I’ve yet to get one, but I’d tend to agree, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***
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Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and have passed the half way mark of this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
Whenever I smoke my XL02 I wonder why I bother with anything else! This piping game is so awesome
1) Late cigar from last night: Montecristo Platinum
2) Pipe from tonight: DIY Hardwood Li'l Chap with random remnants
This evening we had a super, soaking rain
, which cooled things down a bit. The weeds are loving it! 
2) Pipe from tonight: DIY Hardwood Li'l Chap with random remnants
This evening we had a super, soaking rain
, which cooled things down a bit. The weeds are loving it!  |  |
Part way through this bowl of year 2014 HU Directors Cut in a 1970s slight bend medium brown Caminetto business 134 poker with a pearl gold acrylic stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Tomato the Brave came in to eat. He played a little afterward, and then wanted out. I'm getting ready to watch the Orioles-Yankees game.
Balkan Latakia in the clay pipe.
New week has started over here, wish you a good one good people...
New week has started over here, wish you a good one good people...
Now 11pm, Sept 21, just one hour away from First Day of Fall (Autumn), Sept 22, although officially it won't arrive until 1:19pm CDT tomorrow. Time for some Roast Pork & Baked Squash (!!!).
Late night Parfait in a Peterson System Standard 303 (smooth, Fishtail):
Top half = GLP Cairo
Bottom = Mac Baren Navy Flake
Late night Parfait in a Peterson System Standard 303 (smooth, Fishtail):
Top half = GLP Cairo
Bottom = Mac Baren Navy Flake
Peretti Cambridge Flake in my SMS 6 panel bent lattice meer for the last smoke of Summer 2025.
Definitely need to bring in some gravel, but shed is 'good to go! '
Definitely need to bring in some gravel, but shed is 'good to go! '
Part way through this bowl of Silent beta test in a 1980s White Pipe straight lattice apple meerschaum with an acrylic yellow cream colored saddle stem.
Great for you! Congrats. Besides Briar Fox, what retirement plans do you have?
Starting the week with a bowlful of Amphora Original Brown in a Stanwell Sraight Grain nro 97 Liverpool shape
Now smoking Wilke No. 515 in a 1998 smooth straight Butz-Choquin Bistro 1501 pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem. This was the original 515 that Basil Rathbone smoked.
Close to finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Two Timer Gold in a smooth straight late 1970s Charatan Special 4148DC Reg. No. 203573 pot with a black double comfort vulcanite stem. Close to finish reading baseball box scores, too. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Molly Danger is snoozin' in bed. Going to check on the ferals before long.
Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2020 D&R Penhooker in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a tapered black p-lip stem. I let Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave inside for their wet food. Tomato ate an average amount for him, and Daisy a little more than usual. After that, Tomato went to the cardboard box, which has become a popular hot spot for him and Molly Danger. I played "chase the rope" with him until Daisy got interested in playing, too, but her interest level was small, and then she wanted out. I let Harry the Hairy in to eat and after he did, he walked around the den trying to figure out what to do. Tomato had a watchful eye on him, but there was no trouble between them because Harry kept his distance from him. After a few minutes and a back scratch from yours truly, Harry wanted out. Tomato is laying near my feet.
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Last smoke of the day is year 2016 Sutliff Revelation Match in a straight smooth brown pre-WWII Kingsway (Comoy’s) London Made 61 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Reading while this bowl lasts.
Dan Tobacco - Hamborger Veermaster in a Altinay and a Cup of Joe.
Last warm days…enjoying lunch brake with Huber English Balkan in Ser Jacopo Maxima S2
Good morning! Coffee, burley, cob.
Well, they definitely get rotated in, I have been smoking larger capacity pipes lately but I know I’ll circle back to my Manduelas, love those pipes!You’ve been neglecting that little blue stemmed Manduela though…..
C&D Exclusive in a Becker Billiard and Coffee 
️ on the side. Happy Last Day of Summer & First Day of Fall !
️ on the side. Happy Last Day of Summer & First Day of Fall !
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