During our Saturday afternoon ZOOM, I smoked the first bowl in a new pipe, that I purchased this morning from Arlington Pipe and Cigar Lounge. I had their pipe and tobacco manager, Amu Torres (who is also the CPCC Secretary), order me a Peterson Arklow 80s. I came straight home, wiped a bit of the bowl coating with a small piece of white Scotch Brite, filled it with McClellan Samovar, and had a wonderful first smoke. The pipe was fantastic, as if I'd been smoking it for months.
I paired it with a mug of Upton Tea's Baker Street Afternoon Blend (Lapsang, Keemun and Darjeeling).
Great ZOOM meeting, great smoke!