***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***
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For a fraction of a second, I considered offering that one can never go wrong with a VaPer. But then I realized that the temerity of me actually suggesting something to Jim would be tantamount to a Private fresh out of Basic Training suggesting munitions to a Brigadier General (!).
NOTE: My US Army years still fresh ....
Hamborger Veermaster in a Peterson Meerschaum.
Afternoon pipe while packing up some items for a member here.
This time around? Some new 1792 in a Nana Ivarsson Stanwell.
This time around? Some new 1792 in a Nana Ivarsson Stanwell.
Just what I needed to hear. Thank you!
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am a third of the way through this bowl of Watch City English Ernie-ental in a straight dark brown and tan rusticated Peterson 2023 Saint Patrick’s Day 264 Canadian with an Irish flag colored ferrule and tapered black acrylic stem. Lavazza Classico, neat, is my drink.
12 year old Presbyterian in a GBD bulldog.
I don't mind opinions. The hardest thing I experience in pipe smoking is figuring out what blend or genre to dedicate a pipe. I have a lot of estate pipes that I cleaned just waiting on me to figure out what to smoke in them. I'm obviously very picky about that.
Much of the problem is that these pipes came to me years after I had matched pipes to blends. As I noted, I have six pipes dedicated to Dunhill Elizabethan Match, and I try to rotate them depending on my mood, so why add another pipe to that scenario? And there are some blends that I like that I only enjoy in smaller bowls.
I have plenty of pipes dedicated to English blends so I don't need to add to that genre. Same goes for aromatics.
The old pipes, pre-1950s, I prefer untopped blends so I can take advantage of what old wood brings to my smoking experience. That greatly narrows the field for choices.
Here are two examples of bigger pipes that I want to smoke, but can't decide what to dedicate them to.
Peterson Irish Whiskey XL90.
This Pierluigi is a big one. There's not many blends I want to smoke for that long a period, which greatly limits my choices.
And I have several Ardors and Rinaldos that I inherited that I don't smoke because they are giant size. Never smoked the middle one, but the other two are among the best smokers I have, too. I smoked vintage Three Nuns in that last Ardor, and it was the best it ever tasted, but it took almost two hours to do it. That's a long time for me with any blend, even VaPer Three Nuns.
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That was a once in a lifetime shot, bravo!
‘Can’t remember if it’s ‘18 or ‘20 SG Kendal Plug, but it’s in a Kaywoodie 7409B Thorn…
The sun is out, and I did a set of walking reps in the steamy heat. I've about a quarter of a bowl left of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.
In the zone with this today. Nearing the end of my 4th consecutive bowl of Rattray 40 Virginia in the same pipe (Dustin Franc canted beaded brandy). Fill, light, smoke, dump, repeat.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Part way through this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Just fed Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger. For the first time since we had brought Sam the Scamp and her scampers in the house (March 20), Molly actually came out of the bed room. She wouldn't come in to the den, but she was out in the hall near the bed room door crying for food. That's the first sign of progress I have seen from her.
This morning, Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.
Presently, MB Virginia Flake in an Altinay.
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