A large bowl of Stockton in the Peterson PSB Sherlock Holmes Watson
***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***
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Kicking the feet up with some Best Brown in an HS pencil shank bamboo billiard...
Afternoon work smoke was Hearth and Home Prince Andrew in a Dr. Grabow.
A drugstore pipe for a drugstore blend.
I enjoyed it a lot.
A drugstore pipe for a drugstore blend.
I enjoyed it a lot.
Kajun Kake in a Peterson Derry 69.
Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69. 
I'm NOT gonna do this often, so don't dread me doing it on a regular basis, but I usually use 3 pipes for 3 bowls in the evening, with no breakfast smoke on weekdays. Tonight we had a mixed bowl of half Plum Pudding Bourbon (end of the tin), and half Briarworks Country Lawyer, an oriental blend with added cigar leaf, in the Erik Nording freehand sitter comfort pipe at center, good for at least a 1.5 hr. smoke (I layered the two blends, and it was pretty good). Then we had some recently out of cellar from 2021 Sutliff Black Cherry goopy aromatic in the regular, non-custom Nording smooth 2019 Rhinoceros at left, and I'm now just starting on a bowl of nothing but Briarworks Country Lawyer in the Briarworks Moonshine Cannonball at right.
Also shown: Prometheus pipe lighter (best I've found for deep bowls like the two Nordings have) and since some were including pocket knives, my Chris Reeve Mnandi with damascus steel and mammoth bone scales.
Also shown: Prometheus pipe lighter (best I've found for deep bowls like the two Nordings have) and since some were including pocket knives, my Chris Reeve Mnandi with damascus steel and mammoth bone scales.
Don't feel like taking another photo, so just re-sharing this one from my belt post earlier. This Savinelli 320 is giving me a wonderful smoke with a 50/50 mix of Old Tobey and Blood Red Moon. Actually amazingly good.
Another bowl of Haunted Bookshop Cake this time in a Jirsa Nosewarmer 210.
Luxury Bullseye Flake in a MM-Dagner poker, with more Tradicional
Currently smoking my CAO lattice billiard with some Cornell and Diehl - 2023 Anthology.
Sipping on Sankara Stone and Pabst after a long day 
Going to have Condor Original Ready Rubbed in a Missouri Meerschaum/Cornell & Diehl Collaboration Charles Towne Cobbler Corn Cob.
Before bed bowl of 2:1 Exclusive:Dark Frangrant mix in the little clay
HH Burley Flake in an unbranded meerschaum, with more Tradicional
Finishing a bowl I started in the no-name prince several days ago and forgot about. The blend was immediately recognisable on first light, Bagpiper's Dream 
English blend night tonight! I've been putting my English blend dedicated Country Gentleman cob to work smoking Arango Balkan Supreme, Peterson Early Morning Pipe, then Cornell & Diehl Cordial.
At the moment I'm rather torn between Arango Balkan Supreme and C&D Cordial for which is my current favorite English blend. I really like the smoothness of Balkan Supreme and how completely and utterly gentle and soft the retrohale is, which as someone who retrohales most sips from their pipe is greatly appreciated.
However, Balkan Supreme is a bit sweeter and less spicy and tangy than I'd like. Being spicy and tangy while still packing a good campfire'y Latakia punch is where C&D Cordial really shines, but the spiciness does make the retrohale a bit of a, "Fire in the hole!" situation and my sinuses aren't exactly thrilled about it. Cordial is also a bit rougher around the edges and much less smooth than Balkan Supreme. I think I'll have to smoke them both a lot more before I can decide on a favorite, and probably give C&D's Stratfordshire a try too since it seems to be in the same sort of blend family.
At the moment I'm rather torn between Arango Balkan Supreme and C&D Cordial for which is my current favorite English blend. I really like the smoothness of Balkan Supreme and how completely and utterly gentle and soft the retrohale is, which as someone who retrohales most sips from their pipe is greatly appreciated.
However, Balkan Supreme is a bit sweeter and less spicy and tangy than I'd like. Being spicy and tangy while still packing a good campfire'y Latakia punch is where C&D Cordial really shines, but the spiciness does make the retrohale a bit of a, "Fire in the hole!" situation and my sinuses aren't exactly thrilled about it. Cordial is also a bit rougher around the edges and much less smooth than Balkan Supreme. I think I'll have to smoke them both a lot more before I can decide on a favorite, and probably give C&D's Stratfordshire a try too since it seems to be in the same sort of blend family.
Makhuwa plus latakia in an Il Ceppo.
Finally back home and settled. Just finished smoking year 2019 Ascanian No. 1 in a straight smooth dark brown 1930s (Comoy’s) The Exmoor Pipe 283 chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Half way through this bowl of year 2020 Angler's Dream in a 1984 Stanwell Antique 124 egg with a smooth brown front and a black sandblasted back with a dark gold ferrule and black vulcanite stem in the military mount style. Been feeding the ferals. Having a second cup of hot tea. I'm going to be posting less for a few days while I deal with various things.
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