What Are You Smoking, October 2022?

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vintage in a Rad Davis.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Finishing up a bowl of Capstan Blue in the Sav 313. It’s a pretty still night, and all of the day’s excitement is over, helping to get a nice relaxed flavorful smoke. An occasional sizzle and damp pipe cleaner remind me that my technique still has a ways to go, however…

 

[OzPiper]

A Yum Cha lunch for a bunch of friends followed by champagne, cake and coffee at home

Bowl of Peterson Elizabethan Mixture

In a 1918 Civic bent billiard, tapered stem, slotted bit.
The curve and taper of the shank and stem makes this one of my favourite bents

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Going to have McClelland No. 2020 (thanks @lukasstrifeson ! ) in a Brebbia Fat Bob Sabbiata 2113 Bent Dublin.

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of F&T Blackjack in a straight smooth brown post-WWII Comoy’s Grand Slam billiard 27 Canadian patent 341422 with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[Steddy]

Year 2013 Capstan Yellow in a Savinelli sack pipe.

 

[JimInks]

About a third of the way through this bowl of Wilke No. 515 in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This was the blend Basil Rathbone smoked. Just fed Shy Stripesy and Daisy the Feral Princess. Tomato was here earlier and ate like a horse. His owners neglect him and Daisy, who doesn't even go home any more. At least she gets fed and attention here.

 

[Winnipeger]

Smoked some asbestos GH&co Cut Irish X in my Musico, and an Undercrown Sungrown Coronet, while conversing with my neighbour tonight, following my gig: three sets of Latin Jazz at a local restaurant. My wife brought my daughter to see me play for the first time since before Covid, when she was barely two years old, and the neighbours showed up too. My daughter was in seventh heaven, salsa dancing with strangers and seeing what her dad does for a living. The staff fell in love with her. She's a funky four-year-old. Life is kind of returning to normal.

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

Smoking now the Sutliff Molto Dolce. I like this blend so much. If I had to be left with a handfull of tobaccos to smoke, I'd like this to be one of them. Unfortunately, not easy to find it in Europe.
In an old MM patriot. I had some problems with the stem attachment, while trying to fix this I found somewhere a "silver" ring and I added it. On the one hand it helped, on the other I like how it looks. I can't describe you the joy I get from this kind of small modifications...

A happy sunday to all of you good people.

 

[warren99]

Bill Bailey’s Balkan Blend in a Barling Fossil EL Ye Olde Wood bulldog.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Smoked some asbestos GH&co Cut Irish X in my Musico, and an Undercrown Sungrown Coronet, while conversing with my neighbour tonight, following my gig: three sets of Latin Jazz at a local restaurant. My wife brought my daughter to see me play for the first time since before Covid, when she was barely two years old, and the neighbours showed up too. My daughter was in seventh heaven, salsa dancing with strangers and seeing what her dad does for a living. The staff fell in love with her. She's a funky four-year-old. Life is kind of returning to normal.

My daughter just turned 3 and hasn't known a world without Covid. Grocery shopping was a trip since she didn't understand the mask concept.

The first social interactions were odd with kids wanting to touch and play while the adults didn't know what was socially acceptable.

My daughter seems smart, but it's hard to gauge with little interaction seen between others her age. But some studies suggest this generation is generally smarter since they primarily interact with adults; yet it scares me too, since other younger generations have little social skills these days (but who am I to judge as I participate on a pipe forum as a lot of my non-work social interaction).

Music took a hit and I'm glad you're back in business with the ability to show your daughter the craft you've chosen. Good luck and cheers.

 

[Winnipeger]

My daughter just turned 3 and hasn't known a world without Covid. Grocery shopping was a trip since she didn't understand the mask concept.

The first social interactions were odd with kids wanting to touch and play while the adults didn't know what was socially acceptable.

My daughter seems smart, but it's hard to gauge with little interaction seen between others her age. But some studies suggest this generation is generally smarter since they primarily interact with adults; yet it scares me too, since other younger generations have little social skills these days (but who am I to judge as I participate on a pipe forum as a lot of my non-work social interaction).

Music took a hit and I'm glad you're back in business with the ability to show your daughter the craft you've chosen. Good luck and cheers.

Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Covid was late in arriving where I live. Everything shut down in March 2020 but in June we had close to zero cases in the city. As a result, we started socializing more with our neighbours during that summer. It was a blessing. Now we're a tightly-knit community and my daughter has close friends up and down the block. Before Covid we barely knew our neighbours. We avoided infection until this summer, but in August we got hit with it and I was very sick. My wife just recovered from some sort of weird relapse. It's been a roller coaster ride. As far as my daughter is concerned, I think the fact that she wasn't school-aged means she avoided the worst effects of the pandemic. A lot of my private students, especially those who were high-school aged and missed graduation after spending two years doing online schooling haven't fared as well. They'll be dealing with the after effects for years to come.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Ribbon cut Yenidje before bed.

 

[Chaukisch]

So the recipe for "Clay King" is half & half Sweet Golden Lemon Virginia & Sweet Black Cavendish with a light honey / mead flavouring???
I think SG Black Forest is my real life "Clay King":
I can't believe I found a real pipe baccy that matches my fabled "Clay King"

I'm not chiseling anything in stone yet, what looks and tastes best will decide.
Good to know that the SG Black Forest turned out right, it did look like a good contender.

As far as my daughter is concerned, I think the fact that she wasn't school-aged means she avoided the worst effects of the pandemic.

Glad to hear she's doing well. My mother worked with little preschoolers for decades now and she's quite concerned about this lack of contact with other people, not learning proper facial expressions/emotions because of the masks and so on. I don't know a whole lot about pedagogy but I see what she means.

OT:
Tasting some unflavored English style Black Cavendish in my Capitello, out in the garden.



Have a nice sunday!

 

[The Clay King]

I'm not chiseling anything in stone yet, what looks and tastes best will decide.
Good to know that the SG Black Forest turned out right, it did look like a good contender.


Glad to hear she's doing well. My mother worked with little preschoolers for decades now and she's quite concerned about this lack of contact with other people, not learning proper facial expressions/emotions because of the masks and so on. I don't know a whole lot about pedagogy but I see what she means.

OT:
Tasting some unflavored English style Black Cavendish in my Capitello, out in the garden.

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Have a nice sunday!

@Chaukisch Sounds good to me

 

[judcole]

Sutliff Match Ready Rubbed in my MM Scarecrow.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Edward G Robinson blend in a Brebbia. Up early with some Italian roast

 

[isaac liu]

Admire your experience very much！I bought a Chinese translation of the red book, a 1:1 copy of the original red book (unusually large), and the black book is more expensive

A yes, the C. G. Jung “Red Book” a deep insight into mankind’s collective un-consciousness, written and drawn by the master-psychologist himself. I twice had a glimpse on the book with a scientist of the German Jung Association on a few chapters. Very interesting stuff in a kind of experimental self exploration of Jung’s psyche over 10 years living in self isolation as far as I remember at a lake in Switzerland. Before he died he closed it up in a Tresor, the essential heritage of all his scientific studies to be opened at the dawn of the 2000 years. Quite mysterious stuff. The Jung-Psychologiy is almost forgotten nowadays. Also a highly philosophical tractate.

Instead scientists nowadays try to explain humans by biological aspects of how their brains work, hormones and stuff. After almost 20 years those have found almost nothing to explain the traits of human spirit further.

Only drawback is the book is a little bit to be xpensive, no paperback available ,-)

 

[gamzultovah]

Family is wonderful! A gift bomb from my brother-in-law: a handmade arts & crafts tobacco tray, a snuff mull from the 1800’s and a Medusa inspired meerschaum pipe. Life is good. Getting ready to smoke G&H Scotch Flake in my Francois Dal Lovat.

 

[isaac liu]

A friend of mine mail me two barrels of tobacco as a gift from US. It is undoubtedly a very happy thing to receive a gift. Out of polite consideration, I did not ask what kind of tobacco it is.Today, I finally received a package from USPS, When I opened it and saw what was inside, great fear made me faint……

28oz Sutliff mixture 79！……Can you believe it？What should I do? Throw it into the huge incense burner in the temple to worship my ancestors?
When I started smoking pipes in 2008, I briefly tried some aromatic tobacco and soon became an English/VP fans. Until today kramer’s blend for cary grant or Samuel gawith’s perfection mixture are my acceptable upper limit of aromatic.
Anyway，I’m going to give this infamous tobacco a chance. A sacrificable falcon pipe with a bulldog bowl are standing by，wife and cat locked in a safe room，Frank Sinatra's record on the linn lp12……I need his encouragement.
If I survive, gonna report to you.