Hello all! I'm thinking that like with tobacco, frequenting only one pipe smoking forum just isn't enough. I'm a regular over on The Briar Patch but need another place to hang out from time to time. I notice some of you feel the same way.
By way of introduction: I'm a returning pipe smoker since July. I smoked pipes (as in 4 pipes) while working shift work some 40+ years ago, stopping around 30 years ago. I took up cigars in the intervening years and classed myself an "occasional" cigar smoker. In July, after being enticed by reading in the Brown Leaf sub-forum at Badger & Blade, I dragged my pipes out of exile in a garage cabinet and cleaned them up. Being a former straight Latakia smoker, I grabbed a tin of SPC Potlatch on sale at P&C. The rest of the story is all too familiar I'm sure.
Personally, I'm a one wife, two kids, three grandkids, and two dogs sort of guy. I worked 31 years in the natural gas and oil production business and then "retired" for 3 months. I've worked the last 12 1/2 years in the vocation of ministry as a small church pastor. I find there are a surprising number of similarities in those two vocations.
I'm Medicare eligible, if that gives you a clue as to my age; most days I feel younger than I am; other days, not so much.
Since taking back up the pipe, my pipe accumulation has grown; by how much depends on who you ask. I would say very moderately. I think I'm somewhere around 21 pipes more to less, but who's counting? What I'm most amazed by are the choices of tobacco blends available compared to 40 years ago. The internet has changed things considerably.
I'm currently smoking my way to finding the blends I enjoy most and that is an adventure for sure. I'm also stashing away as much tobacco as I reasonably can (reasonableness is a decision of my financial, social, and menu adviser). Ideally, I will have enough tobacco to sustain myself in the pastime for my remaining years by the time I decide to retire again. Somehow I can't see my above mentioned adviser viewing kindly my inveterate tobacco spending on a retiree's income. We will see.
That's about it. I'm looking forward to our conversations.
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Welcome, sir! It's a pretty good bunch around here.
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There is/was a tobacco blend Renaissance that peaked about a year ago. It still is a beautiful thing. Lot of pipe opportunities as well.
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Thanks for the welcomes! I arrive with the assumption that all of you are the sort of pipe smokers I'm used to; willing to discuss matters in a civil fashion, find room for agreement, disagree agreeably when we must, and most of all, keep our common love of the pipe & tobacco always at the forefront.