What Are You Smoking, October 2022?
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2019 Escudo in my Big Ben Ranger is a nice thing to be smoking when hanging out with the little guy, and I occasionally have to put it down for periods of time. 
Some English mix i have in the Savinelli Nonpereil. Enjoying this warm day as it doesnt look like MI has many more left for the season.
3 bowl day before the blizzard hits tonight. First smoke was finishing a bowl of star of the east in a Vincenzo. Second was haunted bookshop from 2018 in a cob. This and likely final is finishing a bowl of Macbaren burley flake in a savinelli
Enjoying a wonderful fall afternoon on the patio. I decided to smoke some MB London Blend in the vintage House of Robertson billiard. Cup of black tea as well.
Happy Saturday All!
Happy Saturday All!
Having a bowl of C&D Morley's Best in a Peterson 107 Donegal Rocky and enjoying a nice fall evening on the front porch with my girl.
A third of a bowl left of year 2016 Stonehaven in a straight black sandblasted 1957 Barling Exel 249 Fossil T.V.F. black billiard with a silver banded military mount and a black ebonite tapered stem. Cleaned a few pipes, and dedicated a couple of unsmoked (by me) estates to blends.
Heading out now to watch some episodes of Eureka and have Abberant in my bones apple.
I just finished the session with my Saturday ZOOM buddies (a smaller than usual group, as many are at the Vegas show).
I smoked a Fred Hanna concoction of McClelland's Stave-Aged Virginia 35 Ribbon and PCCA Hairy Larry, in my Peterson Arklow 80s. A cuppa Barrie House Morning Ritual coffee, black, went nicely with the smoke.
I smoked a Fred Hanna concoction of McClelland's Stave-Aged Virginia 35 Ribbon and PCCA Hairy Larry, in my Peterson Arklow 80s. A cuppa Barrie House Morning Ritual coffee, black, went nicely with the smoke.
2018 Davidoff Flake Medallions in a Rubio Bulldog.
The Virginia experiment continues - IMP and some 2019 Carolina Red Flake I snagged during @hoosierpipeguy’s summer cellar extravaganza. 
I ditched the Abberant. I think it needs some time to open up. I switched over to C&D Oak Alley in my SMS meer. Tangy and deilig.
Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2014 Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake in a smooth dark brown quarter bend post-1935 KBB/Kaywoodie New England Briar Pipe Company Flagship 83B Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Dinner follows this smoke.
Peterson Irish Whiskey in my Stefano bent Rhodesian, as the storm clouds roll in (and the temperature drops precipitously). Definitely feeling like winter at the moment, and as a result, no birds to speak of other than ravens and the intermittent scrub-jay. Wife is roasting a pie pumpkin for pureeing and eventual integration into an autumnal dessert item. This, my friend, is what fall is all about! 
OHM Red, burley and Turkish bag tobacco, which has mellowed with some years, in a MM diplomat with one of the earlier versions of a "table leg" Forever stem. This smoke accompanies my studying the Medicare & You 2023 official U.S. gov't Medicare handbook.
I'm trying to figure out if there is any benefit in opting for the new Medicare Advantage plans through private insurance companies versus original Medicare with a supplemental (private corporate) Medigap plan I already have, which strikes me as possibly better -- more freedom to select providers, and no required approval from the plans prior to treatment, plus we seem to be doing okay with a lot of prescription prices, so far so good. Learning the vocabulary is just the ticket for a Saturday night. Not. Puff-puff.
If you too are having to make this decision, beware of all the insurance companies out trolling for customers. I'm afraid the dental, eye care, and hearing aid options may be bait for reduced coverage for specialists, hospitals, and prescriptions. Now I've got to call my current supplemental provider and the state insurance info people. It's a jungle out there.
Every day brings private Medicare "Advantage" plan offers, some dressed up like govt documents (they aren't) and even some without corporate addresses, all with vague promises aimed at confused old folks, with TV ads and phone calls to apply pressure. Insurance companies have one motive: get your money. I think the companies lobbied the hell out of Congress to set up this system as a banquet for their executives and stock holders.
I'm trying to figure out if there is any benefit in opting for the new Medicare Advantage plans through private insurance companies versus original Medicare with a supplemental (private corporate) Medigap plan I already have, which strikes me as possibly better -- more freedom to select providers, and no required approval from the plans prior to treatment, plus we seem to be doing okay with a lot of prescription prices, so far so good. Learning the vocabulary is just the ticket for a Saturday night. Not. Puff-puff.
If you too are having to make this decision, beware of all the insurance companies out trolling for customers. I'm afraid the dental, eye care, and hearing aid options may be bait for reduced coverage for specialists, hospitals, and prescriptions. Now I've got to call my current supplemental provider and the state insurance info people. It's a jungle out there.
Every day brings private Medicare "Advantage" plan offers, some dressed up like govt documents (they aren't) and even some without corporate addresses, all with vague promises aimed at confused old folks, with TV ads and phone calls to apply pressure. Insurance companies have one motive: get your money. I think the companies lobbied the hell out of Congress to set up this system as a banquet for their executives and stock holders.
9 year old Capstan Yellow in a Savinelli panel shanked billiard.
Mac Baren: HH Old Dark Fired in Meer...
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