Ish wrote:June 29.
Hey, we're making a major effort to be there, I haven't been out of Canada since
I can't remember. It's been a long time.
I'm bringing bacon. Bob, what's that pipe tobacco you can't get in the Fatherland?
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Re: Dale the Hole has dug his last one
by bob perry » Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:04 am
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I was a Amphora (brown) smoker from my collge days ( 44 cents a pouch back then). I like the Engish style blends but many of them are gone now or farmed out to be made by other companies. I liked Escudo and I can still get that, but Three Nuns and St. Brunos have dissapeared. Certain tobaccos remind me of events and times in my life so once and a while I like to go back and have a little pipe memory adventure.
For the last 20 years I have been getting all my tobacco from The Old Virginia Tobacco Company. When Amphora stopped being imported I went off looking for a replacement. OVTC has a cavendish style tobacco they call Old Virgina Flake. It's far better than Amphora an I have bee smoking it almost exclusively for many years. It costs about $32 per pound, around that. It's an unflavored straight tobacco but I get a lot of compliments on the smell. When I order more I also have them throw in some smal cans of McLellands blends. They are all very good but my favorite is Black Woods Flake. It's not cheap so I usually add it to my OVFlake to give it a bit more body. If you want contact info for OVTC send me a pm. I have smoked Borkum Riff but it's ground up way too fine for me and burns a bit hot for my taste. I only smoke outdoors now so I need a tobacco that is pretty roughly rubber out so that it burns slowly in the wind.
I had the guys from the band I was playing in at the time up to the shack. These guys are young guys with young families. Kevin's son is Leo and at that time Leo was about 5 years old. I was sitting in the yard smoking my pipe and Leo was watching me. He slowly walked over to me and in a very serious 5 year old voice asked, "Are you a dragon?"