***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***
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HH Burley Flake in a Rainer Barbi pipe.
2005 SG Bracken flake in an LHS Sterncrest billiard with pretty decent grain, sterling band and vulcanite stem.
Pipe: McQueen cherrywood "Seafarer", Lat dedicated. Tobacco: another homebrew, "Gord's Balkan Style Whiskey English". This was designed so I have a backup to Black Frigate, my favourite Navy Style smoke and in my "Desert Island Trio" of Mad Fiddler, Black Frigate and Bengal Slices. Tried to design a similar consistency in my homemade version to match Black Frigate.. It is my friends' choice of my concoctions. Not as grand as BF but does the trick. Think Haydn, and then Beethoven. That should do the trick. Beethoven wins, but Haydn is pretty good, too! After all, he was Beethoven's composition instructor.
Listened to Beethoven Symphony #1 while smoking, and got 45 minutes with the smoke (and it was a very fine smoke) which, like this afternoons effort, about 10 minutes longer than the symphony itself.
You might also wonder why the music choices - then again, you may not. Whatever the case, the music choices are killing two birds with one stone. I've either played or conducted professionally all of the music I've been listening to. I'm also preparing to teach a Music Appreciation Course for the New Year's semester. I've done this before at the College and University level, and enjoy it thoroughly. I get to examine the musical examples I'll be presenting throughout, time them and get my feet wet again by refreshing my own brain. Now you know. 
Listened to Beethoven Symphony #1 while smoking, and got 45 minutes with the smoke (and it was a very fine smoke) which, like this afternoons effort, about 10 minutes longer than the symphony itself.
Passing the first third of 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.
In that jar . . . Wait! What?
Now smoking Peterson Irish Cask from February 2022 in a Balandis sandblasted billiard
Earlier it was cigar time when I smoked a Knockaround
Earlier it was cigar time when I smoked a Knockaround
This evening’s first bowl is Oriental House Blend from user @MCJ , which he sent me with some other samples back in August. It’s very pleasant with a nice aroma. Smoky, a little tingle on the tongue, and then I'm getting cocoa too. After it goes out, I get some creosote; relighting gives me ... salt? It's a very interesting blend. Good work, Mark!
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Tonight, I dipped into a new tin of HU The Untouchables. The cedar topping is different, but I think I’m really going to enjoy this blend.
Had some Cowboy Coffee while putting holiday lights on the bushes out front. Enjoying some Paul's Pipe Shop- Arrowhead that I received from my folks back home in the Flint area. It's my first time trying this blend and it immediately brought back childhood memories of my grandpa or my uncle...not sure which one, but one of them definitely smoked it.
After a very pleasing debut of Chenet's Cake last night, I'm trying out Night Train in a Radice tonight. 
Falcon stuffed with LJP #8 Slice that jarred a year ago.
Not a very complex blend just a very nice straight forward Virginia with some burley and perique for a bit of woodiness and a slight raisin undertone in the second half of the bowl.
Not a very complex blend just a very nice straight forward Virginia with some burley and perique for a bit of woodiness and a slight raisin undertone in the second half of the bowl.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, perch and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm half way through this bowl of year 2015 Sir Walter Raleigh in a black 1997 Brebbia Jubilee 925 silver banded grain sandblast briar calabash with a tapered black acrylic stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Getting ready to clean a few pipes.
The other evening I tried Father Dempsey in a Falcon, and found it to be less flavorful than in the Irwins 676. I speculated that the filter ring might be the difference, so this evening I tried Dempsey in a Falcon with no filter. It was good, but still not as good as my memory of the briar. More experimentation will be required.
Sunbear Black Locust in a Miscoi Pipes lovat.
Cornell & Diehl Palmetto Balkan 2024 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard