Change of Scenery

I’ve had folks write and ask what do I look at standing at that big pine tree. I’m looking at the tidal millpond off the York River which obviously is fed by the Atlantic Ocean. Being a mere 15’ above sea level may be a problem during storms having that millpond there has made all the difference in the world.
So now that I’ve given you a change of scenery I’ll change to a non bamboo shank pipe, in this case it’s a vintage Missouri Meerschaum Corn Dawg ( sorry the silly person that lives inside my brain just loves making me type it that way!)
These are no longer available and haven’t been for years. This old timer is of a time when the plastic used for the stem was a very hard plastic that would last forever, this one has a diamond shape to match the transition from the corn cob diamond shank.
The previous owner obviously must have love smoking it but sure didn’t take care of it like it was loved. When I got it the interior of the bowl had been scraped with a knife taking no care as to removing just the cake portions of it have been dug into the back of the kernel area and the top of the bowl is kind of sad not being uniform.
I can salvage a good portion of the bowls interior by taking my time smoking it, if I feel it beginning to get warmer in one area then the rest of the bowl, I tamp it tightly and allow it to extinguish.
I could just use pipe mud to repair it but I think a traditional cake breathes naturally than the mud I purchase to make minor spot repairs on the inside of a bowl or bottom if the draft hole is slightly above the bottom which can make it gurgle. Anyhow I though you might like looking at what I look at and seeing this old war horse I’m trying to save.
Oh yeah, 23 y/o McClelland Grey Havens keeping it smokey.

banjo

Mothernature the last 10 plus years of my job I worked for the US Navy Bureau of Medicine and had 4 clinics in the northeast all of which were in Maine, Portsmouth (it’s really on an island in Kittery), Brunswick, Winter Harbor and Cutler. Only Portsmouth remains the others have been closed through a series of BRAC’s.
My previous 20 plus years were at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where I worked in several capacities over those years from Electronics Industrial Controls Mechanic where we repaired NC and CNC machines down to the component level on their mother boards, tempo positions as planner and supervisor, then a long stint as an Electrical Engineering position in Production Engineering working on Nuclear and Radiological systems until we got swallowed by the Nuclear Engineering Dept.
Made it through 3 reduction in forces head hunting until they decided to totally eliminate technicians and save the Engineers so I did a 1 year stint back at the shop doing what I had done previously plus Computer repairs and LAN troubleshooting until offered the position at Bureau of Medicine. Retired in 2005 and didn’t look back. Be prepared to find a very poor economy in Cutler, make no mistake it’s Gods Country but jobs are scarce and many there commute as far as Ellsworth for part time jobs, either way best of luck.

banjo

I did over 30 years of service with the Navy, 4 years active duty which included a tour in Vietnam 69/70 and close to,27 years as a Government Employee working with the .Dept. of the Navy and later BuMed. While Pease was a viable Airbase I never had any reason to go there except when our bowling league had their annual get together at one of the clubs at Pease.

banjo