Finally Attended A Club Meeting

I finally had a Wednesday night free and was able to attend the monthly meeting of The Christopher Morley Pipe Club at the newly renovated Pen and Pencil Club. Terrance took some photos which you can check out on our Facebook page. Here's one of Abbey, one of our two women pipe smoker members and me. I'm smoking the nose warmer cob stuffed with Burley Flake #1. Always a pleasure to see all the folks.

Mini-Stems

Time flies! After writing so often this summer, I have really fallen of the wagon for awhile. So it goes in the blogosphere! I have been awaiting the arrival of a pocketful of mini-stems that I ordered custom made from Dave at Walker Briar for a number of my corn cob pipes that do not take the standard replacement stems that Dave makes for run of the mill cobs. In particular the three Morgans that I was able to get from Missouri Meerschaum, as well as two or three other pipes that they outfit with the smaller stems. They arrived today and I am thrilled with them.

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Meanwhile, as the busy time of the year begins for me, my time for leisurely pipefuls has dwindled. So I am carefully avoiding opening up too many tins of tobacco. I am presently working through my present and all time favorite C&D Burley Flake #1. I think I'll open up something new and interesting for a change when I finish this tin. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile some food for thought compliments of Briar Files
Among the sages who Emerson sought out on his visit to Europe was the notoriously reticent and difficult Thomas Carlyle. He called on Carlyle one evening and was given a pipe, while the host took one himself. They sat together smoking in perfect silence until bedtime, and on parting shook hands most cordially, congratulating each other on the fruitful time they had enjoyed together.