Finally getting my sinus problem cleared up. Got to enjoy a bowl of Vauen Tradition No. 2 in my Peterson Sherlock Holmes original followed by a bowl of Meistermischung #66 (their tropical aromatic).
@PappyJoe Glad to hear you're back on the mend. I HATE sinus infections! Used to get 2 or 3 major ones per year. Then a friend turned me on to the "Sinugator". Started using it every morning and, for the last 11 years, I've only had 1 infection barely worth mentioning. Of course, what works for one may not work for another, but if you haven't tried it, you might consider giving it a try...
Nothing exciting here. Reload, relight, resmoke... At least it counts as another day with a meer...😉 I'm counting on someone else to give us something to think about. How about stacking? Been a while since anyone here has posted a double or triple combo bowl...
I had chronic sinus infections, literally for decades, until my adult son bought me a neti pot. Have not had an infection or a sinus headache since I started neti-ing regularly. Neti pots are fairly inexpensive. You should try one.
I think I picked an excellent pipe to enjoy the “Les Bouchons”, it’s an old WDC “Smokarol”. It’s one of the first pipes I fit a stem to. I wish I had some of the original “rolls” to smoke…actually, just to have a tube of them for my collection would be awesome. I think the “rolls” were “Velvet” tobacco. I have seen a picture/add of the “tube of rolls”, but I can’t find it now🙁. This pipe already had a darkened rim, somebody in the past smoked the hell out of it, so no worries there, if it’s even an issue? It must have been a good pipe and “system” for whomever enjoyed it ~100 years ago. I will say, it’s working and smoking these Belgium Semois plugs fine. I have another WDC “Smokarol” with the original button bit stem, but it was made without a sterling silver band. It’s in better shape all around. Whomever companioned it somewhere in the past must not have had as good a smoking experience as the guy that worked this one over. Yep, I like this tobacco. I was not as impressed with the “La Brumeuse” rough cut pipe tobacco when I have tried it, but I may have to give it another go in one of my reverse calabash’s, or my big meer/gourd calabash🤔. These are tasty, but kind of expensive, it’s like smoking a cigar I guess, so, for special occasions? Interestingly, I’m about 1/8” from the rim of the pipe now, and none of the vitamin-n hit I was expecting from the reviews I read. Maybe I’m not such a pipe newb anymore🤔. It’s kind of nice not needing to tamp or relight, so far anyway. I have been turning the plug to get it to burn evenly like is done with cigars, it is working in this pipe that way. Maybe if I was using a “normal” pipe, it would burn more evenly🤔. Buy the way, these came as dry as a popcorn fart, and were meant to be smoked this way, working as intended👍🏻
Only time for a short smoke, so I pulled out a noname ebay find. This pipe had so many dents and scratches I had no alternative but to rusticate almost all of this pipe. He did, however, limit his pipe knocking to the sides of the bowl, allowing me to keep the rim area unrusticated. Enjoying some Seven Seas Royal Blend inspired by @opipeman above...
I loaded this little old WDC with the “Birds of a Feather”-“Anomalous”. This tobacco has a nice sweet raisin tin note. In the smoke, it has a slightly sweet, sort of floral note, it must be the Katerina Perique. It’s a nice mild tobacco, no discernible casing, just pure tobacco, albeit unique, by the addition of the special Katerini Perique. This blend, “Anomalous”, is my favorite in the series so far…one blend left to go, “Paradoxical”. It’s supposed to be available in May.
Well, I couldn’t help myself…I bought a couple of tins of C&D’s “The Beast” 2023. The blend description was right up my alley, 50% Perique, Red Virginia Cavendish, Black Cavendish, and some Dark Fired Kentucky. It is awesome!…if you like that Perique Crap😬. Now I will have to buy more, if my finances catch up before it is gone. I’m smoking it in a Brigham Mountaineer 347 Bent Dublin with the Rock Maple insert in place, which by the way are an excellent device for soaking up moisture without sucking the life out of the tobacco. Better than even Savinelli balsa soaker-uppers, which zap some of the tobacco’s flavors. I did load straight from the tin, and the tobacco was slightly moist, it gurgled in the stem about 3/4 through the bowl, the insert couldn’t keep up. One stem removal and a stem clearing blow, all better. I was a bit apprehensive about the strength of “The Beast’s” Perique, but no worries. I must have graduated from newb👍🏻. I want to make it to pipe smoking savant. Which to me is consistently smoking to the bottom without relights, I have a long way to go. This Mountaineer smokes cooler than my Brigham Klondike Canadian. The Mountaineer does not have the heavy clear coat finish on the bowl. I think I need to buff the clear coat off of the Klondike.
Working really hard today (wink-wink) while enjoying some Old Dark Fired on the deck. Four more days and I'm officially no longer employed by my current company but moving on to a new (and more lucrative) position with a new company on Monday.
Finished 18. Now enjoying some Lane HGL in a Calabrest stummel I bought for $2.50 at the STL pipe show. Simply cleaned it up a bit, fitted a new stem to it and BINGO, I have another nice pipe... IMHO.
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Got to enjoy a bowl of Vauen Tradition No. 2 in my Peterson Sherlock Holmes original followed by a bowl of Meistermischung #66 (their tropical aromatic).
Then a friend turned me on to the "Sinugator". Started using it every morning and, for the last 11 years, I've only had 1 infection barely worth mentioning.
Of course, what works for one may not work for another, but if you haven't tried it, you might consider giving it a try...
At least it counts as another day with a meer...😉
I'm counting on someone else to give us something to think about. How about stacking? Been a while since anyone here has posted a double or triple combo bowl...
I had chronic sinus infections, literally for decades, until my adult son bought me a neti pot. Have not had an infection or a sinus headache since I started neti-ing regularly. Neti pots are fairly inexpensive. You should try one.
Not exactly coloring like i wished it was. It is March, so I dug me Meer out.
Enjoying some Seven Seas Royal Blend inspired by @opipeman above...
I love my Charlestown...
I’m smoking it in a Brigham Mountaineer 347 Bent Dublin with the Rock Maple insert in place, which by the way are an excellent device for soaking up moisture without sucking the life out of the tobacco. Better than even Savinelli balsa soaker-uppers, which zap some of the tobacco’s flavors. I did load straight from the tin, and the tobacco was slightly moist, it gurgled in the stem about 3/4 through the bowl, the insert couldn’t keep up. One stem removal and a stem clearing blow, all better. I was a bit apprehensive about the strength of “The Beast’s” Perique, but no worries. I must have graduated from newb👍🏻. I want to make it to pipe smoking savant. Which to me is consistently smoking to the bottom without relights, I have a long way to go. This Mountaineer smokes cooler than my Brigham Klondike Canadian. The Mountaineer does not have the heavy clear coat finish on the bowl. I think I need to buff the clear coat off of the Klondike.
Now relaxing with some Lane 1Q in a Rhodesian meer...
Good luck to ya'!
Let me know, though, if your new job is paying you too much money...I'll give you an address where to send the surplus!
Simply cleaned it up a bit, fitted a new stem to it and BINGO, I have another nice pipe... IMHO.
May it be all that you hope for.
Your HO is spot on, IMHO.
Doing some Lane BCA in a CAO Cavalier meer...
You have more pipe smokers in NOPC than I personally know. You are fortunate, Brother.