Wow! This has been a super long thread for May. I wonder if you could track pipe smoking month by month to see what time of year is the heaviest for piping. My guess would be spring, but I'd go with fall / winter too.
At the moment I'm piping some SOTE in an Ashton Pebble Grain.
Almost done with Best Brown #2 in a 2013 bent MM Missouri Pride Legend. Next will be 2003 Dunbar with added Percy Martin Farms year 1991 perique in a 2002 smooth natural straight silver banded Ardor Venere Extra Fatta A Mano Maigret, signed by Dorelio Rovera. Whew! I could run out of letters just describing the pipe!