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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
66,014
689,712
Passing the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Fed Sleepy Suzy while m'lady fed Molly Danger. I fed Daisy the Feral Princess and Harry the Hairy. The rainy skies look dark and gloomy so I may not see Tomato the Brave or Abner the Eager if the weather forecast holds true. No walking reps either. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching the Braves-Red Sox Spring training game. Chris Sale is facing his old team. I wonder how he feels about facing the Sox.
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PaulRVA

The Gentleman From Richmond
May 29, 2023
5,577
96,462
“Tobacco Row” Richmond Virginia USA
Passing the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Fed Sleepy Suzy while m'lady fed Molly Danger. I fed Daisy the Feral Princess and Harry the Hairy. The rainy skies look dark and gloomy so I may not see Tomato the Brave or Abner the Eager if the weather forecast holds true. No walking reps either. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching the Braves-Red Sox Spring training game. Chris Sale is facing his old team. I wonder how he feels about facing the Sox.
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With Sale’s contract I’m betting he’s feeling pretty darn good about it 😂😂
 
Dec 3, 2021
5,862
51,982
Pennsylvania & New York
Congratulations!

Thank you!

What a debacle on such a wonderful night. Anyway you guys have so much to look forward to now and I doubt anyone could cast a shadow on the evening.
Jeff I love old stuff like that and to see them working and talk to the restorers was quite a privilege.

It was a surreal turn of events at the end of the night. Susan got curious about was going on and wanted to investigate. I urged her to stay in the back. She said, “No one is gonna hit me,” and walked towards the front. She opened the door and asked the first guy she saw, “What’s going on?” He barked, “Get out of my way!” She looked at him, saw the two bloody fists, said, “Okay,” and quietly slipped back into the back area. She didn’t expect the person she asked to be the maniac in question. Thankfully, nothing happened and she was able to laugh about it.

When the weather is warmer, there’s a diner near our Pennsylvania house that is a gathering spot for vintage car owners. It’s fun to check out the cars that these owners have so lovingly maintained, stored, or modified. They are happy to talk about minutiae, not unlike members here geeking out about nomenclature on pipes. With any group of passionate people, it’s exciting to find other like-minded people who share a similar passion—book collectors can get into issue points of dust jackets and states of first editions—it’s no different than checking Birmingham silver hallmarks or underscored numbers on pieces of wood.

Getting psyched for Moolietown today.


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In New York, and the land of the Sopranos in New Jersey, this turn of phrase would take on a very different meaning.

My first pipe in 64 days. Stokkebye Champagne in a house brand Vesuvio from Sisimbro pipe shop in Naples, Italy. Nice to be back in the fold.

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Welcome back! Happy to see you smoking your pipes again. I think it’s great what you did for your brother. I hope the treatment works out for him.

Quite a pipe!

Visually, it’s a lot of fun. The draw is a little tight, but it has a removable stinger, so that’s not an issue. With the amount of metal in the mosaic, heat transfers much more than an all wood pipe—it gets quite warm—I tend not to build cake in my pipes (other than cobs), but I may have to with this one to create some insulation.
 

das3353

Lifer
Sep 7, 2019
2,365
58,539
Three Sails in an Altinay Poker

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gord

Lifer
May 1, 2024
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10,082
Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
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Take care of yourself, sir.
You can’t help your loved ones if you don’t help yourself first.
Thanks for your kind comment. This is an update and it'll be business as usual forum-wise for me after this weekend.

I've taken care of my physical and mobility problems as best as I can by moving everything onto one floor of my 3 level house. Biggest problems here are my knees (no ligaments and 2 doctors advising me NOT to have replacement surgery because of other contrainments), and my hernia. In spite of what you may have heard about the vaunted Canadian medical system, it is pathetic. I'm not going to have the simple orthoscopic hernia operation for at least 8 months. And this is in a town with a University, a University Hospital, and no doctor shortage except for heart surgeons who have departed. So I step carefully especially in this spring weather with a lot of snow - melt - ice - crust, repeat etc. I have a friend who waited a year for heart surgery, got the flight to Vancouver, and surgery was cancelled while he was down there, and he's back on a waiting list. He'll be flying to Mexico to get the procedure done on his own dime.

Most of my friend/family counsel is taking place in my own area of expertise . . . . most of my friends are students and ex-students, who drop over regularly this time of year for a smoke (yeah, the guys between 20 - 28 "get it") and career advice - 'tis the time for graduation, course selection, career options - stuff right up my alley. Trick is NOT to give advice but to steer them into making the best choices. It happens in waves to me this time of year.

Before I made the big leap into the pro music scene, I had 6 or 7 years in Public Education Administration (one of my Masters Degrees is in Educational Curriculum, not Music) and I'm equiped to deal with career stuff. Not involved in "touchy-feelie" helping out lesser fortunates; the very thought of this stuff makes me want to peuk. I leave that for family stuff, and as every guy in this forum knows, our families are all idiots who make their own eye-rolling problems.

That about catches y'all up and you can piece this, Gord's seasonal malady, together from this scattered and off the cuff post. A few more days of midnight skulking should take me into final university exams and soon the snow will be gone and the mosquitoes will be out. :LOL: :eek:

And I'll put ours against anybodys. The entire Prince George area is reclaimed swamp and some of the Southern states guy's will get that. But at least we don't have snakes, so you win!