Too hot in the shop to do any pipe work @ the moment. So im hanging out in the pool with a bowl of Escudo in a pierced blowfish shop pipe and an iced cold brew coffee.
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SWR in the Weber Blackthorne. It's funny. I was gifted this pouch of 2021 SWR , with warning label, it's dried but still tastes good, and is the granola cut like it should be. The 2 new 2024 pouches I have doused in vinegar are a totally different cut. Really really weird, come on STG.
there's no flavoring anymore here, just tobacco.
there's no flavoring anymore here, just tobacco.
GH Kendal #7 Shag Cut in a Radice Rind 55 and Diet Coke on the side.
Last Night's Smoke: The moment of truth. The break-in of my Mr. Brog "Kaiser" was complete. 5 smokes of a progressive nature with various Cavendishes and Codgers.
This pipe was planned when I bought it for outdoor outings with English/Lat blends, what I prefer in the afternoons. Loaded it up with an excellent, middle of the road lat, TobaccoBarn's Traditional English. The pipe liked the blend, and the combination was excellent. I'll smoke the pipe a few more times, looking at my own Basic English, probably Presbyterian Mixture, Brigham's English Mix and Bengal Slices, and then tuck it into one of three small travel cases I have prepared with a medium bore pipe, a pipsqueak and a couple of cigars, and I'll simply pick up the case and contents that suits the mood of the day. Pretty much all done.
This pipe was planned when I bought it for outdoor outings with English/Lat blends, what I prefer in the afternoons. Loaded it up with an excellent, middle of the road lat, TobaccoBarn's Traditional English. The pipe liked the blend, and the combination was excellent. I'll smoke the pipe a few more times, looking at my own Basic English, probably Presbyterian Mixture, Brigham's English Mix and Bengal Slices, and then tuck it into one of three small travel cases I have prepared with a medium bore pipe, a pipsqueak and a couple of cigars, and I'll simply pick up the case and contents that suits the mood of the day. Pretty much all done.
Bowl four for the Ali brandy meer, same CRF '24 as before. The one upside to the heat is that the humidity has burnt off a tad.
Ali makes great pipes.
Weekend bowl of Cowboy Coffee in the IMP bent egg, black french roast on the side.
I can say that without a doubt, especially considering how many carvers’ pipes I’ve had, that you are very truly correct.
C&D 2016 Sansepolcro in a Peterson B42 natural finish.
Telegraph Hill in a Doug Finlay Brandy.
Now smoking year 2018 D&R Windsail in a smooth straight dark brown family era “Canadian” by Sasieni with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Cherry flavoured break from smoking Today. Took out a spare MM chompable Minicob (have a few in storage 'cause I give a lot away) and put in a loadful of Bengal Slices, and had it's break-in smoke while surfin' the thread. Cobs don't need nearly the break-in as regular pipes so the smoke was actually pretty good. And, as usual, I'm chomping on that Phillies Blunt (Chocolate rather than grape or cherry) in the photo as I type. After last night and what's coming up, I think I'll be laying of Cherry Anything for a bit . . . . see Skippable Drivel for the update.
Skippable Drivel: Last night I managed to pit and de-stem all the real cherries I picked yesterday (took me 'till 1:00 AM), and am taking a break after Mass this morning to post a bit, and relax before I freeze the cherries. (I'll get about 6 good packets). Then I'll go out and pick at least 2 quarts of Saskatoons this afternoon that are hanging from one of the six bushes I have. Then more cherries from another varietal that'll be ready probably day after tomorrow. Then 2 more varietals of Saskatoons and one further tree of cherries. Bumper crops this year. Then apples, grapes, and crab apples in about a month.
Quite enjoyable actually. Haven't done this for years - have always had others offer to pick and process them in return for giving me what I wanted for the season, and in return for the smoked fish and frozen rabbits they usually wheedle from me. They're all on holidays right now so I'm doing the solo farming gig, at least for a week until the then battle scarred, relative-visiting rabble returns.
By then I'll need to go fishing to get away from the rabble and get some peace and quiet, and the cycle will go on and on until it doesn't.
Such is life, eh?
Can tell you for certain, though, that i've lost my interest in cherry flavoured tobacco and cigars for a while, anyway! Hence the new minicob for Lats.
Skippable Drivel: Last night I managed to pit and de-stem all the real cherries I picked yesterday (took me 'till 1:00 AM), and am taking a break after Mass this morning to post a bit, and relax before I freeze the cherries. (I'll get about 6 good packets). Then I'll go out and pick at least 2 quarts of Saskatoons this afternoon that are hanging from one of the six bushes I have. Then more cherries from another varietal that'll be ready probably day after tomorrow. Then 2 more varietals of Saskatoons and one further tree of cherries. Bumper crops this year. Then apples, grapes, and crab apples in about a month.
Quite enjoyable actually. Haven't done this for years - have always had others offer to pick and process them in return for giving me what I wanted for the season, and in return for the smoked fish and frozen rabbits they usually wheedle from me. They're all on holidays right now so I'm doing the solo farming gig, at least for a week until the then battle scarred, relative-visiting rabble returns.
By then I'll need to go fishing to get away from the rabble and get some peace and quiet, and the cycle will go on and on until it doesn't.
Such is life, eh?Can tell you for certain, though, that i've lost my interest in cherry flavoured tobacco and cigars for a while, anyway! Hence the new minicob for Lats.
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Prince Albert in the same Falcon I posted earlier.
That's a gorgeous shape. Will be interested in seeing how this goes.
Currently working on a bowl of Night Owl in a Rad Davis squashed tomato.
Chorin is done, enjoyed C&D Briar Fox in a Castello while running errands. 
I'm looking forward to doing the same. Outdoors for a while, with my pair of .22s to be sighted in, and the Weirauch 97/8s to be tuned outdoors for the longer distances that I wasn't able to do indoors. I'm still running the Field Target in house demo and practice course, but now in late August. Which seems to be coming up pretty soon!
As it progresses I'll provide more details of the process.
Haunted Bookshop in my Savinelli Cumberland 803, but I only smoked half the bowl. It's too hot outside, I need an indoor smoking arrangement for days like these. I'd sit in my car but the A.C broke
A PS - too late to edit. Has anyone else ever noticed that a cigar butt in an ash tray makes a most excellent pipe tamper? Much easier to clean up and replace than one of those cork jobs. - Status