What a day. Started it with a bowl of Uhles Blend 44 in a Grabow and now I’m having some Mallard w/Perique Flake in a cob. With water. 
***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***
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Hopefully not but it ain’t looking so good
Somehow feel that snake patch is not quite accidental . . . . . do you stay up at nights dreaming this stuff up?
So a funny thing happened over the weekend.... During the 3rd quarter of the Browns game I ended up in the bumper reel on Fox NFL Sunday.
A picture of Edgewater Park was displayed on the screen, and I said to my son, "Do you remember going there last week... that's almost exactly where we were sitting." He looks up and says, "yes.... Daddy, that's you!"
Sure enough...
Lesson holds true, you never know when you're being watched.
I've really been enjoying this blend this fall. It really has a dark stewed fruit, molasses flavor that really fits the bill for an "Autumn Blend"HU Dark Moor in an Altinay Spigot Pot and Diet Coke on the side.
I hated this blend at first but now after some extensive dry time it’s growing on me.
Pirates- Reds️ on the box
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I’m getting some spice and plum and maybe some fig or molasses coming through. For me drying it out brought it around. Dried out so far these last 2 bowls didn't need any relights and I haven’t had any moisture unlike when fresh. I’m going to get a couple more and let them sit for a year or two and see how those do.
Now smoking Silent beta test in a 1986 three quarter bend Bacchus face CAO meer with a tapered dark tortoise shell colored acrylic stem. Getting a few things done before my zoom meeting.
Last Night's Smokes and Morning Festivities: Been working on these two McQueen Longstems, top is the Seafarer, and bottom is the Prospector. Got my sea legs recently, and have come to some conclusions which may or may not interest you, so Skippable Drivel it is, below the smoke data and pic.
Both pipes are essentially the same - same bowl size (medium), giving me 45 minutes to an hour depending on tobacco. Both smoke essentially the same, being "sippers", good for company and conversation. Both are eyecatchers, If you like this kind of thing. Fine so far.
Both like English tobaccos the best - I've found this universal amongst cherrywood pipes, which both of these are. I've sanded the tips, because when I don't use the "gizmo" I smoke these as is. They're long enough that the extra two inches added by the giz makes them unweildy, and I've found that varnish seems to sensitize my lips and I'm whiny enough without adding to the hit list.
In any case, I've had very good smokes in both pipes over the last while, tobaccos smoked including, but not exclusive to my own Basic English, Pirate Kake, TobaccoBarn's Traditional English, Presbyterian Mixture, and Arango's Balkan Supreme. In any case, they respond well to the English thing and I see no reason to change. They also smoke codgers like SWR and Smoker's Pride Whiskey okay, but frankly, what doesn't?
Skippable Drivel: I've become either experienced enough, or perhaps foolish or arrogant enough, to offer my notes on different pipe woods. I'll comment on cherry first, as I have about half a dozen or eight pipes in this wood.
Although pipes can and have been made of probably any kind of wood or substance available, I don't think cherry is particularly the best wood for pipes. It's okay, but doesn't seem to mature like other woods I have. It doesn't transmit subtlety like orientals or complex aros like Autumn Evening as well as briar, olivewood, ash, or pear. Once these are broken in, they're all excellent in their neutrality.
I do have one exception which proves the rule, so to speak. I have a McQueen Russet in cherrywood which absolutely dotes on Savinelli 140, but whether or not this state of grace remains, remains to be seen.
One final note for this Skippable Drivel, McQueen has discontinued all of their pipes made of ash, so I now have five collector's items
I somehow doubt if there is a real collector out there who could care less, however. I'm under no illusions and collection anything but users is beyond my knowledge and financial ability. And as I've said before, I need another pipe like I need another hole in my head. I'll comment on my experience with other woods as they come up in smokes.
Have a great Thursday. This has been a stellar day for pipes, which Thursday and Sunday seem to hold the trump cards for. NB Moderators: No political inference intended.
Both pipes are essentially the same - same bowl size (medium), giving me 45 minutes to an hour depending on tobacco. Both smoke essentially the same, being "sippers", good for company and conversation. Both are eyecatchers, If you like this kind of thing. Fine so far.
Both like English tobaccos the best - I've found this universal amongst cherrywood pipes, which both of these are. I've sanded the tips, because when I don't use the "gizmo" I smoke these as is. They're long enough that the extra two inches added by the giz makes them unweildy, and I've found that varnish seems to sensitize my lips and I'm whiny enough without adding to the hit list.
In any case, I've had very good smokes in both pipes over the last while, tobaccos smoked including, but not exclusive to my own Basic English, Pirate Kake, TobaccoBarn's Traditional English, Presbyterian Mixture, and Arango's Balkan Supreme. In any case, they respond well to the English thing and I see no reason to change. They also smoke codgers like SWR and Smoker's Pride Whiskey okay, but frankly, what doesn't?
Skippable Drivel: I've become either experienced enough, or perhaps foolish or arrogant enough, to offer my notes on different pipe woods. I'll comment on cherry first, as I have about half a dozen or eight pipes in this wood.
Although pipes can and have been made of probably any kind of wood or substance available, I don't think cherry is particularly the best wood for pipes. It's okay, but doesn't seem to mature like other woods I have. It doesn't transmit subtlety like orientals or complex aros like Autumn Evening as well as briar, olivewood, ash, or pear. Once these are broken in, they're all excellent in their neutrality.
I do have one exception which proves the rule, so to speak. I have a McQueen Russet in cherrywood which absolutely dotes on Savinelli 140, but whether or not this state of grace remains, remains to be seen.
One final note for this Skippable Drivel, McQueen has discontinued all of their pipes made of ash, so I now have five collector's items
I somehow doubt if there is a real collector out there who could care less, however. I'm under no illusions and collection anything but users is beyond my knowledge and financial ability. And as I've said before, I need another pipe like I need another hole in my head. I'll comment on my experience with other woods as they come up in smokes.
Have a great Thursday. This has been a stellar day for pipes, which Thursday and Sunday seem to hold the trump cards for. NB Moderators: No political inference intended.
C&D Autumn Evening in a MM cob.
Paul, did y'all not get any rain over the past 24 hrs??
We finally got 2.25". My pastures and yard look good for a change.
Sun Bear Navy Cask in a Briarworks
Same
Same here and everything is back to green again. We have a tropical system that may give us 5 inches starting Monday which I’ll be happy to get if we actually do. Fingers crossed it gives you some too!
Some ‘24 KBV Acadian Flek in the Made in Republic of Ireland, 101 Billiard.
Ice water
Ice water
Bayou Morning in the Brebbia Ninja Noce 1001, drinking sweet tea. Good after dinner smoke.
HU Director’s Cut in a Nuttens Bing
and an Americano
️ on the side.
Dodgers-DBacks️ on the box.
and an Americano
️ on the side.Dodgers-DBacks
️ on the box.
Some pre-dinner Solani 656 in a 61 Dunny.
Loaded up two cobs for a side-by-side, puff-by-puff comparison of LJ Peretti’s 333 and DD. 
Great dunnie.
Passing the last third of this bowl of year 2020 D&R Penhooker Silver in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a tapered black p-lip stem.
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