***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***
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1792 Flake in this MBSD bent egg meer with some nice sunlight pics of how she's coloring.
Looking forward to what she looks like with 250 bowls of 1792 through her and a good beeswax dip.
Looking forward to what she looks like with 250 bowls of 1792 through her and a good beeswax dip.
C&D Small Batch Sun Bear in the HS Studio freehand.
Still working on my dart game with some half&half and 5 bros., packed In a Irwin’s London Made billiard, Drinking Espresso between packing for 5 nights under a tarp in Tahoe national forest. It’s tough to choose what tobacco to bring. I can’t bring em all. 
In the gentle rain (so far) from Beryl, smoking Solani 633 in a smallish
Bondarev billiard.
Bondarev billiard.
5 year old HU Janneman Flake in a Briarworks author.
1 year old Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in an Altinay. Just a year had made a significant difference to the positive with this blend.
Somewhere, I've read about a blend that's just Burley & Oriental (Turkish). So, I mixed up a small batch of Burley & Oriental, about 50-50. WOW! I now think I've "got it" really getting the Oriental. I used McClelland Blending Oriental, which I've got couple tins, now well aged.
Next step is that I'll used this mixture as a condiment adding to either straight VA or a VaPer.
Smoking in a Lorenzo smooth Oom Paul:
Next step is that I'll used this mixture as a condiment adding to either straight VA or a VaPer.
Smoking in a Lorenzo smooth Oom Paul:
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, steel head trout and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm not far from finishing this bowl of year 2021 first production Watch City Simply Orange Virginia in a black sandblast medium bend Peterson POTY 4AB No. 182/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Just finished cleaning a few pipes.
Peterson Royal Yacht in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
15 bowls in with this pipe. And it's finally hit the sweet spot.
Second Breakfast in an Italian basket pipe.
Half way through this bowl of Peretti Royal in a black sandblasted medium bend 2013 Mark Tinsky Coral 5 cherrywood with a smooth dark brown shank and bottom with a tapered black briar accented acrylic stem.
Sutliff 507C in a LJ Peretti Virgin Deluxe Canted Egg.
1st and only bowl today is a daily dose of Nightcap in a Pete 221 being a long hot day on the farm
C&D Steamworks 2024 in a Peterson Dracula 80s.
Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a Savinelli Monsieur 703ks.
Little more Steamworks24 in the little tomato meer to finish the day. Listening to JJ Cale sing about what happens after midnight.
Passing the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2019 Seattle Pipe Club Deception Pass plug in a smooth straight brown late 1930s Linkman’s Dr. Grabow Deluxe Bruyere 9703B pot with a nickel accent and a black tapered vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Watching the Braves-D-Backs game.
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