What Are You Smoking Pages.

Brothers of Briar

Help Support Brothers of Briar:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
After helping the Missus prepare most of the cooking for tomorrow's Christmas Eve with her family, I am packing some Dunhill The Apéritif in my Shell Briar 5106 Straight Pot (2017). Mandarin flavored sparkling water on the side.
Enjoy your Saturday. :)
 
Good morning BoBs. Slept in, got up, made coffee, went out and filled the empty bird feeders. Then finally loaded up a Don Carlos bent brandy with CS Rivendell, poured a mug of coffee and settled in on the patio under the heated throw. Started to post but had to delay for a while because Charlie wanted to play fetch with his chew toy. He is like the Energizer Bunny in the morning. Full of piss and vinegar, lol. So, finally getting around to posting. Chilly but sunny here. Hope you all are having a great day.
 
On the bluff in 40 ish F damp weather having a large bowl of Amphora Original in an MM General with forever stem. When I get home, it will be time to try some hot black tea-maybe assam in a just purchased Stoke on Trent England made vintage tea pot. To me, nothing like hot tea to take the edge off weather like today-eh @Zippo . Maybe I have some English blood-I actually do 😀.
 
Needed a burley fix so it's my own Cattle Drive in a Pete system B42 smooth bent apple with my 3rd mug of coffee. Wifey brought out some chocolate biscotti that a neighbor gave her while walking the doggies. It's okay but nothing to do cartwheels over. Swede, wife makes tea every time we come back from the ranch. My favs are Earl Gray and oolong. Yes, great for taking the chill off. And I'm also 1/2 English, lol
 
Sutliff Eccentric in my little meer today, probably more later. I'll run the majority of the day with Plum Pudding, though. I just want it off the shelf. I like the others better, Paradoxical, Eccentric, and MM 150th. I learned early to empty my plate of the things I like least first.
HR, I sometimes do the same, or I put it in the back of my stash and just smoke it on occasion until it's gone, lol.
 
Passing the quarter mark of this bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Basil_squashed_ tomato copy.jpg
 
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking year 2013 Capstan Blue Ready Rubbed in a smooth dark brown post-WWII Comoy’s Grand Slam 340 patent billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Lavazza Classico, neat, is my drink.
Comoy's_Grand Slam_340billard.jpg
 
I got the small aquarium cleaned up along with some other house work. Now I'm smoking Peretti's Boston's Best Cavendish in a Pride and finishing a cup of coffee.

@Swede and @Ranger107
I too am partly English but was adopted at birth by an Italian and Irish couple. My birth mother's family landed in Boston in the early 1600's and protected their British heritage into the twentieth century. My birth father's family was part English and part Northern European.
 
Part way through this bowl of Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead in a well appreciated medium bend, smooth brown 1950s Peterson 999 Dublin chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. This smoke will be interrupted by dinner. Watching black and white half hour episodes of Gunsmoke.
Peterson_999_Rhodesian-Dublin.jpg
 
Going Brit tonight for pre dinner. Zippos gifted Condor in a London made Comoys and English black tea to drink. Wish I had some Shepherds Pie to complete the picture. Alas it's left over Keto chicken soup, lol. Jim it appears I have the same pipe although I can't see any numbers on mine. I knew it was vintage but didn't know when. Bali, & Swede, I am 1/2 English, 1/4 Irish and 1/4 Scot I think. Any past records are pretty messed up. Lol.
 

Attachments

  • 20231223_180113.jpg
    20231223_180113.jpg
    1.5 MB
Part way through this bowl of Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead in a well appreciated medium bend, smooth brown 1950s Peterson 999 Dublin chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. This smoke will be interrupted by dinner. Watching black and white half hour episodes of Gunsmoke.
View attachment 14351
Think I've seen every 30 minute episode of Gunsmoke at least twice, lol.
 
Post dinner smoke of Arango Balkan Supreme in a Comoys smaller bowled seldom smoked billiard with saddle stem. Wee dram of cream Sherry on the side. This will be my last pipe today. Almost a full moon tonight. Hope no werewolves come out of the darkness tonight. Would hate to discharge the 357 in town which is against the law, lol.
 
Relaxing after two giant bowls of freshly made chicken soup with unsalted crackers dinner. Dessert was a bowl of vanilla bean ice cream. I'm smoking Seattle Pipe Club Down Yonder in a straight black 1963 Dunhill LB Shell 4S billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Dunhill_1963_LB_billiard.jpg
 

Latest posts

Top