This Is the Life!

So cold up here in Minnesota right now, but not me, sitting next to this bonfire. Either I or the pipe of Orlik Golden Sliced will burn up soon. And it's all good. Old Juniper on in the pit. Might be a mistake: have to keep brushing glowing embers off my laptop.
Two big steaks on the grill... I got for $1.49/lb because the were old and browning in the meat case. LOL
Ahhhh.... Best Monday ever.

"Down" near Pipestone? -- Sure must get cold wherever *you're* from, Northerner! (That's NOT an accent you have: it's your teeth chattering while you try to talk).

Wait a minute... why haven't I made *that* connection before. I live about 40 minutes from Pipestone. So.. why don't I have a pipestone pipe? ... I better get me a pipestone pipe, I think.
Those who are unfamiliar... Pipestone National Monument is located on a pipestone quarry that is sacred to, and has been used by, about six different tribes of Native Americans. They excavated the layers of ... I think it's a mudstone, like clay, carveable ... from the banded layers naturally occurring between quartzite layers there for their ceremonial pipes. (All from memory, so I may be a little off in details).
One detail, though, is that these tribes, even in times of war, maintained a truce at this site, it was so sacred.
I better scrounge around and see if a white guy can get some of that. Never looked into that before.
Going off to do a little reading. Supposed to be logged into the clock here soon so I have to be careful. Pipestone National Monument