HU Director’s Cut in a Nuttens Bing and an Americano 
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What a nice lookin dog!Newminster 403 Superior Round Slices, delightfully spicy, in an MM Virginia Planter. Karen Dog at my side. Lovely morning, gonna turn nasty and wet as we head into the ND-USC game this evening.
P S Luxury Navy Flake in a clay. Hope everyone is having a good weekend.
Sitting out at the fire ring after a wonderful dinner. Smoking some Watch City, American Cut Plug Mixture. A fine ending to a great day.
New (to me) pipe arrived today!! (So, bear with my excitement ... 
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I discovered that some folks own a pipe manufactured the year they were born. Sounded like a cool idea to me, I mean, the year IS pretty meaningful! I also gathered that Dunhills are often fairly easy to date. I never had a Dunhill. Also never had an estate pipe. ALSO never had a billiard. So ...
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with 1 stone: I located an old 1973 Dunhill Root Briar 126 w/ vulcanite stem, in (I think) excellent condition. It's pretty schnazzy, and has a really nice, open draw. Testing it out now with John Bull True English.
FIRST ever Dunhill
FIRST ever estate pipe (my birth year)
FIRST ever billiard
And FIRST smoke in said new pipe
Oh, and FIRST try of Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale
It's a Pentafecta of FIRSTS!!
(Or is it a quintfecta?)
)I discovered that some folks own a pipe manufactured the year they were born. Sounded like a cool idea to me, I mean, the year IS pretty meaningful! I also gathered that Dunhills are often fairly easy to date. I never had a Dunhill. Also never had an estate pipe. ALSO never had a billiard. So ...
Killing 4
with 1 stone: I located an old 1973 Dunhill Root Briar 126 w/ vulcanite stem, in (I think) excellent condition. It's pretty schnazzy, and has a really nice, open draw. Testing it out now with John Bull True English.FIRST ever Dunhill
FIRST ever estate pipe (my birth year)
FIRST ever billiard
And FIRST smoke in said new pipe
Oh, and FIRST try of Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale
It's a Pentafecta of FIRSTS!!
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Congratulations! A very handsome pipe indeed.New (to me) pipe arrived today!! (So, bear with my excitement ...
I discovered that some folks own a pipe manufactured the year they were born. Sounded like a cool idea to me, I mean, the year IS pretty meaningful! I also gathered that Dunhills are often fairly easy to date. I never had a Dunhill. Also never had an estate pipe. ALSO never had a billiard. So ...
Killing 4
FIRST ever Dunhill
FIRST ever estate pipe (my birth year)
FIRST ever billiard
And FIRST smoke in said new pipe
Oh, and FIRST try of Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale
It's a Pentafecta of FIRSTS!!
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Congratulations both of you! Good to see a happy couple!
Some Star of the East Flake from 2020 in a Kaywoodie shape 07 billiard. This is one of the first blends that really grabbed me when I started smoking a pipe. I was blowing through tins of it. I still enjoy it from time to time, but in retrospect, I probably didn't need to cellar as much of it as I did.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm half way through this bowl of year 2021 Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation Evening Flake in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson Ebony POTY 4AB No. 422/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave are in and ate a little. Tomato tried to give Daisy a hard time, but she pawed him on the jaw, and he backed off. She doesn't take much crap. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Molly Danger is on m'lady's lap. We're deciding on which movie to watch.
University Flake in this Wessex Brigade. Twining‘s English Afternoon Tea. Beautiful day of cycling and college football. FSU game doesn’t start until 9:30 CST. Glad we aren’t on EST like most of Florida.
before dinner 2018 ABF in a Peterson 
Now smoking 2015 Directors cut in a Radice
Now smoking 2015 Directors cut in a Radice
That's cool to know. Never gave it any thought before.
CRF/P 2025 in a Punto Oro Amber 506
Enjoyed a bowl of GLP Windjammer in a Savinelli 320 earlier today.
Chomping on a Cuba Libre The Brute this beautiful fall evening watching college football.
Chomping on a Cuba Libre The Brute this beautiful fall evening watching college football.
Rattray’s Black Mallory from May 2020 in a La Savinelli Giubileo D’Oro Dublin.
I am smoking this pipe after months … maybe even years.
I am smoking this pipe after months … maybe even years.
Dude, major score! Pentafecta of firsts indeed!New (to me) pipe arrived today!! (So, bear with my excitement ...
I discovered that some folks own a pipe manufactured the year they were born. Sounded like a cool idea to me, I mean, the year IS pretty meaningful! I also gathered that Dunhills are often fairly easy to date. I never had a Dunhill. Also never had an estate pipe. ALSO never had a billiard. So ...
Killing 4
FIRST ever Dunhill
FIRST ever estate pipe (my birth year)
FIRST ever billiard
And FIRST smoke in said new pipe
Oh, and FIRST try of Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale
It's a Pentafecta of FIRSTS!!
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Smoking a half of a rolled-up Sutliff 507c Virginia slice in my Peterson Junior rusticated lovat 
First things first...congratulations @TheIronMonkey on your nuptials! We're October wedding brothers now too. 
Embittered by a Scrabble loss vs. wifey instigated by a late-game pickup of several useless high-point letters, I trudged outside for a first-time try of C&D King Cake (sample) in my aromatic pipe, a Savinelli Miele 641 KS smooth bent apple, paired with a Capt. Picard Special (hot earl grey tea). One review of this blend described it as smoking a piece of birthday cake. While I don't find that to be exactly true, I am turning 40 1/2 on Friday, so I'm more than willing to just use my imagination. 9/10
Bird report: California scrub-jay, House finch, White-crowned sparrow, California towhee, Dark-eyed junco, Band-tailed pigeon, White-breasted nuthatch, Mountain chickadee, American crow, Steller's jay, California quail, Spotted towhee, Hairy woodpecker, and Northern flicker.
The PipesMagazine Zoom meetup #4 is only a week away tomorrow. Be there, or miss out on all the Stonehaven you could ever want!*
*There will be no actual Stonehaven. Rauchen ist todlich!
Embittered by a Scrabble loss vs. wifey instigated by a late-game pickup of several useless high-point letters, I trudged outside for a first-time try of C&D King Cake (sample) in my aromatic pipe, a Savinelli Miele 641 KS smooth bent apple, paired with a Capt. Picard Special (hot earl grey tea). One review of this blend described it as smoking a piece of birthday cake. While I don't find that to be exactly true, I am turning 40 1/2 on Friday, so I'm more than willing to just use my imagination. 9/10
Bird report: California scrub-jay, House finch, White-crowned sparrow, California towhee, Dark-eyed junco, Band-tailed pigeon, White-breasted nuthatch, Mountain chickadee, American crow, Steller's jay, California quail, Spotted towhee, Hairy woodpecker, and Northern flicker.
The PipesMagazine Zoom meetup #4 is only a week away tomorrow. Be there, or miss out on all the Stonehaven you could ever want!*
*There will be no actual Stonehaven. Rauchen ist todlich!
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