Relaxing after a wonderful salad, French cut pork chops and asparagus dinner with a scoop of Triopolitan ice cream for dessert. I'm a third of the way through this bowl of KBV Festivus VaPer in the first pipe Trever Talbot made when he went to France many years ago. It's a smooth straight Algerian briar Lumberman with a long shank and a black vulcanite saddle stem, unbranded. Haven't smoked it in quite a while. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Watching a tour of the Museum of the American Revolution.
Some old cao midnight run, it’s dry and crunchy but tasty in a Dagner cob. Watching a BBC Holmes episode , pairing a dry Cabernet. Going to heat up a nice turkey drumstick for a later snack.
Enjoying some HU English Breakfast. This tobacco is one of the best in its category. I have a little latitude during the day when I smoke for variety, but this is one among a few others that I reach for when only the best will do. I'm enjoying it in a Kriswill. I bought this pipe when I didn't know how to judge quality as shrewdly as I do now and it was a very lucky buy. It has the best grain of any of my pipes and the construction is flawless. It's also the only Danish pipe I own. The stampings are of the early variety and its rather traditional shape and attention to detail suggest to me this may have been a special or early production. There is an anchor stamped on the stem, the significance of which I've been unable to uncover as I've never seen another.
Did some snacking, enjoyed a fun Zoom chat, and smoked a bowl of Sutliff Cringle Flake (Holiday Edition 2020) in a black straight, grain etched family era (Post WW2) Four Dot Sasieni “Appleby” apple with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Now smoking D&R VIP in a 2004 smooth long shank Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 lumberman with a black vulcanite tapered stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.