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It's a chilly 20F morning here in mid-MO. We still have a covering of snow on the ground and ice in a few spots on our gravel road. I'm starting this day with a bowl of Boswell's Magnum Blend, a slightly aromatic English with a delightful flavor and good burn rate. It comes from Boswell's Pipes and Tobaccos out of Chambersburg, PA. The pipe is a Bermel System pipe that was a gift from another kind smoker. It's a bit of an unusual pipe, made for a filter (which I don't use) and drilled way off center in the bowl, yet it still smokes very well, particularly with this blend. A few more hours and I'll be back to work again. I hope everyone has a pleasant day.

Here I am, enjoying the 2nd of my 3 days vacation. Slept a lot tonight which is very good for me as I'm usually shortsleeped (that is not a word, I'm sure) during work time.
I'm smoking the 1st bowl of the just mixed Pot O' Gold and so far enjoying it, but I'll smoke it a few more before an opinion.

...is "short sheeted". It can have a detrimental effect on your REM time.
Enjoyed some London Burley in a pipe that my eyes wouldn't adjust well enough to read the little letters. Smoked good though. I can't seem to be able to read the fine print like I used to. Must be global warming. The same global warming that we all (in North America, except Alberta Canada) have been shoveling off of our walks. As soon as I sell this damned SUV I'm sure my eyesight will improve, weather will become ideal, birds will sing and all will be right with the universe.
Happy puffin' brothers and sisters.

#222 Flake in a Karl Erik grade A, coffee on the side, reading Dan Brown DaVinci I know im out a bit late but it's still a good read. :)

A big three day ski vacation starting Friday and the weather promises to be ideal!

Tobak Menu:
Green River Vanilla
Captain Bob's Blend
Pot O' Gold
Riverboat Gambler

Enjoy your Thursday smokes, everyone!

Starting out here with ERR'd in a Kaywoodie bent ball.

Smoking some FVF in small, russian-made straight apple. Neat little pipe, couldn't tell you a damned thing about who made it past some "FAN" stamp.

Mac B Dark Twist on the way to work.

if it is not windy I might get to light up tonight! The temperature broke and it is much warmer today than it has been you can actually smell it (or maybe that's just the mud) but anyway. It is a welcome break from the cold. So, I get to think about what I want to burn all the way home.

Oliver has an appointment tomorrow to get his exhaust port checked out, hopefully they'll figure out why he is not... exhausting. Plenty of noise (and smell) but nothing to show for it so to speak. Very, very unusual for a breat fed baby.

Guitar Fest rehearsal is tomorrow. It is a welcome diversion but does make for a long day. My student came by last night and she did okay. She doesn't practice enough but hey, what can you do?

Finally, the snow seems to be melting slowly, and Pittsburgh is now enshrouded with the most amazing -- and probably dangerous -- icicles I've ever seen. More importantly, just got a Mario Grandi Jumbo billiard that I'm taking for a test drive; I had the oversized bowl retrofitted with a larger stem by Tim Thorpe, and it's now smoking beautifully. It's also a sitter, which is appreciated :).

MG is a relative newcomer who carries a lot of larger bowls and I'd heard good reports, they're available on eBay; the original taper stem was, in my mind, too narrow and threatened to snap, making for an anxious pipe, and who needs that?

Tim

Home from the line and there's another cold open oilcan next to me. Wife took off for the grandchild early because she's having breathing problems and losing weight. More better now and over her six pound birth weight again, but still hooked up to oxygen. Wife'll be back early March, I get to burn through the stuff she doesn't care for! Yep, I'm a wild man, in charge and I hope she doesn't monitor this site.

Working some Milonga in my pete Rocky 68 and not thinking about getting up at 4AM. Squadron Leader up next with a Jack before bed.

Mike, I understand the collection. When I got serious in '08, the Pete SPD's were green and I didn't get one. They've been lovely the last two years, (this years is spectacular for the money).

Enjoy all,

The weekend is in sight, and I'm counting down the hours. Cloudy and cool here today.
Started it off with a bowl of Detective's Blend from The Briar Shoppe. Picked this one up in Houston last week.
Still nursing it 16 hours later. Man, my days are way too long.

...at 11:00 PM; shameful. As I was warming the Jeep up this morning at 6:30 AM at work, de-icing the windows, and building courage to drive on the 'black iced' roads the 15 miles to get home, I considered loading my pipe for he drive. However I thought I'd be more prudent and keep both hands free at all times for the wheel. Good call. Overnight temps had "climbed" to the upper 20's and the snow had changed to freezing drizzle. First signs of spring.
Ride home was as challenging as I anticipated as I found myself having to shift into 4WD two miles from home just to move away from stop lights.
Then, the day just got away from me. I packed a bowl of Bayou Morning around noon in my Comoy's Straw Matt bent billiard but didn't light it up. Took loaded pipe with me when I took wife to lunch for our standard weekly date at the all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet, but didn't light the pipe after eaqting. Home again, no smoke yet. As I work at night days are my sleep time and so I did until 8 tonight. Finally at 10 I lighted the pipe. With temps at 32F, if was great. Switching to Star of the East in a Custombilt shortly with a proper mug of joe..

Lane HS-3 in a kaywoodie bulldog