What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Haebar]

We had the Knoxville Pipe Club meeting last night. I had a bowl of Kendal Kentucky in a Sunrise Dublin and a bowl of 12 year-old Pembroke in a Hendon billiard.

[Pipe Smoker]

Congrats on great-grandfatherhood Pugsley! Hope you score some Three Nuns!

[Pugsley]

Congrats on great-grandfatherhood Pugsley! Hope you score some Three Nuns!

Thanks. I have the Three Nuns, just trying not to open any more tins until I finish off a few that are already open. But after overdosing on Carter Hall yesterday, my resolve is weakening.

[Cool Breeze]

Lunch break smoke.

Match Revelation in a cob.
We'll see if ol Einstein had good taste in pipe baccy.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing mundane, but delicious, Dunhill Flake. And listening to the Blue Angels. I don't have to strain my ears. My home is five miles west of Miramar Marine Air Station, and the Angels are practicing for their air show this weekend. They're often right over my home as they turn for a pass over the base – and put the throttle to the metal. It's LOUD – and I love it! I can step out my door and watch.

The Angels are awesome. As they bank, in tight formation, the sun glints off all of their wings at the same instant.

Amazingly, these guys don't wear g-suits. Reason being that the automatic inflation control could disrupt their position in their very tight formation. Instead, the pilots have developed the ability to tense their leg and abdominal muscles to prevent blackout resulting from blood drainage.

Wonderful to see – and hear. Of course, some protest the noise – even though the base, and the annual airshow, was here long before they were.

[Cool Breeze]

I'm really enjoying this first ever bowl of Solani Aged Burley Flake.
Very nice.

[Lostmason]

Congrats !!Warren @Pugsley . If it helps I'm smoking a bowl of 3 nuns now just for you.Course,it's your fault if I get hooked on it,
Lol,Pretty good stuff right there ! I've been thinking on my Grandfather on my mom's side.We got into a closet that has been
closed off for over ten-fifteen years,and I came across a grey Fedora.Now I have a drak grey Fedora and a brown Royal
Stetson Fedora that I wear in cooler temperatures.So I was kidding with my BIL about stealing the one we found in that
closet.Turns out that hat was my Grandfathers,and my Sister gave it to me.So,after work I promptly doffed "my" hat went to
get gas in the car and then Lowes,everybody kept smiling and nodding to me.And not in a sarcastic "your retarded" way.
It was like everyone shared that thought of days gone by.It was kind of nice.I can't say Grampa ever smoked anything,
cept my hide the day I was late getting back and we missed church,yeah,I had that one coming.But having his hat is almost
stepping back in time.So in Honor of you and all the rest of us Gramps,I am going to light up another bowl of Three Nun.
Thanks Warren !!!

[Bruck]

It's been a peculiar day. Now, I'm not a young man. Hell, who am I kidding, I'm older than dirt. But there are things that will make you really feel the weight of those years on your back, and today I received one of them. This morning the phone rang just as I had finished pouring milk on my corn flakes, it was my daughter. The conversation started off with the usual "How are you doing? How are you feeling? How are you getting around?" Then a pause and a sigh, then "By the way, you're going to be a great-grandfather". My oldest granddaughter, who is 25, is with child. I don't recall any of the conversation that followed but I began to think of my own great-grandfather, who I never met, who sported a pipe in every family photo I've seen. I wondered what he smoked in that pipe and decided it was likely a burley, perhaps even Carter Hall. So, trying to get in touch with my own inner great grandpa, I've spent the day smoking bowl after bowl of Carter Hall. In the end I can't say that I've gained any significant insight into what it was like to be a great grandfather or a pipe smoker at the beginning of the 20th century, but I can tell you that I'd kill for a bowl of Three nuns right now.

Congratulations!

[Bruck]

Having some homemade flake in a no-name briar. This batch is a "navy" blend that I pressed about a year and a half ago.

[Pugsley]

Second mug of coffee and first pipe of the day, Elizabethan Mixture in a MM Diplomat. Need to check my inventory to make sure I have back up tins of this, definitely one I don't want to run out of. If you enjoy Va/Pers and haven't tried this yet, you owe it to yourself to pick up a tin. Dunhill hits it out of the park with this blend.