A Reminder Of The Past

[Merton]

My wife gave me a tin of SPC Plum Pudding Reserve for Christmas. I do have a couple of older sealed tins but i have not smoked it in a very long time. I have become mostly a virginia and
Vaper fan. Tonight it is cold and windy with snow squalls and i decided to load up a Dunhill shell 4111 lovat for my nightly walk with my beloved crabby abbey ( she is still hanging in there but has a big vet appt on Friday morning). Anyway, what a comforting and delicious smoke. Sweet, woody and incense filled. A perfect bowl on a cold night. Reminded me of how i came to love pipes and pipe smoking more than 40 years ago. Then it was Balkan Sobranie white and black, dunhill blends, peretti english and oriental blends and a fondly remembered blend called Punchestown (long gone and i wonder if anyone else remembers it). Took me back in time tonight and reminded me how great it is to enjoy the long arc of pipe smoking.

 

[Auxsender]

Really great post. I hope to have a piper’s perspective like this some day.

 

[Sethology12]

Really great post. I hope to have a piper’s perspective like this some day.

By the time I'm old enough to have the perspective the only thing I'll be able to smoke out of a pipe is Weed, Crack, or some guys backyard grown tobacco

 

[mso489]

Safe passage for Crabby Abbey. If she can stay around a while, that's good, and if she can go in peace, so be it. It's a kindness when animals choose their own time without much suffering, but as a vet explained to me one time, that is not common.

 

[kcghost]

Tobacco is greatly enjoyable. but good pet is a gift of God.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

My wife gave me a tin of SPC Plum Pudding Reserve for Christmas. I do have a couple of older sealed tins but i have not smoked it in a very long time. I have become mostly a virginia and
Vaper fan. Tonight it is cold and windy with snow squalls and i decided to load up a Dunhill shell 4111 lovat for my nightly walk with my beloved crabby abbey ( she is still hanging in there but has a big vet appt on Friday morning). Anyway, what a comforting and delicious smoke. Sweet, woody and incense filled. A perfect bowl on a cold night. Reminded me of how i came to love pipes and pipe smoking more than 40 years ago. Then it was Balkan Sobranie white and black, dunhill blends, peretti english and oriental blends and a fondly remembered blend called Punchestown (long gone and i wonder if anyone else remembers it). Took me back in time tonight and reminded me how great it is to enjoy the long arc of pipe smoking.

Hope the appt. went however is best! Our oldest dog is a Golden Retriever and he’ll be 16 on St. Patrick’s Day - way outlived his “expectancy” and every day he’s been with us has been a gift from above.

 

[mso489]

When my wife was recovering from one of a series of surgeries related to a hip replacement getting infected, I'd come home from a day with her at rehab and meals with her or on the fly and light up a pipe. It was a remarkable centering activity. I finally felt like I'd arrived somewhere and could hear my thoughts.

 

[bullet08]

40 something and rainy. Loaded up my Peterson Professor and had Squadron Leader. Lasted about an hour and a half. My toes were little cold, but uneventful smoke. Other then running out of fuel in Zippo from the get go and had to use Bic.

 

[North Pole piper]

Nice post, enjoy it my friends. Soon you will have forgotten all things and soon all things will have forgotten you- Marcus Aurelius.

 

[fMf Piper]

Safe passage for Crabby Abbey. If she can stay around a while, that's good, and if she can go in peace, so be it. It's a kindness when animals choose their own time without much suffering, but as a vet explained to me one time, that is not common.

^^^Yes. Best wishes for you and Abbey, whatever the results of the vet appointment.

 

[dunnyboy]

Sounds like a magical late winter evening. I used to love walking the dog on a cold, dark night in Toronto. Here in NYC we've had no real winter at all this year.

 

[Merton]

Safe passage for Crabby Abbey. If she can stay around a while, that's good, and if she can go in peace, so be it. It's a kindness when animals choose their own time without much suffering, but as a vet explained to me one time, that is not common.

Thank you for the kind words. Today was a day of polar extremes. In the morning her vet told us that surgery could be done and would extend her life by, in all likelihood, 2 years. She the sent us immediately to a highly specialized veterinary hospital for the surgery. By nightfall they told us that she is not a candidate for surgery and so we have brought her home to be loved and spoiled until that moment which i cannot type...

 

[fMf Piper]

Thank you for the kind words. Today was a day of polar extremes. In the morning her vet told us that surgery could be done and would extend her life by, in all likelihood, 2 years. She the sent us immediately to a highly specialized veterinary hospital for the surgery. By nightfall they told us that she is not a candidate for surgery and so we have brought her home to be loved and spoiled until that moment which i cannot type...

I am truly heartbroken for you. Unfortunately, at my age, I have experienced this more times than I care to admit, but I have always found this poem to be comforting...

"It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them. And every new dog who comes into my life, gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough, all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are."