***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***
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Two cigar day: Earlier I smoked a Bellas Artes and now smoking an Oliva Serie V in the diadema Vitola
More gardening, more smoke. Sutliff Rum & Maple, MM Cob.
Blooms on the chives and the walking onions are about to burst... found this lil guy hiding in my wood pile
Blooms on the chives and the walking onions are about to burst... found this lil guy hiding in my wood pile
GH Bob's Chocolate Flake in a Peterson POTY 2024.
Peterson 4 AB with some old club blend
Bas Matica in my Yeti paneled egg.
Fox Hound in a Peterson 309 rusticated system standard
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm smoking year 2021 first production Watch City Simply Orange Virginia in a black sandblast medium bend Peterson POTY 4AB No. 182/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Tomato the Brave came in to eat after Daisy the Feral Princess went out. Tomato's roaming around the den trying to avoid boredom. He was on my lap for a few minutes, but I tend to be boring, too.
Had a nice evening at a brewery with some friends and had a bowl of Big N Burley in a Savinelli 102. Stout blend but I had stout to drink so it all evens out.
No decimal, it’s all fractional. 1/8 & 1/16 on side and 1/32 & 1/64 on the other. Apparently Starrette still makes it.
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The lighter is a Thorens Teleflam
Watching the stars come out with some 2023 Peterson Nightcap in the Falcon Bantam Bulldog
I read here of some who salvage the last bits of tobacco from a tin, a jar or a pouch. There's enough for about half a bowl, then they top it off with some other bits. Um ... BINGO ... they have a PARFAIT. Any recollection of me (Sandblast) commenting that if I were to change my "name", I've decided that "Parfait_Guy" would be my choice. Last week, I made a Triple Parfait ... not my first ever, but rare. It confirmed my belief that a Triple is too much. The segue from "Top 1/3" to "Middle 1/3" was fine, but by the time the "Middle 1/3" reached the "Bottom 1/3", the "Bottom 1/3" seemed to have been lost. Therefore, Double Parfaits are clearly the best.
So ... just made a Double Parfait:
Top 1/2 = Dan Tobacco Sweet Vanilla Honeydew
Bottom 1/2 = McClelland Oriental #1
Loaded into a Comoy Naked Briar (Dublin), a great smoking pipe. Have had it awhile & it's darkening. Plus, it's sandblasted, so the interesting grain is there. There are other pipe makers with naked briars.
So ... just made a Double Parfait:
Top 1/2 = Dan Tobacco Sweet Vanilla Honeydew
Bottom 1/2 = McClelland Oriental #1
Loaded into a Comoy Naked Briar (Dublin), a great smoking pipe. Have had it awhile & it's darkening. Plus, it's sandblasted, so the interesting grain is there. There are other pipe makers with naked briars.
HU Director’s Cut in a Becker Billiard
and Ginger Tea on the side.
and Ginger Tea on the side.
Smoke-wise I had breakfast for dinner: Match Victorian in the Briarlee Illustrious for the drive home, not the drive to work today
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Off to the studio with a bowl of year 2021 Watch City Simply VOriental in a straight smooth medium brown 1930s Wilshire 5 bulldog (Comoy’s second) made for John’s Pipe Shop in Los Angeles with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Been listening as I work to one of the best and longest story lines in The Adventures of Superman radio series: Superman Versus The Atom Man.
C&D Burley Flake No 4 in a Tinsky
Ellipsis Flake in a Miscoi Pipes lovat, joined by a Big Mother.
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Now smoking Wilke 10 Downing Street in an undated straight, smooth flame grain Wessex Standard billiard with a brown accent on the tapered black vulcanite stem.
Savoring my last bowl of Cinnamon Streusel from this past Christmas holiday. This stuff is absolutely fantastic, I can chug along like a freight train with zero bite. In a Newgrange Spigot 999. 
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