What Are You Smoking - March 2017

Good day, fed us & lunted us with my Falcon. I was going to have a vape of 0mg. Ice. Menthol to clear my lungs, but the battery was flat, meanwhile I had a coffee with BBC Radio Four news on DAB radio. So much to do, so little time.

Chilly 20F but sunny, well below average for here this week. Weekend forecast appears closer to normal. Breakfast was yogurt. First smoke is Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in a smooth 1/4 bent pre-merger GBD 549 Varichrome bulldog, drinking Trader Joe's coffee, NPR on the radio. Looking forward to a good walk later this morning.

Now smoking C&D Burley Ribbon Cut in a 1970s slight bend black sandblasted Comoy's Silver Cloud 624 sitter with a silver pearl gray acrylic stem. Helping m'lady take care of a couple of projects. Suzy and Molly saw me awake early, and were so concerned about my lack of sleep, that they allowed me to feed them some tuna. Nice, thoughtful little girls.

Bengal Slices in a Larrysson Rhodesian.

Good day, enjoying my reacquaintance with an old favourite OTC "aromatic" Troost, though not your typical American aromatic , it has a tobacco depth & I have never been troubled by tongue bite from this true Black Cavendish with traditional aroma, taste & flavour, I think it is a classic OTC aromatic tobacco, but each to his own. It is an OTC "aromatic" , up there with other OTC blends like Condor RR, St.Bruno & Three Nuns etc. It is as worthy as good auld OTC Clan.

Now smoking Motzek Type 7 Curly Mixture in a smooth medium bend straight grain 2000 Winslow C silver spigot wide top Dublin with a canted plateau and black acrylic stem. Been a busy day.

Just finished smoking MacBaren Burley London Blend in a 2015 three quarter bend two tone Chacom UPO Rouge squashed tomato with a black acrylic stem and shank.

Hearth and Home Larry's Blend.

Smoking Mac Baren Latakia Flake in a 1/4 bent Mark Tinsky black and tan Rhodesian, drinking Sprite Zero, BBC finishing up. Getting ready for Nightly Business Report on PBS.

Good day, for old times sake some Dunhill 965 in an international bent Falcon with a Dublin bowl, the good old days, God forbid ! 😎😇😈 A night cap on the table & Boston Early Music on Pure Internet radio.

Good day, after ranging through a wide spectrum of blends, I dug out some Sherlock Holmes, at first I was a bit cynical , I though the name was gimmicky, but it is a fine gentle Virginia of Mr. Holmes , with a wholesome brusqueness of the good Dr. Watson's business like Burley, quality tobacco's that harmonise like Mr. Holmes violin & Dr.Watson's Baritone voice, such an agreeable end to a day, smoking it in a PM black rustic bent Meerschaum, it needs a gourd calabash, and some Heifetz violin virtuosity to do justice to the experience, with candlelight & horse hooves bashing the cobbles of a misty gaslit night, under the clouded full moon. A whisky mix sipping nightcap & Boston Early Music.

Last smoke of the evening is 2011 Mac Baren Va #1 in a mixed grain Grade A James Upshall Lovat, drinking A&W Root Beer 10 and watching an old episode of Law and Order with Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe on ion Television before bed.