***What Are You Smoking, September 2024?***
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Nice Stannie...look at that shine! And a great choice for a first, btw. Good stuff.
As for me, it's MB Pure VA in a Stefano Santambrogio smooth bent panel.
Thanks! It's a fairly small bowl, so I figured a stronger blend was in order.Nice Stannie...look at that shine! And a great choice for a first, btw. Good stuff.
As for me, it's MB Pure VA in a Stefano Santambrogio smooth bent panel.
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I wound up trying it by accident. I got like 4 tins when it came out, it was marketed as a blend meant to be aged, I found the tins again after a year and couldn’t believe how good. The thing is, I like the fresh, non aged, it’s pretty much the same, maybe 3-5 yrs would make more of a difference. I can’t seem to hold on to it long enough to age more anyway. If I can sell some of my cellar I’d stock waaaay up.
Even though this is a diet day, m'lady decided to surprise me with my favorite soup, New England clam chowder, as an appetizer. Dinner was a salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've passed the half way mark of this bowl of year 2008 Astley’s No. 109 in a straight smooth dark brown year 1926 Parker Super Bruyere patent 3 63/F lovat with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
Dinner was a salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've passed the half way mark of this bowl of year 2008 Astley’s No. 109 in a straight smooth dark brown year 1926 Parker Super Bruyere patent 3 63/F lovat with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
Small bowl of Mac Baren HH Acadian Perique in a Foyard Rhodesian, after some more annoying ranch chores on the last couple of hot days of the year, of course. Not complaining though (at least not any more than usual); I'll take 82 over 92 any day. 8.5/10
Bird report: House finch, California towhee, California quail, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, Dark-eyed junco, Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Oak titmouse, American crow, Anna's hummingbird, and Hairy woodpecker.
Bird report: House finch, California towhee, California quail, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, Dark-eyed junco, Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Oak titmouse, American crow, Anna's hummingbird, and Hairy woodpecker.
GL Pease Chelsea Morning from October 2011 in a Dunhill Millennium Shell from 2000
C&D Dark Fired Kentucky in a Peterson Donegal Rocky X105 tonight. 
My birth year...that's a beautiful pipe!
Same time I got into pipe smoking! It's been an enjoyable, but expensive, venture thus far!From Nov 2022, my first pipe! Man, did I go hard after this.Wound up giving this one to a friend. Good smoking pipe to start with really.
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Monday evening smoke of Barbary Coast in a Walter Hettinger billiard. 
A third of a bowl left of year 2012 Anniversary Kake in a smooth burgundy medium bend 1979 Chippendale (Charatan second) Rhodesian 49 with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Smokes as well as a first and worth the $19.95 I paid for it all those years ago. Couldn't post until now because Daisy the Feral Princess was on my lap. She's been doing that more and more the past couple of weeks. Guess she needs the attention. Watching the D-Backs-Giants game.
Great looking Stanwell
HU dark moor in a sandblasted peterson billard.
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