Sutliff Balkan Sobranie 759 Match in a Savinelli Pannocchia 606 bent billiard with a carved corncob pattern in briar, with a yellow stem. Pretty day here. My wife's making pasta with mushroom sauce and chilling some white wine (Savinguong Blanc).
***What Are You Smoking, May 2022?***
- Thread starter JimInks
- Start date
- Status
Robert McConnell Scottish Flake in a HCA Stanwell and a Cup of Joe on the side.
Abut a quarter of a bowl left of year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. Watching the Braves-Marlins game.
Tense and nervous watching the footie. HH Pure Virginia in the Rossi Billiard.
Watching the Champion's League final and enjoying a little Uno in a Georg Jensen
H&H Larry’s Blend in LCS Briars pipe #485 4 Star Supergrain slightly 
bent apple with a sterling silver band
bent apple with a sterling silver band
Visiting my parents at Skull Island campground and smoking some 10 year old Orlik Golden Sliced in an Ardor Urano Fantasy (K. More) Damiano bent apple. 
A home blend in a Savinelli Autograph and a cup of hot tea.
About halfway though a bowl of Stonehenge Flake in a Peterson Rusticated System Spigot B42. 
Krumble cake red VA in a hangar that a friend made for me.
1Q in a large Wellington to help me finish my iced tea.....
Afternoon smoke- 2022 Boswell Canadian (second smoke) packed with GLP Windjammer. Glass of Kombucha mixed with coconut water.
Tom Sawtooth, I like the Faulkner quote. Like many renown writers of his generation, Faulkner spent some time in Hollywood writing scripts. He famously asked his boss there if it was alright if he worked at home. Thinking Faulkner meant back at his bungalow in California, the boss said sure, work at home. Of course. Faulkner went back to Mississippi.
My late wife taught one of Faulkner's granddaughters at a women's college in Raleigh, N.C. who told her that, as a child, she never knew much about his writing. To her, he was just Grandpa.
My late wife taught one of Faulkner's granddaughters at a women's college in Raleigh, N.C. who told her that, as a child, she never knew much about his writing. To her, he was just Grandpa.
Just finished a bowl of Smoker's Pride Cherry Cavendish in a Comoys London Pride second (just stamped London Pride), (20mmx42mm chamber), on the porch, under the overhang watching the rain gently fall and soak everything. It is the most difficult of my pipes to smoke becuase the draw is so open. I am using it to learn to slow down and just sip the tobacco trying to just keep the tobacco lit rather than steamtraining.
Did a set of walking reps on this humid, sunny day, and not far from finishing this bowl of Wilke Rum and Maple in a straight smooth with a tobacco leaf carving on the bottom left, dark brown 1980s Sir Brent pot with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Went with the ESB, in my SMS claw meer. Psyching myself up to talk on the phone with my father-in-law (77th b-day today). As long as I steer the conversation away from all things financial, it should be pretty smooth--hockey is always a good topic to kill time with.
Massive weather shift today, got about 10-15 degrees cooler. Bird report: Common raven, Mountain chickadee, Oak titmouse, White-breasted nuthatch, Hairy woodpecker, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, California towhee, California quail. Western kingbird, and a Red-tailed hawk duo on the hunt. Just had the Elaine Benes special (big salad) with some homemade cream-of-Cauliflower soup.
Wessex Burley Slice in a Grabow Starfire.
- Status