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das3353

Lifer
Sep 7, 2019
2,724
68,265
Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental in an Altinay Poker

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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
70,162
802,505
Half way through his 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. Never did get back to sleep... maybe later, but it'll be as busy as can be today, so sleep will just have to wait. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

Just fed Tomato the Brave his wet food breakfast, and he's eating dry food at the moment. Daisy the Feral Princess ate earlier, and ignored me when I called for her a few minutes ago. Even though there's dry food outside, Harry the Hairy wants to eat inside. He'll have to wait until Tomato's done. Haven't looked for Abner the Eager yet. The sun is out, and rain is still in the forecast. The humidity is very high so I may not do any walking. Still deciding on that. Watching the Nats-Marlins game.
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PaulRVA

The Gentleman From Richmond
HU Makhuwa in a Merchant Service Stack Billiard. Diet Coke on the side.
I’ve been on KP Detail all day but finished making Crab Cakes, Deviled Crabs. Deviled Eggs, Potato Salad , Crab Imperial Stuffing and Hush Puppies to get a head start for tomorrow for my FIL.
The majority the cooking is done so I won’t have to scramble as much tomorrow except to stuff the Rockfish for Chesapeake Bay Imperial. The dishwasher is slam full 😂IMG_4927.jpeg
 

Choatecav

Lifer
Dec 19, 2023
1,894
18,320
Middle Tennessee
We might as well just all admit women are better at making things look good than us hairy legged boys.

This morning I’m kicking myself for fifty years of trying to make a pipe look good, when all I had to do was buy some cotton balls and 100% acetone at Dollar General, and imitate my wife doing her fingernails.

Look at this formerly brown turd of a Marxman 400 attempt, I’m smoking with Danish SWR.

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You want 100% Acetone at Dollar General.

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It eats up tars and oils and grime and stem oxidation, right now!

Apply Obsidian Oil if you have it, mineral oil if you’re a tightwad, or olive oil or grapeseed oil or coconut oil, and polish with a cloth, they all work.

Be careful with acetone.

But you know that, you know?
Briar, just to make sure I understand, are you using the acetone to clean the wood also or just the stems?
 

Choatecav

Lifer
Dec 19, 2023
1,894
18,320
Middle Tennessee
HU Makhuwa in a Merchant Service Stack Billiard. Diet Coke on the side.
I’ve been on KP Detail all day but finished making Crab Cakes, Deviled Crabs. Deviled Eggs, Potato Salad , Crab Imperial Stuffing and Hush Puppies to get a head start for tomorrow for my FIL.
The majority the cooking is done so I won’t have to scramble as much tomorrow except to stuff the Rockfish for Chesapeake Bay Imperial. The dishwasher is slam full 😂View attachment 398833
OMG!!! Paul...... My mouth is watering!

Any way you might consider "adopting" me? At least for the weekend???
If I leave later today I can be in Richmond by tomorrow morning. :col:
 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
70,162
802,505
Did half a set of walking reps due to the heat, humidity and lack of sleep, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a 1980s straight smooth Big Ben pot with a nickel band and a black vulcanite saddle stem. This pipe was gifted to me by Mark Ryan. The pipe did well while walking though I prefer a lighter bowl. Didn't see Abner the Eager as I usually do. Perhaps all the racket from the neighbors getting trees cut down has kept him away for now.
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