***What Are You Smoking, March 2024?***
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Now smoking year 2013 Stonehaven in a 2002 medium bend smooth brown Rinaldo EGEA 03 Silver line spigot 10 with a black acrylic saddle stem. This will last a while.
I've got one jar as received; one I've hydrated just to the point where it's a little springy as opposed to crunchy. Thus far I've smoked one bowl of the hydrated and noticed nothing different I'd swear to. But as expected, it now hand rolls well for Gauloise/Gitane-ish tasting cigarettes; dry as dust doesn't roll, just results in a sloppy, misshapen paper sack of tobacco, half of which falls out the ends. Ever try to roll a cigarette out of one of those muslin sacks of tobacco dust like in a western?
The plan is to move at least a little closer to the scientific method and take two group 4 billiards, load one with dry and one with slightly hydrated and smoke them simultaneously. I'll post my impressions.
GLP Quiet Nights in an Ashton LX Bent Dublin
This is easily the best I’ve seen this pipe look. The green is really pretty here and that’s a lovely blast.
The promo shots from Peterson were not great.
Bob's Chocolate Flake in a Peterson Aran 69.
One would think that with a new-to-me Peterson estate in the fold as of Friday, and perhaps half a dozen Peterson blends in the cellar, my St. Patrick's Day decision should be effectively made for me...
...but I'm about as Irish as Larry Davis is, so you'd be dead wrong. Not to mention ready to be hakken me a tchainek over my meshugenah shtick! Oy, spell check doesn't like that last sentence one bit...
Solani ABF in a Savinelli Porto Cervo 122 rusticated bent pot. Took forever to dry too.
Bird report: California scrub-jay, Dark-eyed junco, House finch, Steller's jay, California towhee, Spotted towhee, American crow, White-crowned sparrow, and Northern flicker. None of the above were wearing green, but they move way too fast for pinching. So sue me.
Enjoy the day, folks!
...but I'm about as Irish as Larry Davis is, so you'd be dead wrong. Not to mention ready to be hakken me a tchainek over my meshugenah shtick! Oy, spell check doesn't like that last sentence one bit...
Solani ABF in a Savinelli Porto Cervo 122 rusticated bent pot. Took forever to dry too.
Bird report: California scrub-jay, Dark-eyed junco, House finch, Steller's jay, California towhee, Spotted towhee, American crow, White-crowned sparrow, and Northern flicker. None of the above were wearing green, but they move way too fast for pinching. So sue me.
Enjoy the day, folks!
In keeping with the St Patty's Day theme... CAO Eileen's Dream in a Peterson Emerald 03 reserved for aromatics.
Happy St paddy’s day! Sansepolcro in a 9b
I really like your worn out but I guess trustworthy lighter...
@Birddog66's Clay King blend in a clay. Got bought a pint of Guinness for my hard work - it went down well! Been smoking my vintage Irish clay pipe in honour of St Patrick's Day. The Guinness washed my clay pipe smoke down very well!
Now, Match Elizabethan in an Axel Reichert. Listening to Loudwire Nights. Shot of Tito’s with a Busch chaser.
Gordon Pym in a Ropp vintage Belge with horn stem. This tobacco taste better out of this pipe than any other I’ve tried it in.
Blackthorn Shillelagh in a Pete
Self made cigar & pipe tobacco mix, in an EE2 pipe.
Have fun good people!
Have fun good people!
Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a Howell
Atalaya from the first release in an Abe Herbaugh lovat while enjoying a walk earlier. 
Rattray’s Exotic Passion in a cob.
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