***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***
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Dark BirdsEye in the AND mini meer.
Bob and Gracie are not happy to be looking at their hay wagon filled with hydraulic cylinders, hoses, and a new-to-me Miller inverter stick welder instead of their dinners
Bob and Gracie are not happy to be looking at their hay wagon filled with hydraulic cylinders, hoses, and a new-to-me Miller inverter stick welder instead of their dinners
After dinner a bowl of dried Sutliff Sweet Virginia in the Vauen Olaf bent egg. It still takes a few seconds to fully light during which I got a bit of tongue bite. Once the ember calmed down a bit I first tasted
something like Oriental, then a strong pine scent like pine nuts or Polo cologne for a few minutes then it mellowed to something closer to Virginia tobacco. The ember sits on top above the tobacco like a marble and if I tipped the pipe it would have fallen out. It does burn hot though and I may try it in a thicker pipe tomorrow. English black tea with milk and a chilled banana afterwards.
something like Oriental, then a strong pine scent like pine nuts or Polo cologne for a few minutes then it mellowed to something closer to Virginia tobacco. The ember sits on top above the tobacco like a marble and if I tipped the pipe it would have fallen out. It does burn hot though and I may try it in a thicker pipe tomorrow. English black tea with milk and a chilled banana afterwards.
Steamworks 2024 in the same Peterson Derry I was smoking earlier.
Low Country Edisto from May 2022 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Now smoking year 2021 KBV Your Welcome in a straight smooth dark brown 1930s (Comoy’s) Canadian Club 230 eight paneled billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Country Squire PS Blend in a "Naked Tinsky" Hawkbill.
Steamworks is such a great tobacco . . . . I have only 1 1/2 tins left from my original two. A rare treat to be treasured. So subtle and so many notes! Perhaps the finest Oriental blend I've ever smoked.
I've passed the quarter mark of this bowl of Wilke Lizzie Blood Virginia in a straight black with burgundy undertone sandblasted early 1960s Lane era Charatan 420 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Watching an episode of Nature on PBS with Sleepy Suzy by my side.
Watch City Glass Slipper in a BBB Walnut Own Make 428.
Passing the first third of this bowl of Ken Byron Ventures Jim’s Special Flake 2023 in a straight smooth brown 1920s-30s (Comoy’s) Corinthian Sutliff San Francisco London Made 36 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Much better photo of the pipe this time.
Bringing out this big boy again, Castello G Canadian
Opened a jar of Pegasus from a few years ago. So good and already punchy-fermented.
Opened a jar of Pegasus from a few years ago. So good and already punchy-fermented.
McConnell Red Virginia in a commissioned Doctor's Pipes strawberry wood apple.
Sam Gawith Special Flake No. 4 in a Jerry Crawford Rhodesian
A very striking pipe! Nice shot, too!
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Now that is a beautiful pipe!