What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Alligator Gar]

Fusilier's Ration in a Never Bend approved Barling 5579.

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of Old Dark Fired in a smooth briar calabash shape 1984 Fero Danese made in Italy.

[cpmcdill]

Hearth & Home Chestnut in a Grabow

[cpmcdill]

G&H Louisiana Flake in a Highlander Mt Laurel pot

[Lynn]

Blue #7

[Cool Breeze]

H&H Ten to Midnight in a cobb.

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of Boswell’s Virginia Slices in a 1987 Peterson first series Sherlock Holmes full bend with a silver band.

[JimInks]

Angler's Dream in a straight black sandblast undated Savinelli Hercules 115EX pot.

[NeverBend]

2015 Gawith Hoggarth Curly Cut deLuxe Sliced in a 1940s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood #1372 R (long) taper billiard. Morning cup of coffee, freshly ground.

Of course, I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to coffee. I grind it, use an Aeropress and make some concentrate that I dilute into an Americano. It's better than most of what I used to make but I suspect that I've only upgraded ingredients, methods and especially price to marginally improve a situation that was always and continually fair to middling. It's fine by me, sort of like looking at your ugly kid and thinking that they're not so bad looking after all and I love 'em just the same.

Of course I never needed to do this with with my kids, who inherited their mothers good looks, but had I been the only subscriber to their gene pool then I would have been at it full time.

Hope that you all have a good day, get to work safe, the weekend awaits.

[JustTroItIn]

A bowl of PS LNF in a Savinelli Alligator 310KS.