A blend I got from an ex-friend (politics man, politics) a few years ago: Balkan Blitz from a shop called the Squire in a cob
***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***
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Smoking some Wilke Crystal Palace in an Edwin pipes large freehand. This pipe is a beast!
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've passed the quarter mark of this bowl of 2014 Sutliff 1849 in a medium bend smooth dark brown 1968 Barling 5631 London England TVF billiard silver spigot with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Watching Asia, which is a nature show on BBC America.
2007 Tudor Castle in my Alden 4 square.
Loading up some 2018ish Crooner in it's dedicated cob. 
Mac Baren Scottish Blend for the drive home today. Smoking Prince Albert for the first time watching the tube. It's good, and I can see why this has been around a long time. I've been trying a bunch of OTC blends lately and this is definitely one of the better blends of the bunch.
Earlier today it was cigar time when I smoked Cain Maduro
Now smoking Peterson Nightcap from July 2021 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
I planned to take out an older tin with Dunhill label, but they look so similar and took out a more recent Peterson tin by mistake.
Now smoking Peterson Nightcap from July 2021 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
I planned to take out an older tin with Dunhill label, but they look so similar and took out a more recent Peterson tin by mistake.
I'm kinda jealous of that....not the shoveling part, but the beauty and the moisture a good snow brings. We haven't had much yet this year.
Firebird in a Wiley. Spent the last couple hours visiting with a friend who just lost his dad last Thursday. So sad because it was preventable if his dad hadn't been so stubborn and gone to the doctor a few days earlier. 
It's sad indeed when politics comes between friendship.
Losing a father is hard. Be there for your friend.Firebird in a Wiley. Spent the last couple hours visiting with a friend who just lost his dad last Thursday. So sad because it was preventable if his dad hadn't been so stubborn and gone to the doctor a few days earlier.
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HH Burley Flake in a small, unbranded meerschaum horn
Bud, that is so hard. I am glad you were there for your friend. I wish peace on him and his family.Firebird in a Wiley. Spent the last couple hours visiting with a friend who just lost his dad last Thursday. So sad because it was preventable if his dad hadn't been so stubborn and gone to the doctor a few days earlier.
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A third of a bowl left of year 2013 Esoterica Tilbury in a smooth medium bend 1999 Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Milverton with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem.
C&D Kajun Kake in a Peterson Christmas 2023 69.
Like pretty much all matters in pipe smoking, filters do seem to be a, "Try it and see what works for you" sort of matter. Until just recently I had never thought to try a filter with the Burley blends the bother my throat, since I always thought of a filter as something that just reduced the moisture content of the smoke and maybe took out a little tar and nicotine, not something to reduce the harshness of a blend.
The Dr. Grabow and Medico filters I've tried definitely do make Burleys easier on my throat though, the Grabows especially since they seem to filter the smoke a bit more. Next up I'll have to order some Savinelli balsa wood filters to see what effect they have (though I suspect they won't be as effective as a paper tube filter for reducing harshness since the smoke just passes around them instead of through them) and give the Vauen Dr. Perl Junior 6mm activated carbon filters a try too when I can find some in stock. I'm guessing the carbon filters will probably be the most effective of all, though I have heard they make the draw quite restricted and they are rather expensive and difficult to find in stock.
Off to touch up Archie pages with a bowl of Hearth & Home AJ’s Vaper in a pre-1952 Sutliff Falcon 372 (made by Comoy’s) smooth light brown straight bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Breaking in a meerschaum bowl I picked up for my green Falcon twister with some Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake.
Firing up some Veermaster in a Danish freehand and catching a little Rogan podcast.
Frog Morton's Cellar in a meer. I've been glued to my meers lately. The briars are getting jealous.
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