***What Are You Smoking, May 2023?***
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Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am half way through this bowl of 2023 STG Escudo in a slight bend rusticated 1979 Savinelli Estella 310 poker with a brown pearl acrylic saddle stem. I remember when this blend had a fair amount of perique in it. Oh well... Watching the Reds-Cubs game and getting ready to clean a few pipes. Lavazza Classico, neat, is my drink.
Smoking this year's summer blend, which is ⅔ Low Country Natural Virginia&Burley and ⅓ cigar leaf, in a bent MM cob with a straight replacement stem. It's a beautiful day here, 22°C, sunny with a light breeze.
Now smoking some Peter Stokkebye's Optimum blend. The pipe is a Ser Jacopo - Delecta series. Inscribed with the Latin saying "Per aspera ad astra." ("Through adversity to the stars".) According to the reviews, I should really be enjoying myself! I hope I am cuz I bought 8 oz of the stuff.
Dark Birdseye in my yard cobs. Getting some yard work done before four days of rain.
The first time I try 'War Horse Green', in a small old meerschaum chimney. I bought this tin in 03- 2018 and almost forgot that it was there.
The tobacco is more dry than I expected it to be, but I did hear the right sound when I opened the tin. I have left it in the bowl to breathe for a few hours.
It is very different from most tobaccos in my cellar but actually it is not bad I think. A glass of 'Pernod/Ricard' would match very well as a drink with it.
The tobacco is more dry than I expected it to be, but I did hear the right sound when I opened the tin. I have left it in the bowl to breathe for a few hours.
It is very different from most tobaccos in my cellar but actually it is not bad I think. A glass of 'Pernod/Ricard' would match very well as a drink with it.
Recently purchased GH&Co Bob’s Chocolate Flake in a Poul Winsløw Crown Viking.
About to try some Erinmore Flake in a freshly modified cob I finished up early this afternoon. Just playing around with proportion, shaping the top of the bowl, wire brushing the cob to get depth and two toning by removing finish on the polisher. It's really a quick and rough exercise, but it should still smoke like a cob.
I’m smoking C&D Derringer with a pinch of C&D Perique in the Altinay Rusticated Dublin Meer. A mug of 50/50 Kombucha and Hibiscus ice tea.
Did a second set of walking reps, and smoked a bowl of year 2015 D&R A.B. Rimboche in an undated slight bend, smooth flame grain Wessex Standard egg with a brown accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem.
A quarter of the way through this bowl of 2017 Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a 2016 Peretti's M.T. Natural made in Holland straight smooth brown Algerian briar billiard with a tapered black acrylic stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Now smoking some Peter Stokkebye's Luxury Twist Flake in a GBD Prodigy Naturel Oom Paul. Used the traditional "fold and stuff" method to pack the pipe. Seems to have worked out quite well. And the tobacco is terrific!
Just set camp up. Now for some Haddo’s Delight in my Gatlinburlier
Big ol’ Ashton ELX with a Les Wood silver band stuffed with 1995 XMas Cheer.
Confession, I just ordered and then immediately cancelled said order of 3 high end pipes I’ve been drooling over for months. That hurt to let them go but my rule is I cannot spend money I don’t have unless it’s a life emergency. I have an excellent credit rating, which is dangerous as I can get more credit anytime I want. It was actually easy to cancel the order, as it was so obviously against my personal values.
It was thrilling for just a minute, imagining those normally unaffordable pipes were mine.
There are times in life where I think the best decision is to go into debt. This wasn’t one of them.
Confession, I just ordered and then immediately cancelled said order of 3 high end pipes I’ve been drooling over for months. That hurt to let them go but my rule is I cannot spend money I don’t have unless it’s a life emergency. I have an excellent credit rating, which is dangerous as I can get more credit anytime I want. It was actually easy to cancel the order, as it was so obviously against my personal values.
It was thrilling for just a minute, imagining those normally unaffordable pipes were mine.
There are times in life where I think the best decision is to go into debt. This wasn’t one of them.
Bayou Morning x Lee Van Cleef meer
Friday, finally. Shytey stormy weather the third week now, constantly.
Friday, finally. Shytey stormy weather the third week now, constantly.
Gawith Hoggarth & Company Dark Flake Aromatic in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Returned today from two days of trout fishing and general, all-purpose hootin' and hollerin' at our cabin. Couldn't have asked for a better time. Great to visit, and fish, with family and old friends.
Smoking C&D Blockade Runner in a Peterson bulldog. Enjoy the evening everyone!!
Smoking C&D Blockade Runner in a Peterson bulldog. Enjoy the evening everyone!!
Peterson Old Dublin in an S. Bang "B" bent brandy.
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