Night Train in the eagle claw and egg meer. I’m somehow on a kick of smoking night blends during the day today. In the garage getting ready to root my Tennessee Vols on in the Super Regionals of the NCAA baseball tourney.
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Last Night's Smoke marked the final completion of my pipe rotation - and it works! I have three dedicated or genre dedicated pipes for each tobacco or type I have - a miniature, a medium, and a large.
I simply decide (if I feel like smoking; sometimes I don't), what I want to smoke, how long I want the smoke to last, and grab the appropriate tobacco and pipe, and there it is. Like everything else in my life, there is the anal experimental phase, the mastery phase, and then I make it part of my life or get rid of it. Mastery is a forever ongoing phase of course, but words are often a limiting factor and life is a series of projects, for me at least.
Late last night (think it was around midnight, not sure) I felt like an English Tobacco, so I grabbed one of my own mixes which I've named Gord's Basic English, felt like about a 45-50 minute smoke so I grabbed the genre-dedicated ashwood McQueen Seafarer, a smallish-medium bore pipe, and had a great smoke. This is a fantastic smoking pipe, one of my three favourite longstems.
Also, Basic English is very good mix, one of only three of my creations that I keep in stock. For those interested I've put the recipe in Skippable Drivel below the picture.
Skippable Drivel: Basic English is just that - a simple mix of 7 parts Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco and 1 part C&D Latakia. Let it cure in a jar for at least 2 weeks. A month is better. The jar pictured is almost a year old, and I have two others on the go. It's one of only two of my mudpies (three of you count another, but it's still in the tweaking phase).
Sir Walter is a mild codger, and pure Latakia is mild as well, but the mix, probably to the principle of superadditivity, has a bit of a shove to it, not much but there - I think due to the curing of SWR with an anise additive, but I don't really know what I'm talking about, eh?
The final product is very nice - I keep my own recipes only if I'd buy them. Rejection rate is pretty high, and this recipe is about as simple as it gets. Use less lat if you wish, but I'm of the opinion that if ya use this stuff, ya should taste it. Otherwise forget it. Subtle is a word I have difficulty with.
I simply decide (if I feel like smoking; sometimes I don't), what I want to smoke, how long I want the smoke to last, and grab the appropriate tobacco and pipe, and there it is. Like everything else in my life, there is the anal experimental phase, the mastery phase, and then I make it part of my life or get rid of it. Mastery is a forever ongoing phase of course, but words are often a limiting factor and life is a series of projects, for me at least.
Late last night (think it was around midnight, not sure) I felt like an English Tobacco, so I grabbed one of my own mixes which I've named Gord's Basic English, felt like about a 45-50 minute smoke so I grabbed the genre-dedicated ashwood McQueen Seafarer, a smallish-medium bore pipe, and had a great smoke. This is a fantastic smoking pipe, one of my three favourite longstems.
Also, Basic English is very good mix, one of only three of my creations that I keep in stock. For those interested I've put the recipe in Skippable Drivel below the picture.
Skippable Drivel: Basic English is just that - a simple mix of 7 parts Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco and 1 part C&D Latakia. Let it cure in a jar for at least 2 weeks. A month is better. The jar pictured is almost a year old, and I have two others on the go. It's one of only two of my mudpies (three of you count another, but it's still in the tweaking phase).
Sir Walter is a mild codger, and pure Latakia is mild as well, but the mix, probably to the principle of superadditivity, has a bit of a shove to it, not much but there - I think due to the curing of SWR with an anise additive, but I don't really know what I'm talking about, eh?
The final product is very nice - I keep my own recipes only if I'd buy them. Rejection rate is pretty high, and this recipe is about as simple as it gets. Use less lat if you wish, but I'm of the opinion that if ya use this stuff, ya should taste it. Otherwise forget it. Subtle is a word I have difficulty with.
A third of a bowl left 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 everybody except for Abner the Eager. He may be in the neighbor's front yard, and I'll check on him when I go walking. Watching the Cubs-Tigers game. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Late start and it's already hot and humid so cigar it is
KBV Burley Morning Pipe in a Savinelli Punto Oro Classic Natural 673
Capstan Blue in a pre-republic Pete. System 0 Made in England. This is the pipe that launched my deep dive into collecting Petes
Forgot to mention this earlier but that Kehler was the last of the orders I had placed after selling some pipes back in April. Nothing new coming here unless I make room for it
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Cobs and Bones/knockabouts in the drawer...
Nah, won't do, young fella. Ya need another rack. You're a missing a few longstems, three or four meers, a half dozen bizarre and tasteless show pipes, and half a dozen pipes that you hafta get your wife to select. And a couple that you hate and need to complain about, just cuz.
Come on, Psychman. Get with the program! Drown your sorrows in wretched excess. Works for me!
Oh yah . . . stop hiding your cobs. Onlookers love 'em!
Now, that looks like the perfect pipe for the situation you described in your text. A sit down, relax, I've done it pipe, if I ever saw one!
My wife's niece, from Louisville, is in for the weekend and they are enjoying some quality time in our cousin's pool. I opted to sit on shore and enjoy some My Mixture 965 in a Barling billiard.
2019 FVF in a Brulor with horn stem
GLP Cumberland in a Peterson Bulldog. Did some chores so now I'm taking a well deserved break.
Hey Burley, what part of the state do you live in? Or do you just root for the Vols and live elsewhere??
Now, what on earth is a floater? I was wondering if you used a photo-layering technique to do that picture. Enquiring minds want to know.
Nah, won't do, young fella. Ya need another rack. You're a missing a few longstems, three or four meers, a half dozen bizarre and tasteless show pipes, and half a dozen pipes that you hafta get your wife to select. And a couple that you hate and need to complain about, just cuz.
Come on, Psychman. Get with the program! Drown your sorrows in wretched excess. Works for me!
Oh yah . . . stop hiding your cobs. Onlookers love 'em! Oh yeah . . . . what, no Falcons?
Thanks. It smokes great too.Haven't seen that one before. Very classy and understated for an unusual (to me) shape. Really like it.
Mac Baren HH Pure Virginia in a Viking Classic Dublin.
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What a wonderful pipe - has everything I love in a pipe - quarter bent, lots of wood, nice grain and a clear bowl that is "charrable" for us clumsies. YESSSSSSSSSS!
Haunted Bookshop Cake in Georg Jensen. 
Hmmmm . . . don't have one. Gotta get one.
Pool day!
Peterson army pipe with MB Dark Fired and a Fuente Casa Cuba and a bucket of cold ones.
Peterson army pipe with MB Dark Fired and a Fuente Casa Cuba and a bucket of cold ones.
Did a set of walking reps on this very humid day, chatted with a neighbor, and did a set of walking reps. I'm near the finish of this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. As expected, Abner the Eager was waiting in the grass. I brought him in to eat, and he's on top of my chair now. Lunch follows this smoke.
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