Solani Silver Flake in the Moonshine Long Devil Anse, and a Gin 'n Ginger.
***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***
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I just finished my Saturday afternoon visit with my ZOOM buddies - always a great time. I smoked my 1960s Sasieni Four Dot Walnut, Ashford s, filled with Drama Reserve.
My beverage was the usual Peach/Mango Green Tea in a large tumble filled with bergs.
My beverage was the usual Peach/Mango Green Tea in a large tumble filled with bergs.
(Peterson Christmas 2012 x105)
Continue the story about extinct species of tobacco fauna.
Palace Gate — an extinct species from the order Samuelgawithiformes
With the disappearance of Palace Gate, we witness a textbook case of tobacco extinction under anthropogenic pressure. A representative of the once-thriving phylogenetic branch Samuel Gawith, this species occupied a narrow ecological niche of gourmet aristocrats who preferred a mildly sweet Virginia-Cavendish profile.
Unfortunately, Palace Gate proved unfit for the sudden shifts in its environment: globalized production optimization, market transformation, and the genetic erosion of factory recipes. Neither its expressive phenotype nor its cultural adaptation to European palates could save it — artificial selection proved merciless.
Today, Palace Gate belongs to the paleontological record of tobacco: found only in fossilized strata of private collections, herbarium drawers of forgotten stockrooms, and in the tales of aging smokers — a Steller’s Sea Cow among pipe blends.
All we can do now is list it in the Red Book of Tobacco Fauna and remind ourselves: evolution does not forgive overspecialization. Not even among blends.
Continue the story about extinct species of tobacco fauna.
Palace Gate — an extinct species from the order SamuelgawithiformesWith the disappearance of Palace Gate, we witness a textbook case of tobacco extinction under anthropogenic pressure. A representative of the once-thriving phylogenetic branch Samuel Gawith, this species occupied a narrow ecological niche of gourmet aristocrats who preferred a mildly sweet Virginia-Cavendish profile.
Unfortunately, Palace Gate proved unfit for the sudden shifts in its environment: globalized production optimization, market transformation, and the genetic erosion of factory recipes. Neither its expressive phenotype nor its cultural adaptation to European palates could save it — artificial selection proved merciless.
Today, Palace Gate belongs to the paleontological record of tobacco: found only in fossilized strata of private collections, herbarium drawers of forgotten stockrooms, and in the tales of aging smokers — a Steller’s Sea Cow among pipe blends.
All we can do now is list it in the Red Book of Tobacco Fauna and remind ourselves: evolution does not forgive overspecialization. Not even among blends.
Today has been fun but exhausting. Swapped the tube on my son's dirtbike bright and early so we could join a friend and his son out at the creek bottoms. Had some Plumcake with me for when we took a break in the shade around noon.
Got home around 3, filthy and soaked with sweat so I jumped on the mower. Gentleman Caller in a Cob for that chore as usual.
Now, I'm relaxing in the bunkhouse watching Samurai Champloo with some EMP in a Radice Rind I was recently gifted.
Got home around 3, filthy and soaked with sweat so I jumped on the mower. Gentleman Caller in a Cob for that chore as usual.
Now, I'm relaxing in the bunkhouse watching Samurai Champloo with some EMP in a Radice Rind I was recently gifted.
LOL! Tomayto tomahto... Just don't mispronounce Petrus if you ever want to try it.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, snapper and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm smoking KBV Burley Morning Pipe beta test in a 1960s Austrian meerschaum bent apple with a tapered yellow stem. Writing beta notes. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
Short answer is yes. But I do think they are still very good but the tobacco being used is much different.
All American pipe and tobacco combination which unfortunately neither are made any more.
Now smoking year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Getting ready to clean a few pipes.
A little “Sling Blade-y” but I like it
This evening found Irish Flake in an interesting Pete Sterling 338, interesting in that it’s hallmark is ‘99 but is stamped with the old block Made In Ireland COM.
A couple of bowls of 7 year old Wessex Red Virginia Flake in a blasted Willmer billiard.
Pee Dee in this Jirsa. Earl Grey.
GH Bob's Chocolate Flake in a Peterson POTY 2024.
Now smoking year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. All the ferals except for Harry the Hairy are outside. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Molly Danger is on m'lady's lap. Those of you who remember Sam the Scamp might like to see her a year later in her new home. She's still beautiful and sweet, but she's certainly put on some weight.
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