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Mtlpiper

Can't Leave
Nov 30, 2019
349
2,534
Montreal, QC
My living situation at the moment doesn't allow for smoking indoors. So I spend a lot of time out with a pipe in the local park. I'm also back studying, so that takes up most of my time.

Other pastimes would be reading mainly.

I used to do a lot more creative stuff (mainly drawing, painting and sculpture) but haven't the time (and more importantly the space) to properly enjoy it. Very much looking forward to that changing.

I do waste a lot of the idle hours I do have on youtube though or researching my various interests on the web.
 

bullet08

Lifer
Nov 26, 2018
10,340
41,823
RTP, NC. USA
Then there is the famous pair. Like Frank and Sam. Like Lois and Kent.. But even greater than Abbott and Costello. Pipe and Diet Pepsi!!!
 

makhorkasmoker

Part of the Furniture Now
Aug 17, 2021
761
1,986
Central Florida
Usually when I smoke I try not to do anything but smoke. I may look up at the sky and the trees. I try not to think too much. I just want to be there, in the moment.

Sometimes the neighborhood cat will approach, and I will pet him while I'm smoking.

I can't smoke and drive because I use a motorcycle for transportation, but when I'm on a long ride and I need to check the tires, chain, clean the visor, etc, I will sometimes take a few puffs while doing all that.
 

Grangerous

Lifer
Dec 8, 2020
3,516
14,600
East Coast USA
Usually when I smoke I try not to do anything but smoke. I may look up at the sky and the trees. I try not to think too much. I just want to be there, in the moment.

Sometimes the neighborhood cat will approach, and I will pet him while I'm smoking.

I can't smoke and drive because I use a motorcycle for transportation, but when I'm on a long ride and I need to check the tires, chain, clean the visor, etc, I will sometimes take a few puffs while doing all that.
This ☝️ along with the comments from Biz, Bullet08 and MSO.

Unless you count sipping on something or simply enjoying the weather as activities. I don’t want to do anything else.

I’ll go further. I won’t even stand up, let alone walking or cutting grass etc. etc.

I set aside that time to relax and think.
 
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musicman

Lifer
Nov 12, 2019
1,119
6,058
Cincinnati, OH
Pipe smoking and writing: I didn’t fully embrace the hobby until I started writing my dissertation. Having the pipe while writing helped to focus and distill my thoughts, and made the entire process that much less awful.
Pipe smoking and amateur astronomy/stargazing: nothing in my world is more peaceful that being out in the placid desert at night with my telescope and a pipe. The quiet and stillness only occasionally interrupted by the yips of a nearby pack of coyotes. A wonderful place to smoke a pipe.
Pipe smoking and hiking/backpacking: I’m not one to lunt during the actual act of hiking. I hike fast enough to get a work out and find that working out while smoking simultaneously isn’t my jam. However, at the break point of the hike, or especially in camp either before or after dinner, there are very few places I enjoy a pipe more than in the wilderness. Combing the two definitely enhances my enjoyment of each.
 

Ajsnow93

Might Stick Around
Mar 16, 2021
60
133
31
Larisa, Thessaly, Greece
Well, I'm self-conscious about someone knowing that I smoke (don't know why, maybe I'm a shy person), so that makes me enjoy smoking either inside or while sitting on the balcony. To be honest I just blackout... I scroll on my mobile, or I'm watching TV. It really makes me appreciate the thing I'm doing at the moment even more. And it 100% relaxes me so much.
 
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Mtlpiper

Can't Leave
Nov 30, 2019
349
2,534
Montreal, QC
I think I got completely the wrong end of the stick in my previous post... must have switched off half the brain for a moment.

Things I do whilst smoking a pipe?

These days mostly walking (or should say lunting really eh?) But chiefly reading, writing, and often during a good drink and conversation or enjoying radio and music. I've been revisiting old Radio 4 stuff and classic comedies (The goon show etc.)

I haven't done it for a while, but sitting back and listening to classical, opera or jazz goes down very nicely with a pipe.
 
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cragdhack

Might Stick Around
Aug 31, 2021
75
231
29
Romania
Right now, audiobooks. Am still new, so I am still exceedingly attentive to the smoking (and definite bouts of relighting), but nothing's more fun than listening to Rob Inglis tell how Tom Bombadil saves the hobbits from Old Man Willow.