Well done! As an occasional cigar smoker as well, it never ceases to amaze me how many pipe guys don't know about and/or just won’t use boveda for some reason. Dry as toast tobacco can be made cellared and tasty in 2 weeks to a month, depending on dryness and container size. No need to throw out (or complain about smoking) old, dry tobacco.
2013 Mac Baren Old Dark Fired in an Aonian Calabash.
View attachment 392935Craig, I always love your smokey pics! I often wonder if you use a drop or two of liquid smoke.
Enjoy your special day and special smoke, and thanks for your dad’s service.
Thanks. I actually got back into smoking with cigars at 30. Was cigarettes from 14-19 and a cousin in FL got me back with an 8-5-8 on vacation. Wife said she liked the smell in my beard later that evening and that was my golden ticket. 35 now and started with pipes a little over a year back when a long-time pastor friend suggested the cost savings in pipe tobacco. I've always been a waste not, want not kind of guy, so much so that I'll now finish an excellent cigar down to almost nothing in a cob
Love that pipe shape in that finish! Wish that Sav made more of them!
Envy your round of shooting clays. It's a great shooting game, I think the most fun of the clay sports. But . . . just not a moving target guy, lol. Have a venerable old Ithaca 12, which ejects from the bottom. Good gun, and yeah, I've hit a reasonable few ducks or clays, but birds of any kind, feathered or clay, stand a very significant chance of getting through unruffled with me pulling the trigger on a scattergun. But woe betide them if they're sitting still in a puddle, a gravel roadside, or on a branch and I have my .22 CZ Scout handy
My sincere thanks to so many of you who made such kind comments to my post on my dad's Medico pipe and his birthday. It really made it special for me.
