What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Branzig]

Here in northern California we've been in a drought for 5 years. Trees have died from lack of rain, lawns turned brown because there was no water, rivers dried up, lakes became mud holes. But, you could go out and have a smoke nearly anytime you wanted without of fear of a rain out. No more. Biblical rains have been lashing Nor Cal for almost a month now and I'm sick of it. This afternoon, for the first time in a while, the sun shone, and I decided to go out on the deck and enjoy a leisurely bowl of Elizabethan Mixture in a MM General cob. Within ten minutes the sky turned dark and the heavens opened, chasing me back inside. Now certainly I realize that I'm being selfish and we really need all this rain, but for chrissake, can't we just get an hour or so between deluges? Rant over .....

I feel your pain...yesterday was my first bowl in over a month.

Where I live, smoking is directly related to what's going on outside. A long time ago I came to terms with the fact that 3 months out of the year I'll probably be putting my pipes away living here.

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[Haebar]

Enjoying some 4noggin's double fantasy in the homemade freehand pickaxe.

That's a sharp freehand you made.

[Haebar]

Smoking some homemade Burley flake in this Country Gentleman:

[cpmcdill]

Lane BL/WB in a Grabow pot

[Desertlifter]

Irish Oak in a Tsuge pot.

[AlanS]

That's a sharp freehand you made.

Imagine what he could do if his finkers werent frozen!!

[BryGuySC]

H&H Larry's Blend, for the first time. I was a little surprised. Based on the description, I thought it would be heavier on the Latakia. But it was much more oriental-forward than I thought.

[Lostmason]

GOOD MORNING Gentlemen!

Saturday has arrived and I am enjoying my second bowl of Maple Street
in a Wiley Rodesian tha Warren ( @Pugsley ) gifted me with just over a
year ago. Great pipe, great smoke makes for a GREAT day !!

[droy1958]

Here in northern California we've been in a drought for 5 years. Trees have died from lack of rain, lawns turned brown because there was no water, rivers dried up, lakes became mud holes. But, you could go out and have a smoke nearly anytime you wanted without of fear of a rain out. No more. Biblical rains have been lashing Nor Cal for almost a month now and I'm sick of it. This afternoon, for the first time in a while, the sun shone, and I decided to go out on the deck and enjoy a leisurely bowl of Elizabethan Mixture in a MM General cob. Within ten minutes the sky turned dark and the heavens opened, chasing me back inside. Now certainly I realize that I'm being selfish and we really need all this rain, but for chrissake, can't we just get an hour or so between deluges? Rant over .....

We went through the same here in Oklahoma in the last year or so. It was either no rain or a deluge that caused flooding from hell. Just some nice easy ground soaking rains over a few days would be nice. Having a bowl of SPC Mississippi River in a Kaywoodie (again) and it's off to the lake to sink brush off the dock for crappie fishing......

[GWBowman]

Escudo in a smooth, bent Irish Second