Break time. Family not coming over until 3. Too lazy to get a different pipe since last time, so I took my Mr. Brog, ran a cleaner through it, changed the 9mm filter, and loaded it up with some Sutliff Christmas Spice... Wishing everyone a GREAT day today...
@RockyMountainBriar the first bowl was figgy Pudding, the second was We three kings. I was able to take some time with the 3 kings. In my very uneducated opinion, it's very vanilla forward. I could taste some of the spice, but predominantly it was vanilla. I think i should let it sit for a while and see how it mellows.
Well Christmas dinner is done and I'm getting ready to smoke some Dunhill Durbar in a rusticated Peterson system 03
For the last 3 years we have taken the mantle from my father-in law (has gotten too old to do it) with regard to preparing and cooking a couple beef Wellingtons for Christmas dinner.
Finally have the recipe and technique figured out and I even added some decoration. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas
@motie2 inspired me to light up my Spanu with some Captain Black Cherry. Not quite as mouth watering as @mapletop's Wellingtons, but still pretty tasty.
I hope everyone enjoyed Christmas day! I'm enjoying Balkan Mixture in an MM Patriot with Patriot Zippo while watching the Patriots struggle against the Bills!
Playing some World of Tanks Online (free to play by the way). Smoking some C&D “Espresso” in one of the first pipes I ever bought. Some Cezck made ROMA basket pipe from Pipes & Cigars. When I got it, it had a crazy thick plastic? coating on it that bubbled in a few place’s. It smoked hotter than a two dollar pistol. I peeled that off today with my pocket knife and gave it a quick sanding and rubbed some of my beeswax/carnauba wax/mineral oil mixture into it. It is smoking much cooler👍🏻 I’m wondering if it will maybe take on some color like a meerschaum over time? I might sandblast it when it gets warmer. It’s 7F degrees out…it is suppose to drop below zero in the near future🥶
Dec. 27. 78 degrees. Sitting outside in a T-shirt and walking shorts. Drinking a rum and coke. Smoking a bowl of Christmas Tobacco in my RD Powell Cutty.
It warmed up a little bit this evening. When I left this morning at 7:00, it was -8F🥶 It’s a balmy 5F now😰 I just finished some vegetable fried rice I made and about to o load the Roma churchwarden with some Newminster “BlackBerry Brandy” for an after dinner “aperitif”.
@opipeman The drawback is we get two or three days of cooler weather and then it warms back up. That screws up my sinuses for four or five days then the cycle repeats.
@PappyJoe; Knowing that you are miserable doesn't exactly make me feel any better. I just ordered an OTC Tobac that I hadn't thought of in years "Sugar Barrel". When it arrives, maybe that will will make me feel better. I hope the sinuses get better. I know that can be annoying.
Sure. A newb is a newcomer, someone who has recently joined, started, began, learned, etc.
A youngster is a relative term, determined by someone’s age compared to someone else’s. It’s often used in a mocking way, especially when both parties are over fifty.
@RockyMountainBriar; You have to be an old fart to remember Sugar Barrel. To emphasize my point, I don't remember what it tasted like. So, maybe that makes me a newb? I'll try to remember to report on what it is like.
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Wishing everyone a GREAT day today...
I’m not sure why, but it smokes better than the Baskerville for me.
You have me drooling like a baby.
@motie2 inspired me to light up my Spanu with some Captain Black Cherry. Not quite as mouth watering as @mapletop's Wellingtons, but still pretty tasty.
I just finished some vegetable fried rice I made and about to o load the Roma churchwarden with some Newminster “BlackBerry Brandy” for an after dinner “aperitif”.
Its 32 degrees, windy and everything is covered with ice here in Central Iowa. You're killing me!
The drawback is we get two or three days of cooler weather and then it warms back up. That screws up my sinuses for four or five days then the cycle repeats.
Knowing that you are miserable doesn't exactly make me feel any better. I just ordered an OTC Tobac that I hadn't thought of in years "Sugar Barrel". When it arrives, maybe that will will make me feel better. I hope the sinuses get better. I know that can be annoying.
Feel better, @pappyjoe
No, you’re just a youngster.
Newb? Youngster?
Is there a difference?
Sure. A newb is a newcomer, someone who has recently joined, started, began, learned, etc.
A youngster is a relative term, determined by someone’s age compared to someone else’s. It’s often used in a mocking way, especially when both parties are over fifty.
But you knew that…..
You have to be an old fart to remember Sugar Barrel. To emphasize my point, I don't remember what it tasted like. So, maybe that makes me a newb?
I'll try to remember to report on what it is like.
https://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/1251/john-middleton-inc-sugar-barrel