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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Jul 21, 2018 8:38:57 GMT -5
Truthfully mine is very simple. Pretty much anywhere I can be with Theo  I think if it were in Key West that Would top the Theo list |
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Post by McWiggins on Jul 21, 2018 9:43:10 GMT -5
My answer is nothing fantastic but simply on my own property but indoors. My wife does not want it in the house at all and I'm OK with that. On really hot and humid days its just not enjoyable to me and come winter, I can see really cold days being off-putting. Today it's raining.  My hope is one day to have the money to put up a small shed or a pole building as a garage with room to section off a piece of it to setup a throw rug with two or three arm chairs. Easily cooled with a basic window air unit and heated with maybe a fake fireplace that is also a space heater. Just a small space I can smoke in bad weather with a book or with a friend or two. |
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Post by Cramptholomew on Jul 21, 2018 9:59:19 GMT -5
My answer is nothing fantastic but simply on my own property but indoors. My wife does not want it in the house at all and I'm OK with that. On really hot and humid days its just not enjoyable to me and come winter, I can see really cold days being off-putting. Today it's raining. My hope is one day to have the money to put up a small shed or a pole building as a garage with room to section off a piece of it to setup a throw rug with two or three arm chairs. Easily cooled with a basic window air unit and heated with maybe a fake fireplace that is also a space heater. Just a small space I can smoke in bad weather with a book or with a friend or two. I'm working on the wife for a shed just like that! It'll happen sooner or later. Then we can get some easy chairs, light up, and discuss the painting of "The Old Man of the Sea" that my grandmother made, which will be hanging in the most prominent place. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 10:17:12 GMT -5
Anywhere I damn well please!
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Post by McWiggins on Jul 21, 2018 10:24:33 GMT -5
I'm working on the wife for a shed just like that! It'll happen sooner or later. Then we can get some easy chairs, light up, and discuss the painting of "The Old Man of the Sea" that my grandmother made, which will be hanging in the most prominent place. And have your uncle tell us tales the way an older generation can in hopes that we too can grow to do the same. |
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Post by AJ on Jul 21, 2018 17:41:35 GMT -5
Anywhere that has a great view of the Rockies, Alps, or the Andes.
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Post by 5star on Jul 22, 2018 4:52:37 GMT -5
In Alaska, with a view of Denali
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Post by mel64us on Nov 12, 2018 15:08:46 GMT -5
Western Ireland, outside a pub in County Mayo or County Sligo, where my ancestors are from.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 15:13:43 GMT -5
Back walking the streets of Stockholm on a Summer evening. Extremely relaxing and enjoyable 👍👍👍
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Post by Legend Lover on Nov 12, 2018 15:37:35 GMT -5
Western Ireland, outside a pub in County Mayo or County Sligo, where my ancestors are from. I'll drive down and meet you. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Nov 12, 2018 21:11:05 GMT -5
In the various forests and national parks right outside Seattle with my wife and puppy.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 12, 2018 21:17:25 GMT -5
Today I'm feeling Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 12, 2018 21:20:42 GMT -5
Back walking the streets of Stockholm on a Summer evening. Extremely relaxing and enjoyable 👍👍👍 I heard a couple of people say that you were a Stockholm streetwalker, but I thought it was just a figure of speech. 😨😨👌🍒🍒 |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 21:30:35 GMT -5
Back walking the streets of Stockholm on a Summer evening. Extremely relaxing and enjoyable 👍👍👍 I heard a couple of people say that you were a Stockholm streetwalker, but I thought it was just a figure of speech. 😨😨👌🍒🍒 Hey, I made good money....don’t knock it.....lol Seriously, I’ve been there a few times on business. Enjoyed the people and the foods👌👍👍 Always Peace and Quiet throughput the Netherlands 🇳🇱. Made the type of work I retired from a pleasure, I miss traveling and my job. |
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Post by LSUTigersFan on Nov 12, 2018 21:31:40 GMT -5
Right now, I'd like to be in a log cabin in the woods with winter raging outside. I would want to be lounging in nice comfortable chair in front of a raging fire with a nice brandy and my new collection of M. R. James old English ghost stories. Lonnie-Dog would be sleeping in my lap, and Jessica would be in the chair opposite of me bundled up in blankets, drinking coffee and reading.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 12, 2018 21:49:50 GMT -5
