John Bull in a no-name briar.
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John Bull in a no-name briar.
Bryan's Shelf blend (Vaper) in a Savinelli Trevi 320.
Sweet, sour, spicy. Good stuff.
McClelland Christmas Cheer 2011 in a Comoys bent bulldog
The more I smoke this Elizabethan Mixture the more I like it. Second bowl tonight, this time in a MM Legend.
oh pfah! You stick your finger up your nose to pick it, you *sniff* snuff! Not to mention my great, great grandmother was reportedly a snuff taker, which would make her about 150 by now, so it's been around for a while. But I'll let this one slide cuz of your Maine connection... now get back out here and shovel snow with the rest of us, it won't be long now... :snowman2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pugsley
Shovel snow?!? Why do you think I moved to California? On Super Bowl Sunday, while you're trying to find your car under the mountain of snow in your driveway, I'll be sitting on the deck in my back yard wearing a short sleeved shirt, with my pipe in one hand and a tasty beverage in the other, watching the game. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aguineapig
Blackwoods Flake in a wonderful Barling 5574.
Rick Porcello tossed a 89 pitch complete game for a 5-2 win over the Orioles. Red Sox are playing some of their best baseball of the year, and I'm enjoying a bowl of Carter Hall in a beefy, sandblasted Il Ceppo Dublin.
Purtneer sure I was on the edge of heat stroke today,I do know I passed simple heat exsation around noon.
(one word bout my spellin,and I'll tell Mamma y'alls mean)Anywho,got home and got that tub set and the faucet
hooked up.I'm sure when I got in I soaked up half the water.So now I'm refreshing my soul with some Pipa's
Vanilla Cavendish in a MM CG cob.And planning on trying some Three Nuns before I pass out.
SPC Pike Place in a bier
sent from my bag phone
Hearth & Home Frenchy's Sunzabitches in a Comoys bent bulldog
Well, the garage door repairman is here. One of the springs broke so I told him to just go ahead and replace them both. He did. Then when he tried to open it he found that my brother had stripped the gears in the motor trying to open it with the broken spring. So .... we're at $900 now and he's still working on it. I'm going to have to pop open a new tin of Bell's Three Nuns to recover when this is done.
A couple of weeks ago I was on SmokingPipes to order more Solani 633, Virginia with Perique. I noticed Solani 639, Tropical Mango Flake. I'm not a fan of aromatics, but the other two Solani tobaccos that I've tried are so good that I took a flyer and ordered some 639 too.
Yesterday afternoon I smoked my first fill of it. Oof dah! Could scarcely endure it. Well, that was my last bowl of the day, which is sometimes not so good, so I resolved to try it again in the morning.
But this morning I couldn't bring myself to do that – so I opened a tin of DF with two years of age on it instead. Puffing that now – heaven! Back to basics!
Might try the 639 again – sometime. It had a bad effect on the taste of my coffee too. Might go better with grape soda, but I don't drink grape soda.
Hahaha! That'll learn ya!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
I find I don't care for most aromatics. It's usually not that the taste is revolting, it's that it is nonexistent. However, mango always tasted like soap to me so I'm thinking this Mango Flake probably tastes like a Lakeland? :p :p
Speaking of Lakeland soap, I smoked a bowl of G&H Louisiana Flake last evening. I prefer to let this sit out at room temp for a day or so to dissipate as much of the rose-ish grannystink as possible, then re-hydrate if necessary. God only knows why they put that crap on good tobacco. IMO, this blend would be so much better without it.
It did learn me!
Durn me!
After fighting off the urge to pop a new tin, it's Royal Yacht in a straight, rusticated Mastro de Paja brandy with a Cumberland stem.
A sweet Virginia blend by @NeverBend in a meer
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Decided on Nightcap in a Swiss BBK,still drinking coffee.
Sometimes, when you have a large pipe collection as I do, you come across one that you haven't smoked in a long, long time. You'll pick it up and it feels great in the hand, the draw is effortless, and it's just a beautiful piece of briar, and you'll think to yourself "Why haven't I smoked this lately?". So you fill it with a good tobacco, in this case Royal Yacht, do a charring light, then lightly tamp and take a few draws and settle back to enjoy it. Then, suddenly you want to run and get an oven mitt because the bowl is so hot it feels like holding a hot coal in your hand. Ahh ..... now I remember. That's what happened with my Mastro de Paja earlier this evening, so I've made a mental note to grab a thick, folded napkin and burn a few bowls of Carter Hall and try to put some serious cake on this one.
Hearth & Home Fusilier's Ration in a MM cob
It's my birthday! So I opened a tin of FVF, cellared Feb, 2007. Smooth and tasty, it is! I cut some into small rectangles which I spread out on a plate to sit for an hour to make it somewhat combustible. The rest I put into a Weck canning jar along with a humidifying capsule. I'll smoke one bowl a week, usually on Sunday, while it lasts. And sipping a cup of espresso – I don't take it in one quick shot as the Italians do. Life is good!
