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What i intended to be a lazy day, snuggled up in front of the fire place watching TV, has turned out to be an interrupted one, with my sister and her husband, picking today to pay me a visit.
Consequently my plans, and more importantly my pipe, all got put on hold.
But now they have left, I'm about to fill another Pete, also from their Evening Series, with some well deserved Hobbit Weed.
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Breaking in a barely smoked Tinder Box Unique that will be a dedicated Dark Plug pipe because of its thick walls (relights lol) I have to ramp the draught hole in the mortise because it's all the way in the top and doesn't pass a cleaner. Smoking better now that I shortened the tenon as it was butting up into the wood inside the mortise. Sometimes these things need tweaking to make a machine!

Update: 5 minutes with a needle file and she passed the cleaner.
 
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Near the half way 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. Abner the Eager was at the back door when I got up. He was as happy to see me as I was to see him. He ate his usual amount, which tells me that he was well fed at his real home. I think the cold trek on the snow and ice over here got to him a little because he did a little sneezin' when he got inside. Harry the Hairy wanted out, and so he is. Daisy the Feral Princess ate, and is snoozin on her blanket. Dunno where Tomato the Brave is. M'lady fed Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger. I'll eat after this smoke is over.
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Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and have about a third of a bowl left of year 2000 VaPer Three Nuns in a 1938 straight black grain relief Dunhill OX Shell bulldog with a silver band repair with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Coffee from a freshly opened bag of Gold Star Nightwish, neat, is my drink. Watching The Lone Ranger. Well, Abner the Eager got food and attention, and wanted out. Guess he figures the sun mitigates the effect of the snow and ice, silly li'l goof.
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I've passed the half way mark of the last of this sample of circa 1974-83 Capitansky/Captain Rum in a 1975 medium bend sandblasted looking, smooth on the sides yellow Pioneer meer billiard with a black ferrule and vulcanite stem in the military mount style. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Finishing off the review of this Russian made blend.
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Half way through this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Abner the Eager came back to get warm and snooze.
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Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. My after dinner smoke was year 2013 Rotary Navy Cut in a post-1938 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 bulldog with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Nigel Bruce smoked this model in two Sherlock Holmes movies. Please consider asking Shane Ireland at Smoking Pipes and Peterson to bring the pipe back into production.
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Then, I smoked a bowl of Watch City English Ernie-ental in a straight dark brown and tan rusticated Peterson 2023 Saint Patrickā€™s Day 264 Canadian with an Irish flag colored ferrule and tapered black acrylic stem.

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Currently, I just finished smoking year 2020 D&R Penhooker Silver in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a tapered black p-lip stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Had a long chat with the late David Cuneo's sister.
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Now smoking year 2012 St. James Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Tanshell octagonal paneled EK F/T billiard with a square shank and tapered black vulcanite stem.
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