Pirate Kake in the Peterson on my lunch hour, once again in Chinatown. 
***What Are You Smoking, June 2025?***
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Now smoking first production Watch City English Ernie-ental in a straight dark brown and tan rusticated Peterson 2023 Saint Patrick’s Day 264 Canadian with an Irish flag colored ferrule and tapered black acrylic stem.
Boswell’s Cherry Smash in the Falcon meerschaum chimney bowl
Been smoking Peterson Sweet Killarney (found this in my underwear drawer of all places) out of my MM Mark Twain.
Update and Smoking Report: Grape Results from Warchest
Get stitches out and hopefully catheter out as well next Monday. So still on antibiotics, painkillers, and other stuff that has really hammered the old taste buds. Ear infection contributes, and won't be shooting for a while. All of my competition guns weigh around 15-20 pounds scoped, so I'm not presently shooting, and pretty much housebound, and preparing projects for many friends who've put up with me for so many years. Will explain all to those interested in Skippable Drivel below the Warchest photo.
One thing that my tastebuds still respond to is very sweet flavours, muted, yeah, but some taste is there. So my smoking of late has focussed on fruity aros, and oddly enough the ashen and somewhat bitter aftertaste is very much lessened by taking a mouthful of mouthwash, swishing it around for about 15 seconds, then lighting up a few minutes later. Smoker's Pride Cherry Cavendish and my own grape pipe blend made up of 3 parts ground up grape cigar (Swisher's Sweet Grape and Kwiki Grape work best), and 5 parts Borkum Riff Dark Cavendish, are all I've been smoking for the past 4 or 5 days.
I've been smoking only two pipes a day, both mini-cobs, or the miniature meer which is cherry dedicated), and once the taste diminishes I don't bother any more. Same holds true for my beloved cheap Fanta dipped stogies, usually just one a day. One of the mini-cobs gets a grape concoction, the other gets a cherry concoction, and I usually get 20 minutes of what passes for a decent smoke. After that, blah - it's dumped. I get at least 40 minutes out of the meer, usually too much for now, but it's there if I need it. The Muxiang "Uncle Henry" ebony will be used whenever i want an English, which hasn't happened so far. It smokes these very well, always has.
Skippable Drivel: I guess the best tack to take is when given a lemon, make lemonade. Covered all the smoking stuff above, and the pattern will remain the same until it doesn't.
I have to still be very careful; healing is evident and in progress, but another 5 days until the stitches come out, and then we'll see about the bladder infection, which seems to have been somewhat abated, so for the time being for amusement, i'm in a process of rationalization.
I've always had a collecting disease, which started as a boy with baseball cards, then superhero comic books, and progressed in a crescendo through "adulthood" (if I ever had one) into high ticket items like flyrods, fly reels, rifles, shotguns, airguns, and worst of all, my alter-ego for still continuing occasional employment, photo stuff. Had over 400 vintage and large format cameras. Absolute madness.
About a year or so ago, I had a revelation that I was not going to live on this earth forever, and began to rationalize, moving unsellable junk from all categories into the dumpster (actually wasn't much of that), and decided to keep only what I could reasonably use. Slashed a lot of stuff, and am still doing so, currently gifting my many good friends who've put up with me throughout the very worthwhile stuff from each category. And this process is giving me more pleasure than owning all of the stuff ever did.
(I'll be posting again tonight . . . . my new "UGLY" pipe has arrived and I'll take a few photos of it for you to see, plus an update on today's smokes, which won't differ from the smoking report above, unless I light up Uncle Henry for an English.
Just don't have enough energy to go back and catch up on emoiticons and responses . . . . so I'll just pop up occasionally until this rough patch is over . . . . and as I said, it appears to be doing so.
And thanks for all of your well wishes. Be back tonight with the Ugly.
Gord
Get stitches out and hopefully catheter out as well next Monday. So still on antibiotics, painkillers, and other stuff that has really hammered the old taste buds. Ear infection contributes, and won't be shooting for a while. All of my competition guns weigh around 15-20 pounds scoped, so I'm not presently shooting, and pretty much housebound, and preparing projects for many friends who've put up with me for so many years. Will explain all to those interested in Skippable Drivel below the Warchest photo.
One thing that my tastebuds still respond to is very sweet flavours, muted, yeah, but some taste is there. So my smoking of late has focussed on fruity aros, and oddly enough the ashen and somewhat bitter aftertaste is very much lessened by taking a mouthful of mouthwash, swishing it around for about 15 seconds, then lighting up a few minutes later. Smoker's Pride Cherry Cavendish and my own grape pipe blend made up of 3 parts ground up grape cigar (Swisher's Sweet Grape and Kwiki Grape work best), and 5 parts Borkum Riff Dark Cavendish, are all I've been smoking for the past 4 or 5 days.
