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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 19:36:11 GMT -5
I didn’t realize that was a thing until I saw a post a few weeks back. Maybe I will join in in a couple weeks, (next Saturday is a pipe club meeting and I am pretty smoked out at night). When the Strang runs out for everyone it will be Saturday night Griever. Charlie, back in the day when Mr. Motzek was importing to the US through various sellers, (before the nanny sate imposed their will), several of us in another forum would just get together and enjoy a bowl of Strang every Saturday night. One of the members took some of our posting pictures and created the Saturday Night Strang theater billing! We would post our pictures and have a grand time. We had members from around the world. One was a feller in Mainz Germany who I have sadly lost contact with. He had never had a Corn Cob pipe nor had he seen one so I sent him one. Customs in Germany held it at his post office and he had to go pick it up there. The agent was confused by it and when he asked my friend what it was, all he said was, Huckelberry Finn and the agent said "oh, it's toy" and let it go through. I do miss being able to spend more time engaged in conversations, but alas, life changes everything.... We had a watchmaker named Valentine from Germany on this forum, he did a group buy for us, and it was a pretty big haul. I wish I had bought more. Still have some, but it does not leave the house.
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 18:51:16 GMT -5
Cinco De Mayo here, made red chile sauce with powders from ElPotrero Trading Post Chimayo New Mexico. The pork has among other things Hatch chiles… refried beans from scratch, shredded chicken breast, it turned out really good. You can call me El Gordo El Grande… translation does not sound so impressive… Big Fatso. imgur.com/a/c6jRGC7
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 18:47:23 GMT -5
It should be the gold standard, at a dollar an ounce it is easy to watch the market!
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 15:47:55 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 14:19:53 GMT -5
Great to shoot; a lug to carry. And if you run out of ammo you can club the bear.
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 10:52:28 GMT -5
Black label bacon, egg on a plain bagel.
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 10:46:29 GMT -5
I imagine that heavy weight makes it a more pleasurable shooter.
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 0:38:51 GMT -5
He was hoping to be the spokesman for Webley Revolver.😉
I am guess ing that was a time in ones career where you take what comes your way.
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 0:30:00 GMT -5
James Bond's don't do to well in them kind of movies, Sean Connery.
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 0:12:09 GMT -5
I will check it out, hopefully what they carry is as good as solestado…$8 t Costco when they have it, $20 at Amazon. a.co/d/aWVPyow
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Post by trailboss on May 5, 2024 0:04:43 GMT -5
Horse racing is something I've never paid any attention to. I know about Secretariat's epic sprint at the Belmont, and that's about it. Same here… I did have a ride on Widowmaker that was a horse from hell, wanted to kick me, she bit me and gave me a harrowing ride… at a full on run she ticked her head down and tried to rake me off under a tree branch. Decided that I have more control burning fossil fuels. Seeing what happened to Christopher Reeve didn’t help any.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 23:54:10 GMT -5
Good evening all. Time for some Saturday Night Strang in a Royalton Bent... A large sweet tea alongside... I didn’t realize that was a thing until I saw a post a few weeks back. Maybe I will join in in a couple weeks, (next Saturday is a pipe club meeting and I am pretty smoked out at night). When the Strang runs out for everyone it will be Saturday night Griever.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 23:47:16 GMT -5
We went to Costco the other day and were amazed at the high prices of olive oil! And there was no Mulfetta olive salad in stock.
It seems that there has been really bad drought conditins in the olive producing regions across the pond.
Fortunately we were not in need of olive oil, but I had a hankering for the Mulfetta, it turns a bologna sandwich into a tasty meal.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 23:39:57 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 23:24:11 GMT -5
Buffalo Bore really does their homework.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 22:43:16 GMT -5
Kind of a Charcutier Plate for supper. Foie de Canard Pate, Braunschweiger, sliced Pastrami Hungarian Style, Goat cheese, Cotswald Cheddar, baguette, salad of Garbanzo beans, cherry tomatoes, olives, red onion, diced zucchini, Feta Cheese in olive oil with lemon juice. In honor of all those Frenchies who did not survive the morrow! Actually, they were Foreign Legionnaires, so not French at least most of them. Sounds like an eclectic meal. I remember Woolworth’s lunch counter had the best Braunschweiger ever. It was a real treat to go with grandma downtown on the bus for lunch.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 21:57:55 GMT -5
Thanks! More like an accumulation though.😉
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 21:47:26 GMT -5
The best birthday gift I could give her…proven fact that more guys take their wives on a European vacation than those that smoke a pipe from her birthday year…. That is something special and rare!
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 21:04:13 GMT -5
Yeah the fo-tay is a problem looking for a solution.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 20:39:52 GMT -5
Having some B-day smokes today ... Davidoff Millennium Petite Corona Black Works Studio Killer Bee Black Works Studio Poison Dart Happy birthday! Not a bad way to spend a birthday, and a birthday on a Saturday!
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 20:30:26 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 19:38:08 GMT -5
Silver Strike Cake in the Saturday cob on the front porch. Just pulled a loaf of sourdough from the oven, cooling on the counter. The kitchen smells great. Sourdough seems so regional, having lived in the bay area for 20 years I was spoiled with locally made Sourdough bread and locally made Italian dry Salami. Whenever I have to travel to the Bay area, I always grab a few loaves… there is decent bread here advertised as sourdough, but it just is not the same. Francisco sliced sourdough is as good as it gets…and Costco does carry sliced Boudin so I am not in the breadesert with no hope.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 19:27:13 GMT -5
I can't recommend the Durango and Silverton excursion highly enough. Wanted to ride it but we were on our way north, did not want to backtrack. That highway from Silverton to Ouray… that would not be fun in a big truck in icy conditions.😳 Kinda sucked, for the sanity of both of us, I do all the driving. I would have liked to look at the scenery.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 19:22:08 GMT -5
Not me… the only Big John that I know of…
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 19:04:58 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 18:54:49 GMT -5
Wow you have great eyes… most of that 2 is buried in the rustication, I did not see the 2 until you picked it out.
My wife’s birth year Dunhill!
I will have to smoke it on her birthday, May 15th.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 17:46:01 GMT -5
No mystery on this one, but it is a looker...made in Denmark, very lightly smoked never by me though.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 17:34:17 GMT -5
The last one has the picture of a Skeleton key.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 17:32:52 GMT -5
Next is what appears to be a Corona shape, but I cannot make out the makers name.
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Post by trailboss on May 4, 2024 17:29:58 GMT -5
While cleaning things up today, I ran across a few pipes that I had forgotten about and were shoved away in drawers, they were all bought in lot auctions from brick and mortars. The first one is a Dunhill, I did a quick search, but I did not see where the nomenclature dates it?
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