More HU Director’s Cut in a Tekin Lattice Stack and another Americano 
️ on the side. World Series 
️ Game 3 Dodgers- Jays on the 
️ on the side. World Series ️ Game 3 Dodgers- Jays on the ***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***
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Dunhill BB1938 in a Radice
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm a third of the way through this bowl of year 2020 Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a 1938 smooth straight brown patent Dunhill R 115 bowling ball apple with a tapered cumberland stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Daisy the Feral Princess woke up from a long snooze to eat, and then she wanted out. Tomato the Brave finally showed up and ate plenty. After he thanked me, he jumped on m'lady's lap for more attention. Harry the Hairy went out. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Molly Danger is in the hallway eating out of the way of the other cats. She won't eat if another one is near her. I'm watching the World Series as if you couldn't guess. 
I'm kind of taking the discontinuance of most of Mac Baren's personally. My first couple years with the pipe, I initially started with pouches. I then discovered those large jars in the (nearly extinct) B&M pipe & tobacco stores, like Tobacco Road, Tobacco Lane, etc. Some were freestanding and many were in the malls. You could smell the wonderful aromas out in the hallway along with the cinnamon roll stores, the cotton candy, etc.
This was where I noticed all the colorful tins, different shapes, on the shelves and wondered what they were all about. My first ever tin was Mac Baren Mixture Scottish Blend -- AWESOME! My second tin was Dunhill EMP -- also AWESOME! To then discover the various Mac Baren coin cuts was almost "other worldly".
Anyway, as I pat myself on the back to have added a fair amount of Mac Baren to my cellar, I'm now honoring Mac Baren, celebrating every bowl, anticipating cracking open every tin. Along with ensconcing myself into Mac Baren stuff, I'm giving myself free rein to do a bit of "Mac Baren mixology".
Tonight = I added about 30% Plumcake to Mixture Scottish Blend.
Next = thinking about a 50/50 mix of Club Blend and VA Flake.
I already have a jar, several years old, of a Mac Baren combo ... VA#1 plus Norwood (Norwood rarely mentioned here on the Forum).
Also have a more recent tin of Cherry Ambrosia which will be 2 years old this Christmas Season. Might be worth cracking it in Dec.
This was where I noticed all the colorful tins, different shapes, on the shelves and wondered what they were all about. My first ever tin was Mac Baren Mixture Scottish Blend -- AWESOME! My second tin was Dunhill EMP -- also AWESOME! To then discover the various Mac Baren coin cuts was almost "other worldly".
Anyway, as I pat myself on the back to have added a fair amount of Mac Baren to my cellar, I'm now honoring Mac Baren, celebrating every bowl, anticipating cracking open every tin. Along with ensconcing myself into Mac Baren stuff, I'm giving myself free rein to do a bit of "Mac Baren mixology".
Tonight = I added about 30% Plumcake to Mixture Scottish Blend.
Next = thinking about a 50/50 mix of Club Blend and VA Flake.
I already have a jar, several years old, of a Mac Baren combo ... VA#1 plus Norwood (Norwood rarely mentioned here on the Forum).
Also have a more recent tin of Cherry Ambrosia which will be 2 years old this Christmas Season. Might be worth cracking it in Dec.
4 year old HH Burley Flake in a Nuttens Bing.
Afternoon everyone, smoking some DNR's in a Castello Le Dune whilst I buy an excavator. Man these guys just want my money worse than Castello or tobacco companies.............
To be fair I'd also get as giddy over buying an excavator as I do a new pipe but that might just be because I'm still a ten year old boy when it comes to heavy construction equipment. I still remember the first time I got to drive a dump truck, it's how I learned to drive a manual too hahaha
Carolina Red Flake w/ Perique 2025 in a Peterson Christmas 69 after dinner this evening.
I love aged Mac Baren maybe more than any other blends... 2005 London Blend in an old LHS thingamabob
Ugh, so jealous man! Both my neighbor and I have tractors that are strictly front loaders and we often bemoan the lack of a good excavator, though lord knows we would get ourselves into trouble with one.
2015 Sillem’s Councilor in my Castello paneled rhodisian.
Moved on to Prince Albert in a Falcon.
Now smoking year 2014 Full Virginia Flake in a slight bend 1968 group 4S Dunhill Shell 475 cherrywood with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Headed home with OJKB in the Briarlee
Horse stuff with the Color Duke full of C&D Winchester,
Then the last third taking out the trash, with the last of the sunset 30min later.
Horse stuff with the Color Duke full of C&D Winchester,
Then the last third taking out the trash, with the last of the sunset 30min later.
Oh I'm hearing you, trouble incoming for sure. Worst part is all the attachments and how much they cost
That’s a nice little hoe.
Being an equipment operator by trade, running my little Kubota 35horse tractor with a bucket that’s matched by my wheelbarrow kind of sucks, but it beats a shovel and a rake.
I wish I could afford a true grade tractor (Deere 210LE is my all time fave), I could do so much more, but even a questionable used one is five times what I’ve got in the little tractor.
Wow ! I just use the czech tool !
Last bowl tonight s Sutliff 507-C in the Pete Erica 302 with Savinelli dry system stem and 6mm filter. English black tea with a touch of cream is my accompaniment. I plan on pre-loading the Algerian briar sitter for tommorow morning.
Kind of a bittersweet round of golf today...my friend just sold her house, and this course is "members only," so this may have been the last time I get to play this 9-hole par 30. Made the most of it and shot +10 (my age!). Accompanying me was Mac Baren Plumcake in a MM Dagner poker. Puffing in a stiff breeze was tough, but mastering a lob wedge is much more so. 8/10
Bird report: House finch, California scrub-jay, California towhee, Dark-eyed junco, White-crowned sparrow, American crow, Band-tailed pigeon, Red-tailed hawk, Northern flicker, Oak titmouse, Mountain chickadee, Steller's jay, White-breasted nuthatch, Hairy woodpecker, Acorn woodpecker, and Spotted towhee.
This bowl was dedicated to my great-great aunt Rose, the eldest victim of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting, which took place seven years ago today.
Bird report: House finch, California scrub-jay, California towhee, Dark-eyed junco, White-crowned sparrow, American crow, Band-tailed pigeon, Red-tailed hawk, Northern flicker, Oak titmouse, Mountain chickadee, Steller's jay, White-breasted nuthatch, Hairy woodpecker, Acorn woodpecker, and Spotted towhee.
This bowl was dedicated to my great-great aunt Rose, the eldest victim of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting, which took place seven years ago today.
Did some research and that one stacked up over some other brand names such as Komatsu etc......track frame plate is thicker and stronger than most, double rollers and bigger slew motor, list goes on. I have the work for it going forward here on this little farm whilst I develop it and it will pay for itself in a year with what I have planned and I'll be sick of it after I sit in it for 4 months straight raking and destumping.
Haha, its a hell of a tamper that's for sure.....Wow ! I just use the czech tool !
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