Happy Birthday Doug! Can't go wrong with FVF.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
Pulled an Alister Crowley and smoked some rum-soaked perique.
Happy Birthday! Do I need to break out the birthday dirge again?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
Smoking Rattray's Red Raparree in a Rattray's Cherrywood army mount... trying to decide if I should crack a beer to go with it.
Happy birthday, and excellent tobacco choice!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
Having some homemade flake in a cheap briar. This flake is from batch 35, which I pressed in March. It's mostly cigar trimmings, augmented with some homemade cavendish, latakia, and a light peach/vanilla flavoring.
Kentucky club brush creek in the semi bent, squared shank billiard while grillin up some burgers.
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@Pipe Smoker , happy birthday my friend. A bowl of aged FVF is a good way to celebrate it.
I'm currently on the balcony with a glass of 12 year old Scotch and a bowl of SG Navy Flake in my Savinelli Champagne bulldog.
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Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
Happy Birthday !!
It's been a peculiar day. Now, I'm not a young man. Hell, who am I kidding, I'm older than dirt. But there are things that will make you really feel the weight of those years on your back, and today I received one of them. This morning the phone rang just as I had finished pouring milk on my corn flakes, it was my daughter. The conversation started off with the usual "How are you doing? How are you feeling? How are you getting around?" Then a pause and a sigh, then "By the way, you're going to be a great-grandfather". My oldest granddaughter, who is 25, is with child. I don't recall any of the conversation that followed but I began to think of my own great-grandfather, who I never met, who sported a pipe in every family photo I've seen. I wondered what he smoked in that pipe and decided it was likely a burley, perhaps even Carter Hall. So, trying to get in touch with my own inner great grandpa, I've spent the day smoking bowl after bowl of Carter Hall. In the end I can't say that I've gained any significant insight into what it was like to be a great grandfather or a pipe smoker at the beginning of the 20th century, but I can tell you that I'd kill for a bowl of Three nuns right now.
We had the Knoxville Pipe Club meeting last night. I had a bowl of Kendal Kentucky in a Sunrise Dublin and a bowl of 12 year-old Pembroke in a Hendon billiard.
Congrats on great-grandfatherhood Pugsley! Hope you score some Three Nuns!
Thanks. I have the Three Nuns, just trying not to open any more tins until I finish off a few that are already open. But after overdosing on Carter Hall yesterday, my resolve is weakening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
Lunch break smoke.
Match Revelation in a cob.
We'll see if ol Einstein had good taste in pipe baccy. :pipe:
Puffing mundane, but delicious, Dunhill Flake. And listening to the Blue Angels. I don't have to strain my ears. My home is five miles west of Miramar Marine Air Station, and the Angels are practicing for their air show this weekend. They're often right over my home as they turn for a pass over the base – and put the throttle to the metal. It's LOUD – and I love it! I can step out my door and watch.
The Angels are awesome. As they bank, in tight formation, the sun glints off all of their wings at the same instant.
Amazingly, these guys don't wear g-suits. Reason being that the automatic inflation control could disrupt their position in their very tight formation. Instead, the pilots have developed the ability to tense their leg and abdominal muscles to prevent blackout resulting from blood drainage.
Wonderful to see – and hear. Of course, some protest the noise – even though the base, and the annual airshow, was here long before they were.
I'm really enjoying this first ever bowl of Solani Aged Burley Flake.
Very nice.
Congrats !!Warren @Pugsley . If it helps I'm smoking a bowl of 3 nuns now just for you.Course,it's your fault if I get hooked on it,
Lol,Pretty good stuff right there ! I've been thinking on my Grandfather on my mom's side.We got into a closet that has been
closed off for over ten-fifteen years,and I came across a grey Fedora.Now I have a drak grey Fedora and a brown Royal
Stetson Fedora that I wear in cooler temperatures.So I was kidding with my BIL about stealing the one we found in that
closet.Turns out that hat was my Grandfathers,and my Sister gave it to me.So,after work I promptly doffed "my" hat went to
get gas in the car and then Lowes,everybody kept smiling and nodding to me.And not in a sarcastic "your retarded" way.
It was like everyone shared that thought of days gone by.It was kind of nice.I can't say Grampa ever smoked anything,
cept my hide the day I was late getting back and we missed church,yeah,I had that one coming.But having his hat is almost
stepping back in time.So in Honor of you and all the rest of us Gramps,I am going to light up another bowl of Three Nun.
Thanks Warren !!!
Congratulations!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pugsley
Having some homemade flake in a no-name briar. This batch is a "navy" blend that I pressed about a year and a half ago.
Second mug of coffee and first pipe of the day, Elizabethan Mixture in a MM Diplomat. Need to check my inventory to make sure I have back up tins of this, definitely one I don't want to run out of. If you enjoy Va/Pers and haven't tried this yet, you owe it to yourself to pick up a tin. Dunhill hits it out of the park with this blend.