Frog Morton's Cellar in a Nording Signature. One of the things I really like about these Signatures is watching them color or patina naturally. I have a few unstained and unwaxed pipes from different makers and I just love them. 
***What Are You Smoking, March 2025?***
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HU Edward G. in a Rubio Canadian.
2019 Capstan Blue Flake in an Altinay.
I can’t abide liars and thieves.
The only problem with karma is that it doesn’t run on my schedule…
Spent most of the day out taking advantage of the weather today. In Washington you take it when you can get it. Retiring back in the lounge now with a bowl of Kendal Dark in a unique shaped blasted briar with saddle stem from an unknown maker.
Happy Birthday Dino!
Phantom Privateer in a Ryan Alden
I'm all in for March Meerschaum Madness! Continuing with Navigator Flake in the Imp Sitter. Rum & OJ to chase.
Finishing up a tin of 965 in a Peterson Iora 129
Dig that groovy carving, man!
(If someone can DM me why iPhone pictures are “too big” to upload into a screenshot/how to fix it, I could stop showing this stupid black area above and below the picture)
First smoke of the month was a much-enjoyed bowl of Lane BCA in a Savinelli Mattone 614 faux-Hungarian. On the heels of one of the lousiest weeks in recent memory, with Friday being the worst of the days...needed that one! The six hour dry time performed as advertised. 9/10
Bird report: Dark-eyed junco, White-crowned sparrow, California scrub-jay, Western bluebird, House finch, Steller's jay, Spotted towhee, American crow, Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Common raven, Northern flicker, Hairy woodpecker, Oak titmouse, American robin, and California towhee. Full cast today.
Sipping a scotch highball, listening to some ambient music, waiting for a salmon filet dinner. So far, March is an improvement over a mostly crappy February. Onward and upward, and all that jazz.
Bird report: Dark-eyed junco, White-crowned sparrow, California scrub-jay, Western bluebird, House finch, Steller's jay, Spotted towhee, American crow, Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Common raven, Northern flicker, Hairy woodpecker, Oak titmouse, American robin, and California towhee. Full cast today.
Sipping a scotch highball, listening to some ambient music, waiting for a salmon filet dinner. So far, March is an improvement over a mostly crappy February. Onward and upward, and all that jazz.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, cod and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm a third of the way through this bowl of year 2014 Dunhill Flake in a straight smooth 1960 Dunhill DR 137 group 4 root briar canted dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
@dino Happy Birthday! Hope it was a great one!
Ohh Yehhh, I’m totally digging this Horizons. The latakia is very… like the smell of telephone poles being sprayed with creosote. Evergreen, bright and spicy… so having it again in my Black Ice Spigot. Actually, I can’t remember what I named this pipe. Ha
And, happy birthday, @dino
And, happy birthday, @dino
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Gave up the idea of a nap due to the raucous chortling of the kookaburras outside the bedroom window and the carolling currawongs.
Not really complaining as the bird life was what led us to the choice of our house
Settling down to a couple of pipes by 2 women pipe makers.
1st one of a trio - a sandblasted, oval-shanked Stanwell Shape 35b bent canted egg with tapered stem (bottom)
Designed by La Grande Dame du Pipes, Anne Julie
A bowl of MacBaren’s HH Pure Virginia - cube cut and gravity filled
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Gave up the idea of a nap due to the raucous chortling of the kookaburras outside the bedroom window and the carolling currawongs.
Not really complaining as the bird life was what led us to the choice of our house
Settling down to a couple of pipes by 2 women pipe makers.
1st one of a trio - a sandblasted, oval-shanked Stanwell Shape 35b bent canted egg with tapered stem (bottom)
Designed by La Grande Dame du Pipes, Anne Julie
A bowl of MacBaren’s HH Pure Virginia - cube cut and gravity filled
Moved onto some pembrook before back to work.
That looks like the push stem World War II era. I have a 5122. They are coveted by myself because I really prefer push stems to stingers they just don't turn up very often
Another round of Bob’s Chocolate Flake in an IMP Reverse Calabash and Peppermint Tea on the side.
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