What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

Now smoking Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a medium bend grain etched undated Preben Holm Ben Wade Prominence B freehand. I've enough for one or two more bowls.

Chatham Manor in a black 1997 Brebbia Jubilee 925 silver banded grain sandblast briar calabash.

2009 Rattray's Red Rapparree in a late 1950s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood Straight Grain taper billiard.

Up early, couldn't sleep, still a hard chill in the air. Still digging into the pipe archives.

Update: I hit ENTER and it started snowing. I'm chanting, "Mother Nature doesn't need to be fair."

2015 Gawith Hoggarth Scotch Flake Scented in a 1961 Barling's Make #7574 smooth canadian.

Snow stopped and is melting off but there's still snow remaining from January. We've taken bets on the date when all of it will be gone. I look like a lock at April 3rd, barring, of course, another helping..

Enjoyed a bowl of Dark Star in a GBD Prehistoric billiard before. Lovely stuff that reminds me of Butera's Dark Stoved, another favorite.

2014 Gawith Hoggarth Broken Scotch Flake in a pre-WWII Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood EL smooth saddle billiard.

I'm on the beach under a blue sky and bright sunlight while kids frolic in the edge of the surf. A beautiful woman approaches me so I hold up my hand to shield the sun only I can't feel my hand, nor my fingers. They're numb from cold! I'm cold. It's freezing here, where the hell am I?

Oh, it's my porch. I should've kept dreaming. Under the circumstances, this bowl is a reasonable compromise.

Starting off my smoking day with Peterson’s Sherlock Holmes in a 1987 Peterson first series Sherlock Holmes full bend with a silver band.

2015 Gawith Hoggarth Brown Flake in a 1983 Ser Jacopo Gemma Granato taper billiard.

It snowed this am and now the sun is out and it's climbing through the 40s.

2010 Sutlif 507-C Virginia Slices in a 2003 straight grain Karl Erik Ekstravagant A medium bend freehand sitter.

St. James Flake in a rusticated Savinelli 920 ks.