Half way through this bowl of year 2019 C&D Yorktown in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Terracotta 4AB No.108/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***
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Match Victorian earlier driving in, and now 5Bros in a DeLuxe London Made 132 Stout Apple.
Well, I will be shortly…
In the cellar I have some totes with uninventoried content. I opened one up and pulled this out.
In the cellar I have some totes with uninventoried content. I opened one up and pulled this out.
Gonna have to go back to 5Bros and such after this GH&Co Black Twist (sliced), there’s a Lakeland ghost lurking…
This work day can’t get done soon enough.
This work day can’t get done soon enough.
HU Makhuwa in a Savinelli 320 KS Standing Model and Diet Coke on the side.
This day flew by! Had some Uhles PPB in a Grabow this morning and now I’m having a bowl of WCC Rouxgaroux (maybe I spelled it right this time but doubt it) in a Sav while watching the evening news and listening to the rain outside. 
Samuel Gawith Commonwealth in a Peter Heeschen “A” cherrywood.
Paul, that is one gorgeous pipe!!
Been way too stressful of a day than it should have been.
Decided I deserved to get out my Savinelli 305 Tortuga that my son gave me for Christmas two years ago. Had some Plum Pudding in it and some more Coconut water to drink.
The coloring on this pipe always grabs me each time I pull it out.
Decided I deserved to get out my Savinelli 305 Tortuga that my son gave me for Christmas two years ago. Had some Plum Pudding in it and some more Coconut water to drink.
The coloring on this pipe always grabs me each time I pull it out.
Telegraph Hill in a Castello #33. I start dreaming about this tobacco before I have it and can smell the perique before I open the jar, or my brain can. Only two tobacco's in my cellar have this affect, this and MB Balkan Blend with the buttery orientals in that blend having the same effect on my sense memory (probably a scientific name for this, Pavlov comes to mind).
Rainy and unseasonably cool this evening, but I’m on the screened in deck smoking well aged GH Dark Flake scented in a Briar Works prince. Decaf coffee on the side and good music on the Bluetooth speaker. Life is good!
Enjoying a cigar on a rather windy rainy evening.
Olfactory memory or the Proust effect/Proustian memory:
Involuntary memory - Wikipedia
Nice description BTW.
Earlier, I smoked a bowl of year 2014 FVF in a smooth 2002 medium bend eight sided panel top straight grain Rinaldo Collection Silver Line F Egea 05 Titania bulldog with a black acrylic stem.
And I just finished smoking year 2013 Germain’s Plum Cake in an undated, unbranded straight lattice meerschaum military mount with a silver cap and tapered yellow acrylic stem.
And I just finished smoking year 2013 Germain’s Plum Cake in an undated, unbranded straight lattice meerschaum military mount with a silver cap and tapered yellow acrylic stem.
I've passed the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2014 Strang in a 2003 smooth light brown medium bend straight grain Ardor Venere Extra signed by Dorelio Rovera Dublin with a black acrylic saddle stem. This will get me to dinner time.
Two cigar day: Rocky Patel Vintage 1999 Connecticut after lunch and Oliva Master Blends 3 after dinner
5 year old KBV Sakura in a GBD bulldog.
Jim, I love that bent bulldog above. Gorgeous.........
Just back from range. Hit a few emoticon buttons but will have to return later on to complete. After 3 or 4 months with handguns, shot my rifles today . . . . like a dorque, too. Even brought the wrong connector adapter for my PCP Air Arms and had only about 25 shots before I fell below the power band. Springer wasn't much better. Best I could manage was a couple of 1/4" groups at 17 yards. Shot one almost 3/4". Then discovered I had loaded .177 diameter pellets into a .22 PCP. Same color and brand cans, but that's just ridiculous. Also forgot my allen keys so couldn't adjust the stock elevation or scope mounts. 
Be that as it may, wanted to complete my Rhodesian Meer post of above with some comparative photos for your interest. First one is a comparison of my two large meers:
Depth doesn't translate well in table top photos, but the original is more of a medium, and not as deep as the Rhodesian either. Capacity is about 2/3 of the Rhody, as well. Both are flat at the draft hole - no real trench in either. The following comparison is between the Rhody and my most cavernous pipe (actually a tie with Big Pete, my Savinelli Avorio:
The tobacco leaf is just there to hold the two pipes upright for comparison. The bowl width of both is almost exactly the same, with a miniscule edge to the meer, but the Sav has a bit of a trench below the draft hole, giving it just a shade more capacity. Not much, though, and I'd class these both as large bowls. Don't know if you can see this in the flat perspective in the post . . . . I can in the originals but as I've whined before, color balance and density is not transmitting well from my DSLR to the site.
I'm more than pleased to own both of them, and they'll play a big part in upcoming smoking adventures. Back later tonight.
Be that as it may, wanted to complete my Rhodesian Meer post of above with some comparative photos for your interest. First one is a comparison of my two large meers:
Depth doesn't translate well in table top photos, but the original is more of a medium, and not as deep as the Rhodesian either. Capacity is about 2/3 of the Rhody, as well. Both are flat at the draft hole - no real trench in either. The following comparison is between the Rhody and my most cavernous pipe (actually a tie with Big Pete, my Savinelli Avorio:
The tobacco leaf is just there to hold the two pipes upright for comparison. The bowl width of both is almost exactly the same, with a miniscule edge to the meer, but the Sav has a bit of a trench below the draft hole, giving it just a shade more capacity. Not much, though, and I'd class these both as large bowls. Don't know if you can see this in the flat perspective in the post . . . . I can in the originals but as I've whined before, color balance and density is not transmitting well from my DSLR to the site.
I'm more than pleased to own both of them, and they'll play a big part in upcoming smoking adventures. Back later tonight.
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