SJF this evening...
Pipe Of The Day (POTD)
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AimlessWanderer
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Gawith No.27 Perique Flake in a Falcon Dublin
This morning it's Project Digby loaded with Casey Jones Hero's Blend. Then I am off to run errands.
Last night before dinner, some Half & Half in the no-name French lumberman. Hadn't smoked any H & H in a while and had forgotten how nice its aroma is, and how it clings to my mustache for a while after the smoke. Leaves a nice aftertaste, too.
Setting up for the herf. See you guys in about 30...
This morning, post-workout and -breakfast smoke, a pinch of Rattray's Stirling Flake mixed with Capstan Blue in my Keyser billiard with military mount.
This morning it's BCA in the Drury.
Trying to decide on a leaf for the morning's pipe. It's cool here, the last gasp of what in civilized climes is still winter but here is barely spring; so I'm thinking Early Morning Pipe or My Mixture 965.
We may get some snow here in St. Clair Shores, MI this morning. Up to 2 inches "they" say. I'm hoping it doesn't happen. I look forward to returning to Nashville next month.
Settled on EMP in the Dr. Grabow sandblast Canadian, the Commodore (not my nickname for it, the actual model name). Smoked about twenty minutes and set it aside with a White Elephant pipe cleaner up the spout; we'll see if the remaining leaf smokes well when I get back from the grocery.
I'm looking at southern Indiana as a retirement bolthole later this year. The southern part is warmer than the northern, I hear, logically enough. I'll be so glad to escape endless steamy heat and the risk of hurricanes. (Yeah, I know, tornadoes, but at least a tornado operates in a narrow band, and doesn't last long.)
AimlessWanderer
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Gawith Hoggarth No.7 broken flake
Falcon Algiers bowl
Falcon Algiers bowl
You don't get days of advance warning with a tornado though!
Sometimes there are literally seconds to react.
Yeah, but that's what basements are for, right? And another plus is you don't have days of flooding rain.
POTD: This big 'ol vintage Missouri Meerschaum w/ Ashton Winding Road
March can't be all Meerschaums, right? Tonight's briar, the Tinskey 2023 LE with PS LNF. The picture is before the inaugural smoke.
This morning I realized I didn't have enough BCA in the lounge for a bowl. Since I was too lazy to go get more, I mixed in a little Captain Black Gold and loaded the SilverKing.
It took a couple tries to get it burning but I think it's a good pairing.
It took a couple tries to get it burning but I think it's a good pairing.
Savinelli LE 101.
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I tried the No.7 Broken Flake in the Falcon Algiers bowl again. The last bowl didn't smoke so well, as it was on a stem that the bowl doesn't want to be friends with (the thread is a little long on this bowl, so on some stems, the thread bottoms out before the gasket seals). After a change of stem, and packing slightly differently, I got a great smoke. Repacking now to go again with Kendal Cream.
Slept enough last night for a change, so some Stirling Flake mixed with Edgeworth Match has gone into the Peterson Arklow 606 pot-bowl. Good combo.
Amazing it is how a bowl that looks fairly small can provide a solid thirty-minute smoke. After two years and a bit, the lighter-colored rim of the Arklow bowl has darkened to a deep mahogany, too, giving the pipe a lived-with character.
Amazing it is how a bowl that looks fairly small can provide a solid thirty-minute smoke. After two years and a bit, the lighter-colored rim of the Arklow bowl has darkened to a deep mahogany, too, giving the pipe a lived-with character.
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