What Are You Smoking? - May 2018

Squadron Leader in a Porsche Design 908 watching Bridge on the River Kwai (and still hoping William Holden makes it).

After the first significant storm we've had in the 4 years we've lived here I'm smoking a stogie. An A Flores 1975 serie privada capa habano in the robusto vitola. Drinking an arrogant bastard and surveying the damage. Nothing major but about 5 hours of repair work that I'll end up doing in 2 weeks. My day wasnt bad it was just a bunch of tire spinning and that drives me crazy.

A minute or so away from smoking the original year 2011 Sutliff Luxury Balkan Blend 957 that won third place in the Chicago Pipe Show Balkan Sobranie 759 contest in a 2002 Ser Jacopo Delecta Fatta A Mano R1 sandblast Rhodesian with a smooth extension at the shank with a black acrylic stem. Working and listening to the Yankees-Astros game.

Stonehenge in a JZP bent Rhodesian.

Part way through the last of this stash of Stonehaven in a straight sandblasted pre-transition Barling Exel 249 Fossil T.V.F. black billiard with a silver band and a black ebonite military bit. Back to work, now.

Good morning, you all.
First smoke of this glorious Thursday; Blue Capstan in a Celius Ransborg Knight - Handmade Denmark.
It's not a genuine Celius, as Celius sold his firm and name to this person, who made pipes for five years and then stopped.
To be a Celius or not to be a Celius, is not the question, as it is still a good smoker.

Just finished work and this bowl of 2014 Sutliff Court of St, James in a smooth straight late ‘50s, early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad, too! My second Conrad pipe. Long day here.

Last smoke of the day is D&R Windsail Platinum in a 1982 smooth straight Sasieni Ivory 105 Apple with a black vulcanite stem. Have enough left for one more bowl. Watching Quick Pitch on MLB TV.

I’m beginning my Thursday with a bowl of Presbyterian in a 2007 Peterson St. Patrick’s Day bent billiard with a vulcanite stem.

A third of the way through this bowl of D&R Two Timer Gold in a smooth full bend 1977 Crown Coachman 215 egg with a black vulcanite stem.

I just introduced fire to a bowl of Esoterica Dorchester. I’m smoking said blend in a sandblasted Brebbia Ninja, a squashed tomato with a tortoise shell acrylic stem. I’m drinking a Diet Manhattan Special.

7/2016 GH & Co. Rum Twist in a late 1970’s Bonnie Brier thick gnarl/carved rusticated straight billiard. Rum Twist has changed quite a bit in only 2 years of age. Much tangier and sour from the rum topping and much darker.