Post by pipebaum81 on Mar 13, 2016 23:28:40 GMT -5
To familiar faces and names as well as other folk I may not have had the chance to interact with, my name is Jeremy and I sign just about everything I post with "j/B". The "Baum" in my user name is a last name only two full generations old as it was adopted by my grandfather (lord rest him) and his brother sometime in their earlier years. I am living in Panama City, FL and there are few people more excited than I to see the weather warm. The Gulf is a'callin and I have my beach chair on the ready. Two folks who's enthusiasm might out weight my own are my two amazing children 13 and 10 who call me Dad and call their mother over a phone and 1400 miles.
I started smoking in the summer of '14. Pipes that are personal highlights in my modest collection are the first I ever got, a Peterson XL02, a Ferndown 2* Bent Bulldog, a Castello Lovat GG, and a commissioned piece from Moretti that is best described as a Volcano hybrid. If stuck on a deserted island and had to choose something to smoke they would be my dailys, SPC anything, and Scotty's Butternut Burley.
I am quite terrible at keeping up to date on forums. Perhaps this will be the time that I get back into healthy reading and replying. It doesn't really matter, I enjoy knowing that people that I have connected with positively are here still enjoying camaraderie and a good smoke. I still serve this Union and have been doing so with the United States Air Force for the past 14.5 years. I have been to boot camp and technical training, raised flags and lowered coffins, deployed and made the newspaper upon return, survived dust storms as well as sequestration, and now divorced. You could say I have had the military experience.
Passions have come on gone over the years but passion itself is important to me. I can't but help feel and live intensely. I sometimes wish it were different. To live at ease would be truly something. Perhaps when I catch up to the median age of the pipe smoking community at large (
) I will figure out the truer meaning of life and find quite. For the time being however I will remain 34 and I'll fight the good fight. And smoke of course. Good to know you all.
j/B
I started smoking in the summer of '14. Pipes that are personal highlights in my modest collection are the first I ever got, a Peterson XL02, a Ferndown 2* Bent Bulldog, a Castello Lovat GG, and a commissioned piece from Moretti that is best described as a Volcano hybrid. If stuck on a deserted island and had to choose something to smoke they would be my dailys, SPC anything, and Scotty's Butternut Burley.
I am quite terrible at keeping up to date on forums. Perhaps this will be the time that I get back into healthy reading and replying. It doesn't really matter, I enjoy knowing that people that I have connected with positively are here still enjoying camaraderie and a good smoke. I still serve this Union and have been doing so with the United States Air Force for the past 14.5 years. I have been to boot camp and technical training, raised flags and lowered coffins, deployed and made the newspaper upon return, survived dust storms as well as sequestration, and now divorced. You could say I have had the military experience.
Passions have come on gone over the years but passion itself is important to me. I can't but help feel and live intensely. I sometimes wish it were different. To live at ease would be truly something. Perhaps when I catch up to the median age of the pipe smoking community at large (
) I will figure out the truer meaning of life and find quite. For the time being however I will remain 34 and I'll fight the good fight. And smoke of course. Good to know you all.j/B
