Supper after a long, hot, work day.
GH Extra Sweet Brown Boogie Twist
In a Radice.
Scoflaw Pogzilla for dessert.
GH Extra Sweet Brown Boogie Twist
In a Radice.
Scoflaw Pogzilla for dessert.
***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***
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Sutliff 507-C in a MM Mark Twin Cob with long forever stem ... nice smoke but unfortunately so hot and humid the glue around around the shank and bowl joint started to melt and the shank was twisting a bit. So I cleaned it and am putting it aside until cooler weather. Not a big deal and still smokeable but I just don't want to smoke a pipe until it falls apart. ... Seems careless somehow ... 
Arango Balkan Supreme in a Dunhill Group 4 Shell apple.
Man, that is a wonderful accomplishment SB....
Also, that is a beauty of a pipe to choose to celebrate with.
Still a bit warm, but the wind is coming out of the northwest and seems a bit less humid.
Enjoying some Elizabethan Mixture in a Bones long-stem billiard with some ice water.
Enjoying some Elizabethan Mixture in a Bones long-stem billiard with some ice water.
First pipes in July = cobs (Country Gentleman - the new Natural finish, bent & a straight Missouri Pride).
Tobacco? McClelland Zen ... and don't bother checking TR's. There ain't no McClelland Zen. It's my name for a jar I put up about 12 years ago, but the karma is almost magical.
2010 = 25%
2015 = 25%
5100 = 50%
I was just sort of playing around & the combo sounded "right", so I jarred it & it's been unopened since, until today.
Hmm ... maybe the identity "Inveterate Tinkerer" has roots (?!?!).
Tobacco? McClelland Zen ... and don't bother checking TR's. There ain't no McClelland Zen. It's my name for a jar I put up about 12 years ago, but the karma is almost magical.
2010 = 25%
2015 = 25%
5100 = 50%
I was just sort of playing around & the combo sounded "right", so I jarred it & it's been unopened since, until today.
Hmm ... maybe the identity "Inveterate Tinkerer" has roots (?!?!).
Now smoking Gawith Hoggarth’s North Star 
️ in a Savinelli Silver 606 EX
Earlier it was cigar time when I smoked a Bellas Artes
️ in a Savinelli Silver 606 EXEarlier it was cigar time when I smoked a Bellas Artes
Had a nice cigar on the back deck with lunch and a margarita in the sun. A tad hot out there, so back in the lounge with a bowl of the Farthing in an HS panel to cool back off.
Been under the weather for a few days now, going to refrain from putting flame to a bowl today, however seeing all these pipes makes it tough, on the other hand I’ve been debating another pipe to add to the herd, not sure what exactly.
July 1. The beginning of a new month. And some very good news in Skippable Drivel. I'll keep it short, and had my usual morning smoke. You've seen it before, almost every day. But, here it is anyway:
And for good measure, my smoke last evening:
I took out my Ropp J06, filled it with Sir Walter Raleigh, and had about the best smoke I've had in a month. Wonderful pipe, wonderful tobacco. For the good news, Skippable Drivel below.
Skippable Drivel: The Good News
I spent two nights ago in intense pain. The catheters were not draining into the leg bag because of urine mixing with cellular debris and the 3 catheter debacle was obviously an incorrect diagnosis. I told them that at the time.
I went to the hospital in the early AM yesterday. Because I'd been there just late last evening, at my request, and agreed upon by admittance, I was sent directly to emergency, where the doctors and nurses know what they are doing and have to have results.
The attending junior physician agreed with my assessment and said he'd be right back - he was back within minutes, and said that the Head Honcho completely agreed with my analysis and observations and to get that medieval torture device out now. This happened right away, and the nurse that was in attendance withdrew the catheter without my feeling a thing, and without enjoying it. She was all business.
I had a number of other tests, including one for bladder infection, which I had bigtime, because of cellular debris that mixed with urine and was too thick and coagulated to pass through the tubes leading to the legbag.
Making a long story short, I was given a course of a very powerful antibiotic, and sent home already feeling much better because I could evacuate my bladder. Got the prescription from the pharmacy of the same stuff, which was marked "aggressive."
It is that. I have to take it for seven days, and it takes effect within a half hour (have to take it at 2 pm. A seven day course only.) It has an immediate effect of detachment and disorientation which lasts for about an hour, and then wanes. I'm already feeling much better and way more positive. This is the skinny, and I'll stop here. The rest is bibble and babble and is just going to take some time and patience.
I'm still going to be erratic on forum for a bit, and still feeling a bit disoriented right now, but want to thank all of you for your concern, prayers, and well wishes. Going to crash for a couple of hours, and try to get back late tonight and catch up on a few posts, etc. Till then . . . . . .
luv gord
Skippable Drivel: The Good News
I spent two nights ago in intense pain. The catheters were not draining into the leg bag because of urine mixing with cellular debris and the 3 catheter debacle was obviously an incorrect diagnosis. I told them that at the time.
I went to the hospital in the early AM yesterday. Because I'd been there just late last evening, at my request, and agreed upon by admittance, I was sent directly to emergency, where the doctors and nurses know what they are doing and have to have results.
The attending junior physician agreed with my assessment and said he'd be right back - he was back within minutes, and said that the Head Honcho completely agreed with my analysis and observations and to get that medieval torture device out now. This happened right away, and the nurse that was in attendance withdrew the catheter without my feeling a thing, and without enjoying it. She was all business.
I had a number of other tests, including one for bladder infection, which I had bigtime, because of cellular debris that mixed with urine and was too thick and coagulated to pass through the tubes leading to the legbag.
Making a long story short, I was given a course of a very powerful antibiotic, and sent home already feeling much better because I could evacuate my bladder. Got the prescription from the pharmacy of the same stuff, which was marked "aggressive."
It is that. I have to take it for seven days, and it takes effect within a half hour (have to take it at 2 pm. A seven day course only.) It has an immediate effect of detachment and disorientation which lasts for about an hour, and then wanes. I'm already feeling much better and way more positive. This is the skinny, and I'll stop here. The rest is bibble and babble and is just going to take some time and patience.
I'm still going to be erratic on forum for a bit, and still feeling a bit disoriented right now, but want to thank all of you for your concern, prayers, and well wishes. Going to crash for a couple of hours, and try to get back late tonight and catch up on a few posts, etc. Till then . . . . . .
luv gord
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You sir, have a will of iron and my total respect. No emoticon can do justice here, so I won't post one. Bravo.
Gord
C&D Kajun Kake in a Peterson POTY 2024.
2023 Silver Flake in the Moonshine Long Devil Anse
WCC Simply Orange 
in a Nuttens Bing and Ginger Tea on the side.
in a Nuttens Bing and Ginger Tea on the side.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've passed the half way mark of this bowl of year 2014 Full Virginia Flake in a slight bend 1968 group 4S Dunhill Shell 475 cherrywood with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. The thunderstorm and lightning came in full force so I got Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave inside. Abner the Eager was already in. I called and called for Harry the Hairy, but I know he was too scared to get out from under the deck. I'll try again soon. Watching the Braves-Angels game.
Smoking a large bowl of 2017 Walnut match in a huge Edwards billard
2007 Tudor Castle in my Castello oval shank egg.
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