Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by donv

Sailor,

I was just reading about the Winter Solstice. Did you put butter on your door posts for Beiwe? Does anybody still do such a thing? I like your method of bringing in Winter, a nice pipe and a beer!! Stay warm and say hi to the dogs for me!!

donv

I guess people of the north still have some traditions for Beiwe. Here 'deep down south' (lol) aren't that many traditions from the times of celebrating Yule, Kekri and St. Knut's Day (predecessors of Xmas).

Probably only 'scandinavian' traditions we have left is to go down to city to listen city mayor declaring 'christmas peace'. It's just a medieval tradition that has been going on in our city for more than a 600 years. Doesn't have any juristic meaning these days, just a tradition of the old laws. Other such laws were 'king's peace', 'courthouse peace' and 'peace for women'. If it gets too cold out there, we might as well watch the whole thing from telly.

Maybe another small tradition that doesn't exist elsewhere is goats made of straw. It has some pagan origins but nowadays it's just kids making them. We have few, somewhere, made by our kids when they were younger.

I guess the whole xmas thing is just taking it easy while ladies (wife, daughter and my mother-in-law) make traditional christmas dinner (ham, various casseroles, smoked salmon, black bread etc). The point is to make the dinner by themselves, not to buy ready products.
Of course i've had a hell of a job with my son to clean the house for xmas. It must be over the top for the ladies
And smoking the salmon is my job also. It's a hell of a cold job at this time a year

And what's better after dinner than sitting down with some good book, pipe & beer.

edit: just found one the goats. Checked my history books also. Nowadays these goats are just charming decorations but in the medieval times 'goat' (pagan character) was a bad one. You better stay indoors when such thing were on the move

I don't know about butter on the post,but I got butter n jam on my blueberry biscuits this morning with morning tea....gonna have a nicepipe afterwards. That smoked salmon is makin me drool Tomi.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

I don't know about butter on the post,but I got butter n jam on my blueberry biscuits this morning with morning tea....gonna have a nicepipe afterwards. That smoked salmon is makin me drool Tomi.

When I read that Beiwe is the sun-goddess of fertility and sanity, I wish I had buttered my posts!! Not so much for the fertility, but I could use help in the sanity dept! Oh, and Phil, I made sure to write posts as opposed to post to sidestep the comments. LOL. BTW, I tried one of the samples you had sent me, after some of my new Earl G. It was Esoterica, and it was great. I'm really starting to weed out the OK's from the "must have on hand's", it falls into the latter.

Happy Apocalypse Day everybodies!!!

This mornings puff was a bowl of Two Bowl Problem in one of my Winslows. Another relaxing morning with a great cup of Coffee and Pipe.

Originally Posted by donv

When I read that Beiwe is the sun-goddess of fertility and sanity, I wish I had buttered my posts!!

Happy Apocalypse Day everybodies!!!

Summer solstice is the time for ancient fertility rites, and other sort of rites when unmarried women are trying to find themselves a fiance. Some of these traditions still exist, guess little milder versions these days.
Those ancient ladies surely knew something about finer things in life.
And now i shut up on this. This is a family site

Happy Apocalypse from here too. 2 hours to go until tomorrow and no end of the world this time. Guess it's already tomorrow in Australia.

Picked up some goodies today. The full English is great

Originally Posted by donv

OK, Smokers of the Pipes!!!

What be your thoughts on Meerschaum pipes? I really like the looks of them, the one about six posts back kinda got me lookin' into them. Anyway, how do they smoke? Any traits to look for, or to avoid? I like that they take on more colour/character as they are used. I read that it's the nicotine that it catches which does that, so using one does it take the vitamin N away from you? JK

Anyway, thanks in advance, donv

I really like my Meer. It does smoke slightly different from briar, not bad, just different. I clean mine after every smoke with a pipe cleaner. I was taught to not build a cake in the Meer like you do with briar. Some people say you can taste a difference. I did notice a SLIGHT mineral taste on the first 2 smokes, but not since. I really like mine. The biggest "be careful" that I have seen is how you handle it. You can't drop it or bang it around. As to the "N" content, I don't smoke anything that hits me hard enough to notice any difference either way.

Originally Posted by Sailor

And smoking the salmon is my job also. It's a hell of a cold job at this time a year [/IMG]

What pipe do you use for that? Or is that more of a "roll your own" type deal?

Five year old Trout Stream in a Longchamp billiard. This also is on my short list of serviceable aromatics. It smells (butterscotch), tastes and smokes great but like most aros falls far short of standard for vitamin N content. Not a go-to blend but It is however top shelf when the sweet tooth hits and bystanders at work offered profuse comments and the young lovely eye candy was all quick with the OOOO's and AAAAH's. A great blend for PR work to be sure.

Originally Posted by milehiscott

What pipe do you use for that? Or is that more of a "roll your own" type deal?

Just a simple smoking box (have no idea what would be the name in English). They make them cheaply at the local prison (whenever there's that kind of professionals doing their time).
My 1st box was from a local fire dept where a dude made them for a bottle of vodka. But at the prison store they are about 10€ or so. Made of stainless steel.