Christmas Pipes

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 Both Savinelli and Peterson come out with Christmas pipes every year.  I have one and it’s a Savinelli I smoke year round.  It is now part of my rotation.  It has a green stem with a white and gold band.  It is one of my favorite smoking pipes.  The style is called Oom Paul named for the designer of this particular pipe.  

What is special about an Ion Paul pipe is that the smoke from the bowl wafts upward toward the nose of the pipe smoker.  This is the only Oom Paul style of pipe I have.  It might be a little early to write about Christmas pipes, but they are special pipes and once they are gone one has to wait for the next season to buy one.  

These pipes are not sold year round but come out about mid October and once they are gone that is it for the season.  Obviously they celebrate Santa’s pipe he smokes as he does his rounds Christmas Eve.  Santa has smoked a pipe since Clement Moore wrote The Night Before Christmas.  

Some have tried to remove the pipe from Santa but his pipe is a part of his lore.  The pipe is as much a part of Santa as his reindeer.  But more modern versions of Santa have removed his pipe.  But both Savinelli and Peterson have strived to keep the pipe a part of Christmas.  Some still remember the smell of a relative’s house at Christmas because a favorite uncle or grandfather always smoked a pipe and the memories are of visiting and smelling their pipe.  

I keep the Spirit year round by smoking my St. Nicholas pipe.  I work hard at keeping the Christmas Spirit year round.  My Angels are my reminders.  I have other reminders as well.  So, I’m smoking my St. Nicholas pipe this morning with some Cornell and Diehl Cordial pipe tobacco.  My coffee is Mayorga.  Thank you for your time and Peace and Love to each one of you.

Papa Chasteen

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