What are you smoking? May 2023

Mac Baren Mixture Modern in a BC A Metz Origine. 

Old Gowrie in a Checker cherrywood. About time to throw some pork tenderloins on the grill.

I've just got one and I'm ready glad I got it before BC went belly up the prices are ridiculous now. However, knowing how it smokes I would probably be willing to pay over 250 for one.

2016 H&H Chatham Manor in my Jess Chonowitsch blasted Billiard.

Two of mine are unsmoked, which makes me happy. Also one I have is unusual in that it has a flat bottom chamber which I understand the originals in the 19th century had, as well as sterling metal work instead of nickel like most and a genuine bird bone instead of simulated like most of them, that I got from a seller in Italy some years ago. Maybe an early 2nd generation? I don’t know, I’ve never talked to anyone who knows more about these than I already do. There are cheaper options, I have seen a number of no brand ones that are either marked Saint-Claude, METZ or nothing at all that seem almost identical, but the wood usually has defects or fills and the metal work is plainer. These seem to sell for half the price of the BC ones.

I’m smoking Key Largo in a meerschaum billiard.

PerettiBritish & the cobs to the chats in a few

Ed

Mrs. Zarnicky, It’s impossible to underestimate you.

Seems fitting to smoke Lion and Lamb in a Hercules. What's the mix?

Up early this morning and smoking some Bengal Slices gifted by in a Savinelli Champagne chubby billiard. Drinking JFG coffee. Contacted my neighbor's favorite plumber and he is coming out today to give me an estimate on replacing my dead water heater. He said it runs anywhere from $800-$1000, depending on the difficulty of the job! He also said that the price estimate includes the water heater! My job will be difficult so it will be a little more expensive than his estimate, but that is still much more reasonable than the $2475 estimate from the other plumber.

 L & L was born when a dear old friend, Larry Ream{no longer with us}sent me about a pound of P.S. Balkan Supreme. Larry had pressed some Middleton Walnut into a plug and topped it with Bushmills Irish whiskey...and the flavor of that plug crossed over to the B.S. in shipment. This was in 2007 or 08. I tried adding one English, and then another, to tone down the whiskey note, but nothing really helped until, in I got hold of some Lancers slices {the Lion} in 2009, the first year I began to date my jars, I think.
  Time in the darkness of my cellar has left the mix with a deep, rich stewed fruit-like quality, that I can best describe as pungent; this is also true of the 09 Lancers, but the L & L is special to me, because of it's connection to an old friend.

Off for lunch and smoking Carter Hall in a Sunrise apple.

Started the day with a couple bowls of Haunted Bookshop in the Tuesday cob and coffee on the back porch. Right now, over at the house that daughter/SIL are buying. Doing a little work while appraiser looks things over.

More Haunted Bookshop in the Tuesday cob after lunch.

Good Afternoon! It's 77° with a mix of clouds and sunshine out here on the deck right now. I cleaned up the kitchen and put my own Paperwork Reduction Act in force. I had multiple copies of stuff from the Dr. and hospital so it's down to just one bulging file. Currently smoking a bowl of HH Pure VA Flake in the Pete smooth billiard and there's a glass of cold tea on the side. Time to open my book. Have a good night, everybody!