I just finished a late lunch. Time for some Directors Cut in a Damiano Rovera.
***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***
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HU Dockworker in a Savinelli Dolimiti 311KS. 
Steamworks in the Morgan mini-billiard.
Completely understand that. I too have far more books than tobacco or pipes. Have had to cut back on all my 'AD acquisitions. Didn't say stopped, just slowed way down.
The Red Hunt in the big green cob.
WCC Glass slipper in a Kharitonov
International blend from Iwan Aries & Co. in a Nording. Given this blend with the purchase of a new pipe last week.
On the road this morning sipping on a bowl of HOTW and listening to episode 80 of the podcast.
Some Cherokee in a Moonshine Pot still, coffee. I have tickets to Joe Bonamassa tonight, find a nice park bench and enjoy some preconcert pipes and coffee. 
Small pipes don’t get better than this. Chenet’s cake in a Manduela quarter bent facet bulldog
Mid-morning bowl of Sutliff TS6 White Burley in a Viprati freehand, as I continue trying out these different blending components.
Thanks -- the box was some random wooden box I found at a thrift shop years ago and repurposed (a little white glue and a cut-out piece of strike strip worked wonderfully). The matches are Swedish "Three Stars Safety Matches" I was able to purchase on Amazon.
Having G.L. Pease Haddo’s Delight in a Michael Parks SB Rhodesian 499, Pipe #1316, Grade IV (from early 2018), with a black, red, and grey swirl ebonite stem—a Comoy’s 499 and GBD 9252 were referenced for the shape (work-in-progress photo, courtesy of Michael Parks, who keeps impeccable records of the pipes he has made—I did not commission this pipe; I’m only the current caretaker).
Sunny late autumn morning in the Purcells with a coffee and a bowl of BF in 1961 59 tanshell billiard.
I was gifted this interesting figural pipe a few years ago along with the meer lined Kaywoodie Canadian I post from time to time. Wasn’t sure what I was going to do with this one but decided today that it will be for Holiday aromatics so I’m breaking it in with Five Brothers. Not sure of the manufacturer as there’s seemingly no makers marks except on the band that says “Pure Silver”. Having lemon water, neat, on the side. 
What a consistent, practical pipe with a nice blast. Chenet’s cake in a Kurt Balleby
Shepherds Pie in a cob. 8" snow at my house in last 36 hours. But the glorious New Mexico sun is finally out today. Going out and dig my paths and truck out before it all freezes up into solid ice tonight. Stay safe and warm folks.
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