I received a sizable order today from smokingpipes.com and set about to jarring vast quantities of tobacco. One word of caution: if you employ the short stoveing technique I've espoused here in the forum (heating the jars to around 205'F in the oven before lidding), make sure you don't spill tobacco all over the oven. Make especially sure that the tobacco you spill is not the Summertime 2011 blend you've been whittling your fingernails in anticipation of for months. :crying: Alas, I totally toasted a good bowl's worth, but was able to rescue the bulk of it for normal combustion purposes. First impression: delightful, but not the magic carpet ride that Christmas 2010 was.
I also had an idea for how to employ the beautifully executed tins for these special seasonal blends: time capsules. I'm packing little trinkets and whatsits of my life at this time into them, perhaps some handwritten notes, little things to put time and place together, and think I'll pack them away for a while at the bottom of the cellar. Maybe they'll make a gift, or at least a chuckle of memory, when they're reopened at some later date.
I also had an idea for how to employ the beautifully executed tins for these special seasonal blends: time capsules. I'm packing little trinkets and whatsits of my life at this time into them, perhaps some handwritten notes, little things to put time and place together, and think I'll pack them away for a while at the bottom of the cellar. Maybe they'll make a gift, or at least a chuckle of memory, when they're reopened at some later date.
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