half way through this bowl of year 2013 Rotary Navy Cut in a post-1938 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 bulldog with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Nigel Bruce smoked this model in two Sherlock Holmes movies. Please consider asking Shane Ireland at Smoking Pipes and Peterson to bring the pipe back into production.
A couple of minutes away from smoking year 2012 Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight, dark brown early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad.
2020 C&D Opening Night in a Pete PSB Milverton
Smoking another bowl of the Dark Holler from CS in a Dr Grabow Royal Duke. For some reason the room note this evening smelled like a sweet cigar...
PS Morning blend in a Falcon with coffee
It was a two smoke day:
Falcon stuffed with EMP and a MM cob stuffed with the last of the sample of Swiftcurrent Lake that Ravenwood included with my order (I will definitely be ordering more of this!).
Falcon stuffed with EMP and a MM cob stuffed with the last of the sample of Swiftcurrent Lake that Ravenwood included with my order (I will definitely be ordering more of this!).
My favorite tobacco and favorite band.