Has it really been almost three months since I've posted? Well, yes it has. I have been busy with work and lots of other things including caring for my wife who had both her knees replaced not long after my last post. Must say that I nice relaxing pipe at the end of the day after she was down for the night was a great help in getting through. She is still recovering but becoming more and more independently mobile by the day.
I have not been in the market for new pipes, but I continue to develop my previously under-developed appreciation for different tobaccos. After years of being a one tobacco man, typically changing blends slowly after a few years and then staying with one for a long time, I've become much more adventurous. true, I mostly stay with Virginia-Perique blends, but there are almost a lifetime's worth of those to try and more appearing each week.
I've just ordered two new blends. One is a VaPer the other is not. They are both from Daughters & Ryan Tobacco. The VaPer is called Rimboche A.P. and the other, a pure Turkish tobacco, is called Ramback. Both were well reviewed in the most recent issue of Pipes and Tobaccos magazine. I will report on them as soon as they arrive and have been sampled.
