Western Massachusetts Newby

[jpmcwjr]

At less than one post per four years, you'd better slow down!
I jest, and a warm welcome! Glad you are posting.

Please put your location in your Profile, as people are forgetful.
Why:
That will save questions in the future as to where you live when you later mention local stores, weather, tobacco prices, availability, regulations, location of photos, wildfires, air quality, etc. In many instances that saves time for those who read your posts. It cuts down on posts or PMs asking where you are.
How:
Under your avatar, (top right, left most of three symbols) you choose "Account Details", which brings up "My Account". "My Location" is halfway down. Whatever you're comfortable with- town, city, county, state. province, etc.

 

[Ag®o]

Hello and Welcome from Italy

 

[mso489]

Welcome from N.C. My dad's mom grew up in Holyoke, Scotch Irish; her dad was a pharmacist. She moved to the wilds of Illinois to marry my grandfather, and seldom traveled back. We were close. I'd spend a week or two visiting her during my grammar school year summers. We'd watch Jack Parr and Groucho Marx on b&w TV together, and she'd take me on day trips to interesting places. I remember her 1938 Plymouth with the fold-up hood panels and the windshield fan with leather blades, three on the floor, she had named Hercules. When my late wife and I made a literary pilgrimage to New England, we stopped at a Massachusetts restaurant in an old frame house for lunch. My Lord, it was Grandma's cooking!

 

[leonardbill1]

Welcome from Denver!

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

So your car doesn't park itself?

I buy a fair amount of tobacco from Wilke in MA, so all parts of the state good for me!

Crap, I forgot to say, "Welcome" - Welcome!

 

[AlanH]

Welcome from Alabama and God bless

 

[kcghost]

Welcome from KC!! A Lasse Skovgard acorn is really a supreme smoke.

 

[Beers 'N Briars]

Greetings and salutations from WA!

 

[Fralphog]

Howdy from Idaho. Welcome to the forum!

 

[WVOldFart]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia.

 

[dunnyboy]

Welcome from NYC.

 

[STP]

Welcome

 

[Charrington]

Welcome from Flagler County Florida

 

[DanWil84]

 

[Irish Piper]

Welcome from Bavaria!

 

[Dudditz]

Welcome aboard from New Jersey!

 

[Ksigel]

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.

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!

Welcome How far West in Ma? Living in Eastern Ct I have similar issue distancing myself from NYC suburbs. Welcome. Favorite pipes?

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Welcome from Pennsylvania and New York!

 

[GawithPiper]

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.

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!

Welcome!