I have posted here recently on how my brother, eighteen years my senior is my pipe smoking mentor.
When he found out that I took up the briar he reached out to me to encourge me. We had some great conversations about the love of smoking and I learned so much.
We have been getting together more and more. We realize that aside from pipes we are really cut from the same cloth. We share an interest movies,politics, literature and temperament.
I know that his influence has guided my path in life.
He is retired from the same railroad that I am currently working. I made my way onto the job years after he had left and though the landscape is vastly different from when he left. We share stories and laugh endlessly at the characters that keep the trains running. I have to say that his stories always seem crazier and always funnier.
He mentioned that a local B&M had a crazy sale on HH Dark Fired near our father's house. I had to go to Dad's to help him around the house and my brother said he would show up to help me out. I stopped by the B&M and as he said they had tins of MacBarens at a great price. I bought out their supply of DF and a tin of Plum Cake for myself and a tin of Virginia no.1 for my brother as I told him it was one of my favorites. I also brought a tin of Capstan Blue. I thought that a few tins would offset all of the pipes and tobaccos he had given me.
When I got to dad's he was there with a bag of tins for me. So much for paying back. He had a tin of McClellend's Dark Star with about 10 years of age, a tin of Peterson Irish Whiskey that was about 13 years old and a tin of Frog Morton Over The Pond that he had opened but only smoke a bowl.
What a fun day! He had me laughing so hard I almost fell off of a ladder. happy times.
When he found out that I took up the briar he reached out to me to encourge me. We had some great conversations about the love of smoking and I learned so much.
We have been getting together more and more. We realize that aside from pipes we are really cut from the same cloth. We share an interest movies,politics, literature and temperament.
I know that his influence has guided my path in life.
He is retired from the same railroad that I am currently working. I made my way onto the job years after he had left and though the landscape is vastly different from when he left. We share stories and laugh endlessly at the characters that keep the trains running. I have to say that his stories always seem crazier and always funnier.
He mentioned that a local B&M had a crazy sale on HH Dark Fired near our father's house. I had to go to Dad's to help him around the house and my brother said he would show up to help me out. I stopped by the B&M and as he said they had tins of MacBarens at a great price. I bought out their supply of DF and a tin of Plum Cake for myself and a tin of Virginia no.1 for my brother as I told him it was one of my favorites. I also brought a tin of Capstan Blue. I thought that a few tins would offset all of the pipes and tobaccos he had given me.
When I got to dad's he was there with a bag of tins for me. So much for paying back. He had a tin of McClellend's Dark Star with about 10 years of age, a tin of Peterson Irish Whiskey that was about 13 years old and a tin of Frog Morton Over The Pond that he had opened but only smoke a bowl.
What a fun day! He had me laughing so hard I almost fell off of a ladder. happy times.
