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MisterBadger

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 6, 2024
282
2,344
Ludlow, UK
Binning industrial quantities of leaves for composting, manuring rhubarb with donkey sh1t, then McConnell's Scottish Cake in a new acquisition, a Butz-Choquin 'Balzac' churchwarden. Hadn't smoked a churchwarden for years, and my jury's out as to how well the pipe smokes until I've also tried it with the normal-length bent stem it also came equipped with.
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RPK

Can't Leave
Dec 30, 2023
478
4,902
Central NJ, USA
Binning industrial quantities of leaves, manuring rhubarb with donkey sh1t, then McConnell's Scottish Cake in a new acquisition, a Butz-Choquin 'Balzac' churchwarden. Hadn't smoked a churchwarden for years, and my jury's out as to how well the pipe smokes until I've also tried it with the normal-length bent stem it also came equipped with.
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@MisterBadger Exercise caution when manuring the rhubarb and packing the new pipe.
 

thomasw

Lifer
Dec 5, 2016
1,078
4,203
Enjoying a coffee with a bowl of hh BK in a 1956 root briar 250 group 2 billiard.

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Fralphog

Lifer
Oct 28, 2021
2,068
25,840
Idaho
A “Christopher Robbins” type of day out there - very blustery. Sitting in the garage with the Irish Knockcroghery clay pipe with some Sep 2011 Marlin Flake. I bought the baccy off Tin Bids last December for my Birthday.
Celebrating scoring another well aged tin from them this week of 2003 MF
and a tin of 2003 Hal O the Wind.
A cup of Russian Caravan tea.
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Sobrbiker

Lifer
Jan 7, 2023
3,931
51,177
Casa Grande, AZ
Beating my Pete in a manner that would make my cob cry…
Bowl 3 in the Sportsman 87 so far today was The Royal Yacht, now bowl #4 is Brown Twist/Irish Flake.
Being mindful not to inhale as much as I usually do-saw my doc for a new onset of cardiac PVC’s yesterday and told him I’d dial it back on caffeine and nicotine a bit😉

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gord

Part of the Furniture Now
Interrupting chronological sequence here . . . this is my morning smoke, I'll put last nights on later, but this one (to me at least) is very significant. I simply had the best smoke I've ever had. Period. I did the loose triple pack this time, medium finger pressure only. Lit up the little Ropp J16 Etudiante, and proceeded with my listening program - this time my favorite violinist, Isaac Stern, playing both Bartok Rhapsodies and the Prokofiev Violin Concerto #1. Total performance time, 42 mnutes. I had time to listen to the 1st Rhapsody again.

I've of course dedicated this pipe to Mad Fiddler, but the pipe, with a fairly loose pack, lasted 55 minutes. That'll take in a Brahms Symphony! To me, at least, astounding for such a small pipe. MF is my usual morning smoke and I'm glad I broke my latest more "let's do this now" rhythm. It's no secret the Ropps smoke sweet, and respond to all the slow smoking techniques I know. I'm now a real fan of pipe dedication - it helps so much to get to know your tobaccos and what each pipe can do.


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I'd like to say to one and all, that I'm really enjoying this ongoing thread. I've learned a lot from so many of you - and been exposed to so many ideas, seen so many beautiful pipes, and have received many helpful PMs. It's so much more than a show and tell thread, and I'm getting to the point where I feel I can honestly do a little contributing of value in other threads. Thank so much, folks. It's been great and will continue to be so!