What Are You Smoking 2019 - 04 & 05

Solani ABF in the Charatan Freehand Relief. Espresso. Cool water. Writing.

Now smoking Amphora Burley in a 2003 Stanwell Golden Danish 56 Rusticated Canadian with a black vulcanite stem. Going to work as I listen to the Dodgers-Mets game.

Esoterica Dorchester in an unfinished Savinelli 320 KS author before bed, enjoying Woodford Reserve for a nightcap.

...gonna follow Mark's example and have a bowl of Esoterica Dorchester in the Cramptholomew Devil Anse Stack. Nursing a vodka shot. Cool water.

About half way through this bowl of G&H Kendall Flake in a 2013 bent MM Missouri Pride Legend with a yellow stem.

Arango Balkan Supreme in a MM POlished Morgan cob. Cool water. Writing.

Just finished smoking GLP Cumberland in a 2018 smooth straight flame grain Basil Meadows Merchant Service "Bing" replica with an aluminum band and black ebonite stem. Taking a short break to snack.

Part way through this bowl of Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051 Dublin with a black vulcanite tapered stem. Going back to work.

Just finished smoking Jim's Va/Bur in a 2015 Basil Meadows Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica with a smooth straight thin shank, aluminum band and black ebonite stem.

C&D Crooner in the Savinelli Bing's Favorite smooth. Cool water. Watching "Pride of the Marines" with John Garfield and Elanor Parker.

Now smoking Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite stem. Watching the BBC.

Hello from Greece and the sunny Athens with 84 °F.



Ilsteds Own Cedros Hand blended.

2013 Mac Baren Vanilla Cream Loose Cut in a Baki meer. Drinking hot white tea with Half & Half.

Good morning. 1960s Skallorna in the W.O. Larsen Super Handmade w/Sterling hallmarked band. Low sodium V8. Peet's espresso. TGIF if you still have to work in an office.

A third of the way through this bowl of year 2014 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. A bottle of Sierra Mist is my drink.

...now that the writing day has started, on to a bowl of Samuel Gawith Perfection in the XX Ashton Oldchurch squashed tomato... cool water and bergs is my beverage...

Tried some Stonehaven again in my Stanwell Hans Christian Andersen. I tried it a couple of times when I first started smoking a pipe and didn't really "get" it. And guess what? I still don't! I think it must be the ongoing feud between me and Burley. Maybe I'll appreciate RDF more since it's supposed to be more VA-forward.

Relaxing after a tasty grilled ham and cheese along with a bowl of vegetarian vegetable soup lunch, and am almost half way through this bowl of year 2014 Saint James Flake in a smooth straight 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. Watching Mad Dog Russo.

SV Mellow in a pipe once smoked Della Street in the only episode of Perry Mason directed by Ed Wood. It's a Bent Morta Apple I kindly refer to as Morta Della

Now smoking Sir Walter Raleigh in a 1983 medium bend, mostly smooth, bottom rusticated Butz-Choquin Maitre Pipier 3 Fait Main with pearl brown acrylic stem. Working and listening to a documentary about General Patton on MHC.

SP Mellow in Morgan Cob. Fake Peach Tea. Like the SV Mellow a little better, but both are good fishing tobaccos

Chico wrote:Tried some Stonehaven again in my Stanwell Hans Christian Andersen.  I tried it a couple of times when  I first started smoking a pipe and didn't really "get" it.  And guess what?  I still don't!  

You're not alone. I used to think there was something wrong with me.

Mowed the lawn today. Now smoking 2014 Orlik Golden Sliced in an MM General and getting the weekend going a little early with an ice cold Bud Light.

About half way through this bowl of Stokkebye Natural Dutch Cavendish in a 1970s medium bend smooth Ben Wade Golden Walnut freehand with a black vulcanite stem. Working and listening to Mississippi John Hurt. Ice tea and bergs is my drink.

Hello all,

I am quite happy to have been included here, sorry to say I am in the process of taking a tobacco hiatus due to pending surgery. Mostly because my wife has concerns about the healing ramifications, “your blood won’t efficiently carry enough oxygen …”, not worth any sort of argument.

Anyway, a week from Tuesday, I go in for arthroscopy on my right knee for a medial meniscus tear. Couple weeks afterwards, I should be back on my bike and enjoying my pipes and cigars once again. Then it’s only the shoulder to worry about.

Think my warranty expired this year, too much happening physically.

Ok, this is a long-winded way of saying “I’ll be living vicariously through your tobacco choices for about a month”.



ExChef

...best wishes for the health concerns, and we're glad you're here, ExChef...