morning greets all. Juice/meds at this desk, '06 daVinci loaded in PipaCroci 2nd in smoking room ready to go after feeding the Ed & continue with the papers. 32, leetle touch of snow in Western NY
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First Name: Sam Favorite Pipe: My Dad's, my J. Everett’s , my Basil Meadows and my Don Warren Favorite Tobacco: I have many favorites tobaccos. I'm currently smoking: Watch City Rhythm and Blues, C&D Blue Ridge, Mac Baren Old Dark Fired, Five Brothers and some Balkanesque blends, Location:
Bagel/Muffin/coffee breakfast earlier, followed now by my first pipe smoke of the day. I frequently favor a VaPer for this time of day, so I rubbed out those tightly clenched strands of Esoterica Dunbar and filled the Savinelli Punto Oro Classic 606 ks bent billiard. A top favorite blend in a top smoker, which just about fits the bill today.
Smoked some "truck black pouch" I think its a mix of Shortcut to mushrooms, blackhouse, star of the east, whiskey biscuit gravy , sutliff No5, Squadron Leader, and probably a few more. Smoked 2 bowls before work today.
“Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people.” ~Penn Jillette
As noon approaches, with lunch not quite yet in sight but household chores performed, I've dug into the recently opened first-time tin of CAO Eileen's Dream (I wonder who she is) to fill the Edward's Dakota brandy-billiard. Whoever she is, she is indeed a dreamer, that one.
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First Name: William Favorite Tobacco: Fribourg & Treyer Cut Blended Plug and Special Brown Flake, Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake, Dunhill Early Morning Pipe Location:
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First Name: Ryan Favorite Pipe: Currently an IMP meerschaum cutty that may or may not be rose colored. Favorite Tobacco: English/Balkan Location:
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First Name: JeffD Favorite Pipe: Savinelli Hercules 320 EX, KS. Tall chimney/stacks, an ever growing collection of churchwardens.. Favorite Tobacco: C&D Billy Budd Blonde, Rimboche S.J., H&H Viprati, G.L. Pease Telegraph Hill, Carter Hall, Dorchester and Dunbar and Stonehaven when I can get it. Location:
Just finishing Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem.
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First Name: Sam Favorite Pipe: My Dad's, my J. Everett’s , my Basil Meadows and my Don Warren Favorite Tobacco: I have many favorites tobaccos. I'm currently smoking: Watch City Rhythm and Blues, C&D Blue Ridge, Mac Baren Old Dark Fired, Five Brothers and some Balkanesque blends, Location:
Now- 2005 GLP Telegraph Hill in a 2017 Don Warren freehand sitter with a plateau rim and butterscotch acrylic stem. This is an example of a blend that aged incredibly well.
My after lunch smoke is Von Eicken Three Stars in a 1999 Brebbia black sandblasted quarter bend egg small pocket pipe with a black vulcanite saddle stem. A bottle of Mountain Dew made with pure cane sugar is my drink.
Now smoking year 2006 Solani 633 in a smooth straight early 1960s Lane era Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad.
Listing this a few minutes early: Stokkebye Natural Dutch Cavendish in a 1970s medium bend smooth Ben Wade Golden Walnut freehand with a black vulcanite stem.
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First Name: JeffD Favorite Pipe: Savinelli Hercules 320 EX, KS. Tall chimney/stacks, an ever growing collection of churchwardens.. Favorite Tobacco: C&D Billy Budd Blonde, Rimboche S.J., H&H Viprati, G.L. Pease Telegraph Hill, Carter Hall, Dorchester and Dunbar and Stonehaven when I can get it. Location:
I am smoking an old dignified Nording I had from the days before this turned into a hobby. (Remember those days? When smoking a pipe was like having coffee or rye toast with breakfast. It was just something you did.)
Anyway smoking a Nording loaded with Stonehaven. I am loving this tobacco. I need to get some more.
After work today it will be Billy Budd Blonde, to remind my lusting heart how great I already have it.
Post by just ol ed on Nov 20, 2018 16:23:42 GMT -5
afternoon greets all. Store brand tea at this desk, DGT '06 daVinci in Brebbia Jubilee 1997 in smoking room. Deciding what to bake for supper...fish or chicken (both Schwan). Hope back in the evening sometime
Popped another tin of Craven Mixture. It was a bit hard to extricate the contents; they'd settled and expanded so even with the wrapper intact it was a chore to squeeze them out. The once-white wrapper was now a solid brown.
The tin label reads, in two half circles on the edge: "The House of Craven, London --- Blenders of Fine Pipe Tobacco Since 1863." And the small banner headline reads "The famous Mixture of cool and aromatic tobaccos first specially blended for the third Earl of Craven in the 1860s." "A tobacco to be smoked by the greatest of men," J.M. Barrie. The white sticker on the back tells us that it was made in Northern Ireland and was imported by World Tabac, Louisville, Kentucky 30201. The contents are legend. I'm not among the greatest of men, neither am I Eddy from the block; I'm just around the corner. So I smoke it anyway. So I reserved it for another legend, at least to me, the Barling's Make Ye Old Wood "Fossil" 253 Lumberman T.V.F. (Pre-Transition).
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Had a short nap, and am now smoking 1960s Edgeworth Slices in a late '80s, early 90s small bend medium brown smooth, unbranded Bjarne pot with a couple small rusticated spots, an amber colored acrylic ferrule and tapered stem in the military mount style. Ice water and bergs is my evening drink.
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First Name: William Favorite Tobacco: Fribourg & Treyer Cut Blended Plug and Special Brown Flake, Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake, Dunhill Early Morning Pipe Location: