Hi! I'm smoker13 from Western Massachusetts which is NOT like Eastern Massachusetts at all, so no "pahking cahs in Hahvahd Squah" in these parts.
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I've been puffing the pipe for 10 years, more or less, maybe a little more because I started in the early part of the 21st century, right around when G L Pease came upon the scene, and smoked for about three years or so, stopped and then picked it up again about, well actually about 16 years ago so my first statement has to be expanded to 20 years! Man, time does weird things the older you get (I'm 67). I started out smoking almost exclusively Viginias or VaPers, then gradually went to English and Balkan blends, now anything goes if it rings my bell. Orientals are a definite plus, although I understand they are almost all extinct except Izmir and a couple more, according to Jeremy Reeves from Cornell& Diehl. He mentioned that the last true blends that included all the Orientals were the McClelland Grand Oriental series, which I fortunately stashed up on each one in the series. The last outstanding smoke I had? I'd have to say the after dinner one night a couple weeks ago. I took from the rack one of my old favorites I hadn't smoked in quite a while; a Lasse Skovgaard blasted Acorn from 2014 filled with hearth & Home's Anniversary Kake from around the same period. Incidentally, that is the only tobacco this pipe has known. It's a habit of mine to dedicate one particular tobacco exclusuvely nto a pipe if they seem to "marry" well. ANd man, For a little over an hour I wondered why I don't smoke this one more often. Of course I knew the answer; because I have so many other pipes and so much other tobacco stored up in the cellar!
Title edited for brevity. Original title above. -jpm
I've been puffing the pipe for 10 years, more or less, maybe a little more because I started in the early part of the 21st century, right around when G L Pease came upon the scene, and smoked for about three years or so, stopped and then picked it up again about, well actually about 16 years ago so my first statement has to be expanded to 20 years! Man, time does weird things the older you get (I'm 67). I started out smoking almost exclusively Viginias or VaPers, then gradually went to English and Balkan blends, now anything goes if it rings my bell. Orientals are a definite plus, although I understand they are almost all extinct except Izmir and a couple more, according to Jeremy Reeves from Cornell& Diehl. He mentioned that the last true blends that included all the Orientals were the McClelland Grand Oriental series, which I fortunately stashed up on each one in the series. The last outstanding smoke I had? I'd have to say the after dinner one night a couple weeks ago. I took from the rack one of my old favorites I hadn't smoked in quite a while; a Lasse Skovgaard blasted Acorn from 2014 filled with hearth & Home's Anniversary Kake from around the same period. Incidentally, that is the only tobacco this pipe has known. It's a habit of mine to dedicate one particular tobacco exclusuvely nto a pipe if they seem to "marry" well. ANd man, For a little over an hour I wondered why I don't smoke this one more often. Of course I knew the answer; because I have so many other pipes and so much other tobacco stored up in the cellar!
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