***What Are You Smoking, June 2022?***
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HU Dockworker flake in a Royal Crown Windsor by Hardcastle pipes UK
HU Aus dem Krater No. 5 in a Regina Scarlatta billiard with some of the most spectacular grain i’ve ever seen. Excited to break her in.
Borkum Riff BW in my oldest, most beat up cob.
Elf Dandruff in the Santa Claus meer. June 24 - the big guy's vacation is halfway over!
Still smoking the Irish Meers. Now it’s with PS Luxury Twist.
Wesley's Golden Flake. So far, really enjoying these Wesley tobaccos. Some top quality leaf. 
Finished a bowl of 50/50 mix of Villager Jamaican and Dark Fired Kentucky in a Rossi Vittoria while watching the landscapers trimming a hedge that we allowed to get overgrown. Good times.
New pipe and tobacco day ! I just finished a first time bowl of Capstan Original Navy cut (Blue) from Country Squire tobacco which arrived in the same mail as my new Vauen 9mm Olaf bent egg which I received from Kapp and Peterson (smokingpipes.eu). It was an unsmoked estate pipe I bought with 15% off on Father's Day weekend. The tobacco had a definite tea with honey tin note. I had never tried it before and it was very mild but non-aromatic and quite a nic-hit after a full bowl. Straight tobacco for me ... I usually smoke aeromatics. Very good though and at that price I will save it for special occasions!
The pipe is matte black with a briar ring at end of shank. The stem is also matte black and slightly textured. Its billed as a working man's pipe series. Its very comfortable and hangs like my Savinelli 2614 Dry system. Can't wait to try CS Green Dragon in it next ! Interestingly, I set it down to rub out two portugeuse rolls for the birds that didn't cellar well and when i returned and knocked out the ash all the tobacco was done with no dottle. Sorry for the longwinded post ...
The pipe is matte black with a briar ring at end of shank. The stem is also matte black and slightly textured. Its billed as a working man's pipe series. Its very comfortable and hangs like my Savinelli 2614 Dry system. Can't wait to try CS Green Dragon in it next ! Interestingly, I set it down to rub out two portugeuse rolls for the birds that didn't cellar well and when i returned and knocked out the ash all the tobacco was done with no dottle. Sorry for the longwinded post ...
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Mid afternoon break. Chicken on the smoker chores all done!
Grandpa Mac’s vintage KW rusticated Bulldog, relief meerschaum packed with Country Squire, ”Whatever” blend.
A glass of sweetened ice tea mixed with Kombucha.
It’ll be interesting to see how this hodgepodge of end of blend, leftovers will taste? On appearance, it appears to have a fair amount of Cavendish, Burley and some bright Virginia? On the nose it has a lightly sweet, burly prominent smell. I do defect a subtle topping, picking up coco or vanilla?
Grandpa Mac’s vintage KW rusticated Bulldog, relief meerschaum packed with Country Squire, ”Whatever” blend.
A glass of sweetened ice tea mixed with Kombucha.
It’ll be interesting to see how this hodgepodge of end of blend, leftovers will taste? On appearance, it appears to have a fair amount of Cavendish, Burley and some bright Virginia? On the nose it has a lightly sweet, burly prominent smell. I do defect a subtle topping, picking up coco or vanilla?
That's a good looking pipe. Congrats on the new acquisition.
I always love smoking my "bottom of the barrel" blend. I've never had any of those leftover mixtures let me down. Could be that they're always composed of blends I enjoy so all mixed up I still like them. Let us know how yours turn out.
Thank you ! Its as close to a swan neck as I will get ! That bend notch is perfect for holding it like a cigar too!
Packed for later, GH Squadron Leader in a Savinvelli 606 bent Pannocchia billiard natural color briar carved in a corncob pattern, with a bright yellow stem and thin green band in the corn motif. Did a bunch of bills and walked them up to mail and get some exercise. Saw a gent rocking along with two heavy bags, one in each hand. He was back-lit, so I could not really see him or his burden clearly. I wondered if he was a homeless person with all his belongings looking to bed down in the creek bed that runs parallel to the street behind a church. Funny, the presumptions one makes. But as I walked around a couple blocks, I met him again, in better light. The bags were groceries; I could see the items through the plastic bags. He was a person from my neighborhood who had chosen to do an errand on foot, just like I had. That made me think about stereotyping.
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