Right now, I'd like to be in a log cabin in the woods with winter raging outside. I would want to be lounging in nice comfortable chair in front of a raging fire with a nice brandy and my new collection of M. R. James old English ghost stories. Lonnie-Dog would be sleeping in my lap, and Jessica would be in the chair opposite of me bundled up in blankets, drinking coffee and reading. I have been in that exact situation. Unfortunately, we were snowed in with a couple of friends who were, unfortunately on the edge of divorce. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 21:56:03 GMT -5
Right now, I'd like to be in a log cabin in the woods with winter raging outside. I would want to be lounging in nice comfortable chair in front of a raging fire with a nice brandy and my new collection of M. R. James old English ghost stories. Lonnie-Dog would be sleeping in my lap, and Jessica would be in the chair opposite of me bundled up in blankets, drinking coffee and reading. You must learn the hard way.....mans dog always comes “ first “.....don’t tell anybody....lol |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 12, 2018 22:02:19 GMT -5
I heard a couple of people say that you were a Stockholm streetwalker, but I thought it was just a figure of speech. 😨😨👌🍒🍒 Hey, I made good money....don’t knock it.....lol Seriously, I’ve been there a few times on business. Enjoyed the people and the foods👌👍👍 Always Peace and Quiet throughput the Netherlands 🇳🇱. Made the type of work I retired from a pleasure, I miss traveling and my job. I don't judge. 🤣🤠 |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 22:25:23 GMT -5
Hey, I made good money....don’t knock it.....lol Seriously, I’ve been there a few times on business. Enjoyed the people and the foods👌👍👍 Always Peace and Quiet throughput the Netherlands 🇳🇱. Made the type of work I retired from a pleasure, I miss traveling and my job. I don't judge. 🤣🤠 Good, cause you don’t have a clue!! |
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Post by kxg on Nov 12, 2018 22:26:57 GMT -5
My answer is nothing fantastic but simply on my own property but indoors. My wife does not want it in the house at all and I'm OK with that. On really hot and humid days its just not enjoyable to me and come winter, I can see really cold days being off-putting. Today it's raining. My hope is one day to have the money to put up a small shed or a pole building as a garage with room to section off a piece of it to setup a throw rug with two or three arm chairs. Easily cooled with a basic window air unit and heated with maybe a fake fireplace that is also a space heater. Just a small space I can smoke in bad weather with a book or with a friend or two. This! My patio is without a roof, which makes star gazing great, but smoking in less than decent weather, not so great. I’ve been contemplating a small smoking shed, 6x8 or so. A window hvac unit and minimal lighting. Perfect for those days of less than great weather. |
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Post by dave g on Nov 12, 2018 23:02:26 GMT -5
Movie theater and restaurant.
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Post by Stearmandriver on Nov 13, 2018 1:44:38 GMT -5
So here's a sappy sentimental story.
There's a book that most likely none of you have ever heard of - "Rascal", by Sterling North. It's a memoir written by an older man, of when he was an 11 year old boy in rural Wisconsin circa 1918, and the year he shared with a pet raccoon named... Well, that's obvious.
I found a first edition of this book when I was a 10 year old boy browsing the used book tent one August at the local county fair, in rural IL. I wouldn't be able to count how many times I've read it since then, and read it aloud to my boys. Sterling, see, lived and was describing my dream childhood, which I ended up emulating more closely than anyone probably has a right to hope for. I even ended up with an orphaned pet racoon named... Well, that's obvious.
But really, this damn book has influenced a lot of my life, I think. A lot of the ideals of peacefulness and simplicity that I find in rural countryside or forests and fields were, I think, formed by this book. And I never thought about it until recently, but I'll bet it had an influence on me being drawn to the pipe, as well. There's a scene of the book where Sterling and Rascal are prowling up the Brule River (a famous trout river in the north woods) and they round a bend in late afternoon light and come upon a small lake formed by the Brule, with a perfect log cabin on the bank, smoke curling from the chimney... And hip-deep in the lake is a fly fisherman tossing a dry fly with a split bamboo rod, and "He was smoking a pipe and appeared at peace with the universe", as the line goes.
I smoke a pipe. Outside, preferably. I'm a sucker for log homes, preferably on quiet late - afternoon lakes. I'm a fly fisherman. This damn book. ;-)
So, if I could dream up ANYWHERE to smoke a pipe? I could do worse than to imagine standing hip deep in cool water, tossing a royal coachman to an early - evening rise, my cabin behind me with the fireplace already warming up, as a boy and his pet racoon come around the lower bend just in time to watch me hook up a nice fat brown...
That's being greedy. But we're dreaming, right? ;-)
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Post by LSUTigersFan on Nov 13, 2018 8:06:58 GMT -5
Right now, I'd like to be in a log cabin in the woods with winter raging outside. I would want to be lounging in nice comfortable chair in front of a raging fire with a nice brandy and my new collection of M. R. James old English ghost stories. Lonnie-Dog would be sleeping in my lap, and Jessica would be in the chair opposite of me bundled up in blankets, drinking coffee and reading. I have been in that exact situation. Unfortunately, we were snowed in with a couple of friends who were, unfortunately on the edge of divorce. Ugh, that had to be miserable! |
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Post by LSUTigersFan on Nov 13, 2018 8:08:10 GMT -5
Right now, I'd like to be in a log cabin in the woods with winter raging outside. I would want to be lounging in nice comfortable chair in front of a raging fire with a nice brandy and my new collection of M. R. James old English ghost stories. Lonnie-Dog would be sleeping in my lap, and Jessica would be in the chair opposite of me bundled up in blankets, drinking coffee and reading. You must learn the hard way.....mans dog always comes “ first “.....don’t tell anybody....lol Everyone knows who comes first. And, if they don’t, Lonnie quickly clues them in. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 13, 2018 11:24:42 GMT -5
I have been in that exact situation. Unfortunately, we were snowed in with a couple of friends who were, unfortunately on the edge of divorce. Ugh, that had to be miserable! It was Christmas week of 79. We were snowed in and the dog, a very sweet Doberman pincher, was having gastric issues and kept chasing us onto the porch in 14 degree weather. They say that was the last time they had a decent snow in the area. And the parrot would start screaming curses at 3am every morning. Ever seen the movie "Bedazzled" with Dudley Moore? Phlatttttt! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2018 13:12:55 GMT -5
Ugh, that had to be miserable! It was Christmas week of 79. We were snowed in and the dog, a very sweet Doberman pincher, was having gastric issues and kept chasing us onto the porch in 14 degree weather. They say that was the last time they had a decent snow in the area. And the parrot would start screaming curses at 3am every morning. Ever seen the movie "Bedazzled" with Dudley Moore? Phlatttttt! Sounds delightful. Especially the atmosphere of dog colon. |
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Post by LSUTigersFan on Nov 13, 2018 22:58:43 GMT -5
Ugh, that had to be miserable! It was Christmas week of 79. We were snowed in and the dog, a very sweet Doberman pincher, was having gastric issues and kept chasing us onto the porch in 14 degree weather. They say that was the last time they had a decent snow in the area. And the parrot would start screaming curses at 3am every morning. Ever seen the movie "Bedazzled" with Dudley Moore? Phlatttttt! I hope there was at least good booze? |
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Post by kirk13 on Nov 14, 2018 5:41:45 GMT -5
Three places spring to mind....
Looking out over the Tappen Zee at the Tarrytown Lighthouse in NY state
Looking down the Caladonian canal,into the Great Glen from the Clachnaharry Lock in Scotland
Looking out over the Valley of Desolation,at Graff Reinet in the Eastern Cape,South Africa
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2018 5:55:32 GMT -5
Here. Again. It has been too long.  |
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Post by Legend Lover on Nov 14, 2018 8:42:36 GMT -5
Here. Again. It has been too long. Wow - where is that? |
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