A Shiny New Pipe

Although I have several pipes, I generally have five that I smoke with regularity. The other pipes that I have are either:

a) heirloom pipes... that I inherited from my father, grandfathers, or uncles and keep polished and nice looking and smoke perhaps two to three times a year to aid in recalling those loved ones.

b) beautiful (and sometimes expensive) pipes that I have received as gifts from family that are too pricey to use daily. I smoke these pipes perhaps two or three times a year as well, and usually at special occasions where I am dressed more formally.

My five pipes that are my "daily drivers" so-to-speak, are simple beasts, and most all of them have a smooth, large-sized bowl and a simple black stem. They are all invariably walnut colored and two of them are full-bent billiard style, two are quarter bent Dublin style (much like the image on my blog, and one is a stub-nosed work horse, straight style pipe.

One of my long term habits has been to leave a pipe in the vehicles I drive so that I may indulge there even if I had forgotten one of my "home" pipes. Well, with the snow yesterday, I needed to move my vehicle (as well as my wife's) so that I could shovel the drive-way. When I did so, I accidently knocked out my full-bent, billiard bowled briar without noticing and ran over it with the vehicle's tire.

It was indeed sad to see this beautiful friend of mine destroyed and laying in the snowy roadway. I quietly picked up the pieces and wrapped them in newspaper and left them on the workbench in the garage. As in other situations where this has happened , I will often work to glue the pipe back together, not to smoke, but to hang on a plaque on a wall in my home office. If this pipe will fit together well and look nice, I may do that with this poor pipe.

However, in a nutshell, I need a new full-bent briar for one of my vehicles. I am going to leave campus a bit early and search for a low-priced, simple replacement.

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