I've been smoking only two pipes a day, both mini-cobs, or the miniature meer which is cherry dedicated), and once the taste diminishes I don't bother any more. Same holds true for my beloved cheap Fanta dipped stogies, usually just one a day. One of the mini-cobs gets a grape concoction, the other gets a cherry concoction, and I usually get 20 minutes of what passes for a decent smoke. After that, blah - it's dumped. I get at least 40 minutes out of the meer, usually too much for now, but it's there if I need it. The Muxiang "Uncle Henry" ebony will be used whenever i want an English, which hasn't happened so far. It smokes these very well, always has.
Skippable Drivel: I guess the best tack to take is when given a lemon, make lemonade. Covered all the smoking stuff above, and the pattern will remain the same until it doesn't.
I have to still be very careful; healing is evident and in progress, but another 5 days until the stitches come out, and then we'll see about the bladder infection, which seems to have been somewhat abated, so for the time being for amusement, i'm in a process of rationalization.
I've always had a collecting disease, which started as a boy with baseball cards, then superhero comic books, and progressed in a crescendo through "adulthood" (if I ever had one) into high ticket items like flyrods, fly reels, rifles, shotguns, airguns, and worst of all, my alter-ego for still continuing occasional employment, photo stuff. Had over 400 vintage and large format cameras. Absolute madness.
About a year or so ago, I had a revelation that I was not going to live on this earth forever, and began to rationalize, moving unsellable junk from all categories into the dumpster (actually wasn't much of that), and decided to keep only what I could reasonably use. Slashed a lot of stuff, and am still doing so, currently gifting my many good friends who've put up with me throughout the very worthwhile stuff from each category. And this process is giving me more pleasure than owning all of the stuff ever did.
(I'll be posting again tonight . . . . my new "UGLY" pipe has arrived and I'll take a few photos of it for you to see, plus an update on today's smokes, which won't differ from the smoking report above, unless I light up Uncle Henry for an English.
Just don't have enough energy to go back and catch up on emoiticons and responses . . . . so I'll just pop up occasionally until this rough patch is over . . . . and as I said, it appears to be doing so.
And thanks for all of your well wishes. Be back tonight with the Ugly.
Gord
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Now smoking year 2020 Mac Baren Scottish Mixture in a straight, smooth brown 1960s Lane era Charatan Special 38 bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Pricing original Archie pages for sale while watching the Red Sox-Mariners game. Daisy the Fearl Princess is spread out and snoozin' on the deck. Tomato the Brave is under my car. Harry the Hairy is snoozin' on the couch. Haven't seen Abner the Eager today. He's probably staying in a cool place away from the heat and humidity.
Vintage Silk Cut cigarette advert featuring Redcoats:
I like the guy with the sword
Savinelli Brunello Flake in my large billiard.
St. Bruno ready rubbed in a Nording
Happy birthday 
@Scottmi !
I am now smoking Gawith Hoggarth’s Dark Birds Eye in the PCI Horn Meerschaum carved by Ahmet Govem
Also, I smoked a cigar earlier : Oliva Master Blends 3
@Scottmi !I am now smoking Gawith Hoggarth’s Dark Birds Eye in the PCI Horn Meerschaum carved by Ahmet Govem
Also, I smoked a cigar earlier : Oliva Master Blends 3
Condor green in a clay.
@Scottmi Happy birthday!
@Scottmi Happy birthday!
Now smoking year 2015 D&R A.B. Rimboche in an undated slight bend, smooth flame grain Wessex Standard egg with a brown accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem.
OJK in a Jirsa 210.
Bosun Cut Plug in a Glenn Tinsky Stippled Billiard. Got cleaned up after 5 Hours of weed eating and mowing then got a unexpected Storm Alert so went back out and cut 3 more acres but atleast it’s done. 
Happy birthday Scott!Ye Olde Signe in ye olde birthyear Dunhill Shell at the tail end of me olde birthday. Got me selfe a ye not-so-olde tractor for my birthday! Tractor pics later.
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@Scottmi Looks like a baccy for the King's Clay - I love the tin art!Ye Olde Signe in ye olde birthyear Dunhill Shell at the tail end of me olde birthday. Got me selfe a ye not-so-olde tractor for my birthday! Tractor pics later.
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Happy Birthday!
Enjoyed a bowlful of Sansepulcro in a MM cob while yet another storm blows in..........
I sincerely hope that you good folks can bear up through my absence over the next few days. I am traveling to west TN to meet up with a few old cavalry friends and we are gonna stay in a cabin and tour the Shiloh National battlefield and see some mass graves where confederate soldiers are buried. We will smoke some cigars, pipes, have a little bourbon and grill some steaks and just have some man time........
Y'all have a nice weekend.
I sincerely hope that you good folks can bear up through my absence over the next few days. I am traveling to west TN to meet up with a few old cavalry friends and we are gonna stay in a cabin and tour the Shiloh National battlefield and see some mass graves where confederate soldiers are buried. We will smoke some cigars, pipes, have a little bourbon and grill some steaks and just have some man time........
Y'all have a nice weekend.
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Have a great time! Take some pics.
Cowboy Coffee in a Bones Arbutus bent brandy, Modelo Especial on the side.
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