My Shire Pipe

 

Yesterday, as I was smoking my Shire pipe, my pipe stem developed a crack the length of the backside of the entire stem.  My wife said that I needed to just throw it away as more glue would just make it uglier and not worthy of displaying.  She suggested I might want to replace it with a nicer pipe.  

I thought about writing about other things this morning, but decided that writing about Churchwarden pipes would be more interesting, at least for me.  The above pipe is from Peterson and has the Dublin shaped bowl.  Peterson pipes are relatively less expensive, but twice as much as my Shire pipe; and really, they hold up well over time.  But the above pipe is in the shape of my Shire pipe with a more exaggerated bend in the stem.  

Yes, there is so much I could write about today, but I have never had to throw away a pipe before.   It was a collector's pipe, but as my wife said yesterday, what is the sense of owning a pipe I can no longer smoke?  And in a way she's right.  And secondly, it was already pretty ugly as a display pipe and I kept it in its box.  It wasn't very expensive, but was the only Cherry wood pipe I owned.  But when she bought that pipe it came with a really nice Rosewood pipe stand that I use for my Sainelli Churchwarden pipe.  

This is all about pipes today, although there is so much going on in the world I could write about today.  There is something every single day.  Yesterday, the Stella awards came out and we discussed the various cases at dinner last evening.  They are awards named for the lady who sued McDonald's for selling coffee that was too hot.  We talked about each case.  But this morning, I would rather write about a pipe I threw away and a replacement for it.  Any other day I can say something about anything else.  Something is always on my mind.  As I said in yesterday's post, not after five in the evening.

Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave