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Last pipe of the day is a good one: John Patton Oriental Dusk in a Comoy Golden Grain. I've tried all the other Patton blends but somehow missed Oriental Dusk. Blackhorse recommended it in one of the other threads - I'm glad I tried it. JP has a deft touch with cigar leaf, I wouldn't have...

4Nogs Three Blind Moose in a Savinelli 602. Mild and pleasant but I don't think it will replace Rivendell for the limited number of aromatics that I'll keep on hand.

Trying out some 4Noggins blends that I've somehow missed over the years. Just finished a bowl of Bald Headed Teacher in a Savinelli 677. Very enjoyable: smooth and lightly aromatic with underlying Burley taste. Nobody will mistake me smoking a cigar or cigarette, this tastes and smells like most...

Y'all a bunch of Rough Riders! o_O I do agree on the Burley and coffee . . . that's how I prefer to ease into my day. Occasionally some Early Morning Pipe. But if you want to have roast beef and potatoes for breakfast that's fine. Come to think of it a big meat stuffed Colorado omelette sounds...

Here I was calling Byzantium an after-dinner experience and you up and have it for breakfast! Makes the rest of us look like wimps!;)

Trying Ranger's port and Byzantium pairing. I wasn't able to get Ranger's recommended porto but I picked up some Sandeman Founder's Reserve Ruby Porto on sale. First I tried Byzantium by itself in the Design Berlin. Comparing Beck's Limey ******* and Byzantium is like the difference between...

Finally able to try some Beck's Limey ******* that was recommended by several members here in the thread "In Search of the Perfect English." Just finished a direct A-B comparison of it in a meerschaum and a filtered briar. The meer brought out mostly high tones and some bitter herbal taste like...

Clear blue skies and 72 degrees... couldn't ask for a nicer day. No grilling today as my son is fishing down in Topping Virginia. Wife is away dealing with her Mom's elder care issues, so it's just me and the pooch holding down the fort. Throwing the ball and puffing on some Orion's Arrow in a...

Continued exploration of Windjammer in different pipes, presently halfway through a bowl in a Charatan meer, with budget bourbon on the side (Evan Williams). I'm not a Va-Per guy but this was advertised as having nutty black walnut Burley so I gave it a shot. I have to agree with DrT999 that the...

Still dark and depressing weather here, but at least it is cool (48 degrees). Clipping some battered down shrubs while savoring some Wilke Commander in a DB Royal Star.

Sid, your beads and pipe are matching in cheerful color. Must be nice to finally relax in the cafe!😎

Staying mostly inside today. Watch City Nor'Easter in a Design Berlin Siegfried. Seemed appropriate for the nasty weather!

Dark drizzly day of 49 degrees - seems more like November than almost June! Enjoying a bowl of 2008 Germain EighteenTwenty, a refined medium-light English loaded with spice and toasted sunflower seeds. Paneled Design Berlin.

Two more pipes since my last post, one excellent and one sucky. After dinner I had some Hearth & Home Frenchy's Sunzabitches which has been sitting in a jar for two years. I still find it too funky, with a vaguely sour stomach taste, so I only made it through half a bowl. After that I needed...

I'm on my third pipe of the day - I just don't like posting until I'm sitting at the pooter with a normal size keyboard. My fingers aren't nimble enough for the phone - requires infinite patience and backspacing to correct fumbles. Anyway, I've had Windjammer and Janus again today and in the...

I struck gold with my first Windjammer tweak (wish that were always the case!). To take this in direction more to my liking my first thought was to add some darker flavors, so: 2/3 Windjammer and 1/3 divided between 507 stoved and some dark fired Kentucky. Quite tasty! Might be a keeper...

Pre-dinner smoke of my own blend "Berserker" in a Stanwell 139. This blend started out as Sutliff Royal Viking which I found as bland as hospital food. This is one third each of Royal Viking, Kelly's Coin, and dark fired Kentucky. Oh yeah, since I'm one eighth Danish I might just get a little...

If I like the concept I will definitely try Warrs next time!

That sounds good. Somehow I never tried port with a pipe. I have a bottle of Fonseca LBV I've been saving for who knows what; I'll have to try tomorrow night with Byzantium or a Peretti flake that was cured in red wine. Something new to try!

I read mostly non-fiction so I rarely look at this thread, but today I happened to see the back and forth between Brewdude and DrT999. I haven't read the book so I can't comment but I will say that I just finished reading Susan Wise Bauer's History of the Ancient World and found it to literally...