Listing this a couple of minutes early: D&R Raccoon’s Friend in a pre-1980s straight dark brown Comoy's Sandblast 186 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Going to work now.
***What Are You Smoking, March 2023?***
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Sutliff Edward G Robinson from December 2019 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Smoking a Peterson 999 as I head back to Kingman. My pipe is my company.
Missouri Meerchaum Country Gentleman from 2018 in a Peterson Ragaire. 
Earlier this evening, 2008 McClelland No.22 in a Savinelli Zulu.
I cracked this tin to celebrate a couple of things. I got through recovery from oral surgery, so it’s my first smoke in 3 weeks. It was also my first bowl in my new [to me; it’s 100 years old] house, which we’ve been renovating for several months. We moved right after I had the surgery (yes, that was really $&@?ing stupid of me). I wanted a whole house fan, so I had one installed not in the typical second floor hallway location, but rather in the spare bedroom that serves as my office. I close the door, open the window and turn on the house fan, and it’s my smoking den. As long as I close the heat vent, I’m isolated from the HVAC system, and it works perfectly. As long as I didn’t sit directly between the window and the fan, it wasn’t even chilly. No lingering odor.
A good friend joined me, and we both were struck with how sweet the blend was. It had a candy-like sweetness on the finish. Not quite deep enough in flavor to be really interesting, but with 15 years of age, it was smooth as silk.
I cracked this tin to celebrate a couple of things. I got through recovery from oral surgery, so it’s my first smoke in 3 weeks. It was also my first bowl in my new [to me; it’s 100 years old] house, which we’ve been renovating for several months. We moved right after I had the surgery (yes, that was really $&@?ing stupid of me). I wanted a whole house fan, so I had one installed not in the typical second floor hallway location, but rather in the spare bedroom that serves as my office. I close the door, open the window and turn on the house fan, and it’s my smoking den. As long as I close the heat vent, I’m isolated from the HVAC system, and it works perfectly. As long as I didn’t sit directly between the window and the fan, it wasn’t even chilly. No lingering odor.
A good friend joined me, and we both were struck with how sweet the blend was. It had a candy-like sweetness on the finish. Not quite deep enough in flavor to be really interesting, but with 15 years of age, it was smooth as silk.
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Inaugural smoke in a rose-in-hand meer by S. Yanik with a glass of 25 year old Domaine Tariquet Bas-Armagnac Armagnac:
Almost a third of the way through this bowl of Wilke No. 111 in a straight smooth medium brown 2016 Brigham Klondike 16 bulldog with a tapered black acrylic stem. Working and listening to The Green Hornet from my radio collection.
Irish flake in a Pete from earlier today.
Just finished smoking Wilke 10 Downing Street in a quarter bend smooth dark brown small bowl 2016 Brigham Algonquin 226 Rhodesian with a long black vulcanite tapered stem.
My home blend (Valentine's Cake) in a Musicò
Going to have Cornell & Diehl Eight State Burley Small Batch (05216/10000, from March 2022) in a Missouri Meerschaum/Cornell & Diehl Collaboration Charles Towne Cobbler Corn Cob.
Just finished smoking Wilke No. 72 in a pre-1974 dark brown straight Larus & Brother Co. Signature billiard with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem with the initials LCR on the top of the stem. This blend was smoked by Walter Cronkite.
About to load some Ennerdale in my "Lakeland" Neil Monier globe and throw on one of my favorite albums by JJ Cale. 
Now smoking Wilke Crystal Palace in a dark brown smooth straight post-WW2 LHS Certified Purex 79 bulldog with a nickel ferrule and tenon with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Listening to William Conrad in an episode of Escape.
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