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Relaxing after a wonderful salad, perch and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm near the half way mark of this bowl of Watch City Bi-Polar Express (Christmas 2024) in a 1960s Austrian meerschaum bent apple with a tapered yellow acrylic stem. Working on a review of this blend. Community Coffee, neat, will be my drink when this bowl is finished.
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My latest pipe was a bowl EGR in my Brigham bent Dublin. I'm a little frustrated with the cone-shaped bowl. Any hints on reducing the congestion at the ends of a bowl? It produces much more moisture than a cylindrical bowl and so I get more dottle. Otherwise it smokes nicely, until it suddenly doesn't. I really don't want to use a meerschaum plug in it, although that would solve the problem. It works very well for my figure meer which also has a tapering chamber.

I also had a bowl of Exclusive in my Anton & Co. hardwood. It is a well-behaved pipe, I had misgivings about it at first because the factory finish on it blistered. It's a solid pipe and not disappointing. Good night guys.

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Relaxing after a wonderful salad, perch and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm near the half way mark of this bowl of Watch City Bi-Polar Express (Christmas 2024) in a 1960s Austrian meerschaum bent apple with a tapered yellow acrylic stem. Working on a review of this blend. Community Coffee, neat, will be my drink when this bowl is finished.
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Bi-Polar Express? Sounds a little dodgy. I hope you catch it on a good day.;)
 
I smoke primarily on my way to and from work. This is because I don't have a place to smoke indoors at home and it routinely gets very windy here. Windy enough outside that smoking a pipe is impossible and standing outside is very unpleasant.
I sincerely wish I had a place to enjoy a pipe without A- smelling up my car to the chagrin of my poor wife, or B- braving the elements of snow and wind like I'm some Ernest Shackleton wannabe.
This morning I had a bowl of C&D Byzantium in my beater mm cob. Up until this point, I have not been partial to the C&D blends I have tried and it caused me to write off C&D as a blender of tobacco. I thought I just didn't like the tune they were whistling as far as tobacco blending was concerned. This is where that trend ends. Byzantium is a great smoke and I'm happy to have found it.
Happy Monday, time to start fasting in preparation for the whale of a meal I'm going to cook at Thanksgiving.
Bugger GM, if I will the lotto Ill gift you a heated ventilated donga with a bar (y)https://www.yourdictionary.com/donga I am sure a lot of us have or do feel your pain.
 
Enjoyed a light low calorie snacking, had a delightful chat with an old friend, and just finished smoking year 2013 Capstan Blue Flake in a straight black 1963 Dunhill LB Shell 4S billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Fed all the ferals, too.
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