***What Are You Smoking, May 2023?***

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm close to finishing this bowl of Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead in a well appreciated medium bend, smooth brown 1950s Peterson 999 Dublin chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[Servant King]

Eked out another narrow Scrabble victory against wifey (nearly got screwed picking up the "Q" on the last turn), then went out to relax and enjoy the approaching twilight with some Sutliff Uno (sample) in a Savinelli Bacco 321 bent author. Bird report: California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, Mountain chickadee, Common raven, Mourning dove, Red-tailed hawk, and Northern flicker. Going to have homemade daal over rice for dinner.

 

[Scottmi]

Dorchester in the Mastro de Paja Egg, with an excellent margarita (if I do say so myself!)

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking KBV Verge Engine Santa Drive in a 1978 Peterson Deluxe 20S medium bend smooth dark brown billiard with a silver cap military mount black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem.

 

[ThermionicScott]

C&D Opening Night in the Peterson 80s bulldog.



I rubbed this out and packed it yesterday, and it’s a dry and still night, so I’m a happy smoker.

 

[onestrangeone]

Friar Tuck in a Radice Brandy

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

CVP in a Rubio.

 

[shanez]

Heading to the pool with some Devil's Holiday in my trusty pool meer and a glass of Cognac Park XO Grande Champagne 2023 Year of the Rabbit cognac with a side of Pepsi:

 

[tnfan]

F&T Cut Virginia Plug in a Castello Old AntiquarI Bulldog.

 

[starrynight]

9 year old Briar fox in my Altinay.

Best way to start the day.

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Notice anything fun with the age verse fresh?

 

[PipeIT]

Good Saturday morning all. Up at a reasonable hour today as no Premier League footie. Tomorrow is the season's conclusion. I received a wonderful gift from a generous forum member this week, that I will treat as a birthday present, though they decided to gift me before they realized that it was my birthday last Saturday. A forty-year-old saddle stemmed Savinelli Punto Oro Mister 806. I'm honored and thrilled to receive it and will post a photo when I inaugurate it with Old Gowrie later today. If I say that the inaugural smoke should be Derriston, you might guess at the identity of the gifter.
To start the smoking day I'm opting for HH Burley Flake in a Savinelli Roma 673.

Happy belated Birthday

This had me thinking of Old Gowrie too.

So Old Gowrie it is, for @UncleRasta and that new pipe, in a Dr. Grabow: Commodore 65 Zulu, dated from 1967-1969, vulcanite stem, metal screw-in tenon, no stinger.

Be well!

 

[starrynight]

Briar fox all day. Started 50/50 with Saint Espresso (thought I’d add some cream and make it a machiato), then straight to finish the day.

 

[irishearl]

Heading to the pool with some Devil's Holiday in my trusty pool meer and a glass of Cognac Park XO Grande Champagne 2023 Year of the Rabbit cognac with a side of Pepsi:

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Cognac with a Pepsi chaser? That's a new one on me.

 

[OzPiper]

I love old Britwoods, especially centenarians
But I’m taking out a couple of youngsters today

1st up is this 2011 Jimmy Craig Ashton Prince.
It had a straight stem initially, but the guys at Blue Room Briars obligingly put a slight bend in when I requested

Smoking a bowl of Germain’s Rich Dark Flake

A distinct chill in the air, so a tot of rum is in order.
An agricole 1992 Rhum J.M. from Martinique

 

[mingc]

Brebbia Preludio Mixture No. 60 in a Mark Tinsky funky bent bulldog. For some reason, I always forget to smoke this blend in a Brebbia pipe.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am off to work with a bowl of Wilke Surbrug’s Golden Sceptre in a late 40s, early 50s straight black sandblasted Wagner British Thorn 495 (Comoy’s second) pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[warren99]

This is one of my go to favs. BB Balkan is D’Bomb.

Same here. I buy it by the pound.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

2014 Aylesbury Classic Flake in a Howell.

 

[warren99]

Balkan Sasieni in a Preben Holm Delight freehand.

 

[telescopes]

Merchant Service Bing with 515.