We had no trick or treaters. @PappyJoe I was watching both the Patriots and the Buccaneers. It's good for Brady to lose, he comes back stronger and the Saints are on my list of teams I follow so no harm, no foul!
I loaded a flake of Mac Baren “HH Rustica” hot pressed flake from 2020 into my Savinelli Chubby Cutty. This is an interesting tobacco, kind of like SG “Black XX” light…..mmm tasty. I guess I will see if the nic hit smacks me later. It was no problem last time, unlike the SG which I have to be very careful with. P.S. Quite the combo with Hot’N Spicy Baken-Ets pork rinds and a cool 16oz. 8% Lime-A-Rita. Yeah, you can call it a “chick drink” if you like….come-on…8%….well, it may be a bit higher, I added a couple of shots of Cuervo to it😬
Had two bowls in lovely weather yesterday - 76 degrees, 29% humidity. First was Cobblestone Cafe Mocha Flake in my Ginger's Favorite followed by a bowl of Jolly Old St. Nick in my straight Rindaldo Apple.
I cracked open a jar of BriarWorks Pete's Beard that I've had for a year or so. It's a Virginia/Latakia blend that has the right amount of moisture, a nice size ribbon and great flavor in a cob!
Lovely quiet afternoon. 71 degrees and 29% humidity with a light breeze. Loaded my 1926 Dunhill with The Untouchables. With the cedar and floral notes, this is a damn good fall smoke.
After dinner pipe of Peterson Deluxe Navy Rolls in an MM Diplomat fitted with a Forever Stem. Dinner consisted of scrambled eggs, our hens laid them, and carrots from our neighbors garden that we roasted!
Met Up with a couple of my pipe club brothers tonight at a local cigar lounge and one offered me a bowl of a 4 year old blend called Uncle Tom that is made by Germain.
So the guy who offered the tobacco is a member there and a bit of a fixture, everyone knows him and he them, he's actually got a whole cadre of folk there that are now pipe smokers as well as cigar smokers.
This lounge has a very diverse clientele and everyone gets along quite well. I mention this as a funny thing happened this evening.
We were sitting and one of his pipe smoking converts walks in and he greets us and my friend as he does with everyone offers him some of the tobacco du jour we are smoking; did I mention this man is African American.
He looks at the label and just starts to laugh and howl, initially he thought my friend was playing a joke on him but then realized it was a real blend and he says to my friend I don't know if I'm allowed to smoke this, the next 5 minutes were hilarious.
I'm creating some cigar ash to mix up some pipe mud. I'm cutting off bowl sized slices of a Arturo Fuenta 8-5-8 and smoking them in a "The Pipe" Dublin. It is the perfect bowl size. It allow me to harvest the most ash. My reason for wanting to create Pipe mud is to put it in the bottom of my two Missouri Meerschaums as per @RockyMountainBriar advise. I'm a little embarrassed to say I have never liked the way they smoked. Being from Missouri it seems it should be a given. So many of my brothers on TPL swear by them, it seems like I'm doing something wrong. So I guess I will find out. I'll keep you posted.
I've added pipe mud to a few of my cobs but didn't find any significant improvement in their performance. I've tossed a few that never performed well, that's out of 50 or so, and a fifteen year old that was cracking. I learned alot from the "Corn Cob Primer" on pipedia.org and never use a filter or let a cake build on the walls. I don't smoke aromatics but I wouldn't doubt that oils in aromatic additives would be absorbed by the cob and turn rancid. This summer I noticed my cobs retaining moisture and started wondering if the humectants in some blends were accumulating in the pipes. I'm currently smoking only C&D produced tobaccos to see if humectants are a problem.
Starting the day with G. L. Pease Charring Cross in an old MM Diplomat.
Rattray, Fribourg & Trayer and Astley's amongst others are all made by Kohlhase & Koop. When they dry out they don't have the weird feel that tobacco treated with PG is left with. Waterloo No 2 has some Black Cavendish that is unflavored so I guess it's processed with sugar water. C&D claims their flavorings are natural but it's hard to know what "natural" means in ingredient lists.
@mfresa; I guess the closest I ever felt to feeling pregnant was when I tipped the scales at 205 pounds. I've lots 30 pounds since. Thanks for the response. @Balisong; Thanks for the insight. I tend to draw fast when i don't focus, maybe that is part of my problem with Cobs.
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P.S. Quite the combo with Hot’N Spicy Baken-Ets pork rinds and a cool 16oz. 8% Lime-A-Rita. Yeah, you can call it a “chick drink” if you like….come-on…8%….well, it may be a bit higher, I added a couple of shots of Cuervo to it😬
There's a story there and I'll fill you guys in later on the MM thread...
Hope you recover quickly, and if there ever was a soothing, sweet smoke to calm one's nerves, it is Crumble Kake Red.
Never too early to start wearing the red... 🎅
Nope.
I've already done three photo sessions with studio photographers and I have two more this weekend.
I've added pipe mud to a few of my cobs but didn't find any significant improvement in their performance. I've tossed a few that never performed well, that's out of 50 or so, and a fifteen year old that was cracking. I learned alot from the "Corn Cob Primer" on pipedia.org and never use a filter or let a cake build on the walls. I don't smoke aromatics but I wouldn't doubt that oils in aromatic additives would be absorbed by the cob and turn rancid. This summer I noticed my cobs retaining moisture and started wondering if the humectants in some blends were accumulating in the pipes. I'm currently smoking only C&D produced tobaccos to see if humectants are a problem.
Starting the day with G. L. Pease Charring Cross in an old MM Diplomat.
I've noted that none of Rattray's European aromatics feature humectants.
That's why they are so damn good.....
Rattray, Fribourg & Trayer and Astley's amongst others are all made by Kohlhase & Koop. When they dry out they don't have the weird feel that tobacco treated with PG is left with. Waterloo No 2 has some Black Cavendish that is unflavored so I guess it's processed with sugar water. C&D claims their flavorings are natural but it's hard to know what "natural" means in ingredient lists.
I guess the closest I ever felt to feeling pregnant was when I tipped the scales at 205 pounds. I've lots 30 pounds since. Thanks for the response.
@Balisong;
Thanks for the insight. I tend to draw fast when i don't focus, maybe that is part of my problem with Cobs.