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A Quick Review of yesterday afternoon's smoke. Saying "Yayyyyy!" to the effect of antibiotics, I decided to try something a bit out of my current cherry-grape-berry-boring routine. I took out one of my favourite Englishes, also containing orientals, and virginias, and a Cyprian lat, Mr B's (Brigham) English Mix, stuffed my Miniature McQueen Acorn with it, and had a very good 12 minute smoke indeed. So good I quickly cleaned the pipe, refilled, and did a repeat. Don't do this often because I think a pipe should rest but then again, when the iron is hot . . . . .
Short smokes but good. It's been my experience with these pipsqueek bowls that they work best with crumble cake or flakes that can be dried out a bit, cut to size, and gravity fed loosely into the bowl in 2 stages. Can drag 25 minutes or so if done in this manner. Mr B's is a ribbon cut; doesn't work so well, maybe half that length, thus 2 bowls. And thorougly enjoyed both of 'em.
Holy shit, it's not raining!Kicking back with a cold one and some Burley Flake #2 in this Boswell stubby apple enjoying a very pleasant afternoon.
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Yeah, t'was raining, hailing, thundering and lightening all yesterday up here in the frozen north. My sympathies. However, on the bright side I traded an nice old 8'6" #3 Sage LL flyrod to a buddy who'd lusted after it for a bit, in return for a really nice picnic table for my back yard. So t'was a good day.
I notice that tin of Copenhagen in your montage, too. Excellent indeed!
Rattray’s Black Mallory from May 2020 in a Dunhill Tanshell Diplomat from 1977
Also, earlier I smoked a cigar: H Upmann Banker Daytrader
Also, earlier I smoked a cigar: H Upmann Banker Daytrader
Had to give you a chuckle . . . . seen that look before. Doctor buddy of mine, pipe in mouth, looking at a progress chart (not mine, lol) thinkin' out loud, "Hmmmmm . . . gonna hafta cut!"
Keepin it Smokey today. Smoke 2016 Xmas cheer in a Jim Deschaine bent egg/appleish with a Cumberland stem. 
Terrible photo but it’s a great pipe
Terrible photo but it’s a great pipe
Down to my last three bowl of Craven’s Wing. Hoping to find another Virginia-Perique like it someday. Bill said not to hold my breath. Savinelli Onda doing it justice though.
Woke up Monday with a fever and sinus infection that finally passed this morning. Been working through it woth OTC meds to the dismay of my wife but with severance on the line, I don't want to risk my 'good standing'.
First pipe all week and boy howdy, does it hit the spot! Plumcake in my GH Zhang Pot.
First pipe all week and boy howdy, does it hit the spot! Plumcake in my GH Zhang Pot.
Great series of fly rods! Your buddy got a great deal. But maybe the picnic table comes with a personal cocktail waitress?Yeah, t'was raining, hailing, thundering and lightening all yesterday up here in the frozen north. My sympathies. However, on the bright side I traded an nice old 8'6" #3 Sage LL flyrod to a buddy who'd lusted after it for a bit, in return for a really nice picnic table for my back yard. So t'was a good day.
I notice that tin of Copenhagen in your montage, too. Excellent indeed!
Enjoy in good health!
Peterson Christmas 2012 +
"Markonie's - Mobilis in Mobili" (limited edition, author's series)
Manufactured by Kohlhase & Kopp
A unique soft flake of dark Virginia varieties with a small mixture of oriental leaves. An outstanding, unparalleled blend of medium strength for everyday smoking.
Wood and bread tones with a pleasant spicy aroma will bring true pleasure to fans of natural Virginia.
Strength: 2.5 on a 5-point scale.
Taste group: Virginia in the base;
Cut: Flake;
Composition: Virginia, Oriental;
Aromatisation: none
"Markonie's - Mobilis in Mobili" (limited edition, author's series)
Manufactured by Kohlhase & Kopp
A unique soft flake of dark Virginia varieties with a small mixture of oriental leaves. An outstanding, unparalleled blend of medium strength for everyday smoking.
Wood and bread tones with a pleasant spicy aroma will bring true pleasure to fans of natural Virginia.
Strength: 2.5 on a 5-point scale.
Taste group: Virginia in the base;
Cut: Flake;
Composition: Virginia, Oriental;
Aromatisation: none
Great series of fly rods! Your buddy got a great deal. But maybe the picnic table comes with a personal cocktail waitress?
Thanks! I got a great deal on that table, considering I actually needed it, a new one was $700, and at one point I had over 70 flyrods. I now have only about 15. Uhhhh . . . . think pipes! How many of them can we really smoke lol? I've had a collecting disease since a boy, and it's time to rationalize! Long ago!
And you wouldn't believe my situation with my other mamman monsters - cameras and guns. Let silence prevail.You seem to know and love flyrods, as do a couple of other guys here. I have 4 I use - a #2 RPL, #3 LL, #5 St Croix, and a #8 9'6 RPL, all Sages except for the #5 St Croix. Backup for each one. Have only used these four for the past 5 years or so. Never touched a backup.
And never missed any I gave or traded away. Just like giving up the beer and bourbon quest about 20 years ago. Don't even think about it any more.Had I been thinking clearly years ago (ie when I retired), I coulda bought a retirement slum ranch either around Casper, Wyoming, or on that track from Las Vegas NM down to Tucson or OK Coral in Arizona, two of my favourite places in the world, outside of where I live now. Cocktail Waitresses never interested me - blew all my chances by doing what I wanted, how I wanted, and when I wanted. As I said before, had a grand life! No regrets.
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A hot, muggy Texas evening with GLP Virginia Cream in the MM Country Gentleman, while the cats play/hunt in the backyard. 
Drink is Dr Pepper Strawberries 'n Cream Zero, over miniature icebergs. 
Is it a match made in heaven? No. Am I enjoying it? Yes! Cheers!
Drink is Dr Pepper Strawberries 'n Cream Zero, over miniature icebergs. Is it a match made in heaven? No. Am I enjoying it? Yes! Cheers!
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smoking the remains of Cornell and Diehl Bayou Morning from yesterday. 
A friend just got back from Denmark and gifted me this WO Larsen. Breaking it in with some red ribbon and the braves game as a storm passes through the mountains
GLP Telegraph Hill in a a Bruno Nuttens Twiggy and Ginger Tea on the side.
️ on the side.
Castello's style immediately shows solidity and power.
Smoker Friendly (Sutliff) Bourbon in an ancient, oil cured, aged 75 years, stripped, filled, steel wooled, and oiled Algerian briar Dr Bernard Canadian—- $20 pipe with $2 an ounce tobacco.
And listening to the Founding Father of Twang, Lefty Frizzell—-priceless.
Down by the Railroad Tracks
And listening to the Founding Father of Twang, Lefty Frizzell—-priceless.
Down by the Railroad Tracks
Another cigar: Rocky Patel Number Six with the setting sun on Summer Solstice
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