Usually when I get a new pipe, I put it on a shelf or in a box. But I couldn’t resist cleaning up my new to me Savinelli and trying it out. I’m smoking my own Va/Perique/DAC, etc. blend in it.

It's been a bit again. Been pretty busy between. Work and home life. A girl wrecked into my truck last week so I've been having to deal with that mess.  Haven't smoked very much at all. But just got a order in to try of  Mississippi River Special Reserve Flake, Warhorse Green and Warhorse Red. The MSSRF is okay, I use to buy the original in bulk and none of it compares it. But the MSSRF is better than to current sutliff version of MS. Just had a bowl of Warhorse Green. I do not like it at all. The topping tastes like paint and the base blend tastes like a Backwoods cigar. I opened the Red and I will try it but I'm pretty sure it's going to taste the same. I'm not impressed at all with this order. I have one more order coming in of the new Per Jensen blending tobaccos. I only got the Virginia and dark fired Kentucky.  After that, I'm probably getting ready to go on a hiatus for a while. Life gets more lively during the summer so sitting down with a pipe usually is the last thing on my mind during this time of the year. It's hot in Tennessee and I don't get the satisfaction when its hot. Also haven't done anything with my whole leaf orders yet. I'm waiting on having the time to build my press box. I'll just let it sit pressing during my hiatus and see how it goes the next go around. 

Good Morning good people of the TR.

Early bird catches the worm, Saturday 5.45h am here.

No wife nor child or job for that matter to start harrasing me.

Me-Time on the balkony with one of the very few Aromatics I do enjoy in my Stanwell Jubelee 32 made in Denmark.

I feel the same about „Made in Denmark“ and „Danish Design“.

So These 2 are No.11s Danish Design. 
ai still feel the Jubilee is just better quality. Mybe splitting hairs.

Very bussy days. Just a bowl a day. McConnell Oriental in various squat bulldog 

@Happy Piping got me thinking about Mac Baren Mixture, so I’m having a bowl in my newly acquired Savinelli 315KS. 

Having a nice evening with some lovely friends while rediscovering Ratttay's Professional Mixture, a tobacco I opened 4 years ago and forgot in the cellar. Very nice 😊 

Early Morning Pipe in Savenelli's version of a Peterson System pipe. 🤨

This Oriental Flake is pretty light on the Vit. N. Bit quite flavourful. Im still not sure if this is a blend I will stick with.

smoking my oldest cob. This pipe endured harsh treatment and I cherish it for being a reliable friend to the very day, easlily 5 yrs and 800 bowls later.

Mac Baren navy flake in a cob. 

The pipes I love are littles ones, but I also love contradictions: behold this massive Mastro de Paja canadian, handmade in 1979, it's frickin big and full of italian kentucky (trinciato comune).

Wish me luck...

Still with Robert McConnell Oriental, but this time in a Mauro Gilli 1/4 bent bulldog

Sitting on the back patio with a brisket on the smoker, I had my first bowl ever of Arango Balkan Supreme in a new-to-me Hilson 223 that arrived earlier this week via eBay. A very pleasant tobacco in what turns out to be a lovely pipe. I’m just getting in to Balkans (already love English blends), and this one was a nice introduction.

3 Nuns (with Perique, aged 5 years).

In an IMP meerschaum bent apple.

I’m smoking my third experimental miniature batch blend of 90% PS81, 6% Perique and 4% DAC in a TV churchwarden. 

I´ll finish the day with Solani Aged Burley flake in a Savinelli Nonpareil 9121. I think I´ll also finish the jar, so the remains will go to my recently inaugurated Frankenstein jar to keep company to a rest of Pesse canoe Oriental Flake.

Druquer & Sons “Devil’s Own” in “Leah” the Sasieni Fantail Prince(ss)

…paired with proper yellow Gatorade this time

…while doing minor repairs on the house before painting (replacing dry rotted lap board around a sliding glass door).

[Notice the “upper crust” accoutrements… chipped bowl ash tray, custom wine cork knockers with holder for custom deck screw tamper, held in place by cheese wax. We go 1st class in this outfit 😉]

First bowl of a lazy day hiding from the heat. 

Big N' Burley in a the Castello 16.

BTW I'm a believer. This pipe smokes better than any of my other pipes with the exception of the miracle Bari. And that's a tie. Dry, cool, stays lit. Tastes good. 

I might not become one of "those Peterson guys (although I like my system pipe). But I might become one of" those Castello disciples ".

You know what they say" Dunhill is the English Castello ". 😜

Smoking Capstan after a two month pause dedicated to other tobaccos, such a pleasure to come back to my favorite flake, Capstan blue never disappoints me. Enjoing it in my official "most beautiful pipe in the world", a Castello, under a tree on the market square, someone is playing accordeon, just perfect 😍 

I haven't posted in awhile. I'm outside smoking some Oriental Supreme in my Big Ben Olympic.

I went through a month of every smoke tasting acrid. No matter what blend or pipe. I thought it might be sour pipes. I cleaned several with salt and ever clear alcohol. Still very acrid tasting. I just had my first smoke that tasted good since this started.

I narrowed it down to an infection I was fighting. I was getting very upset that I may never be able to enjoy my favorite hobby. Not to mention converse on the subject with such great people as you all.