Byzantium in my fresh-from-repairs meer, and rooibos tea in my mug.
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Haven't done one of these in a while, but really enjoying today's bowl of Butera's Royal Vintage Latakia No. 2 so I thought I'd 'documented' in this thread. Burning it in this Nate King Meerschaum Prince:
Just over a third of a bowl left of Seattle Pipe Club Down Yonder in a straight black 1963 Dunhill LBS Shell 4S billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This will get me to dinner time. Cleaned some pipes, and am watching the Braves-Orioles game.
Smoking a bowl of G&H Dark Flake Aromatic in a Dr Grabow Royal Duke apple ( lacquer removed with Everclear). Drinking Kirkland Irish. Planning on watching the coronation tomorrow.
I've spent the last few hours putting some bulk tobaccos into Mason jars. Smoking some Vincent Manil Pure Semois in a Cayuga apple.
Watching cows and the storm blow in while smoking KBV Dread Planet from a Barker. 
Looky what came in the mail. Should get me by for awhile.
Same pipe as last time, with Brown Sugar Flake.
Which it turns out is too big for the ol' fold and stuff here, so I guess I'll break 'em in half next time. Took forever to get it to stay lit.
Which it turns out is too big for the ol' fold and stuff here, so I guess I'll break 'em in half next time. Took forever to get it to stay lit.
4 year old HU Janneman Flake in a Sav diamond shanked lovat.
Dorchester in the Savinelli half bent Dublin 316KS and lightly spiked decaf. This really is a high quality tobacco.. cut taste burn..top notch. Plays very well in this wider bowl.
Lane 1-Q packed too tight in the new Barontini Hungarian which I didn't think was lit so I puffed to much causing it to get very hot and bubble the wax or cause steam bubbles on the front of the pipe along the cross grain. I put it down and waited for it to go out and re-lit later. It smoked fine and sweet after that. When I got home I used alcohol to remove the steam bubbles and re-waxed back to normal. Won't do that again ! Its only my third smoke in this pipe. Its a comfortable shape pipe though.
Mac Baren Golden Extra in a Foyard rhodesian. Glad the snow melted so quickly! This was the scene yesterday morning:
Bird report: California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, White-crowned sparrow (blackish head, probably a juvenile), Common raven, Eurasian collared dove, California towhee, House finch, White-breasted nuthatch, and Mountain chickadee.
Got basically a lifetime supply of 6mm charcoal filters from a friend, so I will be commencing an ongoing comparison between the balsas I've been using for years with these others. Up until now, I'd only used one or two very sparingly in my MM Country Gentleman, but now I will try them out for a while in my Savinellis, all of which are 6mm. In other words, keep an eye out for an extremely content, disgruntled, or neutral Jewish man rambling nonsensically (me).
Bird report: California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, White-crowned sparrow (blackish head, probably a juvenile), Common raven, Eurasian collared dove, California towhee, House finch, White-breasted nuthatch, and Mountain chickadee.
Got basically a lifetime supply of 6mm charcoal filters from a friend, so I will be commencing an ongoing comparison between the balsas I've been using for years with these others. Up until now, I'd only used one or two very sparingly in my MM Country Gentleman, but now I will try them out for a while in my Savinellis, all of which are 6mm. In other words, keep an eye out for an extremely content, disgruntled, or neutral Jewish man rambling nonsensically (me).
After dinner smoke on this gorgeous evening. Coffee accompanying.
Right now I am enjoying a blend from 4noggins called Thomas' Blend. - part of their Aromatic Sampler. Smoking it in a Limited Edition Radford's Pipe of the Year 1995 - Sandblasted. Bent saddle stem. Reviewer's rave about this stuff and I can see why!
Now that you have a photo with that pipe in your mug, the introduction photos didn't do the pipe justice.
It looked like the mouthpiece was being held by tweezers, which made me think "it must be another display piece, since the pipe can't be that big."
Nope, I was wrong. Enjoy.
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