Now that scene hurts a little on a day like this, in New Jersey. The snow from last night and earlier this week is melting, but, it is still damn ass cold.
Sorry man, we don't have a snow problem here, but a cold front just moved out of Florida a couple of days ago. I'm sure your probably thinking right a cold front! But when your in a climate of 90 to 100 degrees most of the time, a 40 degree drop is pretty drastic.I like it when it's cold in Florida, no worries about hurricanes.I wish it would stay colder more often here and cool down the Atlantic. Hurricanes like Irma were scary as hell. Thank you for the post.
It's still a bit chilly outside but I'm going to brave the cold anyway and go out for a smoke. I plan on having a nice bowl of Boswell Christmas Cookie (in keeping with my Christmas blend theme) in my B.C. Shorty pipe. At the end of the block I see some major construction going on with the power company in what appears to be pulling out the old sub station and replacing it with a much larger one. I've never seen so much activity on my block. There are massive boom cranes, and a convoy of trucks- and workers galore - making more noise than I'd normally hear on the steel making floor of my old shop at US Steel. Kinda' got my blood pumping seeing all that activity going on. Reminds me of the old days when I was a contributing member of Society. Now I'm a old timer on a pension, sitting in a lawn chair smoking his pipe and watching members of America's workforce putting in a hard day's work. Makes me want to walk over there and start giving crane signals to the guy operating the boom crane.
@Fuel52 I hate to say this, but your profile pic could be the poster pic for someone who just cleaned their pipe from a salt alcohol treatment, fired it up and suddenly realized some of the filthy tar laden salt granules were inadvertently left in the pipe and were sucked up through the stem... It's a great pic... I love Stanwell Royal Danish pipes. I've had such good luck with them that I won 3. All good smokers...
Finishing the last of my Prince Albert 1970s tin. Have about a quarter of a pouch left and it will likely be gone by this evening. Have been smoking this in my Peterson Billiard.
Maybe my next smoke will be some Peterson 2012 Christmas Blend in my meerschaum.
GLP Gaslight in a Bing's Favorite. I know it's marketed as an evening smoke, but I tend to like richer blends during the day and go to mild aromatics in the evening. I'm enjoying this very much right now, watching the rain fall and the deer forage along the greenbelt.
Got a little crazy today and decided to stack a bowl with Christmas blends ... bottom of bowl H&H "Egg Nog", on top of that C&D "Corn Cob Pipe & Button Nose", next up Sutliff "Christmas Spice", and to top things off Boswell "Christmas Cookie". Packed it all in my Tanganyika Meerschaum billiard since it's probably the largest pipe I own, with a massive bowl big enough for this concoction. Beginning of the smoke was damn fine - the Christmas Cookie and Christmas Spice were superb. But as I got closer to the bottom the Corn Cob Pipe & Button Nose and the Egg Nog proved to be a less than perfect pairing. Sometimes too much of a good thing is exactly that. Which is probably why they don't add a fourth flavor to Neapolitan ice cream.
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Now that scene hurts a little on a day like this, in New Jersey. The snow from last night and earlier this week is melting, but, it is still damn ass cold.
You are still a contributing member of society......
Maybe my next smoke will be some Peterson 2012 Christmas Blend in my meerschaum.