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Bob's Chocolate Flake in the MM cob while doing errands. The trucks finally fixed and we're ready for chores.

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Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I just finished smoking year 2013 Germain’s Plum Cake in an undated, unbranded straight lattice meerschaum military mount with a silver cap and tapered yellow acrylic stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
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Just finished dinner. Chinese take out beef fried rice with butter. Had to eat Basil's too. I forgot about the gluten in the soy sauce. I took it for the team.
Now I'm going to smoke a bowl of Sutliff Dark Chocolate in a no name but very nice smoking poker. I'm listening to the last few hours of Transition. I have to pick a new reading and listening book tonight when I finish this one.

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Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am off to work on a new Archie story with a bowl of year 2020 D&R Raccoon’s Friend in a pre-1980s straight dark brown Comoy's Sandblast 186 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
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Just finished dinner. Chinese take out beef fried rice with butter. Had to eat Basil's too. I forgot about the gluten in the soy sauce. I took it for the team.
Now I'm going to smoke a bowl of Sutliff Dark Chocolate in a no name but very nice smoking poker. I'm listening to the last few hours of Transition. I have to pick a new reading and listening book tonight when I finish this one.

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I admire Chez, he's a longsuffering soul.
 
Near the last quarter of this bowl of year 2020 C&D Virginia Gentleman in a straight smooth dark brown pre-1940s Comoy’s Jost’s Olde English Supreme J299 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Fed the ferals except for the absent Abner the Eager.
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Near the last quarter of this bowl of Wilke Little Round Top in an undated straight smooth brown pre-Republic Peterson’s Sterling bulldog 150 with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem. It's time to traffic cop feral feeding.
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I admire Chez, he's a longsuffering soul.
Costco Freeze-dried Liver. He can drive a stick shift for it.
He'll hold almost anything I ask him to. No forced retrieve. Just part of his DNA and a little training.
 

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Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and have passed the half way mark of this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a straight smooth brown 1960s-70s BBB Own Make 506 Canadian with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. A perfect pipe with a perfect bit. Harry the Hairy's back in the house. Didn't see Tomato the Brave or Abner the Eager. Daisy the Feral Princess is snoozin' on her blanket. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Molly Danger is snoozin' with m'lady.
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Daisy in her natural state of existence.
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Now that is my kind of pipe! I love the Canadian, Lumberman and Liverpool shape pipes. I curious Jim, what it your favorite shape? Do you even have one, because you do have a beautiful collection from what you've posted.
 
We're having a blizzard today, 45mph wind with snow and icy road conditions. Visibility is under 100m on the highway I was meant to drive today. Good day to do what I've been doing all winter already, not much of anything. Having Velvet in the Re-Gent with my morning coffee.
 

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Starting off my smoking day with a 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. Fed all the ferals while m'lady fed our cats. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
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I had not planned on making further pipe purchases, but when this became available at Blue Room Briars, I felt I had to snag it: a 2007 Peterson Sherlock Holmes Original with p-lip stem, along with its original packaging. I'm smoking Wilke Royal Admiral. It's very likely that this will be my last pipe purchase, unless something special falls into my lap at a yard sale or flea market. I have plenty of pipes now. Now I need to buy tobacco in bulk in anticipation of the impending tobacapocalypse.

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Now that is my kind of pipe! I love the Canadian, Lumberman and Liverpool shape pipes. I curious Jim, what it your favorite shape? Do you even have one, because you do have a beautiful collection from what you've posted.
I've asked myself the same question from time to time, and I guess I don't have one favorite pipe shape. I like a lot of shapes for a lot of reasons, often dictated by how I feel at the time I am smoking, and what tobacco I decide to smoke. I've also gone through a number of phases over the years. For quite a while, I was heavily into Danish pipes. For many years, the Hungarian shape was a fav.

As it is currently, the Canadian, Lumberman and Liverpool shapes are among my favs. So are bulldogs, Rhodesians, pots, authors, and the "Bing Crosby" shapes. I have great fondness for the apple shape because I like the look and the way it feels in my hand.
 
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