***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***

[PapaCoolDown]

A little Steamworks out in the cold for a first light in this Morgan Bones.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through the last of this pouch of year 2015 Sir Walter Raleigh in a 1922-38 Made in Ireland Peterson Dublin 3 straight smooth dark brown bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Aged Opening Night in a Jared Coles

 

[wilblee]

The last bowl of this tin of Hamborger Veermaster in a Norm Triptow cobwarden. Just finished the Houston/Tenn game <sigh>. Now switching to a recording of the Dallas/Wash game.

 

[JimInks]

A minute or two away from smoking year 2012 Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight, dark brown early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad.

 

[BlueRidge]

1792 in a Pete Premier 313

 

[Brewfan]

Ho ho ho, one month to go! C&D Corn Cob Pipe in my Santa Claus meer.

 

[shanez]

7 degrees colder than yesterday but much less wind so I'm almost repeating but this time it's Tillerman in my pool meer and Marlin Flake in the claw meer with some Chimay Grande Reserve:

 

[gord]

Hey friend gord,

Sorry to hear you fell and have been hurting. Not trying to be alarmist- you sure it's just dislocated? Just asking, not trying to be intrusive... we just like having you around

Pegasus in a favorite Kai Billiard

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Thanks for the kind words. Very much appreciated. Yeah, it's a recurring problem, either back or hip. I haven't had cartilage in my knees for about 14 years - I used to be a pretty good athlete, hockey/soccer, and at 5'7" and 133 pounds as a highschool graduate, you can imagine what I played like. Guys kept their heads up when I was on the ice. My job was checker/disrupter/turnover center always on their best player to piss him off, disrupt him and take him with me into the penalty box. Cheap imitation of Bobby Clarke, my hockey hero.

When my knees finally crumbled, my thigh muscles were strong enough to relieve much of the stress on my knees, but not now a my age. When I slip or fall due to knee collapse, quite common this icy time of year, my hip or back goes out for a bit. Or if I roll over in my sleep.

Always a bit of a whiner (spent a lot of time in the penalty box) my Mom used to tell me "Stop yer bitching. You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between shit and syphilis." Takes a bit longer now to stand erect but I'll be fine in a few days. Fine sitting down now, as long as my behind is higher than my knees. Again, thanks for your kind comments.

 

[RPK]

" You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between shit and syphilis."

Haven't heard that since basic training from First Sargent Otis Boatwright !

 

[Ben.R.C]

Good long walk today, got a few things done around the house, building a nice fire, waiting on pizza and wings, and smoking Chenets cake in an Asteriou chubby author.

 

[das3353]

2020 Brunello Flake in a Cavicchi

 

[doctorbob]

Smokers pride Cherry Cavendish in a Kaywoodie flame grain bent squat bulldog.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Miserable couple of days. Another blizzard, a slip on the snow and a dislocated hip. Can sit down now on my hard computer chair so here's catching up on my piping over the last few days.

1. All my pipes are now broken in, dedicated to a particular tobacco or genre, and timed with respect to studies, music or videos. It's actually been a very good system, for me at least.

2. The final phase is my big pipes. I've developed my smoking "skills" around miniature, and small to medium size pipes because of our horrendous tobacco prices up here. I don't smoke the bigger pipes well - still in a learning phase. Two examples are shown below, my Peterson System Standerd in P-Lip and Savinelli Avoreo. They have, to me at least, huge capacities in comparison to my McQueens, Ropps et all.

Over the weekend I got over 100 minutes with each pipe and different tobaccos, but I smoked like a dorque, fiddling and farting with packing, moving tobacco around, relights . . . . it was more of an ordeal than a pleasure, but mission accomplished with respect to length, which is only one criterion. I can now get through a full one act opera ITchaikovsky's "Iolanthe") which lasts 140 minutes without a break.

Now I have to learn to smoke these beasts properly. They are NOT the same tools as the smaller pipes I usually go to. The 100 minutes were fed with TobaccoBarn's "Cimmeron" a delightful aro (Savinelli) and Smokers' Pride Vanilla Cavendish in the Pete, the coolest and longest smoking fodder I've experienced so far.

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I'll be experimenting with tobaccos, techniques and such over the next while. If I was younger and richer I'd take private lessons lol but I'll look at videos, and old forum threads to overcome this big - bore hurdle. Hmmmm . . . had to overcome the same thing with rifles when I bought a .458 magnum in my younger days lol. Cheers.

What dimensions are we talking? I enjoy big pipes for a richer, longer smoke. anything .80 x 1.5 and above is pretty big to me. I find them easier to smoke than small pipes. I’ve yet to try a real magnum size but plan on it,.

 

[Ben.R.C]

FVF in a Rad Davis View attachment 351198

Wait, isn’t that my Rad Davis? I swear I had my eye on that thing, suddenly appeared as sold.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Having some Old Gowrie in a Sav this evening with water. I’m kind of giddy for the short week.

 

[Scottmi]

My 1781 Mix (50/50 Storm Front and Yorktown) in the SMS Big Bent Lattice Meer. Jar note is Fig Newtons, every time. Very satisfying full/rich taste (not of fig newtons)!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Sitting on the back porch with Captain Black Grape. Missing the sound of frogs and crickets, I really hate this time of year.

 

[SoupCan]

GLP Triple Play in my Savinelli 310KS. Spent all weekend getting set up in our new house. Still a lot to do but it’s livable. Two months of being shacked up with my folks has come to an end.

 

[Peterson314]

LL-7 in my Castello Sea Rock