GH Bosun Cut Plug in a Glenn Tinsky Stippled Billiard and Ice Water on the side.
***What Are You Smoking, June 2025?***
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Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.
Beautiful Monday morning! You know what time it is.
Paul, I love that Tinsky billiard. That stippling really sets it off from other finishes.
Did you get all of the hay cut and/or baled that your neighbor had planned for yesterday?
All the best thoughts for an excellent outcome!Don't know whether to call this a late night smoke, or an early morning smoke, cuz it's now 12:17 AM, I've finished my day early, and figured I'd check in before trial week, which I'll explain after I explain the picture below in today's episode, entitled Explainable Drivel, for sake of variety.
I'm currently smoking one of the little suckers shown in the quickly shot picture of my cigarette making machine, which I haven't shown for quite a while.
Explainable Drivel: My current smoke is the tobacco I'm currently working on, Savinelli 140, fed into the machine and stuffed into a hemp tube and smoked (after stuffing the end into a not shown used Colt Whiskey Cigar Tip) for a more controlled draw on the cigarette itself. Like this excellent tobacco in a pipe, it must be smoked very slowly or you'll miss the whole point of the various and complex flavours in the blend, especially in a cigar-like format, as it gets a little harsher towards the end like a cigar, unless treated wtih kid gloves, taking in a little air into the mix in your mouth. The tip helps greatly in this regard.
These home rollies take almost exactly the same amount of tobacco as a miniature cob or McQueen miniature, and if smoked correctly, get about the same time. I just finished this rollie and got 22 minutes out of it. about par for my experience with Sav 140 in the pipsqueak pipes. And it was just as flavourful. So that's my evening/morning smoke. A dandy little one.
More Important Drivel: As most of you are aware, I have a fairly painful and large hernia, so my doctor has accelerated the cutting process. I begin tomorrow (whoops! it's now today . . . .) with the pre-operation interview by phone at some unspecified time (o joy, o rapture) between 10:00 AM and 3:30 PM. He's a family friend who operated on my Dad's heart irregularities when he was 76, so I'm in good hands. The best available, in fact.
On Wednesday I have the pre-operation interview in which I decide the spinal or general injection (I've already decided on the spinal after consulting other friends, the maestro with the scalpal, and doing some research) and a final scan to give him the current picture, and the following Monday (June 9) of next week I get the deed done.
I'm a bit apprehensive, of course, but not expecting anything out of the ordinary, but I'll not be on the forum much until a few days after the operation, and plan on doing a bunch of other tasks and quite a bit of shooting and other fun things before then. Hoping I don't drown in Frost, Davie, Grizzly or some other hot midge lake in the meantime, and thank you all in advance for your prayers and well wishes, some of which I've already received.
Cheers, Gord.
I love Mastro de Paja! I especially love that beauty!
Smoking a Dunhill with iced coffee
It’s cut and drying, raking today and bailing late evening I’d assume. Four of us with 16 ft haybines made quick work of it. Then they were off to the next farm. He choreographs it pretty well between farms during cuttings.
Smokehouse in the Eldritch Pipes Volcanic Billiard.
Haunted Bookshop Cake in a small DM Stanwell Freehand.
Kek-starting the day with Stampede Kek in the Imp Sitter with morning coffee.
First pipe of June! 2024 Abingdon in a Boswell poker 
That's a gorgeous pipe!
HU Makhuwa in a Peterson Donegal Rocky XL90. 
507-C in a London Made Peterson De Luxe 132 Stout Apple. Unclear on age: there’s the faintest of remnants of a script P on top of stem and HAND WORKED on side of stem. I really enjoy it regardless.
Part way through this bowl of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Fed Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger, and three ferals. Haven't seen Abner the Eager yet, but I know I will. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
I wish you the best of all possible outcomes.Don't know whether to call this a late night smoke, or an early morning smoke, cuz it's now 12:17 AM, I've finished my day early, and figured I'd check in before trial week, which I'll explain after I explain the picture below in today's episode, entitled Explainable Drivel, for sake of variety.
I'm currently smoking one of the little suckers shown in the quickly shot picture of my cigarette making machine, which I haven't shown for quite a while.
Explainable Drivel: My current smoke is the tobacco I'm currently working on, Savinelli 140, fed into the machine and stuffed into a hemp tube and smoked (after stuffing the end into a not shown used Colt Whiskey Cigar Tip) for a more controlled draw on the cigarette itself. Like this excellent tobacco in a pipe, it must be smoked very slowly or you'll miss the whole point of the various and complex flavours in the blend, especially in a cigar-like format, as it gets a little harsher towards the end like a cigar, unless treated wtih kid gloves, taking in a little air into the mix in your mouth. The tip helps greatly in this regard.
These home rollies take almost exactly the same amount of tobacco as a miniature cob or McQueen miniature, and if smoked correctly, get about the same time. I just finished this rollie and got 22 minutes out of it. about par for my experience with Sav 140 in the pipsqueak pipes. And it was just as flavourful. So that's my evening/morning smoke. A dandy little one.
More Important Drivel: As most of you are aware, I have a fairly painful and large hernia, so my doctor has accelerated the cutting process. I begin tomorrow (whoops! it's now today . . . .) with the pre-operation interview by phone at some unspecified time (o joy, o rapture) between 10:00 AM and 3:30 PM. He's a family friend who operated on my Dad's heart irregularities when he was 76, so I'm in good hands. The best available, in fact.
On Wednesday I have the pre-operation interview in which I decide the spinal or general injection (I've already decided on the spinal after consulting other friends, the maestro with the scalpal, and doing some research) and a final scan to give him the current picture, and the following Monday (June 9) of next week I get the deed done.
I'm a bit apprehensive, of course, but not expecting anything out of the ordinary, but I'll not be on the forum much until a few days after the operation, and plan on doing a bunch of other tasks and quite a bit of shooting and other fun things before then. Hoping I don't drown in Frost, Davie, Grizzly or some other hot midge lake in the meantime, and thank you all in advance for your prayers and well wishes, some of which I've already received.
Cheers, Gord.
Love that poker!!
Rattray’s Sterling Flake in a Hardcastle Canadian.
GL Pease Telegraph Hill in the IMP Meer. Saw Metallica in Charlotte NC the other night, they are still kicking ass. 
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