Hi all,

Haven’t been on for quite a while, but I just missed you guys too much…
… or I just wanted to show off the start of my recently acquired hobby:

My father in law dropped by this weekend and gifted me one of his pipes (he quit pipes quite some time ago, only smokes cigars now) and some left-over Erinmore Flake tobacco as I recently mentioned I would like to try pipes someday. It’s a Peterson 307 system pipe (not the best for beginners apparently, but it will have to do :-)):
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Had my local retailer repolish the pipe and picked up some Mac Baren Original Choice to get me started. The pipe looks brand new now:
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Seeing how I started out when smoking cigars (a lot of hoarding and such), my wife probably likes her father a bit less since last weekend. And I (of course) have a lot of reading, buying and trying to do :-).
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:-)
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Woohoo! Another slippery slope! I just got into pipes a month or so ago. I really like it. That is a beautiful pipe. I would suggest getting a couple of Cob pipes. missouri meerchaum are the best ones. I have three i'm rotating at this point. Time for an upgrade soon.

Congrats on the new pipe and the new hobby!
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Very nice gift Django, and glad to see you found your way back home:-)
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Yes, now that I'm home again I am truly lost :-)
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And I welcome you back also and celebrate your pissing on Hillary Clinton and Mullah Obama by actually burning tobacco and enjoying it and causing smoke to enter the atmosphere where ever in the world you do it!
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Thanks and... AMEN! :-):-)
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:-) :-)
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