Also, am I the only man left under 70 who smokes a pipe? Anybody else? And I'm not talking about none of that wacky tabacky!!
My great granddaddy used to smoke a pipe when I was real little, he learned it from his father, who was a commercial whaler... I rember my great grandfather telling me stories of the man, always kept a shaved head with a gold hoop in each ear. He was a big, strong man that was known as a "notorious" peacemaker in that, he was quick to "intervene" lol... in any fight. Wish I could have met that man very much. My great grandfather himself, was a mechanic that built custom engines for bootleggers during prohibition... I remember him giving me chewing tobacco in his shop when I was 4 or 5 lol... (sorry for the novel... you just triggered a very old memory thankfully)
... nothin' like the smell of good pipe tobacco... may have to get me some in the near future
My grandpa did as well, but my fondest memory of the smell of pipe tobacco was as a wee little fella going to the butcher shop where my father worked as a second job. Several old men congregated there and all puffed away on there pipes. The smell of good spicy beef jerky, aging cuts of steak and vanilla pipe smoke still invade my imagination from time to time.
